This article is especially to help when deciding on blending workbooks for aromatherapy students.
Currently I have 4 resources with a focus on blending with essential oils for students to choose from:
- Creative essential oil blending challenge workbook
- Make a natural perfume using essential oils workbook
- Essential Oil profile worksheets
- Essential oil chemistry cheat sheets
While they have some similarities, there are also some notable differences between them- which is what I'm going to explain for you here. Get ready- here goes!
#1 Creative essential oil blending challenge workbook
This workbook covers the following topic areas:
- Introduction to using the blending wheel
- Introduction to blending terms and concepts
- The naming of essential oils and why this matters for blending
- Different blending methods
- Blending on a budget
- Advanced blending techniques
- Creative blending
- Nerdy blending
The projects for this class are to make both a roller blend and solid perfume.
Level: All
Look at Creative Blending Workbook
#2 Make a natural perfume using essential oils
This workbook actually builds out of the creative blending challenge workbook. It provides the student with a much more detailed blending wheel- one that is more tailored for perfume blending. It includes lectures on:
- How to use the fragrance wheel
- How to form your perfume concept and story
- Describing perfume
- Creating accords
- Floral accords
- Oriental accords
- Woody accords
- Citrus and fresh accords
The projects for this class are to make both a roll on and solid perfume.
Level: All/ Intermediate
Look at Make a natural perfume workbook
#3 Essential Oil profile worksheets
Designed especially for those who want to build out their essential oil profiles for reference and study. The templates are made so that you can collect different information that you may come across from several different sources and want to have a compilation page for individual essential oils.
Essential Oil profile worksheets
#4 Essential oil chemistry cheat sheets
This resource provides information on how you can use chemistry to make your essential oil blends.
Resources for students
Available for additional purchase:
Printable Essential Oil lists and profile cards (cheat sheets)