Patchouli Essential Oil

Patchouli Essential Oil is a heady combination of aromas – exotic, musky, spicy, earthy; rich, woody, balsamic, sweet, floral– wafts from the time smallest bottle of patchouli essential oil. It’s a distinctive and memorable enormous staying power that cinches other balsamic oils such as myrrh. It’s the fragrance of the original India ink and Chinese red ink paste, the scent of 1960s American hippie incense and massage oils, the smell used by 19th century European entrepreneurs to identify authentic oriental goods (stored with patchouli by Asians for moth repellency). Aromatherapists have long valued patchouli’s fragrance and tenacity, as its highly therapeutic effects. Native to Malaysia, the patchouli plant is distantly related to lavender and rosemary. The young leaves of the tender, aromatic plant are dried and fermented before being steam distilled. Patchouli that has recently been distilled has a fresh, green, slightly harsh aroma, but aged patchouli sweets and mellows, improving