Before starting this job, I studied at an aromatherapy school called Green Flask for about three years.

In that class, there was a lecture where we smelled a scent and wrote down the image it evoked.

This is also quite fun, and I used to have my students try it when I was an aromatherapy instructor.

What struck me at the time was how different the flavor profile was when using affordable peppermint compared to high-quality organic peppermint.

With affordable essential oils, you can only come up with simple images like "chewing gum" or "mint shampoo,"

With organic essential oils,
"A young woman with long hair is being blown by the wind in a meadow."
It evokes complex images, such as "looking up at the blue sky through an endless pasture."

This wasn't just a one-time occurrence; the same trend was observed every time I tried it.

In my experience, the higher the quality of the organic essential oil, the more meticulous the selection of raw materials, cultivation, harvesting, and distillation, the richer and more complex the fragrance tends to be.

Fragrances are not made up of just one component, but rather of a complex combination of many aromatic compounds.

I believe that by using carefully cultivated ingredients and distilling them meticulously to preserve as much of their components as possible, a wider variety of components remain, which contributes to the richness of the aroma.

These aromatic compounds are also a type of phytochemical produced by plants.

Because each component has different properties, plants containing a diverse range of components are likely to have a variety of functions.

Furthermore, each component doesn't just work on its own; when combined, they can enhance each other's effects or, conversely, moderate them.

Therefore, it is thought that the presence of various components is related to the wide range of functions that the plant can perform.