Just a quick update to let you all know I've added a brand new Resources section to the website. Here you will find my recommended websites, books for further education & and more. I will be sharing resources regarding safety, recommended reading, people you can follow, pages worth sharing and groups worth joining amongst other things. The page will be updated as new information and resources come to light so please do check back regularly. Never stop learning folks! Michelle

In recent years, two large multi-level marketing (MLM) companies have infiltrated the global field of Aromatherapy from every angle so quickly, and with such unprecedented force, that the qualified community has been left reeling. These companies recruit sellers who are, for the most part, merely sales-people - not fully trained in the proper usage and safety of Essential Oils. They use bright, eye-catching marketing, promising riches, wonderful health benefits and well-being

I wanted to create a Mimosa centric fragrance with the beautiful Mimosa absolute I spoke about in my last post. She is not a single flower Soliflor, but the dappled marriage of light and shadow, of green with warm sunshine floral, on a soft, cushiony base. And with that intent, Fleur de Mimosa (Mimosa Blossom) is tentatively born. The first iteration (for there will be many), opens with the bright leafy green Galbanum... notoriously difficult to work with - one drop can overp

When I was a child growing up in small-town New Zealand, my parents planted Australian native Wattle trees (Acacia pycnantha) lining the perimeter of our property. During the summer months while blooming, their soft, sweet honeyed fragrance would waft around the garden and through my bedroom window on the warm breeze, and this scent always takes me back to a simpler idyllic time. Mimosa flowers from Acacia decurrens, with their yellow fluffy pom-pom like florets and delicate

There has been a lot of talk lately, especially with the rise of MLM companies, that Essential Oils are quite safe to use internally in both food and drinks, and even more amazingly, as nutritional supplements. And not only are they touted as safe, they are downright pushed at customers to be used in these exact ways. Let me make one thing very clear - Essential Oils do not have nutritional value! They are not vitamins or minerals. Essential Oils are highly concentrated plan

I wanted to draw on a little nostalgia for this beauty. Lashings of days-gone-by glamour, that bittersweet bygone era - a simply wonderful, wonderfully simple time. SugarWood is a perfume that’s been a long time in the making. A rich, woody fragrance with some serious 1940’s-1950’s Pin-Up-Girl Va-Va-Voom! It can take ages to get a perfume just right due to slight variances with each batch of Essential Oil or extract used, as well as the ageing and filtering process, and much

Welcome to the brand spanking new AromArtiste Website and Blog! Although AromArtiste itself is not technically new - I’ve been working away at the brand and its concept slowly but surely for several years - but it’s only now though, finally, that I’m beginning to have the real time and resources to get fully behind this beautiful thing. So this is our welcome. We’re only in our infancy really, but I hope you'll stay tuned, keep checking in, hang out and grow along with us. W