Respiratory Blend

This blend combines peppermint, tea tree and eucalyptus oils into a fresh, penetrating scent that smells like cool, open air. Peppermint gives the cool, minty top, tea tree a sharp, clean note in the middle, and eucalyptus a camphoraceous edge that carries across a room. It is a crisp, bracing aroma rather than a soft one.

Each oil brings its own aromatic character to the mix, and together they read clean and bracing, closer to a steam room than to a perfume.

How to use it

Add three or four drops to a diffuser to freshen the air in a room, or one drop to a bowl of hot water set on a worktop. Diluted with a carrier oil at about 2%, roughly 12 drops in 30ml, it can be applied as a fragrance across the chest or shoulders. The technique tip: this blend is strong, so start with fewer drops than you would with a floral blend and build up. In a small room three drops is usually plenty, and it holds its scent well enough that a short run keeps the air fresh for an hour or more. For external aromatic use only; dilute in a carrier oil before skin use.

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Also known as

Peppermint, Tea Tree and Eucalyptus Blend, fresh air diffuser blend