Orange Blossom oil

How to Use It

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Marriage work: dress a bride-and-groom candle or a pair of red and white candles tied together to draw a proposal or keep a marriage sweet.
• Reconciliation: add a drop to a honey jar for a partner who has drifted, so the sweetness pulls them home.
• Wear it: dab on the wrists and hair before meeting a lover to be seen as marriageable and kind.

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Handfastings and weddings: anoint the couple’s rings or cords as a blessing.
• Happy home: a few drops in a floor wash or on a sachet in the bedroom for peace between partners.

A Simple Working

• Write your name and your partner’s name on a square of paper, crossing the names.
• Put three drops of orange blossom oil on the paper and fold it towards you.
• Place it in a small jar and cover it with honey.
• Close the jar and say what you want restored or sweetened between you.
• Set a pink chime candle on the lid, dressed with a drop of the oil, and light it.
• Repeat with a fresh candle on three Fridays.

Pairs Well With

• Honey: for a sweetening jar with the oil.
• A bride and groom candle: for marriage and commitment work.
• A pink chime candle: to burn on the lid of a honey jar.
• Neroli oil: the distilled bitter orange flower, for a sharper, more elegant note.

What You Receive

Orange Blossom oil in 2 dram, 1 oz and 16 oz (1 lb) sizes.

Origin & Lore

Orange blossom is the fragrant white flower of citrus trees, especially the bitter and sweet orange. Across the Mediterranean and Middle East its flowers are distilled into orange flower water for sweets, pastries and drinks, and in Europe the blossom became the symbol of brides, worn in wreaths and carried in bouquets because the tree bears flowers and fruit at the same time.

When Queen Victoria married Prince Albert in 1840 she wore a wreath of orange blossom in her hair, and for the rest of the century no fashionable bride wanted anything else.

The orange tree’s habit of carrying blossom, green fruit and ripe fruit at once made it a symbol of fertility and plenty, and orange blossom crowns were already worn by brides in parts of Spain and the Mediterranean before Victoria made them fashionable in Britain. In hoodoo, orange blossom water and oil are traditional in work to bring about marriage.