Floral fragrances are never out of style, bringing feelings of freshness, and elegance. Instantly these scents can uplift your mood, bring a hint of grace, and make an environment attractive. Floral essential oils, with their light but big impacts on the spirit, celebrate the bloom and give you the pure touch of nature all day. If you are into fresh, floral scents in your daily life, this guide will discuss the popular floral essential oils, how you can benefit from them, and how to incorporate them into your routine.
Why Floral Scents Are So Popular
We love floral fragrances for so much more than a lovely smell; there is a great variety and a wide range of applicability. If you are looking for a soft and subtle scent, floral essential oils have aromas for everyone. Perfumes, body care products, and home fragrances often use floral oils, not only for their calming and mood-boosting properties but also because they smell wonderful. These essential oils add to the sensory experience and so contribute to our physical and our emotional well-being.
Top Floral Essential Oils for a Fresh Feel
These are some of the most beloved floral essential oils for whatever environment and need.
1. Lavender Essential Oil
Characteristics: Lavender essential oil is easy to come by, and popular with folks of all ages. It has a calming and soothing light clean floral scent.
Benefits: Lavender is often associated with stress relief and will assist you in better sleep. A perfect gentler calming aroma for anyone with sensitive skin.
Uses: For an added lavender experience before bedtime, diffuse lavender in your bedroom or create a spa treatment by adding the oil to your bath.
HBNO Pick: HBNO’s Lavender Fragrance Oil is the first place I’d consider looking for an authentic, quality floral scent that is calming and revitalizing.
2. Rose Essential Oil
Characteristics: Rose oil has a sweet spicy rose scent, romantic, and often related to love and passion.
Benefits: Rose essential oil is known as the “Queen of Oils” due to its skin-boosting properties. It’s also known to lift your mood and make you feel loving and happy.
Uses: Rose oil is a luxurious option for facial oils, perfumes, or DIY body care products. A few drops add up to make a lovely, longstone scent.
HBNO Pick: HBNO’s Chic Rose Fragrance Oil
3. Jasmine Essential Oil
Characteristics: The fragrance of Jasmine is warm, exotic, floral with a slightly sweet note, and often used to describe an ‘intensely floral and intoxicating’.
Benefits: Jasmine oil has been known to boost mood and increase the ‘sex drive’. They’re oftentimes used for confidence and optimism so this makes it great to use for special occasions.
Uses: For personal fragrance – apply jasmine oil, optionally add to a carrier oil to make a luxurious body oil. Aromatherapy with jasmine is also wonderful in the evening for relaxation.
HBNO Pick: HBNO’s Jasmine Fragrance Oil provides a beautiful floral aroma and is perfect for a floral warmth.
4. Chamomile Essential Oil
Characteristics: It has a soft, sweet, and slightly fruity, floral aroma that’s gentle for the ones who like pleasant smells.
Benefits: The calming effects of chamomile oil are well known and used to help promote relaxation and reduce anxiety.
Uses: Chamomile is kind enough to use on children and is a fine addition to bedtime routines. It can be diffused, added to your bath water, or added to massage blends to help relax your body and mind.
HBNO Pick: HBNO’s Chamomile Essential Oil (Roman) is a nice option for anyone who wants to get a delectable, sweet floral note into their collection.
5. Geranium Essential Oil
Characteristics: The fresh upright and green floral-smelling geranium oil is uplifting but also balancing. It is often described as a rosy herbaceous fragrance drying out to a slightly minty undertone.
Benefits: Many of you have asked me in the past how I use Geranium oil in skincare so I thought I would share how I use it. In addition, it’s also known to help reduce feelings of stress and promote emotional stability.
Uses: Adding geranium oil to your skincare routine, or diffusing it into the home for a refreshing atmosphere ticks the boxes. It’s also great to add to your DIY perfumes with a fresh floral note.
HBNO Pick: HBNO’s Geranium Essential Oil has a fresh, herbal scent with floral base notes and is a terrific balancing oil to mix in blends.
6. Neroli Essential Oil
Characteristics: A floral-citrusy rich scent, extracted from the blossoms of the bitter orange tree, neroli is refreshing and relaxing.
Benefits: Sometimes the oil of neroli is used as it is also relaxing as well as uplifting. Aromatherapy frequently uses neroli as a way to lessen anxiety and promote relaxation making it a great scent for meditation or unwinding.
Uses: Drop Neroli oil into your bath water or use it to diffuse in the bedroom. Also, this one makes it a great idea to add to homemade perfumes or body oils.
HBNO Pick: HBNO’s Neroli Essential Oil can be used as an auxiliary scent and blended well with other flower oils to create a fresh, refreshing feeling.
How to Use Floral Essential Oils in Daily Life
If you want some of nature’s beauty to bring into your daily routine, you can implement floral essential oils. Here are some simple ways to enjoy their fresh and floral scents:
- Personal Fragrance: An easy way to get your signature scent is to mix floral oils like lavender and ylang-ylang with a carrier oil. It is made from natural chemicals and can be adjusted to your taste preferences.
- Home Aromatherapy: Fill your home with the calming scent of floral essential oils, using a diffuser. Perfuming with lavender, chamomile, and geranium to create a relaxed room environment.
- Skincare and Body Care: Skincare uses floral essential oils like rose and chamomile for their soothing, rejuvenating properties. Blend with a few drops of oil into almond oil or soybean oil and add as a moisturizer for body lotion or bath for a luxurious experience.
- DIY Candles or Bath Bombs: Adding floral essential oils to homemade candles or bath bombs is a fun way to ring in warmer months! Popular options for lavender, geranium, and ylang-ylang are great choices that will allow for relaxation and the increasing scent for your self-care routines.
Finding Your Floral Signature
The goal in creating a signature floral essential oil scent is to experiment with oils and find the cocktail of oils that suits you the best. Here are a few tips to get started:
- Layer with Other Families: Floral scents can blend wonderfully with woody and citrus oils to spice up simpler or more personal fragrances.
- Adjust Ratios: Start with one or two drops of floral oil and balance with a lighter floral or citrus oil. Fragrantly adjust ratios to make a fragrance that feels fresh and belongs to you.
- Consider the Season: For spring and summer lighter floral scents like lavender and neroli are in, richer florals are in for fall and winter like jasmine and geranium.
Conclusion
Floral essential oils introduce the enduring beauty of flowers into our daily lives. Take your scent selection and aromatherapy into your own hands with the soothing properties of lavender, the luxurious warmth of rose, and more options for personal fragrance, skincare, and home aromatherapy. The floral oils each have some benefits unique to them and you can select one (or a combination) to match your lifestyle as well as personal preferences.
With floral fragrances chosen as the perfect foundation, HBNO’s selection of essential oils can provide. HBNO makes it easy to get all the benefits and versatility of floral essential oils by providing high-quality ones like Lavender and Chamomile.
