What is the difference between fragrances and essential oils? Read about the difference between fragrances and essential oils. Usually fragrance oils are synthetics. Typically, fragrance oils originated...
Usually fragrance oils are synthetics. Typically, fragrance oils originated from isolations taken from a real plant. If you see anything that has lilac or gardenia, about 99% of the time that's synthetic, because they can really capture the true essential oil from those plants. Typically, they took several oils, put them together and thought it smelled like gardenia. Fragrance oils do not have the therapeutic beneficial affects that the plant itself has, where the essential oil captures the true chemistry of the plant, which is measurable. We know essential oils have what it's supposed to have because we know what the chemistry should be.
So for aromatherapy, you always want to use a therapeutic grade essential oil. If you want a fragrance for your home, I have oils that are pure and natural, but they aren't necessarily from a wild organically grown plant. We never use anything synthetic. I call that a natural fragrance mainly because we don't have any guarantee of how it was grown or how it was distilled. With the therapeutic ones, we know it was distilled in the proper amount of time and it was grown the proper way with no pesticides.
