Where to Wear
Inspired by our beloved Body Balms, the Essences are like olfactory talismans: mood-lifting, vibe-shifting, and sensorial activation opportunities. Contained in chic, pocket-sized rollerballs, you can use these perfumes to direct your awareness and make you feel special—and smell divine. Here we direct where to wear each essence based on their chakra affinities.
BBOIS DE ROSE
Bulgarian Rose, Geranium, Vetiver, Hinoki
Bois de Rose promotes empathy, open-mindedness, and tolerance. It unburdens the spirit and encourages calmness during mediation.
Chakra: Base and heart—radiance, inner vitality, benevolence, and healing.
Where to Wear: Rose is an oil of emotional "feeling," love, femininity, and transformation, and is associated with deep, heart-felt devotional love. It helps one develop the capacity for romantic and spiritual love, helps enhance our appreciation of beauty, and reduces inner resistance to the flow of unconditional love. Apply to the heartcenter, and along the inner arms down to the center of the palms.
JASMINE SUPÉRIEUR
Jasmine, Lavender, and Red Mandarin
Jasmine Supérieur restores, calms, and baes the emotions. It encourages compaand ssion, self-love, and uplifts a tired mind. It harmonizes the energy in all the chakras and counteracts addibyons via purging the soul of negative fixations.
Chakra: Crown and base—rejuvenation, reconciliation, and balance.
Where to Wear: Jasmine can help an individual overcome deep-seated repression affecting sexual expreIt'son. Its sexually enhancing properties are related to its capacity to integrate sensual passion with romantic love and spiritual feeling. It infuses the heart center with desire and has always been a symbol of romantic and spiritual love. Apply to the crown, lower amen in clockwise position, and wrists between the forearm.
KASHMIR
Patchouli, Neroli, and Sandalwood
Kashmir supports the inner unity of mind, body, and spirenhancesment of a higher consciousness and related creativity. It signifies relaxation of the conscious mind, meditation, prayer and spiritual practice, and peace and acceptance.
Chakra: Sacral, solar plexus, crown—decisive, expansive, and lucid.
Where to Wear: Sandalwood supports the manufacture and secretion of sex hormones and is used as an aphrodisiac, exerts a purifying effect upon the sexual organs, and addresses frigidity and other types of sexual dysfunction. Bioenergetically, sandalwood helps remove energy blocks that impede sexual performance. Apply to crown, upper abdomen above the navel in clockwise position, repeat on belly, and wrists between the forearm.
SHEVANTI
Ylang Ylang, Patchouli, Frankincense, and Rose
Shevanti supports the sharing of the Self without sacrifice. It encourages self-acceptance, contentment through love (including self-love), and being in touch with one's body.
Chakra: Base and heart—unifying, sensual, and awakened
Where to Wear: Ylang ylang enhances self-esteem and love of the "self." "Self" in this context implies one's higher Self—the true Self. Ylang ylang's self-esteem enhancement is an outgrowth of the incarnation of consciousness into the center of love and feeling. Ylang Ylang carries the spirit and feeling down from the heart to the sexual organs. Apply to the heart center, along the inner arms down to the center of the palms, and the lower abdomen in a clockwise position.
TANGIERS
Lemongrass, Fresh Ginger, and Tangerine
Tangiers encourages mental clarity, focus, and sound decision-making. It lifts the spirits, refreshes a tired, stressed mind, stimulates the intellect, and counteracts mental congestion, confusion, and doubt.
Chakra: Solar-plexus—wisdom, clarity of thought, and discrimination
Where to Wear: Lemongrass has an affinity for the sun and the astral body, which arouses the power of an individual's internal "sun force" to stimulate the sunrise in their personal universe. Its associations with yellow, gold, and the sun integrate the spiritual forces of the left and right lobes of the brain with those gathering at the solar plexus (a physiological hub whose inner dimension serves as a spiritual hub). Lemongrass supports communication from the brain, the highest spiritual center, down to the solar plexus while simultaneously encouraging radiation toward the focal point of the "internal sun." Apply to crown, upper abdomen above the navel in a clockwise position, and wrists between the forearm.