The Aromatherapy Scent Wheel: A New Way to Smell and Heal
Smelling with Purpose
Traditional perfume is about attraction. It’s meant to dazzle, seduce, or delight—designed to leave a trail. But aromatherapy? It’s about connection. It’s about tuning into the moment, the body, and the self. At Auratherapy, we’ve taken the concept of the scent wheel, beloved by perfumers, and reinvented it for wellness. Our Aromatherapy Scent Wheel maps essential oils by scent family, chakra alignment, mood effect, and energetic purpose. It’s not just about how something smells—but how it makes you feel.
What is a Scent Wheel?
In perfumery, scent wheels are used to classify fragrance families—citrus, floral, woody, spicy—and help perfumers craft complex blends that follow the traditional pyramid structure of top, middle, and base notes. These wheels are visual tools for designing the olfactory experience: how a scent evolves, how long it lingers, and how it blends with others.
Our wheel uses the same principles, but we’ve added layers. Where perfume stops at pleasure, we move toward purpose.
Auratherapy’s Scent Wheel: The Wellness Remix
This isn’t just a fragrance chart—it’s a map for energy healing through scent.
The Auratherapy Scent Wheel is built layer by layer to help you understand how scent, chakra, and frequency align to shift your mood, balance your energy, and support your healing journey.
Four Layers of Meaning:
1. INNER RING – Essential Oils
Each segment lists a powerful plant essence, like Lavender, Frankincense, or Peppermint. These are the ingredients we use in our Chakra Boost and MoodZee collections—not just for how they smell, but for how they work.
2. SECOND RING – Scent Profiles
This layer shows the aromatic character of each oil:
Each family influences how your body and mind respond to scent, from grounding to energizing to opening your heart.
3. THIRD RING – Color / Frequency
The Frequency of Scent: Why It Works
Essential oils carry measurable vibrational frequencies in megahertz (MHz). For example, rose oil can vibrate at 320 MHz—the highest of any oil—while lavender ranges around 118 MHz. These frequencies interact with our energy field, acting like tuning forks for the body.
When inhaled, these oils don’t just pass through the nose. They’re absorbed into the limbic system, the seat of emotion and memory. Each oil is a receptor—activating healing, calming nerves, restoring balance.
This is why we believe scent isn’t just sensual—it’s spiritual, scientific, and sacred. This color coding mirrors both the visible light spectrum and the chakra system—each color resonates at a specific frequency, just like each oil.
4. OUTER RING – Chakra Alignment
The final layer connects everything to the seven chakras, the energy centers of the body. From Root (red) to Crown (violet), each wedge shows how scent can activate, balance, and heal your energy field.
Our Chakra Boost collection was designed to touch every point on the wheel. Each blend is made from 6–7 essential oils across multiple aromatic families, chosen for emotional balance, chakra alignment, and energetic resonance.
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Vitality (Root)
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Creativity (Sacral)
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Motivation (Solar Plexus)
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Joy (Heart)
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Communication (Throat)
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Clarity (Third Eye)
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Tranquility (Crown)
Perfume vs. Aromatherapy vs. Auratherapy
Traditional perfumery is guided by fantasy, storytelling, and aesthetic pleasure. A perfumer (often called "the nose") blends synthetic and natural materials, constructing a fragrance using top, middle, and base notes for longevity, projection, and evolution.
Aromatherapy is different. Historically, aromatherapists blend 2–3 oils for therapeutic effect—targeting body systems, chakras, or emotional states. The goal isn’t complexity. It’s efficacy. Aromatherapy draws from traditions in Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, and modern plant science. Blends are created to heal, not just to smell good.
Auratherapy bridges both worlds. Our blends are layered like perfumes, with 6–7 essential oils. But each oil is selected not only for olfactory harmony, but for its vibrational frequency, chakra resonance, and therapeutic impact. The result: fragrances that smell beautiful AND support deep healing.
Why the Wheel Matters Now
In a world obsessed with perfume performance, we invite you to rethink scent entirely. What if your fragrance did something? What if it helped you feel safe, bold, calm, or joyful? That’s what the Aromatherapy Scent Wheel is all about.
It’s a reminder that scent can be more than beautiful—it can be transformational.
Discover the full scent wheel in-store and online, and explore our Chakra Boost to find your perfect match.
