Always approach therapeutic grade essential oils with the awareness that they are very powerful.
It is best to begin by holding the bottle approx. 4-5 inches away from your nose and then move it
upwards towards your nose depending on how much you can smell and how close you need it to be in
order to enjoy its aroma.
As you hold the bottle of essential oil below your nose, gently move it back and forth from the
left nostril to the right. This way you receive the full spectrum of aroma the oil has to give.
The aroma should expand as you continue to smell, with several layers to the aroma.
Hold the essential oil under your nose (about 1" away)
Move your nose from left to right
Sense of Smell (Olfaction):
Olfaction is the function that allows a direct connection to the brain thereby creating a sense of smell.
There are sensory cells in the mucous membrane of the nasal cavity and the membrane is stimulated when
chemical particles are dissolved in the mucous.
The olfactory nerve in the brain ends with the olfactory bulb.
The olfactory bulb is located high in the roof of the nose (between the eyes) and just above a small
bone in the skull that has tiny holes. When the smell receptors are stimulated in the nasal mucosa
they enter the tiny holes where they enter the olfactory bulb in the brain.
The signals are then carried to a part of the brain called the limbic system
(the rhinencephalon) where the smells are then analyzed.
Smell
What you perceive as an odor, is really the chemical particles that were stimulated.
The brain can analyze over 10,000 different fragrances. Our sense of taste can only
register 4 types of taste. Therefore, without our sense of smell, food would taste
fairly bland. So when you have a cold and your sense of smell is blocked, so is your sense of taste.
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What you perceive as an odor, is really the chemical particles that were stimulated.
The brain can analyze over 10,000 different fragrances. Our sense of taste can only
register 4 types of taste. Therefore, without our sense of smell, food would taste
fairly bland. So when you have a cold and your sense of smell is blocked, so is your sense of taste.
