Oil Origins: Our Favourite Florals Pt. 2

Our garden is blossoming with even more floral essential oils that are ready to be harvested and join your fragrant collection. Learn what makes each of these flower-sourced oils special as we individually highlight each member of this flower-power family.

What Are Floral Essential Oils?

Each oil in this group comes primarily from the flowers of the plants from which they are sourced. These plant parts are steam distilled, a process where a combination of heated steam and gentle pressure produce these prized floral essential oils. These oils are famed for sharing the captivating fragrances of their origin blossoms and renowned for the benefits they hold for the skin and complexion.

Say hello to our second set of favourite florals: doTERRA Touch® Magnolia, Melissa oil, doTERRA Touch® Neroli, Roman Chamomile oil, Rose oil, and Ylang Ylang oil. We’ve harvested the facts about them all in this post so you can get to know each one better. While their similar origins and collection methods give them some commonalities, each floral essential oil offers a distinct aroma and extraordinary benefits.

doTERRA Touch® Magnolia

The elegant and graceful magnolia flower hails from southeast Asia and has been commonly used for traditional Chinese holistic practices. The towering magnolia tree displays strong, sturdy, cream-coloured flowers, known for their sweet floral fragrance. The ovate, white petals of this majestic flower are steam distilled and bottled as the prized Magnolia essential oil.

doTERRA Touch Magnolia offers the sweet-smelling Magnolia essential oil in a base of Fractionated Coconut Oil for a product that is ideal for topical use. When added to your beauty routine, doTERRA Touch Magnolia can contribute to a clean, healthy-looking complexion while producing a calming, floral aroma, and can help create an aromatically soothing environment when applied to the chest or neck during a massage.

Why choose Touch Magnolia?
Similar to its budding relatives, doTERRA Touch Magnolia provides a delightful, slightly fruity, and floral aroma, making it perfect to wear as a personal fragrance. Keep in your bag or clutch for easy access to this pleasant and sweet scent as you go about your day or for a night out.

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Melissa Oil

In Greek, Melissa means “honey bee,” which is quite fitting for the honey-like scent of Melissa essential oil. The Melissa plant has green, wrinkled, ovate leaves that are edible and often used for herbal remedies along with, small, white flowers that bud during the summer months. The leaves and tops of the plant are steam distilled to produce this gem of an oil.

Melissa essential oil is treasured for its aroma, sweet flavour, and versatile uses. Promote a clean and healthy-looking complexion by adding this pleasant, citrusy oil to your facial cleanser or daily moisturizer, or combine Melissa essential oil with Fractionated Coconut Oil and apply to your legs before and after a workout for a soothing aroma.

Why choose Melissa oil?
Melissa essential oil is unique to the floral oils and to essential oils in general, especially for its fortifying taste and soothing aroma. Enhance your favourite herbal tea with a drop of Melissa oil for a sweet, citrus flavour as you breathe in its calming aroma with each sip.

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doTERRA Touch® Neroli

Acquired from the delicate, white flowers of the bitter orange tree, doTERRA Touch Neroli is well known for its skin benefits and uplifting fragrance. Once picked, orange blossoms can quickly lose their oil, so they must be steam distilled immediately after harvesting in order to produce the highest quality essential oil for the doTERRA Touch Neroli.

Sweet, floral, citrusy, and fresh are the four best words to describe the beautiful aromatic qualities of doTERRA Touch Neroli. In a base of Fractionated Coconut Oil, Neroli is most suited for aromatic and topical use. When the afternoon calls for a pick-me-up, apply to different pulse points and inhale this relaxing and calming aroma or show your skin some love by adding it to your daily skincare routine.

Why choose Touch Neroli?
Because of its topical benefits, doTERRA Touch Neroli shines brightest when added to your skincare routine. Simply use Neroli before applying your moisturizer to keep your skin looking youthful and clean. This convenient sweet, citrusy roller soothes dry skin while producing a pleasant aroma and atmosphere.

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Roman Chamomile Oil

The Roman Chamomile flower was used by ancient Roman soldiers as a blessing during times of war. Centuries later, this fragrant flower is treasured in the form of Roman Chamomile essential oil. These white, daisy-like flowers grow close to the ground and produce a sweet aroma that resembles an apple. The plant’s delicate flowers are steam distilled, yielding the greatly admired Roman Chamomile essential oil.

Roman Chamomile essential oil is commonly used in applications of aromatherapy, and the fresh, floral fragrance of Roman Chamomile oil also makes a great addition to your evening routine, during a massage, or when diffused.

Why choose Roman Chamomile oil?
Roman Chamomile essential oil is most popularly used in aromatherapy as a nervine and calmative as well as carminative and antispasmodic for symptomatic relief of digestive discomfort.*

*NPN 80072461

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Rose Oil

Sourced from Damask roses in Bulgaria, Rose essential oil is one of the most luxurious essential oils on the market. More than deserving of the nickname, “Queen of Oils.” Rose essential oil is treated like royalty from start to finish as thousands of fragile rose petals are delicately harvested and steam distilled on the same day to produce this precious oil. 

Rose essential oil is recognized for its romantic, floral fragrance and contains high levels of the chemical constituent, Geraniol, which enhances the appearance of healthy-looking skin by balancing moisture levels. This comforting floral aroma also makes a great addition to your home spa night or a luxurious evening bath soak.

Why choose Rose oil?
Rose essential oil stands out from the other florals with its rich, beautiful aroma, which can be appreciated as a personal fragrance, when added to your skincare routine, during a massage, or when diffused. The unmistakable, uplifting aroma of Rose essential oil knows no rival.

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Ylang Ylang Oil

Used for centuries in perfumes, religious ceremonies, and weddings, the Ylang Ylang flower has proven to be just as versatile as an essential oil. The Ylang Ylang plant is known for its drooping branches, large green leaves, and its highly fragrant, yellow, star-shaped flowers. Once the blossoms mature, the Ylang Ylang essential oil is extracted from the plant through steam distillation.

The airy, uplifting aroma of Ylang Ylang essential oil can add a freshness to the air or to your laundry while this oil’s topical benefits can boost your beauty routine. Delight in the pleasant, floral scent of Ylang Ylang oil by adding a couple drops to a bowl of steaming water for a steam facial and take pleasure in the clean, invigorating effect it has on your skin.

​​​​​​​Why choose Ylang Ylang oil?
Ylang Ylang essential oil possesses benefits to the hair that set it apart from its floral family members. Simply massage a drop of Ylang Ylang oil into your scalp for shinier and healthy-looking locks or combine with Fractionated Coconut Oil for a deep hair conditioner that nourishes for softer-looking hair.

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Whether or not you were already familiar with these fantastic floral essential oils, we hope you found some more buds to add to your essential oil collection. With how much there is to adore about this lovely arrangement of essential oils, it’s no wonder that the florals are some of our all-time favourites!