How to Smell Test an Essential Oil

To smell test an oil, you open the bottle and waft it at about waist level. See what you can smell. Bring it a little higher, and waft it back and forth again. See how many different smells reach the nose.

Bring it up again, and smell again. Do this several times until you’re at the chin, and then smell with one nostril, then the other, then both together.

While this smell test is not fool proof some owner’s of essential oils companies (not Young Living) are tricked by an oil produced in a lab, thinking it was a real, and a decent oil it’s a reasonable test.

What you’re looking for is a rich bouquet of smells. If it smells the same as you move it all the way up the body, it doesn’t have much in it as far as a variety of molecules.

When you smell one nostril, and then the second, the odors should be a little different. When you smell with both nostrils, it should smell like a rich bouquet of both smells. If it has synthetic chemicals in it, you can often smell them when you smell with both nostrils together.

Frankincense is an oil with the most noticeable and dramatic differences between a good one and a poor quality one. Wafting the bottle slowly up the body and smelling, a poor quality oil smells pretty much the same all the way up.

With the Young Living frankincense, it has delightfully different smells at each level.

I choose Young Living Essential Oils because I, personally, know the extent Young Living goes to in order to produce and sell the pureest oils. I don’t know of any other company who uses organic seeds, soil nurtured with enzymes and organic fertilizers, waters with spring water (city water has too many chemicals), weeds the plant fields by hand, harvests on the right day, gets the peppermint (for example) to the distiller within 15 minutes of harvest or someone loses their job, distills with low pressure and temperature for an extended period of time to maximize.

Young Living does not compromise the yield, the molecules, the beneficial constituents found in the plant oil. To use poisonous chemicals to extract an essential oil from the plant is not the way of Young Living. Their customers and distributors demand the finest and so they are world renowned for being the leader in setting the world standard in essential oil quality. 

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