Deepening Your Self-Care Routine with the Power of Scent
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This week Karen is taking a little bit of a side step from perfume making and talking about how you can incorporate scents into your daily rituals to enhance your self care. In this episode Karen covers how the strategic use of scent can transform your daily routines into moments of tranquility and care and how scents affect your mood and well being.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Karen discusses aromatherapy, its history, its benefits and how it enhances physiological and psychological well being.
- Different scents can be used to trigger different emotional states. Karen goes into detail about what scents can be used to invoke different needs.
- Karen details the practical ways different scents can be incorporated into your daily routine to get the most out of their benefits.
- Karen shares a short visualization that people can use if they do not have time to participate in actual routines.
BEST MOMENTS
“Scented self care can offer a sanctuary of calm amidst the seasonal chaos.”
“By choosing scents that align with our desired emotional state we can create a conducive environment for our needs.”
“Experimenting with different scents and methods can help you transform your daily routine into something that is more mindful and pleasurable.”
EPISODE LINKS
The Scent Shift
Perfume Oil Masterclass
Room Fragrance Masterclass
Studio Classes
VALUABLE RESOURCES
Getting Started Guide
Artisan Perfumery Mastermind
ABOUT THE HOST
Fragrance expert, author, teacher and speaker; Karen Gilbert runs courses in the UK and online which demystify the secretive world of perfumery in a fun and interactive way.
Karen has inspired thousands of students to explore their olfactory sense and create their own personalised fragrances.
With extensive product development experience in both the commercial perfumery and the organic skincare industry, Karen is able to offer a unique insight into creating natural and mixed media fragrances for fine fragrance, room scents and skincare/bodycare products using commercial perfumery techniques.
Karen is also a certified meditation teacher and has a passion for helping people to create daily rituals that integrate scent with other modalities to shift state and increase your sense of wellbeing.
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