– Soothing & Dreamy –
Aroma: Floral
Blends well with: Geranium, Ylang Ylang, Lemon, Orange, Bergamot
Ingredient: 100% pure essential oil
Country of Origin: France
Handcrafted in small batches in Singapore
How To Use
- Diffuse– For its fresh floral scent that helps with calming nerves and anxiety.
- Topical Application (Diluted)– soothes irritation and itch.
- For more information, check out our Care Guide
Medicinal Uses
- Pharmacies still sell orange flower water as a digestive aid and sedative.
- European physicians and aromatherapists use neroli oil to settle heart palpitation and gently calm a person suffering from shock.
- Helpful in alleviating diarrheoa, especially if related to nerves or stress.
- Soothes the irritation and itching of psoriasis, eczema, and dermatitis.
Beauty Benefits
- Neroli oil increases circulation and stimulates new cell growth.
- Can prevent scarring and stretch marks.
- Useful in treating skin conditions linked to emotions or stress, as it calms the emotions as well as the skin.
- Regulates oiliness and minimizes enlarged pores.
- Helps to clear acne and blemished skin, especially if the skin lacks moisture.
Emotional effects
- Soothes emotional upsets and eases anger, depression, grief, hysteria, mood swings, nervousness, and shock.
- Health care practitioners and aromatherapists in Europe use it to bring quick relief for anxiety and panic attacks and to treat chronic anxiety.
- Subdues stress and tension.
- Hypnotic effect helps to induce sleep.
- Encourages confidence, courage, creativity, esteem, joy, love, peace and sensuality.
Other information
- Pale-yellow neroli oil emits a sweet, full-bodied citrus aroma with a slightly spicy, slightly bitter undertone. delicate white blossoms of the bitter orange or Seville orange produce neroli oil.
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Botanical name: Citrus aurantium
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Extraction method: Steam distillation
Folklore and Herbal Heritage
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So enamored of the smell of orange blossoms was Anna Maria de la Tremoille, a seventeenth-century princess of Nerola (in what is now Italy), that she adorned herself and almost everything in her environment with its fragrant oil.
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Elite members of the court followed her lead, making orange blossom oil the most sought-after scent of the time. In praise of the princess, orange blossom oil was reputedly given the name Neroli.
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Throughout history, brides have crowned their leads with garlands of orange blossoms and woven the blossoms into bridal bouquets
- Orange flowers symbolized chastity; brides wore them to signify that their purity is equaled their loveliness.
- Their ability to calm nerves probably helped compose many brides on their wedding nights.