Melissa in Perfume: Using a Bright Top Note Well
A soft, green lemon with a hard ceiling: 0.60% of a finished perfume, about one drop in a small bottle. How to dose, blend and plan around that limit.
Making Things With Melissa Oil: Limits by Product
From a 0.15% lotion to a candle with no published limit, the ceiling decides what suits melissa. A maker's product by product walk through the numbers.
Scaling a Melissa Formula from Bottle to Batch
A recipe for one bottle is not yet a product. Move to grams, pilot at a tenth of the size and keep batch records before you size up your melissa order.
What Is Melissa Oil? Names, Types and Basics
One plant, several names and two chemical personalities. Why two bottles of melissa oil can smell different and what the name does and does not say.
Using Melissa Oil at Home: Air, Bath and Skin
Melissa is easiest in the air and most exacting on skin. A walk through diffuser, body oil, bath and spray, with the limit and key habit for each use.
How to Buy Melissa Oil: Start With Your Use
Diffuser, lotion, soap or wholesale? The use sets the limit and the paperwork worth asking for. Here is how to match the two before you buy melissa oil.
