Spice Up Your Day With Clove Essential Oil Blends
Use our clove essential oil blends charts for diffuser recipes and more! They’re an easy answer to what clove essential oil blends well with.
Clove essential oil blends are just the thing to spice a cold day! This classic scent is most often enjoyed in the cooler months of the year because of its iconic warm, spicy aroma.
Did you know its scent comes from tiny flower buds of clove trees? Bell-shaped flowers with red cups and white crowns sit in small clusters on the tips of the tree branches. The tiny flower buds are picked before they open and then dried until they become very hard and dark brown.
Clove essential oil is extracted by steam distilling these dried flowers or whole cloves as we know them. The dried flower buds are also ground into powder to create ground clove spice. The spice is commonly used in hot beverages such as mulled cider and baking recipes such as spice cake.
Just a few drops of clove essential oil go a long way. It’s true to the scent of clove spice with a strong aroma that conveys warmth and comfort.
It’s easy to picture yourself curling up by a crackling fire in the hearth while cookies bake in the oven with one sniff of clove essential oil. Bring a comforting, winter-ready vibe into your home with these clove essential oil blends charts you can print below!
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What blends well with clove?
Clove’s spicy, warm trademark scent reminds many of us of the holidays. Probably because most of us primarily use clove for holiday recipes. So, what smells good with clove? Clove essential oil blends well with many other oils. Like cinnamon, it belongs to two aroma categories of an essential oil blending wheel.
What’s a blending wheel? Similar to a color wheel, an essential oil blending wheel helps us understand the relationships between different aromas and how our brain processes them.
It answers the question of what essential oils smell good together. To create appealing essential oil blends, you want to choose oils that sit next to each on the blending wheel. Print a blending wheel chart from the Oily Chic Library.
This list of what blends and diffuses well with clove essential oil is a great place to start! (Save this now to reference when you are blending clove oil.)
Clove Essential Oil Blends Well With:
- Orange
- Peppermint
- Lavender
- Frankincense
- Cinnamon
- Ylang Ylang
- Cedarwood
- Sage
- Ginger
- Roman Chamomile
- Fennel
- Citronella
- Basil
- Rose
- Nutmeg
- Bergamot
- Blue Spruce
- Geranium
- Lime
- Black Pepper
- Rosemary
- Lemon
- Ginger
- Wintergreen
- Grapefruit
Our familiarity with clove and its dual aroma categories lends it to blending well with so many other scents. You can create complex aromas by combining uplifting grapefruit, lime, or lemon with clove for a clean deodorizing scent. Or mix clove with an alluring rose, geranium, or ylang-ylang for a romantic fragrance.
Another option is to combine it with spicy ginger or cinnamon for a warming appeal. And if you’re after a herbaceous, fresh scent, blend clove with sage, citronella, rosemary, or basil. Last but not least, turn to cedarwood or blue spruce for an earthy aroma you’d find inside a cabin in the woods.
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To Diffuse Clove Essential Oils Blends
If you’re new to diffusing essential oils, you’ll be delighted to know it’s very simple. All you need is a diffuser, a bit of water, and a few drops of essential oil to infuse your kitchen, living room, or entryway with clove essential oil blends!
Take a look at my favorite essential oil diffusers:
Once you start using a diffuser regularly, you’ll need to keep it clean to get the most out of it, so don’t miss my tips on how to clean a diffuser. And if you like to nerd out on things like this, I explain the five methods for diffusing essential oils here.
Do you have a space that doesn’t have an outlet for an electric diffuser? Another option is making a DIY reed diffuser to use these essential oil blends.
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Where’s The Best Place To Put A Diffuser?
This is a great question! From moving across the country, not once but seven times in my life, I can tell you it can be difficult finding a good space for a diffuser.
I’ve learned that it’s not really about decor; it’s about choosing the best place to reap the aromatherapy benefits of a diffuser. Yes, I am guilty of choosing an essential oil diffuser for its looks and choosing a spot to use it because it looked good there.
But, you’ll be less likely to use your diffuser if it’s not where you or your family are often. And the same can be said for your essential oils. If you keep them in a box in your closet, how often will you use them?
So, take some time to think about where you and your family frequently spend time in your home and how you can creatively store your essential oils for ease of use. I share several oil storage tips here and have a few ideas in the Oily Chic Lookbook.
Here is a list of some of the best places to put a diffuser:
- Kitchen Island
- Bedroom Night Stand
- Entry Way Table
- Bathroom Vanity
- Coffee Bar
- Office Credenza
- Portable Diffuser In The Car
- Living Room Sofa Table
Once you’ve found the perfect location, or locations in our family’s case, for an essential oil diffuser, store essential oils, you will use most often there. And why not tuck these clove essential oil blends charts nearby?
12 Spiced Clove Essential Oil Blends
Use these spiced clove essential oil blends charts for diffuser recipes and more! They’re an easy answer to what clove essential oil blends well with.
Thankful Heart
This essential oil diffuser blend invites a gratifying, warm atmosphere into your home.
2 drops frankincense
2 drops clove
Fall Market
Add this fresh fall market blend of bright grapefruit, happy orange, and welcoming clove to a DIY multipurpose cleaning spray.
4 drops grapefruit
2 drops orange
3 drops clove
Crescent Moon
When the days get colder and the moon rises sooner, make an easy pillow spray with this crescent moon blend to lull you into a restful sleep.
4 drops orange
2 drops clove
2 drops lavender
Whiskey & Lime
The twist of lime in this blend recipe sets it apart from typical fall and winter clove essential oil blends.
3 drops clove
2 drops lime
2 drops vanilla
Twilight
Can you think of a more picture-perfect way to unwind after the holiday hustle than with an essential oil massage candle infused with ylang ylang and clove? It’s incredible to have warm wax slowly poured down your back and massaged into your tense muscles.
3 drops ylang ylang
2 drops clove
Cozy Cabin
Picture yourself in a cozy cabin in the woods with a warm fire in the hearth and snow softly falling outside the cabin windows with this essential oil blend.
1 drop vanilla
3 drops clove
2 drops cedarwood
Around The Hearth
Combine sweet caraway, earthy blue spruce, and comforting clove essential oils to create a holiday-ready atmosphere! Add this blend to soy wax melts for a unique homemade gift for friends.
2 drops caraway
2 drops clove
3 drops blue spruce
Mulled Cider
I’m a HUGE hot tea drinker, but I have to admit, nothing quite hits the spot on a cold autumn night than a mug of mulled cider. Bring those flavors to life with the aroma of cider in your diffuser.
2 drops orange
3 drops cinnamon
2 drops clove
1 drop ginger
Bonfire
This warm, woodsy scent sings of the outdoors. Add it to a room spray recipe for the perfect touch to your spaces.
3 drops valor
3 drops cinnamon
2 drops clove
3 drops cedarwood
Warm Flannel
This essential oil blend recipe comes together with the perfect amounts of spice and fruit, giving you an aroma that is ready for holiday baking to commence.
3 drops bergamot
1 drop fennel
2 drops clove
Pumpkin Season
We wouldn’t have pumpkin season without clove essential oil! See how I used to make vanilla pumpkin bath bombs and pumpkin spice sugar scrub jars.
2 drops clove
3 drops vanilla
2 drops cinnamon
1 drop nutmeg
Bittersweet
Holiday traditions are always bittersweet this time of year, and this essential oil blend of geranium, clove, and fennel says it all.
3 drops geranium
2 drops clove
1 drop fennel
Printable Clove Essential Oil Blends Charts
These printable clove essential oil blends charts for diffuser recipes and more are the perfect addition to your home this season. Find both and many more essential oil printables in the Oily Chic Library.
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