Joy In January – Elevating your mood
Essential Oils, Great Deals & Discounts, Healthy Living 22 Comments »Essential oils and essential oil fragrances are my go-to for whenever I need a lift in mood. I find that the enjoyment of the fragrance brings me happiness no matter what the notes are. But there’s something about the citruses specifically, it’s as if they have irresistible power to brighten me up no matter how down or upset I am.
Though not related to the seasons, I’ve dealt with depression in the past and someone close to me is dealing with it presently. It’s theorized that SAD or depression may have something to do with lack of Vitamin D, which is produced in the skin’s exposure to the sun’s ultraviolet light. When I had low Vitamin D, my doctor recommended a supplement as well as exposure to the sun daily for at least 10-15 minutes. Again this wasn’t associated with SAD, but I found my general mood and stress levels were really improved when I would go out, bask in the light while watching the sun set. SAD sufferers who cannot get enough sunlight can get help with indoor light therapy from specialized sun-simulating lights.
Today I want to giveaway is a bottle of Bergamot Lime Massage Oil. The bright but rounded scent of bergamot makes me think of a radiant sunrise, and the sharper lime reminds me of a warn summer day.
The Joy in January project is a 3 day event with giveaways across the Natural Perfumers Guild participating blogs. Please visit all the participating blogs and share them with your friends in support of the bloggers and bringing more awareness to SAD.
To enter for my giveaway of Bergamot Lime Massage Oil, comment below including:
- Name (you may post as anonymous if you wish, but that will make you ineligible for the drawing)
- Valid Email Address
- Your comment on seasonal affective disorder, essential oils, natural perfumes, aromatherapy etc.
We don’t want to require you to have to sign up for our newsletters, “like” our Facebook page, or any other commercial endeavor – this is truly just a gift from the heart. But I do want to welcome you to join and stay up to date with me.
We’d also really really appreciate you spreading the word about this project through social media.
Please visit all the participating blogs and enter their giveaways as well:
http://perfumebynature.blogspot.com
http://anyasgarden.blogspot.com
http://www.providenceperfume.com/blogs/news
http://www.matriarch.biz/blog.html
http://www.dameclemence.com
http://bellyflowers.blogspot.com
http://www.roseenbos.com/category/blog
http://www.joannebassett.com/natural_perfumes
http://sororiaorganics.blogspot.com/
http://www.aromaticsinternational.com/blog
http://oneseedperfumes.wordpress.com
http://ellenoire.blogspot.com/
http://www.aromatherapycontessa.com
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Before I began my yoga practice this morning I dabbed a drop of bergamot on my wrists & put a drop of lime behind my ears! Imagine my surprise when I logged on & saw your post! I love the warm scent of Bergamot & lime always brings out the sun for me!
wow. the bottle of massage oil is so beautiful. that is a beautiful photo. I love frosted glass.
i will bring some of those oils with me to put on before my yoga class, sounds like a good idea to be working out and every now and then get a waft of a good, uplifting smell.
thank you
Love, love, love bergamot and lime – totally uplifting. Thanks for sharing and nice to meet fellow bloggers, perfumers who enjoy what they do.
Ahh the glorious scents of bergamot and lime…they absolutely uplift the gloom of a dreary winter’s day! Your bergamot lime massage looks and must smell spectacular! Such a synergy of scents can help awaken the inner summer when cold winds blow and the sky is cast in gray. Your massage oil must be sunlight indeed in a bottle, to help restore one to a sense of light, and promise and joy!!
I think there is so much we don’t yet know about the benefits of vitamin D. I know that both my joint mobility and my depression have improved (though not disappeared) since I have been supplementing. Even near the US border, we Canadians are too far north to get the sun at the right angle to give us enough vitamin D outside of summer.
I love that your massage oil is in frosted glass — elegant and less slippery. Bergamot is a long time love of mine and lime is sheer summer fun.
Thanks for the draw opportunity.
Bergamot and lime… this sounds amazing. Lime is one of my go-to essential oils when I need to clear my head and lift my mood. This may be why I’m so drawn to foods like Thai green curry in winter because of the limes and lime leaves – the smell alone, together with coconut and lemon grass, seems to clear the senses AND lift my spirits. This sounds like a great concoction of yours, and I hope to try it!
Oooooh, bergamont. I remember that I was very surprised the first time i found out it was a citrus; i was just used to Earl Grey tea (with oil of bergamont), and it had not struck me. =)
I’m lucky in that i don’t seem to be affected by levels of sunlight, but i do have a (near lifelong) struggle with depression.
I am a bergamot lover and a massage therapist. I look forward to trying this for the cold northeast winter days to cheer up all my patients…and myself! lol
Great combination for a cheerful massage.
I love the scent of lime. this natural perfume sounds amazing!
Bergamot is a citrus oil that I had to learn to appreciate, it wasn’t love at first sight for me with that one. Sounds like a lovely sunny massage oil blend for this time of year.
Oh the sweet fleeting citruses. They are great for perking up in the mornings. I wish they stayed with me longer, but such is the nature of top notes
Thanks!
Michael
Bergamot Lime massage oil sounds really nice! In fact, I will have to try this with my next massage. I love how you correlate the aromas with a radiant sunrise and a warm summer day. Right now, I’m in the middle of a blizzard and this is sounding really good!
Beautiful sounding massage combo!
One advantage to there not being a lot of sun/ daylight in winter is that one can more freely wear bergamont without having to worry about photo toxicity
since they days are so much shorter.
Bergamot is *brilliant* – and I can’t believe I didn’t know it was a citrus. *blush* All these many years I thought it was a green herb.
I drink it often – Earl Grey is the staple tea of my tea-drinking Perso-Armenian in-laws, and the smell is both familiar to me, and uplifting. And combining it with lime sounds just the ticket – citrus has helped me for years w/ my mild-California-style SAD. (Perso-Armenians also often use a ground lime peel in their stews.)
Thanks so much for this SAD blog-a-thon – it’s lifted my spirits just reading all the many blogs and comments.
Actually you are right about bergamot being an herb–there is an herb called bergamot, also known as bee balm.
Then to make matters a bit more confusing, there’s also a bergamot mint!
What a wonderful scent combination to life spirits!
Bergamot and lime, a vacation in a bottle, thanks of participating in the SAD blog-a-thon, I’ve enjoyed your blog and will continue to read it in the future.
I’ve just posted the winners of the Joy In January giveaways
I really loved reading your comments. Thank you everyone for entering!
Hi I am new here, and new to essential oils etc. I was actually thinking of buying this fragrance of yours! When I read this blog of yours I thought I should comment. Just because I have struggled with depression off and on. I do have to say it is worse in the winter, I live in New England. It also runs in my family.
The reason I wanted to comment is that I was wondering this same question last night! I was wondering why Lemon and Citrus is the one scent I love and seems to calm me down and pick me up. I don’t really know how to explain it. Most other scents even essential oils make me feel blah when I smell them and I don’t like them very much. But Lemon is the thing I keep going to, Lemon, Sweet Orange, etc. I didn’t know why. And I wondered (ironically) last night about this very same thing!
I wondered if there was something about Lemon that effects depression and what it was about that. It seems to be the only thing to break through it and lift me up. I do have a cutical butter from Lush that is Lemon, I seem to be using it 24-7 because it is the only smell that makes me feel better!
That and I just bought some essential oils for the first time. I have NO IDEA what to do with them. So I got a mini spray bottle with water and put in some sweet orange oil and lemon grass essential oil and I am spraying it onto myself before work, in my hair, on my pillows before sleep, etc. It really does wonders and uplifts my spirits! I only wish that these notes weren’t “top notes” and didn’t vanish so quickly!
I am interested in trying some of your fragrances, like the body oils. Do you think that someday you may have sampler sets, or gift sets that come with smaller bottles of all the fragrances so customers can try them out? I am having a hard time deciding what I want to buy! Thank you.
It’s the citrus one or lavender.
Is it ok for potential customers to comment here? Thanks!
ps – I work in the cosmetic industry and because I am around fragrance 24-7 I have developed an alergy to it. I pray now that customers don’t use the testers in my department because they make me feel so sick now. That is why I am now starting to learn about these more natural products. Thank you for all you do! It must be much better for your health than using all these chemicals. I look forward to learning more and have to say I am a bit overwhelmed. Thanks!
ps = I am sorry that was so long!!
Sheri, don’t apologize a bit! Thank you so much for sharing! It is very encouraging to hear stories like yours. I know with the more people know about essential oils and natural fragrance, the better off we become.