Beat the Blues with mood lifting organic essential oils

For many of us who live in the northern hemisphere, January can be a bit of a downer for several reasons. In fact, the third Monday (though some say fourth) in January is now widely referred to as the most depressing day of the year in the UK – it’s a Monday, it’s January, it’s four weeks since Christmas, it’s a week and bit until pay day so we’re all skint, most of us have broken our New Year resolutions and there’s a general sense of nothing to look forward to on the horizon. In addition, the lack of sunshine really doesn't help. Great!

In order to help you beat the blues this January we have devised a mood lifting aromatherapy cocktail of essential oils. These mood enhancing organic essential oils with anti-depressant properties and wonderful exotic fragrances will help create a light, stress free, happy ambience in your home or office.

You can diffuse the organic essential oils in a perfume burner to release the fragrance, just ensure that you put a tablespoon of water in the burner first before adding the oils and lighting the candle. This stops the oils from burning and congealing on the surface of the burner. Alternatively, you could use one of Florame’s electric diffusers which don’t heat the oils and as a result the essential oils retain their molecular composition, so that the molecules remain suspended in the air for a much longer period of time than when heated, thereby giving a much stronger ‘hit of happiness’.

When blending essential oils you need to ensure that you mix the blend properly otherwise the base note oils will overpower the top note oils and you won’t get an even spread of the different fragrances. However, you should experiment in small quantities until you get a blend that you really like as our sense of smell, just like our taste buds, is unique to each of us.

A good rule of thumb is to check the perfume note as well as the aroma family of each essential oil. See Florame’s tips on blending to help you get started.

So for a generally uplifting, mood enhancing, anti-depressant blend we would recommend the following:


3 drops of Yunnan verbena essential oil (aka may chang)
3 drops of grapefruit essential oil
3 drops of clary sage organic essential oil
3 drops of sweet orange organic essential oil
2 drops of frankincense essential oil
2 drops of complete ylang ylang organic essential oil
2 drops of bourbon geranium organic essential oil
2 drops of neroli orange blossom organic essential oil
1 drop of jasmine organic essential oil
1 drop of myrrh essential oil
1 drop of amyris sandalwood essential oil
1 drop of vetiver organic essential oil

All of the oils listed have either healing, wellbeing, calming, stress relieving or relaxing properties and generally blend well together to create a gorgeous, rich aroma. However, one of the best ways to learn about which essential oils tickle your scent buds is to experiment so whilst this is a guide, feel free to mix and match your own essential oils based on your favourite smells, be they herby, woody, earthy, floral, spicy, minty or whatever. Have fun and beat those blues!