Last Confession: Use Me! I Will Not Die an Unused Life.
Last Confession: Use Me! I Will Not Die an Unused Life. My brother turned me on to a lot of musicians after the Beatles came to A starting when Dylan came to Raleigh, D worked concessions. Of course it progressed from there. One of the earlier ones was Dave...
Thank you, Rob Pappas (Why I Love Dr. P)
During the Purdue classes in 1996, we went on a field (peppermint!) trip to the Lucac farm to see peppermint distillation. While we were there, we met Rob Brown of Lebermuth, who had with him their new chemist Rob Pappas. Rob was new to the industry, and our meeting...
I did not set out to form a disaster relief organization (Thank you Doug E)
Doug E. Rasmusson was my inspiration to get involved with disaster relief. Affectionately known as "Doug E", he had over the previous years become a very good friend, mentee, supporter and instructor for the Atlantic Institute of Aromatherapy. We first met when he...
Early teacher: Kurt Schnaubelt
After half a decade of playing around with oils on my own, using the few available books I had at my disposal, such as Valnet and Tisserand, I wanted to expand and share the knowledge I had collected. I saw the need to delve further, to really get serious about this...
Days of Rumors
In February of 1982 I married my husband, O.V. on Valentines day and the same month bought the salon business I had worked at for a few years. I renamed it Rumors, in honor of Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks, my obsession at the time. Originally I sold my collection...
Featured Pioneer: Colleen Dodt
By the mid-80s, I started to realize that that I was not alone in my practice with essential oils. Colleen Dodt was working quietly away up in Rochester Hills, MI having been recognized in her own right by 1987. Her company, Herbal Endeavours, had started up the year...
Early stirrings
I grew up in North Carolina in the 1950-60s and moved to Florida in early 1970. At that time I didn't know aromatherapy had started with Gattefosse's work, followed by Valnet’s book Aromatherapie which came out in France. Then Marguerite Maury, an Austrian...
Re Start Me Up
A few days ago I turned 63 and decided it was time to start a blog. It may seem strange to start on my birthday but I decided I had to just get started, and get it done. We never know how long we have in this earth suit, and I need to put some things down on paper for...
Sylla’s Confessions
On September 20th, At the AIA's Aromatherapy Conference in Tampa, FL Sylla gave an outstanding lunch time presentation titled "Re-Start Me Up: Confessions of a Vintage Aromatherapist." A fun and funky full-hearted speech began with the Rolling Stones classic "Start Me...
Who we are!
Welcome to the Vintage Aromatherapist Blog Site. Here we will take you on a journey back to the early days of Aromatherapy. Our mission is to create a place to house the wealth of aromatherapy knowledge of our elders. To find out more about who we are, visit our...