First, let’s learn about essential oils, spices, and Fragrance oil
What are essential oil ？ Essential oils are extracted from the flowers, leaves, stems, roots or fruits of plants， through steam distillation, extrusion, cold soaking or solvent extraction. Essential oils are divided into diluted (compound essential oils) and undiluted (single essential oils). Essential oils are highly volatile and evaporate quickly once exposed to air. High cost, few varieties, small output; easy to volatilize and oxidize, has little therapeutic value, and can also be used by special groups。
What are spices: Natural spices are extracted and refined directly from the fragrant parts of animals and plants. Due to the influence of variety, origin, production season, etc., the production levels of natural spices are relatively small and cannot meet the market demand. During the processing of aromatic plants, part of the aromatic components will be lost or destroyed, and the aroma will be somewhat distorted compared to the original aromatic plants. Therefore, natural flavors are not used directly in flavoring products.
What are Fragrance oil: Synthetic flavors have many varieties, large production level, low costs, which make up for the shortcomings of natural flavors. However, synthetic flavors are monomeric flavors with a relatively single aroma and cannot be directly used in flavored products. In order to get a rich aroma or fragrance, it must be blending. Different raw materials are synthesized chemically or biologically. Perfume blending is the process of blending several or even dozens of spices in a certain proportion into blended spices with a certain aroma or type and a certain use. This blended spice is called fragrance oil. The fragrance is stable and long-lasting, and has a fragrance-enhancing effect. It should not be used by special people .
Therefore, all brands of scented candles and reed diffuser on the market, whether they are luxury brands or affordable brands, almost use fragrance oil . small part use essential oil .
