Gardenia oil

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Love: dress a white or pink candle with gardenia oil on a Friday or Monday for tender, romantic love.
• Peace: add drops to a diffuser or a bowl of water in a room after a quarrel.
• Lunar glamour: wear a drop at the throat under a full moon for a soft, magnetic presence.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Love dressing: gardenia is used in love and attraction formulas and to scent red flannel love bags.
• Peaceful home: add a few drops to a floor wash to calm a household.

A Simple Working

• On the night of a full moon, set a white chime candle on a dish.
• Dress it with gardenia oil from the base upward.
• Place a small bowl of water beside it with a few white flower petals floating on top.
• Light the candle and name the peace you want in your home or relationship.
• When it has burned down, dip your fingers in the water and touch it to your brow and heart.
• Pour the water on a houseplant or in the garden.

Pairs Well With

• A white chime candle: for lunar peace and love.
• Jasmine oil: another Moon flower for love and dreams.
• Moonstone: to hold during full moon workings.
• Rose petals: for love baths and sachets.

What You Receive

Gardenia oil, a scented anointing oil, available in 2 dram, 1 oz and 16 oz.

Origin & Lore

The gardenia (Gardenia jasminoides) is an evergreen shrub native to China and Japan, grown there for many centuries for its fragrant white flowers. It became a favourite of gardens in the American South and in corsages and buttonholes.

Billie Holiday made the white gardenia in her hair a signature, and few flowers have such a lush, unmistakable scent.

The genus was named in the eighteenth century in honour of Alexander Garden, a Scottish-born physician and naturalist in Charleston, South Carolina. The Japanese name, kuchinashi, is often explained as “no mouth”, because the ripe fruit does not split open.