The olfactory sense is designed to register the range of emanations that are components in our natural environment. These possess attendant properties that are either coarse and unattractive and can alert us to danger, or are of the positive, refined and attractive end of the spectrum, providing us with sensory enjoyment.

In our modern lifestyle we are not constantly surrounded by natural life in our environment and the myriad of complex emanations that issue from man-made material around us is apt to dominate the subtler and beautiful perfumes and aromas found in nature’s wilderness, gardens and forests. This is to our disadvantage. When deprived of the pure scents of flowers and plant life, our health of both body and mind suffers.

Whereas the ideal would seem to be to balance our lives by walking in the outdoors, roaming in bushland and forests, most of us have little time to devote to these pleasures and it is reasonable to bring Nature’s aromas to us as an alternative. This can be done by means of pure and adulterated essential oils that offer us exquisite concentrates. All we have to do is to consciously inhale them!

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The addition of attractive perfumes in commerce, once seen to be offering exciting new products seen as innovation, is now known as a potentially threatening influence. This is not only through volume but the fact that many ingredients in their complex chemical compositions are proven to be carcinogenic or toxic to our health.

Deliberate inhalation of perfumes and oils can be pleasurable and beneficial and some influence us in such a way as to elevate our mood or to calm our emotions. As the finest natural perfumes can help to make us feel good and to elevate our consciousness or calm our mood, so there are odours which are heavy, damaging to our cells, and depress our consciousness.

The general use of perfumes in commerce, once an exciting new innovation, has now become a threatening influence, not only through volume but through the complex chemicals used, many of which are positively toxic to our health.

A scent has the power to help us recall our earliest memories, encourage a comforting closeness with a lost love one or to take us ‘right back’ to a past happening in our lives. Many people have had recall of previous lives through the influence of perfume whether by spontaneous response or by the purposeful employment of a scent. It is our natural reaction to a sensory stimulus with associated familiar or welcome association.

A special floral is Michelia figo as it is generally labelled and that we know in our gardens as the Port Wine Magnolia. It originates in China as so many of our wonderful flora and is enjoyed for its scented flower oil used on the hair and valued for the fragrance it offers in the garden environment. The flower shares the genus of the famous Champaka.

Although we allow for individual taste and that some people even recoil from a strong perfume that others admire, it is usual to find that, according to its strength, or whether it is as a gentle essence, the following flowers offer a treasure house for those who wish to become more familiar with perfumes in nature that offer universal appeal.

The use of essential oils is on the increase. Not only for indulging in the sensory satisfaction of scents but the value of aromatics in healing has been successfully promoted by professional aromatherapists and psychologists.For their healing powers and purposes, it is the pure and unadulterated essential oils that consumers and professionals are now demanding.

We cannot ignore the negative things that also register on this sensitive instrument of olfaction that we possess that alerts us to potential dangers of increasing toxic chemical fumes that are polluting our environment. These are larger issues that must be dealt with on national and international levels to help preserve the health of our planet. But we do have the power to use beneficial aromatics on our person and in our homes.

Aside from personal toilet, perfumes are used now as they always have been, to smother unpleasant smells and odours. Whereas in the past, they were used to attempt to cover up the smells of poor sanitation, this is no longer of vital importance. The focus has shifted to the need to cover up chemical stenches and industrial effluents. But we have it in our power to neutralise or reduce their negative effects through our employment of beautifully fragrant essential oils in our homes as well as on

Human sense of smell is generally limited compared with the extremely acute sense in animals. Although it plays an important role in our lives in helping us discriminate in judging quality of things, we are not faced with self preservation or hunting for food as the animal but rather have developed our olfaction as a tool for our sensory enjoyment.