The Ylang ylang (Cananga odorata) tree is also known as the perfume tree, and with very good reason. Worwood states that the heady,...

Nobody who was alive in the sixties and seventies would be unfamiliar with the scent of patchouli oil. Utilised partly for nefarious...

All spices were considered highly valuable throughout antiquity, having their own specific road and sea transport routes across the...

Lavender is often called the 'mother' of essential oils, and it is no wonder - there is seemingly nothing that lavender oil can't fix. A...

You don't get oils much more steeped in religious and spiritual history than resin oils, and Myrrh is prime amongst them. Used since...

...is NOT, in fact, a berry, but a round-shaped fleshy cone, which takes 2-3 years to ripen into the beautiful blue/black colour it is...

There is no more ultimate, or well-known symbol of love than the rose, the Queen of Flowers. The letters of the word 'rose' can even be...