Ep. 96: Neroli: The Happy Oil That Uplifts Your Spirit
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In this episode of the Vetiver Vibes podcast, Rachael Dean and Nikki Fraser, dive into the wonderful world of neroli essential oil, which happens to be Rachael's favourite essential oil.
We explore the botanical name of neroli, Citrus aurantium var amata, and its origins from the blossoms of the bitter orange plant. We discuss its beautiful scent, the labour-intensive process of harvesting the delicate flowers, and the high demand that contributes to its price.
We highlight the chemical constituents of neroli, particularly its high levels of linalool, which provide anxiolytic and antidepressant properties. This makes neroli not only uplifting but also beneficial for calming the mind and supporting emotional balance. We touch on its physical benefits, including its use for digestive issues, insomnia, and menstrual discomfort.
Spiritually, we discuss how neroli can help reconnect individuals with self-love and support emotional healing, making it a powerful oil for those working through past traumas. We also mention its general safety for use, which is a significant advantage when blending for clients.
To wrap up the episode, we share an affirmation related to neroli and pull a card from the Oracle of the Essence deck, focusing on themes of trust and benevolence with marjoram. We encourage our listeners to reach out and share their experiences with neroli, whether they are familiar with it or interested in trying it for the first time.
Thank you for joining us on this aromatic journey, and we hope you enjoy the episode!
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00:00:00 - Welcome to Vetiver Vibes
Introduction to the podcast and hosts, Nikki Fraser and Rachael Dean.00:00:14 - Sponsor Message
Information about Essentria, an online school for aromatherapy.00:00:29 - Introduction to Vetiver
Discussion on vetiver as a favorite essential oil and personal experiences with rosemary oil.00:01:26 - Rachael's Oil of the Week
Rachael shares her experience with a blend for shoulder and neck pain.00:01:59 - What is Vetiver?
Overview of vetiver, its botanical name, and where it is harvested.00:02:32 - The Scent of Vetiver
Description of vetiver's scent and personal reactions to it.00:03:29 - Grounding Effects of Vetiver
Discussion on the grounding properties of vetiver and personal childhood memories associated with it.00:04:25 - Chemical Complexity of Vetiver
Insights into the chemical constituents of vetiver and its calming effects.00:05:27 - Physical and Emotional Benefits
Exploration of vetiver's benefits for sleep, hormone balancing, and mature skin.00:06:34 - Emotional Clarity and ADHD
How vetiver can help with emotional balance and its use among individuals with ADHD.00:07:43 - Spiritual and Ayurvedic Perspectives
Discussion on vetiver's support for chakras and its role in Ayurvedic medicine.00:08:35 - Safety and Fun Facts
Information on the safety of vetiver and interesting facts about its production.00:09:27 - Affirmation for Vetiver
Sharing an affirmation to use while inhaling vetiver.00:10:09 - Card Pull for Today
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Wrap-up of the episode and a teaser for the next episode.00:13:37 - Thank You and Support
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Rachael: Welcome to the Vetiver Vibes podcast, where your hosts, Nikki Fraser and Rachael Dean, certified clinical aromatherapists. We are excited to have you here on today's episode, where you know that you'll get the best essential oil scoop.
Nikki: This episode is brought to you by Essentria a leading online school for aromatherapy. If you want to learn more about how to become a clinical aromatherapist, check out the courses at www.schoolofessentia.com. Welcome to this week's episode of Vetiver Vibes. Nikki Fraser here with… Rachael Dean. And this week we are talking about neroli. We're doing another essential oil profile. And I know this is Rachael's favourite.
Rachael: It's one of my favourites. It is a happy oil. I love it so much. So definitely I can't wait to get into that. But anyways, before that, how was your week?
Nikki: It was actually really, really good. I had a few clients, which was fantastic. It wasn't overly busy. Mind you, we've gotten a lot of snow. But we also had our student social this week. So at the time of this recording, it was this week by the time this is live, it's probably been a little bit. But we had our student social this week that I absolutely loved.
Rachael: Yeah, I loved it, too. I love we had a good turnout. We had probably about I don't know, 15 students, give or take, that came out and joined us live, and then a whole bunch that had messaged us to say that they were sad that they couldn't make it. And I just loved it. We're an online school, so we don't get to have that interaction with people and talk to them and talk to our students as much. And so I just love that we were able to get together, and we chatted, and we had conversations, and we talked to them about things that were upcoming. They got a chance to vote on what's our next mini course, which we're not going to reveal quite yet. But yeah, it was just really nice. I love having that personal connection with people.
Nikki: Yeah, because like you said, we don't actually get to see them. So being able to put faces to names is great. We do have one assignment where they do have to record, but not everyone puts their face in the video, and not everyone is there either. So it's great to put those actual images to students' names, which is fantastic.
Rachael: Yeah, yeah, that one assignment is definitely one of my favourites to watch just to see. You know, part of the reason for that assignment, it's like, you know, they have to create a blend, or they have to do something like aromatherapy related. And it's just nice to be able to see them. Also, you can tell if they're like understanding kind of what they're talking about. So we we get like a, before they kind of go on to their case studies, in most cases, like their live case studies, they get to like actually tell us and show us that they are understanding things properly, which is great. And yeah, I just, I enjoy that too. So we'll definitely do a few more of these student socials, I think.
Nikki: Yeah, absolutely. I love, I absolutely love doing them. And I know even while we were doing the student social, I had, I think it was some sweet orange going around me just to help kind of keep me energized and a little bit more focused.
Rachael: Yeah, I was at my office, so I did not have an essential oils happening there, unfortunately. It was after hours, but I don't diffuse in kind of a public setting. Which is good. That's good. It is good, but it can be sad sometimes because I don't have just the ability to turn it on.
Nikki: Yeah, that's where personal inhalers come in to be able to bring them with you because no, you shouldn't be diffusing in public settings that way.
Rachael: But good news is I figured out where I had misplaced my personal inhalers to like the empty ones to make. I just found them tonight so I will be able to restock. I'm very much looking forward to that.
Nikki: I just found them nice nice. Yeah, I had to order some just before Christmas And I've already used a couple for for a few different things, but it's they're they're not the easiest things to find I mean you can find them on Amazon easy enough and different things like that, but Locally like if I'm in a pinch, and I just need a few really quickly that they're not the easiest things to find unfortunately No, and when you stock up on them, and then lose them in your house also sometimes not the easiest
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Rachael: Even if it was right with all of my essential oil like stuff just wasn't in my I kind of have like a section up in like my kitchen area where all my all my oils are that I use on a day to day and then I have a section in the basement that is all for my essential oils and it was right there I just you know when I found it I found it.
Nikki: So talking of that, neroli is your go-to.
Rachael: It's one of my go-tos, for sure. It's a happy oil. I just love it so much.
Nikki: Absolutely. The botanical name for it is Citrus aurantium var amata. And you will see that that's the botanical name for a few. So this one is with the flowers, though. And it does need to specify flowers with it.
Rachael: Yes, it comes from the blossom of the bitter orange plant. So if you also have essential oil bottle of a bitter orange, it will have the same botanical name. So definitely that can be confusing for people that are figuring out their oils. So it would have both listed. The countries that it's harvested from, I've been here to Tunisia. Tunisia, yes, and I've been there. So it was a great stop. Morocco, Italy, France, and Egypt. And, you know, if you're watching the video, you can kind of see the beautiful flowers behind us. And they're white. They're white. They have little yellow pods in the middle. And it has a beautiful, beautiful scent. Here's my essential oil bottle with it. And like I said, it comes from the blossoms. It comes from those flowers.
Nikki: Yeah, and the chemical constituents of it are really high in alcohol, monoterpenes. Almost 50% of them come from monoterpenes for the chemical constituents, and the highest of that being linalol, which gives it its anxiolytic properties, which is really, really good. It's also antidepressant therapeutic properties. which again is where it's that calming aspect but also really good for the digestive system and a sedative too which I know sometimes when we think anxiety like I don't always associate sedative with anxiolytic properties but a lot of them do kind of overlap a little bit, but I've never really thought of using neroli for, for sleep and things like that. But it makes sense when I start looking at the chemical constituents, I was like, that does actually make really good sense.
Rachael: Yeah, for sure. And like sedative sometimes is, doesn't always mean sleep too. Like it can be that grounding, you know, so if it's an antidepressant, if it's an anti-anxiety, know like that can be like sedating in itself um you know because sometimes when you're if you're anxious you're just kind of you're in a mind that you can't necessarily focus on um so sedating and bringing that back to kind of the ground um and just quieting the chatter or just unwinding at the end of the day like to me those any of those words when i'm looking for just that end of day unwind and i need to
Nikki: turn off my brain, kind of like power down. Sometimes when I was a robot and just powering down. We've been doing a lot of wild robot lately, reading the books and things like that in the house. So it's like I've got robot on the brain. Powering down my robot, this would be a great one to use.
Rachael: Yeah, I have not seen Wild Robot, so I don't know what that is.
Nikki: Oh, it's a really great kids movie, but then there's a book. Also, there's a second one, and it's a robot who literally goes and lives out in the wild and starts to communicate with animals and has a goose for a son because he imprinted on the robot when he hatched, and it's super, super cute.
Rachael: Oh, that's cute.
Nikki: Learning to migrate and all kinds of things, yeah.
Rachael: Yeah, I miss out on some of that stuff now because my kids are a little bit older.
Nikki: Yeah, it's a it's a tearjerker movie. It is it was actually pretty there was some emotional parts to it. But yeah, it's a turning off. This is what never always reminding me of.
Rachael: I love it reminds me of Wally when he's in love with Evie. Totally in Wally. Yeah, love that. Okay back to Noraly back to Noraly So physical it helps it can help with gout it can help with an upset stomach Insomnia, so if you aren't sleeping and then discomfort associated menstrual cycle and menopause so that could be Cramps and stuff so, you know, it can be very helpful for that too.
Nikki: Yeah PMS Yeah, the hormone like something you just feel like those mood swings any of that
Rachael: any of that. Emotionally, this is where it comes in for me the most. So just bringing inner peace and calming the mind, rebalancing emotions, and it's uplifting. So that's why it's definitely one of my happy oils that I call it. And then it can help heal with past traumas. So that could be something where if you're going through therapy and you want to find oils that could help you, you can find ways to associate for the positive side as you're working through your trauma, this could be one that could help with that for sure.
Nikki: Yeah. And then spiritually and subtly, it has calming effects on the heart and the shin, which are associated with the fire element and helping to cool down and to calm any excess fire. that fire, that heat, um, anger, high emotions, things like that, right? We want to keep it cool and calm and then supports the crown and the heart chakras.
Rachael: Um, and helps you reconnect with the love of yourself and to let love flow freely again. So if you're, um, if you've closed yourself off, you've put walls up, that kind of thing. Um, normally it can be a great oil for that, which is probably around a time in my life that I was where I fell in love with it.
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Rachael: And it's also one of the higher vibrational frequency of essential oils.
Nikki: Which again, right, that love, the high frequency comes with that love aspect, which is nice. And the nice thing with neroli is that it's known to be generally safe. So it can be used by all kinds of people, which is really, really good. We love it when they're generally safe.
Rachael: Yes. Yes.
Nikki: Especially when I'm just like blending for clients. Like when I have like a general blend that I have sometimes at the end of reflexology or things like that, I'll have pre-made ones in lotions to help for different things. And so, and I can only, I only grab ones that are generally safe because, you know, in the moment I've much as I've done the health history form with them, but I want something that can be used, you know, broadly with everybody, so of course it's always nice when they're that safe.
Rachael: So some fun facts, and I didn't know this one, but Neroli is named after the 17th century Italian princess of Nerola, Anna Maria della Tramolette. Yeah, I was like, you are going to be able to say it so much better than I am. Anna Maria. Yeah. Nikki is bilingual, just to be very clear as well. She's got language.
Nikki: Not Italian, but the French, I find it, it helps with the different accents.
Rachael: It's close enough, yeah. There's a bit there, yeah. Anyway, she used the Rome on her clothes and her papers for writing, so she was just known for that scent.
Nikki: Yeah, and producing neroli is actually very highly labor-intensive because it comes from the flowers that are very, very delicate and must be hand-picked, which is why the price point is on the higher side also. And it takes approximately 1,000 kilograms to 20, which is about 2,200 pounds of orange blossoms to produce one kilogram, which is about a liter of neroli essential oil. which that's a lot of plant material.
Rachael: It's a lot of plant material. So it is very expensive. A lot of times you'll find it pre-diluted. So it does make it more affordable for people to use. The good thing about neroli though, it is very potent. So even if you do get it and it's already pre-diluted, it is very potent and you can, the scent is very powerful. So you don't have to worry about not getting the benefits of it. It is a great oil and you can definitely, don't shy away from that.
Nikki: Yeah, and I find a lot of the precious oils are like that, neroli, rose, jasmine. You don't need a lot, and so getting the pre-diluted bottle makes it affordable, like you said. And then, you know, even one drop at a 3% dilution bottle.
Rachael: Yeah, I was just going to say this one that I have, for example, is in a 3% dilution in jojoba.
Nikki: Yeah, and that's often more than enough for a blend, especially if you're working energetically, emotionally. One drop is all you need to get those energetic benefits, and you still get the strong aroma from it. Yeah, for sure.
Rachael: So our affirmation for this week for Nirali is, I open my heart to love and peace, embracing the healing light of balance and renewal within.
Nikki: That's a nice one. I like that. And then our card poll for this week. Actually, we are going to use Oracle of the Essence by Monica the Enchantress. So this is the deck we are using. And I do love the image. They're so bright, the images. I mean, the images of all of our decks are actually really, really nice. But the card for this week is Marjoram. Trust and benevolence is what it's all about. So for those listening, it's kind of looks like a mom with some children around and then there's moon and stars and some angel, an angel and a devil with marjoram kind of growing at the bottom. So it's a very beautiful picture. And divinatory meaning. Marjoram Marjoram will show herself in a reading when trust issues are in play. Trust your faith in this situation. You are the pillar of your world. Stay strong and take charge of the situation.
Rachael: Nice. Marjoram's a nice oil, for sure.
Nikki: So that is kind of our information on neroli today. If this is an oil you like to use, you know, please let us know too. Always feel free to email in, reach out to us. If you're on YouTube, comment below. If you're listening to the podcast, email us and let us know if you use this oil, if you enjoy it, or if it's might be an oil that you've never used before and are interested in it. We always like to hear from our listeners as well. So thanks for tuning in to this week's episode of Better Vibes. Bye everyone. Bye.
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