Spa 6 · Other Scents

Ylang Ylang Massage Oil carries the heaviest sweet floral in this range of sixteen. Grape seed and almond oils do the glide, wheat germ oil adds weight, and allantoin handles skin comfort. Interesting fact: ylang ylang is one of the few aromatics that is not collected as a single oil. ISO 3063 describes it being drawn off in four successive fractions during one distillation, known in the trade as extra, first, second and third, and the extra fraction comes off at the start of a run that can last 10 to 20 hours. It is the most aromatic and the most expensive of the four. The Comoros are the world's largest producer, ahead of Madagascar, and the flowers there are picked by hand. On the skin the scent is sweet, heady and unmistakable, and it reaches the room within a minute of the first stroke.

• In the room from the first stroke, at the far end of this range from Green Tea and Snow Flowers.
• Five ingredients on the label.
• Grape seed and almond glide that stays even across a full hour.
• A single aromatic, so there is nothing else competing with it in the room.

The esters and alcohols that make up the lighter part of the ylang profile are the most volatile compounds in the flower, which is why they come off first in the distillation and why they hit the room first on the skin. The heavier sesquiterpenes underneath them are what keep the scent going into the second half of the session. Grape seed oil carries the whole thing and thins as the hands warm it, while almond oil keeps the slip from running out.

1. Application: Use 12 to 15 ml. More product here means a stronger room and not a better massage.
2. Massage: Standard relaxation sequence. Start away from the head so the client meets the scent before it arrives at close range.
3. Tip: Check with the client before a couples treatment. Ylang divides opinion more sharply than any other scent on this list, and it is better asked than assumed.

500 ml pump bottle. At 10 to 20 ml per full-body session that is 25 to 50 treatments per bottle.

Grape Seed Oil, Almond Oil, Ylang Ylang Essential Oil, Wheat Germ Oil, Allantoin.

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The Gold and Amber Massage Oil is a professional cosmetic solution designed to provide your skin with exceptional care and a luxurious experience. Enriched with extracts of gold and amber, this oil not only improves skin elasticity but also nourishes and deeply hydrates it. Interesting fact: gold is known for its antioxidant properties, which support the regeneration of skin cells, while amber provides a warm and soothing aroma, creating a sense of comfort and relaxation. Regular use of this oil will make your skin silky smooth, elastic, and radiant, leaving a luxurious and long-lasting fragrance. Enjoy a refined experience that combines effective care with sensory pleasure. Gold & Amber massage oil will relax your senses and pamper your skin. The aroma of Amber is a mix of resin, powder, sweet, smoky, and woody notes that will take you to an Oriental dream. The golden particles have a rejuvenating effect on the skin and will delicately make your skin glow. The perfect oil for anyone who wants to feel like they are in the tales of Scheherazade.

• Improves skin elasticity.
• Nourishes and deeply hydrates.
• Leaves a luxurious and long-lasting fragrance.
• Supports the regeneration of skin cells.
• Suitable for all skin types.

The active ingredients in the extracts of gold and amber penetrate deep into the skin, providing the necessary moisture and nutrients. Gold supports the regeneration of skin cells and improves elasticity, while amber provides a warm and soothing aroma, creating a sense of comfort and relaxation. The oil leaves the skin soft, smooth, and pleasantly scented.

1. Application: Apply a small amount of the oil to clean, dry skin.
2. Massage: With gentle circular motions, massage the oil until fully absorbed.
3. Frequency: Use as needed or as part of your regular massage routine.
4. Tip: For a more intense aroma and relaxation, warm the oil slightly between your palms before application.

Grape Seed Oil, Almond Oil, Colloidal Gold Particles, Amber Essential Oil, Vanilla Planifolia, Wheat Germ Oil, Allantoin

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White Rose Massage Oil is built on Rosa alba, the white oil-bearing rose, which is a distinct plant from the Damask rose that supplies most rose oil. The two are sibling hybrids and share Rosa gallica in their parentage. Grape seed and almond oils carry it, wheat germ oil adds weight, allantoin conditions the skin. Interesting fact: rose is the most time-bound aromatic on this list. The flowers are picked between six and eight in the morning, and outside that window the oil content of the same flower falls by 30 to 90 percent. There is one bloom a year, in May and June, and the harvest goes to distillation within about a day. It takes upwards of three tonnes of flowers to make one kilogram of rose oil. The two roses also smell different in a way you can measure: geraniol leads in Rosa alba at roughly twice the citronellol, and in Damask rose that ratio runs the other way.

• Rosa alba named on the label, which is the rarer of the two oil-bearing roses.
• Greener and lighter on the skin than a Damask rose oil.
• The aromatic clients most associate with a premium treatment.
• Five ingredients on the label.

Grape seed oil is the carrier and spreads thin under warm hands, while almond oil holds the slip through the hour. Rose sits in the heart of the aroma and comes forward as the oil warms under pressure, so it builds through the first twenty minutes rather than announcing itself at the door. Wheat germ oil sits fourth on the list and brings the highest tocopherol content of any carrier used in this range.

1. Application: 15 ml. Rose is by far the costliest thing in this bottle and heavier dosing does not make the scent better, only faster to run out.
2. Massage: Slow relaxation strokes, back and shoulders first. Warm hands are what bring the rose forward.
3. Tip: Price this treatment above your standard hour and say why. Upwards of three tonnes of flowers per kilogram of oil, one bloom a year, and a two-hour picking window is a story the client can repeat to someone else.

500 ml pump bottle. At 10 to 20 ml per full-body session that is 25 to 50 treatments per bottle.

Grape Seed Oil, Almond Oil, Rosa Alba Essential Oil, Wheat Germ Oil, Allantoin.

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Massage Oil Sweet Vanilla runs on four ingredients, tied with Snow Flowers for the shortest label in this range of sixteen. Sweet almond and grape seed oils do the glide, Vanilla planifolia extract carries the whole scent with no fragrance compound behind it, and tocopherol keeps the oil phase stable on the shelf. Interesting fact: vanilla comes from an orchid whose flower is open for less than a single day, and outside its native Mexico it has no commercially viable pollinator, so every pod is pollinated by hand, one flower at a time. That is why vanilla sits second only to saffron in price per kilo. The scent is warm and sweet without going sugary, and it comes up gradually as the oil warms under pressure, so it is still building at minute forty. The finish is light, closer to plain almond oil than to a butter.

• Four ingredients on the label, tied for the shortest in this range.
• Vanilla planifolia extract carries the scent, with no fragrance compound behind it.
• Light almond and grape seed slip that absorbs without leaving a film.
• Tocopherol works as both the antioxidant that keeps the oil phase stable and a skin-conditioning ingredient.

Sweet almond oil is the bulk of the blend and gives a slower, more cushioned slip than grape seed on its own. Grape seed thins it back so the hands keep moving through a full hour without the oil turning tacky. Vanilla planifolia extract releases as the oil warms under pressure, which is why the aroma is still coming up in the second half of the session. Tocopherol does two jobs here: it keeps the oil phase stable on the shelf and it conditions skin in its own right.

1. Application: Pour 15 ml into the palm and hold it for a few seconds before first contact. This one releases its scent with warmth, so a cold application costs you most of the aroma.
2. Massage: Long, full-hand strokes across back, shoulders and legs. The blend is light, so keep the contact broad and let coverage do the work.
3. Tip: With a first-time client, open at the shoulders and let a familiar scent do the settling for you before you move to the back.

500 ml pump bottle. At 10 to 20 ml per full-body session that is 25 to 50 treatments per bottle.

Prunus Dulcis Amygdalus Oil, Vitis Vinifera Seed Oil, Vanilla Planifolia Extract, Tocopherol.

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Sandalwood Massage Oil is built on Santalum austrocaledonicum, the Pacific sandalwood, which grows in New Caledonia and Vanuatu and in no other place on earth. Grape seed and almond oils carry it, wheat germ oil adds weight, and allantoin covers skin comfort where you work the same area every week. Interesting fact: this tree is a hemiparasite, so it cannot be grown as a monoculture at all. It has to be planted alongside a host, and the heartwood that holds the oil takes about 30 years to build to a harvestable size. Vanuatu sets a harvest quota season by season, declared by the minister, and one recent season was capped at 80 tonnes for the whole country. On the skin the scent is creamy, woody and slightly milky, and it stays on the skin to the end of a long session.

• Populations of this species have been measured at 48 to 49 percent alpha-santalol, at the high end for any sandalwood.
• The scent holds through a 90 minute session without a second application.
• Woody and low in sweetness, which suits clients who find florals too much.
• Five ingredients on the label.

Grape seed oil is the carrier and thins under the warmth of the hands. Almond oil slows the slip so long strokes stay even. Wheat germ oil sits fourth and carries the highest tocopherol content of any oil used in this range. Santalols are heavy, low-volatility molecules, so sandalwood behaves as a base note. That is why the aroma is still present at the end of the hour when a citrus oil would have gone.

1. Application: Pour 15 ml and start at the back. Sandalwood builds slowly, so give it the first ten minutes on the largest surface you will work.
2. Massage: Slow, deliberate strokes with long contact. This is not an oil for fast work; the aroma and the slip both reward a slower pace.
3. Tip: Keep the bottle away from direct light on the shelf. Heat and light are what degrade a wood oil, and this is not a cheap one.

500 ml pump bottle. At 10 to 20 ml per full-body session that is 25 to 50 treatments per bottle.

Grape Seed Oil, Almond Oil, Santalum Austrocaledonicum, Wheat Germ Oil, Allantoin.

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Citrus Blend Massage Oil puts three citrus peels on one label: sweet orange, mandarin and grapefruit. Grape seed and almond oils carry them, wheat germ oil adds weight, allantoin conditions the skin. Interesting fact: citrus is the major aromatic group that is pressed rather than distilled. The oil sits in glands in the peel and is squeezed out cold, so the material that reaches the bottle has never been heated. That is why citrus oil smells like the fruit in your hand. The consequence for a treatment is that citrus is a top note: it arrives within the first minute and it fades across the hour. Bright, sharp and short, which is exactly what you want at nine in the morning and wrong at nine at night.

• In the room from the first stroke, because cold-pressed peel oils are all top note.
• Fades across the session, so the client does not carry it into the rest of their day.
• Three separate peel oils, so the aroma has more depth than a single orange oil.
• Grape seed and almond glide that holds across a full hour.

Cold-pressed peel oils are dominated by small, light molecules, which is exactly why they reach the nose first and disappear first. Grape seed oil carries them and thins as the hands warm it, almond oil slows the absorption so the slip outlasts the scent, and wheat germ oil adds weight and tocopherol. Allantoin closes the list on skin conditioning.

1. Application: 15 ml. Open the bottle in front of the client if you are selling the treatment on the scent; this is the one where the first impression happens before you touch them.
2. Massage: Brisk, energising sequences. This oil suits a shorter appointment and a faster pace better than a slow 90 minute protocol.
3. Tip: Store it cool and closed. Cold-pressed citrus oils oxidise faster than the woods and florals in this range, and an old bottle smells flat and slightly resinous.

500 ml pump bottle. At 10 to 20 ml per full-body session that is 25 to 50 treatments per bottle.

Vitis Vinifera Seed Oil, Almond Oil, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis Oil, Citrus Reticulata Essential Oil, Citrus Grandis Oil, Wheat Germ Oil, Allantoin.

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Lavender Massage Oil names Lavandula angustifolia on the label, which is the specific thing worth paying for. Grape seed and almond oils carry it, wheat germ oil adds weight, allantoin conditions the skin. Interesting fact: most lavender oil sold in the world is not this plant. It is lavandin, a sterile hybrid of true lavender and spike lavender that can only be propagated from cuttings, and lavandin accounts for more than 90 percent of the area and the volume produced across the whole lavender family. A hectare of it yields around 100 kg of oil against roughly 15 kg for true lavender, and that field arithmetic is the entire reason one costs what it costs. There is a laboratory line between them too: the European Pharmacopoeia caps lavender oil at 1.2 percent camphor, while lavandin typically carries 5 to 10 percent, which is what gives cheap lavender its sharp medicinal edge. This one is soft, sweet and herbal instead.

• Lavandula angustifolia named on the label, so the buyer knows which plant they are getting.
• Low camphor, so the scent stays soft instead of turning sharp.
• The scent clients ask for by name, and the one they notice when it is wrong.
• Five ingredients on the label.

Grape seed oil thins under the warmth of the hands and covers a large area in one pass, and almond oil slows it enough that the slip holds through a full hour. The lavender sits in the middle of the aroma, neither a top note that vanishes nor a base that lingers all evening, which is why it works on a client who has to go home and sleep rather than go out. Wheat germ oil sits fourth and carries the highest tocopherol load of any oil in this range.

1. Application: 15 ml is enough for a full body. Lavender is forgiving on dose; the scent does not get better with more of it.
2. Massage: Any relaxation sequence. This is the oil to reach for when you do not yet know what the client responds to.
3. Tip: If a client tells you they dislike lavender, ask what they smelled. High-camphor lavandin is what most people have met, and if they are open to it a forearm patch of this one is worth the thirty seconds.

500 ml pump bottle. At 10 to 20 ml per full-body session that is 25 to 50 treatments per bottle.

Vitis Vinifera Seed Oil, Almond Oil, Lavandula Angustifolia Essential Oil, Wheat Germ Oil, Allantoin.

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Green Tea Massage Oil is the green, low-sweetness end of this range. Grape seed and almond oils carry it, wheat germ oil adds weight, allantoin conditions the skin. Interesting fact: green tea, black tea, white tea and oolong are all the same plant. Every one of them is Camellia sinensis, and the international classification standard sorts them by processing route and by how far the picked leaf is allowed to oxidise. Green tea is the one where oxidation is deliberately stopped: a heat step inactivates the enzyme within hours of picking, which is why the leaf stays green and the aroma stays vegetal instead of turning malty. On the skin that reads as grassy and clean, with almost none of the sweetness that runs through most of the other fifteen oils here. It suits a nine o'clock appointment in a way that a heavy floral does not.

• Green and grassy, with almost none of the sweetness that runs through the aromatic oils here.
• Green and clean, which suits a morning treatment room.
• Grape seed and almond glide that holds across a full hour.
• Five ingredients on the label.

Grape seed oil leads the list and thins under warm hands, covering a large muscle group in one pass. Almond oil slows the absorption so the slip lasts. Wheat germ oil sits fourth and carries roughly five times the alpha-tocopherol content of grape seed oil, which is why it appears in most of the blends in this range. Allantoin closes the list and its declared function is skin conditioning and skin protection.

1. Application: 15 ml, worked from the shoulders down. The aroma is light, so a cold room will flatten it; warm the oil in the palms first.
2. Massage: Any sequence. The blend is neutral enough in slip and scent that it does not steer the technique.
3. Tip: Keep this one for the first two appointments of the day and switch to a heavier aromatic after lunch. The scent load in a treatment room accumulates across a shift.

500 ml pump bottle. At 10 to 20 ml per full-body session that is 25 to 50 treatments per bottle.

Grape Seed Oil, Almond Oil, Green Tea Essential Oil, Wheat Germ Oil, Allantoin.

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Orange & Cinnamon Massage Oil is the seasonal oil in this range, and the cinnamon in it is not the one most people picture. Interesting fact: the label names Cinnamomum zeylanicum Leaf Oil, and cinnamon leaf and cinnamon bark are two different commercial materials with two different chemistries. Leaf oil runs roughly 70 to 83 percent eugenol with only a few percent cinnamaldehyde, while bark oil is dominated by cinnamaldehyde at around 75 percent. Eugenol is the molecule that makes clove smell like clove, so this reads warm and spicy and slightly clove-like, not like a cinnamon stick in mulled wine. Sweet orange sits on top of it in two forms, with grapefruit peel oil alongside, and grape seed and almond oils carry the whole thing. Tocopherol appears fourth on the list.

• Warm and spicy from eugenol, which is closer to clove than to cinnamon bark.
• Two sweet orange oils plus grapefruit, so the citrus is rounder than a single peel.
• Nine ingredients, four of them aromatic, where most oils in this range carry one.
• Seasonal without being a candle, so the scent lives on the skin and not in the air.

The citrus oils are cold-pressed and light, so they arrive first and fade first. The cinnamon leaf oil is heavier and stays behind them, which is what gives the blend a shape across the hour instead of a single flat note. Grape seed oil thins under warm hands, almond oil holds the slip, wheat germ oil and tocopherol sit on the antioxidant side of the formula, and allantoin closes it on skin conditioning.

1. Application: 15 ml. Warm it well; the cinnamon leaf note needs body heat to come forward and stays flat on a cold application.
2. Massage: Back, shoulders and legs. Keep it off the face and off broken skin.
3. Tip: Pair it with the seasonal name on your booking page. Clients book a spiced treatment in November who would not book a massage.

500 ml pump bottle. At 10 to 20 ml per full-body session that is 25 to 50 treatments per bottle.

Vitis Vinifera Seed Oil, Prunus Dulcis Amygdalus Oil, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis Oil, Tocopherol, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis Peel Oil, Cinnamomum Zeylanicum Leaf Oil, Citrus Grandis Peel Oil, Triticum Vulgare Oil, Allantoin.

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Sports Massage Oil is the only blend in this range built on shea butter, and it is the only one of the sixteen with a butter on the ingredient list at all. That gives it a heavier body which holds up under elbow and forearm pressure for a full hour, and skin comes out of the session soft and dry to the touch. Interesting fact: the vetiver in this blend is distilled from roots, and vetiver roots reach 2 to 4 metres into the soil before harvest, which is where the dry, earthy base note comes from. Angelica sits alongside it as a second root oil, so the aroma reads green and low in sweetness. Sodium chloride is the mineral element in the formula and Sports is the only one of the sixteen with a salt on its list. It dries down within a few minutes of the last stroke, which is what lets a client dress and leave before your next appointment starts.

• Shea butter body, which is what keeps the slip alive through a 60 minute deep tissue hour.
• Aroma carried by two root oils, vetiver and angelica, green and low in sweetness.
• Dries down in a few minutes, so clients dress and leave inside a 20 minute turnaround.
• No silicones and no mineral oil on the label, which shortens the questions from clients who read it.

Grape seed oil thins as the hands warm it and covers a whole muscle group in one pass. Shea butter sits second on the list and it is the solid fat in the blend, which is why the slip lasts under sustained pressure. Lavender, vetiver and angelica set the scent of the room low and dry, which suits athletic clients who would find a floral treatment out of place. Allantoin closes the list and its job is skin comfort where the same area gets worked week after week.

1. Application: Warm 15 ml between the palms and lay it across the whole muscle group before the first stroke. One application at the start spreads further than several small ones added as you go.
2. Massage: Open with long effleurage along the muscle fibre, then move into petrissage on quads, calves, hamstrings and lower back once the tissue has warmed.
3. Tip: On a post-event client, work at half your usual pressure for the first ten minutes, then go deeper. The shea butter base holds its slip long enough to carry the second half of the hour.

500 ml pump bottle. At 10 to 20 ml per full-body session that is 25 to 50 treatments per bottle.

Grape Seed Oil, Shea Butter, Sodium Chloride, Lavender Essential Oil, Vetiver Essential Oil, Angelica Essential Oil, White Musk, Allantoin.

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Massage Oil Pearl and Musk carries a powder that never dissolves. Pearl powder sits sixth on the list, and it is exactly what the name says: dried pearls, ground. Interesting fact: a pearl is mostly calcium carbonate, laid down as aragonite platelets about 10 to 20 microns across and half a micron thick, stacked in sheets and bound by a protein matrix called conchiolin. Grinding breaks that stacking apart, so what goes into the bottle is a fine mineral powder. Calcium carbonate does not dissolve in oil, so it stays a suspension: the bottle needs shaking before every use and it settles again between clients, and it leaves a soft, slightly matte finish on the skin. Grape seed and almond oils carry it, with a soft musk and vanilla aroma over the top that stays close to the skin.

• Leaves a soft, slightly matte finish, which no other oil in this range does.
• A soft, low-volume aroma that stays close to the skin.
• Grape seed and almond glide that holds across a full hour.
• A treatment you can position for an evening or an occasion.

Grape seed oil is the carrier and thins under the warmth of the hands, almond oil holds the slip, and wheat germ oil adds body and tocopherol. The pearl powder is a suspended solid rather than a dissolved ingredient, so it stays on the surface of the skin and does not absorb. Allantoin closes the list on skin conditioning.

1. Application: Shake the bottle hard for a few seconds before the first pump, then use 15 ml. The pearl settles to the bottom while it stands.
2. Massage: Standard relaxation strokes, with the final passes long and even so the powder lies down evenly.
3. Tip: Book it before an event. The finish on the skin is part of what the client is buying, and it is wasted on someone going straight to bed.

500 ml pump bottle. At 10 to 20 ml per full-body session that is 25 to 50 treatments per bottle.

Vitis Vinifera Seed Oil, Almond Oil, Wheat Germ Oil, White Musk, Vanilla Planifolia, Pearl Powder, Allantoin.

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