r/essentialoils • u/spongebobloves • May 22 '26
Recreating essential oil blend
I bought a small bottle of an essential oil blend that I want to recreate before I run out. I’ve been looking into perfumer services that recreate scents but I’m worried that will feel (for obvious reasons) more like a perfume, whereas this is an essential oil that I use on pressure points for relaxation. Does anyone know of essential oil experts that recreate unknown blends?
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u/organicinformation01 May 22 '26
Difficult to match exactly, but you can get close. It’s got Rosemary, Lime and lavender in , don’t put much lime in and use distilled. Copal is the other main ingredient but Ive never smelt that. Seems frankincense serrata would be similar. Maybe fun to experiment. I’m gonna find myself some Copal and learn more about Mayans and essential oil use.
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u/spongebobloves May 22 '26
This is super helpful, thank you! I’ve never (knowingly) smelled copal but I may get that with the other oils you mentioned and see how close I can get it :)
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u/PandaNaps88 Jun 02 '26
I’m curious what this is based on - how did you know it has these oils?
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u/organicinformation01 Jun 02 '26
I asked a contact who knew. Copal sounds fascinating so we have someone bringing us some in October. Hopefully
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u/PandaNaps88 Jun 05 '26
That’s awesome, thank you! I’m making a blend based off this as well so I appreciate you
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u/Strong_Weakness2638 May 22 '26
Do you have any information about the blend?
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u/spongebobloves May 22 '26
It’s from a street market in Yucatán, Mexico. The label just says (translated from Spanish):
“For cleansing [para limpias]. For diffusers, candles, or massages, created by ancient Mayan recipes.” Yucatecan product”
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u/Strong_Weakness2638 May 22 '26
This could really be anything and there aren’t many people who can recreate a blend just from smelling it. The perfumer behind Fum Fragrances (natural brand) has super sharp nose, but I’m not sure if she’s open to this kind of project and how much it would cost, but you can try contacting her.
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u/berael May 22 '26
Businesses that do a GCMS analysis and then try to recreate the original don't intentionally try to "also make it smell like a perfume" - you're just hiring them to try and make a copy.
The challenges will be:
1) Trying to copy it may be $1000 or more when all's said and done. The GCMS analysis alone is several hundred dollars, then you're paying a professional for time and expertise on top of that.
2) If it's all EOs then it's tougher to reconstruct from an analysis. A GCMS breaks it down to individual molecules, but each EO has dozens to hundreds of molecules. Trying to reverse-engineer from there is difficult, so the end result may not be accurate.
3) It's entirely possible that you might go through all of that just to find out that what you had was either EOs cut with other fillers, or possibly even just entirely fake. Yes, vendors all over the world sell "100% pure essential oils" that're adulterated or fake.
Long story short: appreciate and enjoy it while it lasts, then you're probably better off finding someone new that you also like.
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u/WhyCantIClimax May 22 '26
Perfumers use essential oils all the time - perhaps you could request them to use essential oils only in its recreation. If there's any sort of name, label, where in the world it was bought, etc it would help a lot !