Woody Essential Oils

Woody Pungent Essential Oils	Woody Sweet Essential Oils

Essential oils with a woody fragrance are in fact mostly extracted from various trees. Like the uprightness and longevity of many trees, woody oils are an emblem of stability, endurance, maturity and timelessness. They can awaken in us our innate body wisdom as a physical embodiment of our ancestral lineage with its perennial stability and constancy. 

Woody oils generally have a centering, stabilizing, strengthening and relaxing effect. With their ability to gather our energy towards our physical center, the hara in our lower abdomen, they can help relieve conditions of spaceyness, disconnection and oversensitivity, as well as generally helping us trust in our instinctive gut feelings. The net result of this centering effect is relaxation, which can be useful for nervous tension and any symptom of mental-emotional instability. Here combining woody oils with sweet oils can only be an advantage.

Woody oils are clearly as relevant for daytime use in the face of stress-filled days or times as they are for evening and night-time use. At the end of the day’s activities, or in fact at the end of any particular activity, the scent of woody oils can help us complete and find closure to that activity by gently yet firmly enveloping us with their timeless strength and serenity.