Did you know Dr. E. Joy Bowles received an award for Outstanding Contribution to aromatherapy at the Alliance of International Aromatherapists Conference in September 2021?
It is always an honor and pleasure to share thoughts with an incredible aromatherapy authority like Joy. In this last segment of our interview, we discuss:
- significance of classification of chemical components,
- how the chemical components influence the odor,
- some fantastic ideas from Joy.
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Thank you, Joy, for your valuable opinion and words of wisdom, and thank you for watching.
Let us know in the comments below what was your favorite part of the interview.
Thank you so much for interviewing Dr Joy. Love to hear a lot more from her.
I strongly agree to her suggestions to include aroma potency in Dropsmith and the experiencing the smell of individual constituents. Looking forward….
Thank you! I’m a huge fan of dr. Joy! Fantastic woman, great presenter, clear explanation all the time! I am so grateful to listen and study from her.
And last but not least I’ll use Dropsmith differently from now on.
Thank you!!!!
Bests,
Anna
I really loved the last interview you put out. You know we herbalists have had to struggle with this for ever, the question of the potency of the herb in dependence of weather conditions, rainfalls or draught, altitude, climate zone etc. I was asking myself how we can tell if the plant material is potent or not. I know there are years when I just cannot make a good preparation of some herbs, because the weather only allowed lousy quality. For me how I know, a major part is smell and taste (which is very much also due to the aromatic components). So I think good herbalists have an inner idea of the good, potent, ideal smell and taste and know if the sample differs that the effect will not be as intended. It’s like a good year for wine or tea or coffee or chocolate. This year was good for elder flowers but not good for St John’s Wort here, for example.
Garlic oil – we use garlic clove infused oil a lot, and it does smell yummy when you need it, I have used tons mostly on people with pneumonia, bronchitis, earache (garlic mullein infused oil commercially available in the US for children for ear aches). We use people eating ray or baked garlic to get the oil into people’s bodies. I know even babies who will grab, peel and eat raw garlic – if it is right for them, they crave it. I think garlic EO in vegetable base oil externally is great, I have used it often, but never in a blend with other EOs. It does not smell stinky but exactly like fresh cut garlic – appetising.
I have a bit question about the chemistry of essential oils which I have never heard addressed is as follows. Having studied inorganic and organic chemistry in medical school, complex molecules are full of chemical endings ready to interact with other molecules. Every talkI ahem ever heard on EOs sound like no essential oil ever interacts with another, no matter what the ending, alcohol, ketone, etc. They have all those valences, how can there not be unsaturated valences, and how can it not be that at least sometimes in blending, they interact. Have you ever heard of any research into that? What really drives my question is the phenomenon that when you blend lavender and rose, both the rose and lavender scents seem gone and another scent is there that is not a blend of those two.