Synthetic essential oil

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

When you have assembled your ingredients, like the mistress of the still room in Elizabethan times, take a moment to linger over the scent and color of each flower and leaf. Scented flowers traditionally dominate a pot pourri blend. Choose a theme to harmonize your mixture; say cottage flowers, a woodland blend of musky scents, a fresh mint and citrus blend or a mixture of soothing herbs such as rose petals, lavender, loemon verbena, meadowsweet and chamomile. It is a pleasurable task to educate one’s nose to the blending of sweet scents. Several of the flower, leaf and spice ingredients are available as essential oils and a single drop is a powerful perfume. These can be used with discretion to strengthen a blend or revive a flagging mixture. (Pot pourri boosters for sale are a mixture of real or synthetic essential oils in a carrier such as alcohol). In the beginning, the temptation is to use too much. So experiment with a few drops first after you have mixed your blend of flowers, leaves and spices, adding it drop by drop and stirring it in between . Put the mixture away in a sealed container in a warm, dry area for six weeks to cure.