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I put together a great aromatherapy recipe for stress relief. It is very Earthy, grounding and calming, which exactly what you need when you’re stressed. Especially if you get that feeling, like I sometimes do, that you’re about to “go into orbit”!

Here is the recipe:

3 drops Sandalwood Essential Oil (santalum album)
2 drops Patchouli Essential Oil (pogostemon cablin)
2 drops Cardamom Essential Oil (elettaria cardamomum)

Diffuse in your favorite diffuser.

A couple of notes:

1. I was surprised at the way the Cardamom essential oil dominated the mixture. I really expected the heavy, heady fragrance of the patchouli essential oil to dominate, but I was wrong. If you don’t know what Cardamom is, you may recognize it from eating at an Indian restaurant. Many Indian restaurants put Cardamom seeds in the rice. The seeds are those big green or black pods in the rice.

They don’t taste particularly great when you bite into the seeds, but the taste and smell of Cardamom left by the seeds really makes the rice taste great.

2. The character of the aromatherapy mixture changed over time. The tea light lasted about 6 hours, and over time, I could get more of the scent of Patchouli essential oil. I’d say for the last 2 hours of diffusion, the Patchouli was more detectable.

3. Sandalwood is a tough essential oil to bring out in a diffuser. Its individual scent gets a bit lost among other essential oils, but it harmonizes and blends wonderfully, adding its scent to the aromatherapy mixture in subtle ways.