From the earliest times, people have suffused their environment with scents- room vapourisers, perfumed candles, clothes, pillows and bed linen. Using a particular fragrance in a variety of ways can create powerful and evocative memories of you whenever your lover smells that scent.
Scents add an extra dimension to a letter. When Napoleon was away in Paris, he wrote to his wife Josephine, on paper perfumed with violets. Men throughout history have received scented love letters and tucked them into their top pockets where the aroma could gently waft up and provide a constant reminder of their love.
To make a delicately scented notepaper
- Place 4-6 drops of essential oils on a piece of 2 inch absorbent paper or tissue, cooton, linen or gauze.
- Cut the material into 4 squares and slip between sheets of paper in their box.
- keep the box closed for at least 24 hours.
For a quicker, less subtle method:
- Put a drop of essential oil on a corner of the writing paper where there is no writing
- Seal and send
Aroma can also be applied to writing inks
- take any bottle of ink and add 20 drops of essentia oil for each fluid ounce of ink.
information courtesy of Valerie Ann Worwood, Vegetarian
Times, February 1996 