Make Your Wintry Days Warmer with This Diffuser Blend

A Seasonal Scents Diffuser Blend for Chilly Wintry Days

The shorter days and cold wintry nights call for a diffuser blend of aromatically warming essential oils. Winter brings to mind the aromas of evergreens and spices. And who can resist adding a touch of citrus, which seems to elevate every diffuser blend!

In this Post:

⭐️Wintry Days Recipe

• 3 drops Sweet Orange essential oil (Citrus x sinensis)
• 3 drops Virginian Cedarwood essential oil (Juniperus virginiana)
• 2 drops Black Spruce essential oil (Picea mariana)
• 2 drops Frankincense essential oil (Boswellia carteri)
• 1 drop Cinnamon Leaf essential oil (Cinnamomum zeylanicum)

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Why These Essential Oils for Our Wintry Days Diffuser Blend?

Sweet Orange (Citrus x sinensis)

Sweet Orange essential oil is cold pressed from the fresh peel, producing a bright fruity aroma. Much like adding a bit of lemon elevates flavor when cooking, citruses elevate the aroma of essential oil blends. Sweet Orange essential oil is over 90% d-limonene, known to have immune-supporting properties.

Energetically, Sweet Orange essential oil helps unblock and circulate stagnant energy. And it’s wonderful for reducing tension and anxiety.

Virginian Cedarwood (Juniperus virginiana)

Virginian Cedarwood essential oil is one of several types of cedarwood, each with different aromas and energetics. The cedarwood in this diffuser blend is from the species Juniperus, which also gives us Juniper Berry essential oil. Virginian Cedarwood essential oil is distilled from the wood of the Eastern Red Cedar, native to eastern parts of North America.

This stately tree, cherished for its durability (fencing) and aromatics (cedar chests), grows to over 60 feet tall. It’s often the first tree to populate cleared areas. Many Native American cultures would burn Cedarwood to dispel evil spirits, especially before a healing ceremony.

Cedarwood essential oils is grounding, anchoring, cleansing, purifying, and confidence supporting. Its light woody aroma is at the same time fresh and earthy.

Black Spruce (Picea mariana)

Black Spruce essential oil is from another coniferous evergreen native to North America, especially throughout Canada and the northern States. It’s not particular about soil quality, germinating and growing even with limited resources in boggy ground or shallow soil over bedrock. This steady slow-growing tree rarely ever reaches maturity in its natural habitat due to cyclic fires that decimate Black Spruce forests. The highly adaptable Black Spruce rapidly seeds after a fire and eventually becomes the dominant species in a burn area.

Steam distilled from the firm spiky needles, Black Spruce essential oil, like the tree itself, adapts to your needs. It’s balancing and energizing, grounding and uplifting. Its aroma is fresh and green, providing a warm, breath-opening energy to any diffuser blend.

💚Side Note: The tender new growth tips of Black Spruce can be harvested for a citrusy, nutritive, respiratory supporting spruce tea. When wildharvesting, select only the tips that are in the interior or shaded parts of the tree, leaving the tips receiving light to mature.

Frankincense (Boswellia carteri)

Frankincense has a very long history of medicinal and religious use, dating back thousands of years. It’s also one of the historically longest commercially-traded products worldwide.

A recent surge in scientific research into the healing properties of Frankincense resin has lead to an increase in demand to produce both medicinal and aromatherapeutic products. This has, unfortunately, led to unsustainable harvesting methods.

Frankincense resin (also called “tears”) is harvested after it dries over a wound in the bark of the tree. The hardened resin is ground to a fine powder and used in traditional incense making. The essential oil is extracted from the Frankincense resin using steam distillation.

As the resin is healing to the tree, Frankincense is also therapeutic and healing when used in aromatherapy and skin care.

Infusing the ground resin into oil creates a beautifully aromatic, soothing product for skin and lips.

Breathing in the aroma of Frankincense essential oil, like breathing in the smoke from Frankincense resin incense, promotes emotional balance, tranquility, and inner strength. Its fresh, resinous, coniferous aroma combines nicely in a diffuser blend of citrus and conifer essential oils.

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💚Always purchase Frankincense essential oil or resin tears from a company who sources their Frankincense from suppliers using sustainable and ethical practices.

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Cinnamon Leaf (Cinnamomum zeylanicum)

Cedarwood, Black Spruce, Sweet Orange, and Frankincense essential oils together produce a lovely fatigue-reducing diffuser blend. Cinnamon Leaf is the extra touch that makes this blend special.

Cinnamon Leaf essential oil is warm, sweet, and spicy. Just a touch enhances the energy-stimulating nature of this blend. Steam distilled from fresh leaves, Cinnamon Leaf essential oil is rich in immune-supporting, germ combating phytochemicals. This makes it a perfect addition to an essential oil diffuser blend for cold and flu season!

If you don’t have Cinnamon Leaf, a drop of Cinnamon Bark essential oil can be substituted.

Diffusing Wintry Days encourages a relaxed centered energy, a positive outlook, and an inner strength that will take you through the chilly days and nights of Winter.

Mom’s Recommended Suppliers

You can find everything you need to make and diffuse Wintry Days on Mom’s Favorite Essential Oils for Winter on Amazon—featuring Plant Therapy and Edens Garden essential oils.

I also have a long list of my well-tested Aromatherapy Containers on Amazon, including labels that actually stand up to essential oils!

These are the essential oils I specifically use when I make Wintry Days:

• Black Spruce essential oil (Picea mariana):
  • Plant Therapy, organic (Direct and Amazon)💛
  • Aromatics International, organic.

• Cinnamon Leaf essential oil (Cinnamomum zeylanicum):
  • Aromatics International, wildcrafted💛
  • Plant Therapy, sustainable (Direct and Amazon)
  • Edens Garden, sustainable (on Amazon).

• Frankincense Carteri essential oil (Boswellia carteri):
  • This is a precious species, threatened by over-harvesting, choose your supplier wisely
  • Aromatics International, organic💛
  • Plant Therapy, organic (Direct or Amazon).

• Sweet Orange essential oil (Citrus x sinensis):
  • Aromatics International, organic
  • Plant Therapy, organic (Direct and Amazon).

• Virginian Cedarwood essential oil (Juniperus virginiana):
  • Aromatics International, wildcrafted
  • Plant Therapy, sustainable (Direct and Amazon).

• Aromatics International for ethically wildcrafted, organically sourced, and Certified Organic essential oils (Mom’s AI favorites)
• Plant Therapy for Certified Organic and sustainably sourced, conventional essential oils (Mom’s PT favorites)
  • Also at Plant Therapy on Amazon
• Edens Garden (on Amazon) for sustainably sourced, conventional essential oils (Mom’s EG favorites)