The most reliable method to detect high quality oils

One of the most reliable methods of telling real oils apart from synthetic material is to train your sense of smell. This might take anywhere from a few months to years, depending on how hard you train. One thing I’ve realized is that when the oils are natural the smell ‘comes and goes’. What I mean is that if you apply a few drops on your neck, for example, undiluted, as a perfume, after a few minutes you might stop smelling it, and you would think this is it, the end, and the next moment you smell it again, and it’s there, and its beautiful and then it goes away, and it keeps you waiting for the next breeze which will bring it back to your nose. It is there but it is not there. The art of being subtle. 

It will also evolve over time on the skin.

Oils that contain synthetic material are a totally different material. If you apply an undiluted drop of such oils on your skin, it will be some 12 hours before it leaves your system. It is there, always, persistent, not in a good way. You want it to go away but it would not. It gives you a very bad headache. You wish you hadn’t applied that drop on your wrist but it was your friend and you didn’t want to seem arrogant and you would refuse one of his synthetics for your naturals. In the end you finally sleep it off. The next morning it’s on the jacket.

The headache was always the sign for me

With practice you will definitely ‘feel’ it

Smelling oil directly from the bottle, as in the picture, is not the best way to properly enjoy the smell (when you are not applying or diffusing). You are able to properly appreciate when you smell it off something, and its not a bottle.

One way is to apply a drop on your smelling strip and watch how it evolves. Another is to smell directly off the dropper glass. That is one reason for the dropper over the reducer.

It is an excellent way to train your sense of smell