Magickal Properties of Scents
Mankind has long held the belief that different scents effect us in varying ways and on various planes of awareness. Because smell is one of our most primal senses, smells and aromas often bypass our conscience awareness and directly stimulate our intuitive energies. Scents used in ritual and magick, then, are tools that help us attune to the need and purpose of our casting by acting in harmony with our own surrounding energy field, our aura. Some of these scents and their properties are listed below.
| Allspice | Money attraction and luck; provides extra physical energy |
| Apple | Peace of mind, relaxation, love, wisdom. |
| Apple Blossum | Love, new ventures and the arts. |
| Apricot | Aphrodisiac in nature. Used as a base for mixing true essential oils. |
| Basil | Causes sympathy between two persons; helps to avoid major clashes. Encourages happiness and peace; stimulates the conscious mind. Oil used in money attracting spells. |
| Bay | Small amount for purification, healing, protection, and to sharpen psychic powers. |
| Bayberry | Luck to the home, money to the pocket. |
| Benzoin | For purification, prosperity, and increasing mental powers. Also increases personal power and awakens the conscious mind. |
| Bergamot | Protection from harm. Also used in money rituals. |
| Black Pepper | Confers protection and promotes courage. |
| Camomile | Used for meditation and inducing peace. |
| Camphor | Purifies and promotes celibacy |
| Carnation | Divination |
| Cedar | Instills confidence; protects against misery and misfortune. Purifies; protects; speeds healing and promotes spirituality. Also used in money rituals. |
| Cinnamon | Sharpens psychic powers; draws money; speeds healing; confers protection and strengthens love. |
| Citronella | Attracts friends and customers, protection from insects. |
| Clove | Raise and enhance spiritual vibrations; stimulate clairvoyance; aids in focus and concentration; personal protection. Strengthens memory, protects from hostile negative forces. Protection, exorcism, money, love, and purification. Oil used in protection and courage blends. |
| Copal | Protects, cleanses, and purifies. Promotes spirituality. Use to purify stones before using them in magick. |
| Coriander | Promotes love and healing. |
| Cypress | Blessing, consecration, and protection. Stimulates healing and eases the pain of losses of all kinds. |
| Dragon's Blood | Love, protection, exorcism, sexual potency. |
| Eucalyptus | Ultimate healing oil. Promotes healing of any hurt, depression or illness. Especially good for colds or flu. |
| Fern | Burning dried fronds indoors exorcises evil; burned outdoors brings rain. |
| Frankincense | Purification. Aids in dark moon workings, such as freeing oneself of obessions and destructive hats. Promotes meditation and spiritual states. Protection, exorcism, spirituality, love, and consecration. |
| Geranium, Rose | Powerful protectant. |
| Ginger | Oil useful in sexuality, love, courage, and money-attracting blends. |
| Heliotrope | Increases clairvoyance, assists meditation, protects from physical harm; success. |
| Honeysuckle | Aids in understanding non-physical realities, sharpens intuition, brings prosperity. |
| Jasmine | Psychic protection. Cleanses the aura. It stimulates creativity and originality, and attracts spiritual love. Increases love, psychic awareness, peace, and spirituality; also useful for increasing sexuality. |
| Juniper | Exorcism, protection, healing, and love. |
| Lavender | Purifying scent. It frees one from emotional stress, bringing inner calm and peace. In castings, it gives increased awareness, and aids in manifesting stability and permanance. Physically, it's good for headaches. |
| Lemon | Aids in evoking protective spirits. |
| Lilac | Helps recall past lives, draws good spirits, helps decision making, improves memory. |
| Lotus | Aids in dark moon works and past life memory recall. |
| Magnolia | Increases Meditation and psychic awareness |
| Mint | Success and purification. |
| Musk | Instills self assurance, confidence and strength. Also, heightens passions. |
| Myrrh | Guards against evil, brings peace, and assists in understanding personal sorrow. Excellent scent for Dark Moon works. Healing, protection, exorcism, peace, consecration, and meditation. |
| New Mown Hay | Helps to break negative habits and addictions. Also, anoint the body in the spring (diluted) to welcome the turning of the seasons. |
| Orange | Brings harmony, raises power. |
| Patchouli | Success; also heightens passions. Useful in money, sex, and physical energy blends. |
| Pine | Offers protection in Castings; cleanses; ends useless recriminations. Smolder for money, purification, healing, and exorcism. |
| Rose | Unconditional love, peace, harmony, tranquility, and friendship. |
| Rosemary | Burn for protection, purification, healing, and to cause sleep. Also restores or maintains youth, brings love, and increases intellectual powers. |
| Sage | Powerful clearing and cleansing, removes negative energy. Promotes healing and spirituality. |
| Sandalwood | Aids in divination, especially clairvoyance and in seeing past lives. Offers protection and calms the mind. Aids in healing rituals. |
| Sweetgrass | Invokes spiritual blessings; aids in transformation. |
| Tonka | Vanilla-like scent. Used in money spells |
| Thyme | Health, healing, purification. |
| Vanilla | Emotional growth and pleasure. Vitalizes energy, brings happy occasions to the premises, draws good fortune. |
| Vetivert | Money scent. Anoint cash with oil before spending. |
| Yarrow | Promotes love, courage, and psychic awareness. |
| Wisteria | Success in divination |
| Ylang-Ylang | Promotes love, peace, and sex. |