Twelve bottles is the point at which a set stops being a sampler and becomes a collection. This one arrives in a black presentation box with the bottles seated in a tray: rose, frankincense, grapefruit, cedarwood, cinnamon, lemon, tea tree, sweet orange, lavender, mint, lemongrass and eucalyptus, 10ml of each.
The range matters more than the count. Twelve oils drawn from the same corner of the spectrum would be a poor set, however many bottles were in the box. These cover all three registers a blend is built from — lemon, grapefruit, sweet orange, mint and lemongrass at the bright top; lavender, rose, cinnamon and eucalyptus through the middle; cedarwood and frankincense at the base, where a blend needs weight to stop it evaporating within the hour. Tea tree sits slightly apart as the practical one.
Three to five drops per 100ml of water scents a room in any of the machines in our humidifier and diffuser range, and the same bottles work in a tealight oil burner. Diluted into a carrier at 1–2% they become body and massage blends; at craft rates they go into candles, melts and soap.
Each bottle holds roughly two hundred drops, so the box as a whole runs to around two thousand four hundred — enough to work through every scent properly and still have most of them left. As a gift it removes the hardest part of buying fragrance for someone else, which is guessing which single scent they would have chosen.
See the Diffuser Essential Oil collection for individual bottles and larger working sizes, or the wider Aromatherapy Oils range.