Recorded live with our community in September 2026, week two of Tea Time: The Oil Less Traveled, a year of Wednesdays spent with one lesser-known oil at a time.
📝 Heads-up: the perks in this class, a free 5 ml of Xanthoxylum, free amber bottles, a half-price anxiety workshop, gift cards, expired with the broadcast. Every Tea Time has its own deal on that week's oil, so join us live in the Natural Living Club: https://www.skool.com/natural-living
Xanthoxylum is distilled from the sun-dried red fruit of a thorny tree in the citrus family, wildcrafted in the Himalayan foothills of Nepal. This batch reads 47% linalool, more than lavender, with almost 26% d-limonene beside it. Jenny's shorthand is lavender meeting a citrus in one bottle. She opens her new Blend Planner, reads the GC/MS report line by line, runs a Mountain Calm diffuser blend, and pours a Quiet Evening Massage Oil on air, then closes with a tour of the new Thymely Lite and Thymely Premium.
In this episode:
- This batch of Xanthoxylum, batch 109, distilled in 2024, carries 47% linalool, more than lavender, almost 26% d-limonene, and about 12% methyl cinnamate, the warm component that gives it a faint cinnamon edge. Jenny's shorthand is that it is what you would get if lavender met a citrus.
- Xanthoxylum keeps for 5 years, and an oil gets richer and more nuanced across its shelf life, robust until the moment it is not. A 2024 batch still has years in it.
- The Blend Planner: name the intention and who you are blending for, choose 2 to 4 oils, confirm them with the chemistry, then let one anchor oil carry the main purpose while the supporting oils reinforce it. Science, then art, then heart.
- When Jenny reaches for it: rest during cold and flu season, anxious days (Karen keeps it in a panic inhaler and an evening lotion), and a muscle and belly comfort blend, because it is antispasmodic. Grounding and uplifting in the same bottle.
- Mountain Calm for the diffuser: 3 drops of Xanthoxylum, 2 of Sugandha Kokila, 1 of Blue Tansy. To Jenny the oil smells sweet and uplifting with a slight peppery note; chat heard licorice, geranium, and a sour grassy edge.'
- Quiet Evening Massage Oil, about 2%: 2 ounces of apricot kernel oil and 2 of jojoba, then 18 drops of Xanthoxylum, 12 of lavender, 6 of Frankincense Sacra and 4 of Blue Tansy. Oil into oil stays blended; only a water base like aloe or a hydrosol needs something to bind them. Divide everything by 4 for a 1-ounce bottle.
- In the bottle the blend reads a little like dill; on the skin it turns sweet, because skin changes an aroma and it lands a little differently on everyone.
Chapters:
[0:00] Welcome to Tea Time, and a new way to say Xanthoxylum
[2:43] Inside the Club classroom: the Xanthoxylum page, the data sheet, recipes and workbook
[4:16] The Blend Planner: the intention, who you are blending for, and the anchor oil
[7:30] Pairing the planner with Thymely Premium, and the Blenders Guild
[9:51] Back to the slides: a berry oil from Nepal, and what everyone is sipping
[12:05] The Blue Tansy homework thread, and a 5 ml Xanthoxylum with any $40 order
[15:03] Members' Blue Tansy blends, and the body butter that melted in the car
[17:28] Why meet Xanthoxylum: the Himalayan foothills, the floods, and the distillers
[19:11] A 5-year shelf life, more linalool than lavender, and three recipes to start with
[22:55] Mountain Calm diffuser blend: 3 drops Xanthoxylum, 2 Sugandha Kokila, 1 Blue Tansy
[25:48] Chat describes the aroma: sweet, peppery, licorice, geranium, a sour grassy note
[28:00] The plant: red sun-dried fruit, timur in the kitchen, and sustainable wildcrafting
[30:06] Reading the GC/MS report: batch 109, 47% linalool, almost 26% d-limonene
[34:01] Science, then art, then heart: what each component brings, and letting the person smell along
[38:14] Karen's Xanthoxylum inhaler and evening lotion, and her 90-minute workshop
[39:35] Time to blend: the live gift, a 4-pack of 4-ounce amber bottles
[41:16] Apricot kernel oil: the monks' orchards, and the distiller who chooses Aromatics every year
[43:57] Half jojoba, half apricot kernel, and a sourcing trip to Thailand in November
[45:37] The oils go in: 18 Xanthoxylum, 12 lavender, 6 Frankincense Sacra, 4 Blue Tansy
[47:54] A blue drop suspended in the carrier, and why oil in oil stays blended
[48:58] Dill in the bottle, sweet on the skin, and scaling the recipe to 1 ounce
[51:21] The gift for watching live, the $40 Xanthoxylum, and the Tea Time Kit
[54:13] The workshop closes; a tour of the new Thymely Lite and Thymely Premium
[1:00:01] Out of beta: Thymely Lite, and the perks for app and Club members
[1:03:01] Chat says the bottles will not add, so Jenny walks the checkout live
[1:04:46] Next week: the Nutmeg replay while the team is at the AIA conference
[1:05:53] Leaderboard prizes, two things called Thymely Lite, and a grace period
[1:09:32] The Blenders Guild kicks off October 1, and goodbye
Links:
Recipes from this episode + 2,000 more in the Aromatherapy Recipes app: https://www.aromatherapy-recipes.com
Join the Natural Living Club — members get our Aromatherapy 101 course free: https://www.skool.com/natural-living
Watch the class replay: https://youtu.be/3SJvQxr285Q
Shop GC-MS tested essential oils: https://www.aromatics.com
Meet Thymely, the aromatherapy research assistant Jenny tours in this episode: https://askthymely.com
