Sweet Grass oil

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Dress a white or pale green candle after a cleansing to invite calm and gentle energy back into a room.
• Anoint the corners of a meditation cushion or altar cloth.
• Add a drop to a bowl of water and sprinkle it lightly around the home after a stressful period.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Anoint offering bowls and ancestor photographs as a sweet, welcoming gesture to benevolent spirits.
• Use as the gentle second step after a banishing, to fill the space with peace.

A Simple Working

• Begin by cleansing the room with sage smoke or salt water.
• Open a window briefly to let the old air out.
• Take a white chime candle and dress it with Sweet Grass oil from base to wick.
• Light the candle in the centre of the room.
• Walk slowly around the room, touching a drop of oil to each doorframe and window sill.
• Sit with the candle for a while and breathe, letting your worries settle.
• Let the candle burn out on its own.

Pairs Well With

• White sage, for the clearing that comes before sweetgrass’s blessing.
• Cedar, often used together with sweetgrass for protection and prayer.
• Lavender, to deepen the sense of calm.
• Selenite, kept on the altar to hold a peaceful atmosphere.

What You Receive

Sweet Grass oil, available in 2 dram, 1 oz and 16 oz bottles.

Origin & Lore

Sweet Grass oil is named for sweetgrass (Hierochloe odorata, now often placed in Anthoxanthum), a fragrant grass of northern meadows. Many Indigenous peoples of North America braid and burn it as a sacred plant for prayer and blessing, and in northern Europe the same grass was strewn on church floors on feast days.

Sweetgrass is said to draw good spirits in where sage drives bad ones out, which is why the two are so often used one after the other.

Sweetgrass is one of the sacred plants of many Anishinaabe and Plains peoples and is often braided in three strands. In parts of northern Europe the same grass was called holy grass and was scattered at the doors of churches on saints’ days, so its sweet smell rose as people walked over it.