Why are best scented candles are made with fragrance oils?

 

There is a big similarity between fragrance and music: it contains three sets of notes which all come together to create a harmonious accord, each note contains an array of scents. The art of making a fragrance is balancing the perfect combination of the top, middle and base notes together:

⁃ The top notes, also referred to as the head notes, these are usually 15-25% of the fragrance. This is the sent you usually smell first, as they are on top they tend to evaporate the fastest.
⁃ The middle notes, these can also be referred to as heart notes they are typically 30-40% of the end fragrance. They are the body, and are smelt after the top layer has evaporated.
⁃ The base notes, these give the fragrance the “staying power” they make up 40-55% of the fragrance. if the fragrance had no base notes the fragrance would evaporate quickly and wouldn’t provide the long lasting smell you would usually get.

Fragrance Oils
Fragrance oils are the combination of many aromatic ingredients. These are derived from nature and then they are created by using scientific methods. Some of the natural ingredients are essential oils, as well as absolutes and resins. Although synthetic ingredients are usually thought to be man made, you can also find them within nature and reproduced synthetically by using scientific methods.

Essential oils
These are the alternative product to fragrance oils. Essential oils are the product of a plant, which have been distilled down from the oil of the plant. Though essential oils are natural and have therapeutic benefits you will find there is six negatives to using them within a candle.
1. Therapeutic benefits are lost when the candle is burned.
2. Essential oils are usually more expensive and the prices can also fluctuate and be dependent on the weather, crops and relationship within trading between countries.
3. Essentail oils are known to provoked a good cold throw, the scent they actually provide is very little when you burn them in a candle.
4. Unlike fragrance oils essential oils do not provide a variety within their scent range.
5. Essential oils and fragrance oils can both cause many allergic reaction, in fact most of the 26 known allergens within the EU list are provided from natural sources.
6. Essential may also have an effect of animals, and pets. They are known to also be toxic to them, whether this is taken internally, applied directly on the skin or even simply inhaled.

This Is why at Arbrook Candles we use fragrance oils. As we want to provide the best candle for our customers, providing a candle with the most positive outcome and with our customers welfare at the top of the list of priorities.