Guest guest Posted February 2, 2004 Report Share Posted February 2, 2004 Good Morning! How To Profile Essential Oils How to conduct your own aroma profile on an essential oil. Like most perfumes, essential oil aromas change over time. This easy system will help you profile your oils and keep the information for reference when formulating your own blends. What You Need: Scent strips Essential Oils Notebook and pen Clock or timer Here's How: Dip a scent strip in a selected essential oil. Record time dip was taken as well as your description of the aroma. After 15 min. smell the scent strip and record your impressions and any changes you notice. After another 15 min. take a second scent strip and dip it in the same oil. Compare and record your impressions of both dips. Continue every 30 minutes until dry out of both dips. Once dip strip has dried out, note the residual aromas if any. Tips: Some oils such as sandalwood and patchouli may take days to dry out. Residual odors may last for weeks. Record thoughts, emotions and feelings as well as odor descriptions and notes (see Related Resources for an explaination on notes) during each reading. Have fresh coffee beans close at hand to smell inbetween and during sessions. This will help prevent " tolerance " to picking up scent. Andrew Pacholyk. L.Ac, MSTOM Peacefulmind.com Therapies for healing mind, body, spirit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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