The Gift of Scent
Pflugerville, TX 78660
888-937-5682 ext 704
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Our vision for the Gift of Scent is to provide you with the most innovative range of high-quality aroma diffusers, essential oils, fragrance oils, wax melts, tarts, wafers and fragrance delivery systems for your home, office or automobile that create ambiance, promote tranquility and entice your sense of smell with delicious and delectable aromas.

Scented candles and reed oil diffusers offer you a means of making your home smell sweet and allow you to relax in a room or even have a bath breathing in beautifully scented air that even the ancient Greeks would believe to be heaven. Incidentally, a reed oil diffuser is not one that diffuses reed oil, but that is fashioned from reeds that enable oil to evaporate from them after being absorbed by the effect of capillary action.

These Greeks, and also the Romans and Egyptians, knew what happened when the oils extracted from flowers and certain oily woods such as sandalwood and cedar were heated. They knew that the plants and woods, and their extracts when they came to understand how to separate them, provided a wondrous aroma to the air when they were heated to a certain temperature, but not quite high enough to make them burn.

These Greeks, and also the Romans and Egyptians, knew what happened when the oils extracted from flowers and certain oily woods such as sandalwood and cedar were heated. They knew that the plants and woods, and their extracts when they came to understand how to separate them, provided a wondrous aroma to the air when they were heated to a certain temperature, but not quite high enough to make them burn.

They also recognized that certain plants and trees initiated specific reactions or effects in those that breathed the heavily scented air. Those that were excited became calmed when breathing the scented fumes of heated jasmine, and those who were unable to sleep found sleep easy when they breathed in the fumes from heated lavender. In effect, they had discovered aromatherapy which is believed to be at least partially responsible for the therapeutic benefits of scented candles and reed oil diffusers.

Most people are aware of the benefits of aromatherapy, and even more of how better they feel when their bath is scented with a wonderful perfume before they go to bed refreshed and smelling great. These benefits are not just restricted to bath oils or perfumes, but even the air that you breathe can be scented by use of scented candles and reed oil diffusers.

You must know what a scented candle is, but are you aware of the variety of perfumes in which they are available, or even of the different forms of candles that you can purchase online? How about perfumed votive candles, or a scented candle in a box? Did you know that different essential oils have different effects on your body?

'What is essential about oil?' I can hear you ask. In fact the term comes from the word 'essence' in its archaic meaning of having a perfume, and an 'essential' oil is one that contains the perfume or aroma of the plant from which it is extracted. So essential oils are oils that are extracted from plants and that are perfumed in a similar way to the plant: thus essential rose oil smells like roses, and so on.

Scented candles are made from wax and other wax-like substances such as stearine or stearic acid. The essential oils that are used to perfume them are soluble in molten waxes, and so can be combined with the wax mixture prior to them being poured into candle moulds. When the candle is burned the wax melts and the aroma of the essential oil, now in its liquid state, is released. These can be very concentrated oils and so it takes only a little in the air to give a wonderful smell, characteristic of the plant from it has been derived.

Reed oil diffusers, on the other hand, use a liquid form of the oil dissolved in a carrier oil such as grapeseed oil, sunflower oil and coconut oil. The reeds are placed into a small vase or jug with the bottom immersed in then oil. The oil is carried up the reeds by capillary action and as the volatile essential oil evaporates, its aroma is released into the room. No heat is involved, and so reed oil diffusers offer the advantage of scented candles in there is no flame, and hence no fire hazard if left working overnight or when nobody is at home.

Each has its own specific uses, and both are available in a wide range of aromas. It is important to understand that the essential oils used in scented candles are not actually burned as such, but that the aroma comes from the hot melted wax that has the oil dissolved within it. The oils are very volatile and also highly combustible, so yes, when the wax burns at the tip of the wick so does the essential oil, but that is not where the bulk of the scent comes from. That is emitted from the evaporating oil in the pool of wax below the wick, and in the wick itself.

In that respect, the candle and diffuser operate in the same way, whether the diffuser is a reed diffuser, an electrical diffuser heating a bath of oil or a candle burning below a bath of oil. In that respect the scented candle is also a diffuser, whereby the oil is evaporated from the pool of melted wax below the wick in the same as it is from any other heat source.