Floral Absolutes : Aromatic Healing for the Physical, Emotional, and Energy Body

A guide to working with and experiencing plant absolutes• Provides profiles for dozens of absolutes, exploring their physical and emotional healing properties as well as myths, poems, and stories that evoke the experience of plant absolutes • Explains the author’s unique system for working with absolutes centered on viewing the body as made of story and emotions • Shares recipes for making absolute blends for specific conditions and teaches how to create blends to express specific feelings One of the most concentrated forms of fragrance, cherished in natural perfumery and aromatherapy, floral absolutes are created through a gentle heatless extraction process that coaxes the aromatic signature from delicate plant materials such as flowers.Absolutes contain the essential oil of the plant and a higher density of coloring, waxes, and other constituents, giving them healing effects often different from the plant’s essential oil. As aromatherapist Candice Covington explains, absolutes convey