Want your home to smell like a spa? Here are 8 essential oil blends you can try at home to create different therapeutic scents that soothe your senses!
If you’re just now getting into essential oils, you might not be too confident in blending them to create unique scents just yet. After all, it can be quite confusing. How are you supposed to know what goes well with the scent of ylang ylang or bergamot if you’re new to the game? After all, ylang ylang sounds more like a made up word than the name of a flower.
That’s why I’m going to reveal some of my personal favourite essential oil blends to turn your home smelling like a bougie spa. Or if you’re crazy about spiced pumpkin latte, you can turn your room into a Starbucks too.
Before you get all excited to grab all the essential oils, always remember to do price comparisons. Why? One bottle of lemongrass in Muji can get you eight bottles from iHerb instead – it’s that crazy! Without further ado, here are my personal favourite blends you must try:
Pro tip: These blend ratios are based on 300ml aroma diffusers, so feel free to adjust the ratios yourself if have a bigger diffuser!
💆♀️ Rest & Relax in a Spa 💆♀️
Now that most of us are working from home, it might mean that the space once meant for us to rest and unwind has also become our office. The lines get blurry, and it can be hard to shift your mindset from working hard to hardly working – if it all occurs within the same space.
1. Netflix Night 🍿
Who the Netflix Night blend is for: You’re done with the work day, but not quite ready to go to bed. You’re just looking to wind down and read a book, or watch some Netflix.
How the Netflix Night blend helps you: With soothing scents like bergamot, ylang ylang and just a touch of lemon, you’re sure to loosen up. It’s a winning combination of herby, floral, and citrus scents that makes you feel a little more zen, without losing your mental clarity.
Netflix Night Essential Oil Blend Recipe
- 3 drops ylang ylang essential oil
- 3 drops bergamot essential oil
- 1 drop lemon essential oil
2. Bedtime Ritual 🛌
Who the Bedtime Ritual blend is for: If sleep has proven elusive, or if you’re looking for a trigger to let your body know it’s time to get it’s precious REM sleep. You just want to cozy up in bed and drift off.
How the Bedtime Ritual blend helps you: Science has proven that lavender essential oils (or rather, their scent) has anxiety reducing as well as sleep improving qualities. It’s the go-to oil to ease your mind into a restful place. Combined with geranium (which is a sweet, floral scent), sleep might not be too far off.
Bedtime Ritual Essential Oil Blend Recipe
- 4 drops lavender essential oil
- 3 drops geranium oil
🌲 Garden Vibes at Home 🌲
I’m sure all of us miss living our daily lives, and finally appreciate the Garden City feel Singapore has. So why not bring the scents of the gardens and parks into your home? Popping these essential oil blends in the diffuser can help recreate the serenity of chilling in nature.
3. Walk In The Park 🌿
Who the Walk In The Park blend is for: One of your favourite things to do is take a long walk through your local neighbourhood park, or anywhere full of greenery. You’d probably be happy to picnic in a grassy knoll too, despite our warm weather.
How the Walk In The Park blend helps you: This rejuvenating blend of lavender, peppermint, lemon, and bergamot can help replicate that relaxing feeling of walking around in the open. With a little bit of herb, floral, citrus, and mint scents, they combine to create something extremely refreshing. Like a breath of fresh air, if you will.
Walk In The Park Essential Oil Blend Recipe
- 3 drops lavender essential oil
- 3 drops peppermint essential oil
- 2 drops bergamot essential oil
- 1 drop lemon oil
4. Garden Zen 🌺
Who the Garden Zen blend is for: The Flower Dome at Gardens By The Bay is one of my favourite places, in part at least because of the gorgeous flowers. Of course, with flowers, comes their gorgeous scent.
How the Garden Zen blend helps you: This essential oil blend helps you to transport yourself from your home into your favourite garden. With the smells of bergamot, geranium, ylang ylang, and vetiver, this heady combination of grassy, herb, and floral smells helps you get some garden bliss.
Garden Zen Essential Oil Blend Recipe
- 3 drops geranium essential oil
- 3 drops ylang ylang essential oil
- 2 drops vetiver essential oil
- 1 drop bergamot essential oil
🍁 Cosy Autumn Season 🍁
With travel restrictions stretching into the future, many of us are going to be missing travelling. With seasonal countries far beyond our reach, why not bring the scents of fall into your home? Relive your favourite holiday memories with these essential oil blends full of those comforting fall scents.
5. Autumn in Paris 🍂
Who the Autumn In Paris blend is for: If you’re not a fan of the warm, heavy scents normally associated with fall, this is for you. Some of your favourite activities is walking through the crisp forest of a foreign land.
How the Autumn In Paris blend helps you: This blend incorporates citrus, mildly sweet, and woody smells like fir and sweet orange. This helps you reminisce your past holidays spent in the fall, enjoying that lovely fall weather.
Autumn in Paris Essential Oil Blend Recipe
- 4 drops sweet orange essential oil
- 3 drops lemon essential oil
- 3 drops eucalyptus essential oil
6. Pumpskin Spice Latte ☕️
Who the Pumpskin Spice Latte blend is for: When the Pumpkin Spice Latte came to Singapore, many of us were happy to discover a new favourite. If you enjoy a warm, spiced aroma, you’ll love this essential oil blend.
How the Pumpskin Spice Latte blend helps you: Your house can now smell pretty similar to your favourite seasonal pumpkin spice latte. With warm, comforting scents like cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and clove, you’re sure to get those cosy autumn vibes in your house.
Pumpkin Spice Latte Essential Oil Blend Recipe
- 4 drops cinnamon essential oil
- 4 drops ginger essential oil
- 4 drops nutmeg essential oil
- 3 drops clove bud essential oil
- 1 drop cardamom essential oil
🌞 Uplifting Summer Vibes 🌞
Do you remember the first time you travelled to a place where their warmest months were still cooler than our coldest? If you’re a fan of that cool, fresh rendition of summer found in temperate regions like the US and Europe, you’re probably familiar with the scent of summer. It’s a smell that speaks to endless possibilities of fun ways to fill your day.
7. Golden Sunshine ☀️
Who the Golden Sunshine blend is for: You love feeling the sun on your skin, especially while you’re on holiday. If you’re looking to relive some of those bright, happy days, you’ll love this oil blend.
How the Golden Sunshine blend helps you: A combination of zesty lime, fragrant orange, and tingly spearmint, this essential oil blend replicates those feelings of endless possibilities on a free-and-easy holiday.
Golden Sunshine Essential Oil Blend Recipe
- 3 drops orange essential oil
- 3 drops lemon essential oil
- 1 drop spearmint essential oil
8. Picnic in a Park 💐
Who the Picnic in a Park blend is for: Spending time with your loved ones in the shade of a tree in a sunny park is exactly your style. You love the combination of fresh air and time spent in good company, and you might be missing spending time in our gorgeous parks and gardens.
How the Picnic in a Park blend helps you: This blend of floral, herby lavender with sweet, citrusy grapefruit, and orange represent the best parts of summer. Embodying all the fun and uplifting vibes you’d normally have while picnicking with friends in the park, bringing summer fun in to your home.
Picnic in a Park Essential Oil Blend Recipe
- 2 drops grapefruit essential oil
- 2 drops lavender essential oil
- 2 orange essential oil
Now that you know how to whip up your own essential oil blends, let us know what other essential oil hacks you’d like to see! Comment below or just drop us a text at editorial@you.co.
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