There is a wealth of different scented aromatherapy essential oils available today, including organic essential oil varieties.

Essential oils are distilled or extracted from a plant's leaves, roots, wood, seed, fruit, bark or flowers, and they are very concentrated and pure. Lavender essential oil can be used in a simple ring diffuser, for example, and placed on top of a light bulb living in a lamp in your home. You might not be an actor, but nevertheless everyone can enjoy the use of pleasantly scented Aromatherapy essential oils to bring up cozy feelings of well-being. Actors use scent memories as one means of drawing upon truthful, accurate feelings that they use to portray a character on stage. At the top of many people's list of favorite fragrances is lavender. You place only a few drops--remember, the lavender essential oil is very concentrated--into the ring diffuser, and then turn on. Essential oils are plant based oils that each offers a unique and distinctive scent. Emotional memories are tied to the senses, and the scent of smell is a very strong emotional trigger.

People enjoy using essential oils as part of an aromatherapy regimen that may help to lift one's mood.