Healing Scents: Aromatherapy & Botanical Perfumery Color Ebook

Holly Dunbar • Dr. Kenneth Proefrock • Sean Croke • Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue

Kathryn Delaney • Shana Lipner Grover • Dr. Marija Helt

Virginia Adi • Jim McDonald • Irina Adam • Mika Leone • Katlyn Breene

We are pleased to present to you a lovely compilation of writings drawn from the pages of Plant Healer Quarterly magazine, celebrating the healing powers and sensual delights of botanical scents!

For thousands of years traditional practitioners have studied and utilized plant essential oils and distillates to obtain specific health benefits, treating anxiety, exhaustion, headaches, and so much more with the help of their amazing smells.    Journey here into the past to learn about the colorful history of this art.  Explore the complex organic chemicals involved so that you can better select for the specific effects you are looking for.  Learn about what conditions can be treated in this way, along with the misconceptions, important safety and toxicology issues around the use of essential oils.  Read about how to formulate and process healing scents.  And be inspired by the ancient and contemporary arts of botanical incense, sacred smudging and divination.

As always, thanks go to the wonderful Plant Healer Quarterly authors who gave their time to share with you their immense knowledge and personal experiences.  Each provides a distinct perspective and style, from our magazine columnists Sean Croke, Dr. Kenneth Proefrock and Shana Lipner-Grover to esteemed aromatherapists Holly Dunbar and Kathryn Delaney, and from herbalist and historian Virginia Adi to botanical perfumer Irina Adam to fungal aficionado Marija Helt and animist folklorist and visionary Sean Pádraig O’Donoghue.

There isn’t hardly anyone who hasn’t delighted in the smells of gathered flowers and culinary spices, and here’s your opportunity to delve into the wondrous healing powers of scents.

It’s our pleasure to join with you, as you literally follow your nose to the magical realms of leaf and bloom, health and wellbeing.