Does Aromatherapy Leave A Nice Scent In The Home?

Does aromatherapy leave a nice scent in the home? Aromatherapy oils can leave a nice scent in your home or office. Yes, although I don't use many oils in the air at home because I have a store. We don't...

Yes, although I don't use many oils in the air at home because I have a store. We don't even introduce scent into the store itself; people tell us they smell us even if the door is closed. Oils are volatile; they do escape out of the bottles, so some are in the air. People immediately come in and say "we want what we smelled when we were walking here." We always laugh because it's whatever escapes. We do pour our own oils, so sometimes when we are pouring and creating these aromas it will escape into the air. My husband does use an electric diffuser at home because he has a home office. It is very important to change and not always use the same scent. Otherwise, after a while you can't smell the scent anymore because the receptor sites for that particular aroma are filled. If you change the aroma and put something from a whole different category, then you can smell the original scent again. Also, at different times of the day you need different things. For instance, some people need stimulants to get them going in the morning. If you have a diffuser in your house, you might use something like grapefruit, which is very refreshing because it's more stimulating and uplifting. I like to think of grapefruit as a butterfly or the bubbles in a glass of champagne. If you're at work and the phone is ringing and a million things are going on, you need calming oils. At night you might want something romantic like ylang-ylang. In the afternoon, when you're feeling tired, usually after lunch, something like Rosemary or lemon would be a good thing to put in the environment to wake you up again.

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