Spring Renewal Set

Spring is when most people change what they diffuse. The heavy, warm scents of winter start to feel wrong in a room with the windows open, and something brighter takes over. This collection holds the ten products built for that switch: eight single essential oils and two hydrosols, from $9.99.

Ten spring products from $9.99. The citrus group is sweet orange, lemon, grapefruit and lemongrass. Rosemary is the herbaceous one, peppermint the cooling one, and lavender and rose geranium the florals. The two hydrosols, French lavender and Bulgarian rose, are the only products here you can mist straight onto skin without diluting.

Why Choose Spring Essential Oils

Spring buying tends to go one of two ways. Either you want to change what a room smells like, which is what the eight essential oils are for, or you want something you can put on skin straight away, which is what the two hydrosols are for. Decide by format first, then by scent. The oils come in 10ml bottles and the hydrosols in 100ml, and four of the oils start at $9.99, so this is an easy collection to buy one bottle from.

The Oils And Hydrosols In This Collection

The citrus four are not interchangeable. Sweet orange is the sweetest and roundest of them, cold pressed from the peel, and the easiest to like. Lemon is sharper and cleaner, the one that makes a room smell like it has just been tidied. Grapefruit sits between the two with a slight bitterness that stops it turning sugary. Lemongrass is the odd one out: despite the name it is a grass rather than a citrus, and it is greener and more herbal than the other three.

Rosemary is the herbaceous one. Sharp, green and camphorous, closer to a crushed herb than a perfume. It is the least sweet oil here and the one most people end up putting in a workspace diffuser. It is also the oil behind rosemary water routines: our DIY rosemary and thyme water guide covers the method and the hair and scalp collection has the products built for it. Essential oils are not a hair growth treatment, and rosemary has to be diluted before it goes near your scalp.

Peppermint is the coolest scent in the collection and the most intense drop for drop. Use less of it than you think you need.

The florals are gentler. Lavender is soft and slightly herbaceous. Rose geranium is rosier and greener than lavender, and at $20.99 it is the most expensive oil here, which comes down to how much plant material one bottle takes to distil.

Essential Oil Or Hydrosol

This collection has both, and they are not the same thing.

An essential oil is the concentrated aromatic oil distilled from the plant. It goes into a diffuser by the drop and has to be diluted before it touches skin. A hydrosol is the water left behind after that distillation: the same aroma far more softly, in a 100ml bottle, and it can be misted straight onto skin, hair or a pillow with no mixing.

So buy an oil to scent a room or build your own blends, and a hydrosol if you want something you can use straight away. The two here are French Lavender Hydrosol, soft and floral, and Rose Bulgaria Hydrosol, rosier and sweeter. For the full range see all hydrosols.

Three Spring Diffuser Blends To Start With

Every oil in these three is in this collection, so you can buy a blend in one click rather than hunting for ingredients.

Open Window. 3 drops sweet orange, 2 drops lemon, 1 drop peppermint. Bright and clean, for a room that has been shut up all winter.

Green Desk. 3 drops rosemary, 2 drops grapefruit, 1 drop lemongrass. Herbal and sharp rather than sweet, better in a workspace than a living room.

Soft Spring. 3 drops lavender, 2 drops sweet orange, 1 drop rose geranium. Floral with a citrus lift, and the gentlest of the three.

For more combinations by the drop, see our spring diffuser blend recipes.

How To Use Spring Essential Oils Daily

In a diffuser, add the number of drops your diffuser's instructions specify, typically a few drops per 100ml of water, and run it in a ventilated room rather than continuously. Citrus and herbaceous oils are the ones most people diffuse while airing rooms out at the end of winter. Lemon, sweet orange, lemongrass and peppermint are also the four that turn up most often in homemade cleaning sprays, mostly for how they smell; see essential oils for cleaning.

On skin, the two hydrosols can be misted directly. Every essential oil here has to be diluted in a carrier oil first, with a patch test before wider use. Essential oils are not to be swallowed.

Trusted Quality Standards for Spring Essential Oils

Every oil in this collection is a single, undiluted essential oil rather than a fragrance mix, and each product page names the botanical source and the countries it is sourced from. Knowing which plant and which country is the difference between buying an aroma and buying an ingredient.