Sweet Essential Oils

Essential oils with a sweet fragrance are derived from a large variety of plant parts and families, although more than half of them are extracted from flowers. Sweet oils represent the fullness of life, the sweetness of its many gifts and the nurturing we obtain from the presence and the bounty of the earth. They can help awaken in us a sense of deep connection with these gifts. 

Sweet oils generally tend to be regulating, harmonizing, relaxing and supporting. They can be amazingly useful in many different ways, especially by helping with emotional balance and calm, and by promoting deep emotional strength. They should be at the top of anyone’s list for experiences of frustration, irritability, mood swings, anxiety, emotional insecurity ... for pretty much any negative distressed feelings, really. 

Because sweetness is so essential to our experience of life, to our need for nourishment and our call to pleasure, there are a grand total of seven fragrance categories of sweet oils! The richness, diversity and complexity we see among these types of sweet oils are more than enough to convince us of the perennial wisdom to “stop and smell the roses” along life’s often all-too-hectic journey.