The Best Bottles for Fine Aromatics? Our Choice is Clear.

The Aroma Sublime 2.5 ml bottle. We believe in full transparency - and a clear bottle that lets you see and enjoy exactly what’s inside.

We think that boring brown bottles limit your enjoyment of the finest essential oils by limiting your visual enjoyment of the oil. We think the visual element is a vital part of experiencing a premium aromatic.

Strong forces in the industry favor the standard brown glass bottle as the final word in responsible bottling and storage of essential oils and other aromatic extracts. But is this absolutely necessary and absolutely true?

For our purposes, we disagree. We believe that the color and consistency of the contents are an essential part of the premium essential oil experience.

We believe that when you invest in a one-of-a-kind premium natural aromatic, the color and texture are part of the experience and the full enjoyment of the product.

Color and texture provide pleasure, relieve curiosity, and impart relevant information about the unique product you have chosen. Color is a big part of what makes a fine botanical extract special and unique, even when compared to other extractions of the same plant.

We believe in full transparency - and a clear bottle that lets you see and enjoy exactly what’s inside.

Light damage? What about notorious “light damage” as a result of using transparent bottles?
The answer is easy. Yes, sunlight in particular will damage, degrade, or alter many (but not all) essential oils and other botanical extracts. So keep your bottles somewhere dark. It’s that simple. Wether the bottles are clear, brown, or otherwise; botanicals should be kept protected from light and temperature fluctuation as much as possible.

The Brown bottle has its place. Of course, the basic brown bottle can serve an important role and might be the simplest and least expensive container choice for standard medicinal and aromatherapy oils if you're very familiar with the contents and the visual aspect it is less relevant. For commercial essential oils the brown bottle is a very effective way to protect the product and extend shelf life. It's also a great choice for long-term storage of larger quantities of essential oil.

But we think a premium aromatic experience best includes seeing your finest essential oils with perfect clarity.

Expert tip: if you have more than a few millilitres of a valuable premium aromatic you might want to put away the larger portion of it in a brown bottle or laboratory grade vial, while you keep a "ready-to-use"portion of it in a smaller user-friendly bottle such as our 2.5ml Aroma Sublime branded bottle with glass dipstick

Oud oil comes in a staggering variety of colours that you don't want to miss. This one is “Pahang Cherry” from Malaysia.

Old habits?
I suppose there may be the perception of convenience in the old habit of keeping your entire essential oil pharmacy out on you kitchen counter or even in a sunny window sill! This isn’t really good for your essential oils and other botanical extracts anyway, even if the bottle is brown.

You wouldn’t keep a fine wine or fancy bottle of perfume in a sunny window? Why not give at least the same level of thought and care to your sumptuous collection of premium aromatics and essential oils?!

In short: Keep all your aromatics somewhere dark and temperature stable. And enjoy our transparent bottles with confidence!

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P.S. Expert tip… And what about keeping your finer aromatic products in the fridge? It's cool and dark? Sounds perfect right? Definitely not!
Sounds like a good idea at first glance. However, for any aromatic product that you want to access regularly, water condensation will contaminate your product. The extreme temperature differential between your refrigerator and room temperature inevitably creates condensation of ambient humidity, and you definitely don't want this moisture getting into your essential oil.

Keeping your finest essential oil in the fridge might make sense when you're storing away a larger volume of a sensitive oil such as a fine floral oil for a longer period, but it's absolutely essential that you allow the bottle to come up to room temperature before opening it to avoid the risk of water condensation ruining your oil! It would also be a good idea to double wrap the bottle in plastic before storing it in the fridge,
For products that you want to indulge in on a regular basis, keep a smaller, user-friendly bottle in a cool, dark, temperature-stable location. If you notice water condensation on the bottle when you take it out of the storage location, the temperature differential is too great and you run the risk of contaminating your essential oil with water condensation. The cooler, darker, side of normal room temperature will be just fine in most cases.