History of essential oils

Interestingly, the rose has the highest vibrational frequency of not only all essential oils but also any natural substance known to man. This is why the plant is a potent symbol revered across the globe and centuries. In the Iliad, one of the most famous ancient Greek poems, Aphrodite protects the body of Hector using the “immortal oil of the rose” while in the Christian world, the rose symbol led to the creation of the rosary and other devotional prayers. In the Islamic world, each year during the pilgrimage to Mecca, the black cloth covering the Kaaba shrine in the holy city is sprinkled with rose water, and rose oil is burnt in the Kaaba’s oil lamps. The rose is also adopted as the national floral emblem of the modern-day United States, and it is also the national flower of England.

In addition to their remarkably high frequencies, there is another reason why essential oils are so powerful. It’s true that a wide range of sensory stimuli are involved in the process of creating emotions and impressions; however, some senses turn out to be a lot more important than we think. Astonishingly, a human’s sense of smell is estimated to be over 10,000 times more acute than other senses such as hearing and taste. When sniffing a flower, odour molecules from it are drawn to the top of the nose as we breathe in. They then dissolve in the olfactory epithelium, a flat sheet of mucous membrane lining the roof of the nasal cavity. The olfactory epithelium contains specialized neurons that bind to odour molecules and send signals to the brain that are interpreted as smell by our limbic system.