Searching for the term 'Aromatherapy' brings up several pages claiming aromatherapy is a fraud of some sort.

That essential oil manufacturers and retailers are making 'dubious' claims of the efficacy of essential oils. These folks don't seem to have done their homework, or compared the validity of scientific inquiry to that produced by conventional medicine, which in fact could easily be claimed as 'dubious' using the same criteria. Debunking the Debunkers - The True Medicinal Value of Aromatherapy Has Aromatherapy Been Wrongly Accused. Aromatherapists will not disagree on this point -- they will however put up a defense when the medical applications of essential oils are thrown out with the soft side of 'aroma' therapy. Ok, well actually there are no criteria used, just a few blurbs that present aromatherapy as a soft science, on that should be neglected along with everything else that's every been found under the heading of 'new age'.

That SOME people may feel more relaxed when inhaling Lavender, for example, and some will not. That SOME of aromatherapy is in-fact a oft science'. How about we'll start be agreeing on this.

Science IS BACKING UP many of aromatherapy's claims with.