Mastic Chios Essential Oil

Mastic Chios essential oil is a clear, colourless and intensely fragrant liquid. Nothing has been added to it, and nothing has been removed.

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How strong is the scent?
The oil is intensely fragrant and potent. Reviewers report it is so powerfully scented that it permeated their unopened packages and mailboxes. Multiple customers note it requires only a little to have a significant effect.
What does Mastic Chios Essential Oil smell like?
Reviewers describe it as bright, warm, and uplifting with complex layers. The product has sweet-spicy herbaceous notes with honey-rich wildflower and amber, balanced by dry black pepper notes. Several customers compare it to fresh resin magnified and enhanced.
How long does the scent last?
One reviewer who has used it extensively notes that while it has a beautiful character, the scent is not particularly long-lived. They recommend blending it with sandalwood to help prolong its duration.
Is this pure Mastic Chios oil?
The product description confirms this is pure essential oil distilled only from Chios mastic grown on the Greek island of Chios, with nothing added or removed. The description notes that most mastic essential oil on the market is blended with cheaper Turkish mastic or diluted with inexpensive additives.
Does it blend well with other oils?
Reviewers confirm it blends beautifully with sandalwood and frankincense, creating enhanced scent profiles. One customer specifically recommends the sandalwood blend for extending the oil's longevity.
Is this suitable for diffusing or applying topically?
Reviewers mention using it for scent in their car and appreciate its fragrant properties, suggesting it works well for aromatic use. The product description notes it is valuable in both incense blends and perfume compositions, but specific topical guidance is not detailed in the reviews.
The high price of authentic Mastic Chios Essential Oil is due to the very small amount of essential oil available from the resin  However, the rush one gets from every little sniff of this amazing fragrance will, I believe, make this a prized treasure in every aromatic collection and make the cost seem inconsequential.

The aroma of this Essential Oil really is something!! It has the sweet-spicy herbaceous scent of fresh-cut honey-rich wildflowers, with a deep amber note. It is uplifting and stimulating without being harsh or hard-edged. Dry Black pepper notes weave through it, balancing the candylike-sweetness and adding dimension. It is vibrant, potent, heady and unique.

Mastic Chios Essential Oil is the pure essential oil distilled only from the very dear Chios mastic grown on the island of Chios Greece.
Most Mastic essential oil on the market is blended with the much cheaper Turkish Mastic or adulterated with inexpensive diluents. 
The real and pure Mastic Chios Essential Oil has a unique and intense fragrance that is unmistakable.

Chios Mastic is one of the best-known natural chewing gums in the West. and has a track record as ancient as Frankincense and Myrrh. Used extensively in the Mediterranean for medicine since the time of Hippocrates in ancient Greece, Mastic is a mainstay of Mediterranean cooking, baking and the production of liqueurs,

Grown exclusively on the Greek island of Chios, Mastic resin production has been coveted by empires and conquerors. Controlling the supply of Chios Mastic has been a strategic consideration by invading armies for hundreds if not thousands of years.

Mastic is the original Old World chewing gum with the origin of its name rooted in mastication ie: chewing.

With traditional medicinal attributes ranging from digestive ease, fresh breath, stimulating the gums and appetite, removing plaque and refreshing the mind, Mastic has been used as medicine for thousands of years.

The unique aroma of Mastic Chios Essential Oil makes it valuable in both incense blends and perfume compositions.

Mastic is an integral ingredient in "Chrism," the sacred anointing oil of the Orthodox church.

Mastic has a unique and unusually sweet aroma which has made it a popular ingredient in confections, cakes, puddings and other traditional culinary delights of cultures all around the Mediterranean.

You can find the fragrant hydrosol of Mastic Chios in the shop.

Dan

Materials: Mastic, Pistacia Lentiscus, Chios Mastic Essential oil.