Your results
If you answered mostly A’s:
You have a lot on your plate and you’re always on the go. In fact, relaxing is the only thing not on your ‘to do’ list. Try these scents to help you wind down and decompress any time of day.
Spicy: frankincense, myrrh, patchouli
Fruity: orange
Floral: geranium
If you answered mostly B’s:
You’re creative and always have many thoughts floating through your head at the same time. If you have a difficult time concentrating on one thing, these essential oils can help you focus.
Herbal: basil, peppermint, rosemary, marjoram
Spicy: cardamom, coriander
Fruity: lemon
Fresh: tea tree
If you answered mostly C’s:
Forgot your rose-coloured glasses today? Perhaps it’s a case of the winter blues or maybe you just can’t seem to get motivated. Whatever it is, the scents will give you a little boost and a pick-me-up.
Fruity: bergamot, orange, lemon, mandarin, grapefruit
Herbal: chamomile, thyme, rosemary, peppermint
Fresh: cedarwood, cypress, eucalyptus, juniper, pine
Spicy: ginger
If you answered mostly D’s:
Ever get the feeling that you’re not asserting yourself enough, that you’re just along for the ride? These scents will not only give you a little confidence boost, but might even help you feel set to take on the world.
Spicy: caraway
Fresh: cedarwood, juniper, pine, tea tree, cypress, juniper, pine, cedarwood
Herbal: thyme, fennel, rosemary
Floral: lavender, rose, ylang ylang
Here’s how to use the essential oils (use the real stuff--artificial scents in most drugstore products won’t do the trick): You can use the flowers in a vase, or boughs of evergreen in wreaths or sprays around the house, and have herbs in the garden or drying in a shadowy place in the kitchen ready for a cup of herbal tea.
Make a nice room freshener by adding essential oils to a glass spray bottle with a few tablespoons of vodka and/or witch hazel, shake it up, then add water. Then, just shake and spray!
Diffuse essential oils very gently into a room by filling a bottle with 2/3 vegetable oil and adding about 20 drops of essential oil, then placing natural rattan reeds in the bottle and flipping these daily.
Resins, like frankincense and myrrh, can be bought in drops and dissolved in vegetable oil by gently warming on the stove for several hours. The resulting oil can be used as a perfume oil or moisturizer. The undissolved resin can be placed in a bowl to gently fragrance a room.
To use a candle diffuser, light a palm or vegetable wax tea light* and place one to three tablespoons of water in the upper cup with a few drops of essential oil.
* Using paraffin candles releases soot, petroleum by-products and possibly heavy metals into the air.
Thanks to Tracey TieF for her all her know-how on essential oils. Tracey is a registered aromatherapy health practitioner and owner of Anarres Natural Health Clinic in Toronto. Her website www.anarreshealth.ca has lots of helpful information about essential oils and their uses.
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4 Comments
interesting! Mostly A's and one of my favorite scents is orange!
Cool - I'm not much of a "scents" person, shall we say, but it's pretty interesting to see what you would be....
Cool - I'm not much of a "scents" person, shall we say, but it's pretty interesting to see what you would be....
I'm so all over the map, in fact I had 3 B's, 3 C's and 3 D's. I figure I need a lot of help, so I tried to figure out what was a common scent in all three categories.