If you have not visited Quinessence.com for a little while you may be unaware of the exciting additions we have made to our Aromatherapy Collection. Many of these items were requested by our visitors and customers, so hopefully you will like what you see.

Brand new for 2008 is a new Ceramic Vaporiser, a personal Inhaler to help keep all those nasty flu bugs away, and a choice selection of great eBooks. And over the coming months we will be adding more categories to our collection of eBooks to bring you a wider choice of topics within the areas of health, well-being and self-development.
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Sweet marjoram is a frost-tender perennial plant which can grow to a height of 60 centimetres (24 inches), producing oval leaves and pale or dark pink-purple flowers. These flowers are small but plentiful and form in spiky clusters, blooming between June and September. It is a warm climate plant, preferring lots of sun and well-drained soil.

The whole plant is highly aromatic, exuding a pleasing peppery, warm and fresh fragrance of which Culpepper said ‘It helpeth all diseases of the chest which hinder the freeness of breathing’. The fresh and dried aromatic leaves have been used for centuries throughout the world as a condiment in cooking due to their spicy, pungent flavour.
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