Yarrow Essential Oil (Wild)

Description

This Wild Yarrow essential oil is ideally suited to our work in Aromagnosis. Our french distiller wild-crafted this from yarrow growing wild in the Haute Loire. His yarrow oil brought tears to our eyes the first time we smelled it. 

Energetic Profile: Yarrow is the plant form of the Wounded Healer. Yarrow essential oil is central to our work of helping Wounded Healers integrate their Wounds, because, as Jung said, “The wounded healer who doesn’t integrate their wound becomes the wounded wounder.” This oil helps with healing wounds in the physical as well as emotional, mental and spiritual bodies. It stops leaks of energy and blood and reestablishes their flow when necessary. It brings our awareness to our wounds and traumas and helps us transform them. This is one of our main power allies, with whom we work frequently.

To learn more about yarrow, click on this link to watch our video “Yarrow the Wounded Healer.” 

Click on this link for a video on how to meditate with yarrow.

Smell: The aroma of Achillea millefolium essential oil is herbaceous, sweet, and slightly camphorous, often described as earthy with a hint of spice. Like many of the sunflower relatives, yarrow is known to have local variations in chemical composition. Our wildcrafted yarrow from high altitude, although sharing the unmistakable smell that makes yarrow oil, is more camphorous than some yarrows, with a first note that is animalistic giving it a unique aspect.

Perfumery note:  it’s a middle note.

Yarrow’s Main Chemical Constituents: chamazulene (notably responsible for its blue color when present), camphor, borneol, 1,8-cineole, α-pinene, and β-pinene. [2], [3].

Adulteration and quality: The incentive for yarrow essential oil adulteration is higher than some other oils that are primarily produced from western and southern Europe. That being said, the literature is quite scarce on such reports. Dr. Pappas does discuss the admixture of the oil with various carrier oils and market reports have given validity to this observation (Jah Skipper, 2024).

Distiller’s Notes: We have access to some originally European species to wild-craft, but because of the local factors, it has been an adventure to rediscover familiar plants within a new context.

References:

Traite d’aromatherapie Scientifique et Medicale – Michel Faucon

 “Yarrow Essential Oil (Achillea millefolium).” The School of Aromatic Studies, www.aromaticstudies.com.

Yildirim, Bunyamin, et al. “Atypical Chemical Profiles of Wild Yarrow (Achillea millefolium L.) Essential Oils.” ACG Publications, www.acgpubs.org.