A great fragrance is as important when you are making a good impression at work as what you wear. Scents can make you feel more confident, feel better or positively influence how other people perceive you. In this blog, we will teach you how to pick the right essential oil fragrances for your various careers and suggest a few tips for you to consider to aid you in picking your career as it pertains to fragrance.
Understanding Fragrances for Professions
Fragrance is an extension of your brand and can tell a lot about you without speaking a word. Scents are different things depending on which profession you have. For instance, in corporate, there may be a need for a more attenuated fragrance, while in creative fields, more brassy tones and niceties might work. It helps you understand which fragrance best compliments your work environment.
Choosing the Right Essential Oil Fragrance.
Here are some professional scenarios and the corresponding fragrances that would work best for each:
1. Corporate and Professional Environments
When it comes to subtle, refined scents that do not overpower the traditional corporate setting, you want to select them. Here lighter floral or woody scents do better.
Recommended Fragrance: Ready for a good one? Lavender essential oil is a good one. Relaxing you and giving you a soft floral scent that your colleagues will not be too distracted by, would help you focus and keep calm during stressful meetings.
Personal Experience: I can remember when I got a job in a corporate office and started a new job and was nervous about how I’d come across. Lavender essential oil in particular winked me up, and I knew I was confident, and my colleagues even complimented that my scent was refreshing!
2. Creative Professions
If you work in creative fields like art, marketing, or fashion you have more freedom to convey your taste with your fragrance. Choose merry scents that are more bright and powerful.
Recommended Fragrance: A combination of sweet orange essential oil and ylang-ylang essential oil can promote an uplifting and invigorating environment to be around, perfect to get your juices flowing. Taking a whiff of this can keep your mind open and creative.
Fragrance Tip: Sometimes you may want to layer your scents with a light spritz of ylang-ylang oil in the morning and some sweet orange in the afternoon to keep your energy going through those marathon brainstorming sessions. Not only would this layering enhance the fragrance experience, but it would also give you a personal touch to the fragrance by allowing you to be a bit creative in your application.
3. Healthcare and Wellness Professions
In healthcare or wellness environments these choices are especially important – don’t have overly strong scents as these could end up overwhelming patients.
Recommended Fragrance: Eucalyptus essential oil is known for its fresh and clean scent; this essential oil is generally linked to a feeling of being clean or being well. It can refresh the senses and help to improve breathing.
Personal Experience: When I volunteered at a local clinic I realized that eucalyptus essential oil helped to create this calming environment for my patients and put me in a calmer head state at work. You can’t believe how changing the mood with a simple scent can differ between the patient and the caregiver.
Outdoor and Field Jobs
Finally, if you’re a professional working outdoors (or indeed in a dynamic environment) then you may want to look for scents that will refresh you and can resist the elements.
Recommended Fragrance: The peppermint essential oil gives a cool, refreshing aroma and can help you get freshened up. Very useful for keeping pesky insects at bay and for the brain to keep focus during physically demanding tasks.
Fragrance Tip: Peppermint oil is just another way to keep your fragrance lasting longer when outside as you just need to mix it in a carrier oil such as coconut oil and apply it on your pulse points. Not only will the scent last longer, but you will stay hydrated and protected from sun damage. In addition, peppermint has a natural cooling effect that’s delightful on hot days.
Fragrance Considerations for Different Professions
1. Be Mindful of Sensitivities
Fragrances are highly sensitive in many work environments, in particular when dealing with other people. Always opt for lighter scents, and anything too overpowering. If you aren’t sure how your fragrance will be received, and don’t want to smell too strong, apply sparingly or try an essential oil roller to be applied discretely.
2. Keep It Professional
Fragrance is a great way to add personality to your scent but important to remember workers in the workplace have their professional standards. Go for the more essential oils with a milder touch and not that will irritate your work. Don’t use scents that smell too sweet or too pungent — they might not be appropriate for all spaces.
3. Reapply Wisely
How long you work is dependent on how fresh you want your fragrance. If choosing an essential oil to carry around with you that you want to reapply during breaks, consider bringing along a rollerball with it in your bag. Using it allows you to carry your scent without swamping your co-workers, and sometimes it’s just the boost you need during the day.
Conclusion: Scent Choices with HBNO
Selecting the right fragrance for work can add to your work experience and opinion of course. There’s an essential oil for every situation, whether you want a calming scent for corporate settings, an inspiring aroma for creative fields, or a refreshing fragrance for outdoor jobs.
If you’re looking to up your fragrance game in the workplace at HBNO we have an incredible range of essential oils to choose from. Lavender, eucalyptus, and even peppermint are all options (you’ll find the scent that best suits your profession and will keep you feeling your best all day long).
Take a look at our range today to see how the right fragrances can help in your work life!
