Holiday Essential Oil Blend Recipes: Create Festive Aromas (2025)

Throughout the year you can make holiday essential oil blend recipes to celebrate the occasions you observe.

Essential Oil Holiday Blends for Winter

In the Northern Hemisphere, the fall/winter holidays include Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. See these specific articles:

• Halloween Essential Oil Blends
• Thanksgiving Essential Oil Blends
• Christmas Essential Oil Blends

Relaxing Holiday Room Spray

Sometimes holidays are stressful. Here's a relaxing room spray.

• 15 drops eucalyptus essential oil
• 10 drops cypress essential oil
• 10 drops sandalwood essential oil
• 5 drops pine essential oil
• 8 ounces distilled water

Drop essential oils into an 8-ounce glass spray bottle. Add enough distilled water to fill the bottle. Cap and shake. Shake well before each use.

Adapted from Aromasense Essential Oils Ebook

Winter Multipurpose Blend

This holiday-scented essential oils blend may help prevent or relieve symptoms of cold or flu.

• 50 drops fir (Abies sibirica)essential oil
• 10 drops cypress (Cupressus sempervirens)essential oil
• 10 drops atlas cedarwood (Cedrus atlantica)essential oil
• 10 drops ravintsara (Cinnamomum camphora)essential oil
• 6 drops frankincense (Boswellia carteri)essential oil

Blend the essential oils in a 5-ml dropper bottle. Cap and gently shake. Ways to use this blend:

• Diffuse a few drops according to your aromatherapy diffuser's instructions.
• Place 2 to 3 drops onto a tissue and inhale.
• Put 2 to 3 drops into a bowl of steaming water, cover head with a towel, close eyes, and inhale, being careful not to get too close to the heat.
• Mix 2 to 3 drops into a teaspoon of natural bath gel or emulsifier and add to a bath. Optionally, also add Epsom salts to the bath.
• Dilute 10 drops in 1 ounce (2 tablespoons) carrier oil or lotion. Rub onto chest and back.

Cautions: Avoid eye area and mucous membranes. Do not use on children under 3 years of age or apply to or near the faces of young children. May irritate sensitive skin. Keep out of reach of children and pets. Avoid use during pregnancy.

Adapted from Annette Davis. "Winter Recipes." NAHA Aromatherapy Journal, Winter 2017.4, p. 66.

Valentine's Holiday Essential Oil Blends

Suggested sensual oils for Valentine's Day:

• Cedarwood atlas
• Cistus
• Clary sage
• Jasmine
• Rose
• Sandalwood
• Vanilla
• Ylang ylang

Romantic Baths

Romantic baths are highly personal, and you are encouraged make your own unique blend. Two suggestions to get started:

• 2 drops rose + 3 drops palmrosa
• 3 drops ylang ylang + 4 drops grapefruit

Add the essential oils to 1 teaspoon carrier oil, bath gel, or emulsifier. Stir into a bath.

Romantic Body Oils

• 10 drops rose essential oil
• 8 drops lemon essential oil
• 2 drops ylang ylang essential oil
• 2 drops palmarosa essential oil

OR

• 5 drops jasmine absolute
• 5 drops mandarin essential oil
• 3 drops black pepper essential oil
• 1 drop nutmeg essential oil

Blend essential oils. Dilute 3 to 5 drops in 1 teaspoon carrier oil.

Source: Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy

Or make an essential oil aphrodisiac.

Easter Holiday Essential Oil Blend Recipes

These Easter diffuser blends focus on offering fresh, uplifting, comforting scents.

Easter Spring Flowers

• 3 drops palmarosa essential oil
• 2 drops lemon essential oil
• 1 drop geranium essential oil
• 1 drop ho wood essential oil

Comforting Blend

• 4 drops ylang ylang essential oil
• 4 drops sweet orange essential oil
• 3 drops cedarwood essential oil
• 1 drop sandalwood essential oil

Source: Eden's Garden

Refreshing Easter Morning Blend

• 2 drops lemon essential oil
• 2 drops clary sage essential oil
• 2 drops basil essential oil
• 1 drop spearmint essential oil

Source: Loving Essential Oils

Other Holiday Blends

You can blend essential oils for any holiday, based on the tone you want to set and your personal preferences.

For example, you might want a floral blend for Mother's Day. Floral-scented essential oils are calming and supportive. A sample diffuser blend is 2 drops each of lavender, clary sage, and geranium.

Father's Day might warrant a woody, masculine blend using essential oils such as cedarwood, pine, peppermint, rosemary, thyme, and lemongrass to make essential oil blends for men.

For St. Patrick's Day, experiment with essential oils made from rich green plants and bright green fruits, such as sweet basil, bergamot, coriander, cypress, lime, spearmint, and tarragon. These refreshing and uplifting oils help promote a sense of spring renewal.

One possible diffuser blend:

• 3 drops lime essential oil
• 3 drops bergamot essential oil
• 2 drops basil essential oil
• 2 drops spearmint essential oil

Source: AromaWeb

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