A Midsummers Night Dream

Create your perfect Midsummer Night's Dream with our two amazing essential oil blends. Start with 'A Midsummer Slumber Blend' with Rose, Rose Geranium, and Chamomile, which will lull you into a wonderfully relaxed state of fragrant bliss. Try, too, our 'A Midsummer Night's Dream Weaver Blend' with Vetiver, Lavender, and Marjoram that helps you to surrender to the night and whisks you away into a fragrant dreamland to awaken refreshed and renewed. Whatever your perfect vision of a Midsummer Night's Dream, there is something here for you. 

England's Summer

Midsummer is here.

Here in middle England, a stone's throw from the place of Shakespeare's birth, the countryside and gardens are in full bloom, and the air is fragrant with flowers everywhere.

Bees buzz about their business, and crickets and grasshoppers hum lazily from the lush grasslands up and down the country.

Birds are birthing and fledging their babies, and swallows from Africa bring their graceful swoops and dives to our skies.

The natural world is a buzz with the glory of Summer, and flowers burst forth with wild abundance. 

The Flowers of A Midsummer's Night Dream

One of those most famous quotes, mentioning flowers from William Shakespeare's, A Midsummer Night's Dream, reads:

Shakespeare had a well-stocked garden at his home in Stratford, and he must have walked the country lanes around him, for he knew that Woodbines, better known in recent years as Honeysuckle and Eglantines or Wild Briar Roses festooned the hedgerows at this time, of year.

How lovely to think of how Titanic revealed so deeply in the fragrance of the wonderful flowers of the hedgerow that they lulled her to sleep right there in that green, leafy briar.

So, what can we do on this beautiful Midsummer's Eve to lull ourselves into a gorgeous relaxation or slumber to rival Titania's?

Come with me into the fragrant, flowering woods, and I will show you. 

A Midsummer Night's Dream Blends in a Bottle

I have developed two incredible essential oil blends for you, one to encourage a lazy slumber and relaxation and the other to put you to sleep like a magic potion!

While I have made them into face and body lotions for ease of use, you can replicate the essential oil blends proportions and turn them into blends for your oils diffuser, scented candles, and even wax melts.

You can use them to create stunning products for the face and body. Just ensure you are within the safety data ratios for the essential oils you use. If in doubt, double-check.

Let's have a look at these rather luscious blends and recipes. (aka, Magic Potions of The Midsummer Hedgerow).

A Midsummer Slumber Blend

Sometimes, we want to come home and relax.

Using essential oils to help us unwind and chill out is the perfect way to capitalize upon their amazing properties. Not only that, but we can also harness their gorgeous fragrances and let them lull us into a place of utter bliss.

This is a simple and ever-so-easy recipe to create the perfect wind-down potion.

A Midsummer Slumber Blend
The perfect ‘Winding Down Potion’.
Equipment		Safety
Bottle (100ml), preferably dark colored Non-reactive mixing bowl or measuring jug Measuring spoons Stainless steel spoon Stainless steel funnel Label		Do not use it in the first 37 weeks of pregnancy.
Ingredients
40ml Aqueous Cream	30ml Rose Water	25ml Glycerine	½ tsp Rosehip Carrier Oil
Optional : 1% preservative - Follow the manufacturer's instructions.
Essential Oils 3% dilution rate = 60 drops
30 drops of Rose Otto Essential Oil (Rosa damascena)	10 drops of Lavender Essential Oil (Lavandula angustifolia)	10 drops of Rose Geranium Essential Oil (Pelargonium asperum var roseum)	10 drops of Roman Chamomile Essential Oil (Anthemis nobilis L.)
Method: In a non-reactive container or measuring jug, mix your ingredients to a volume of 100ml/3.38 fl oz. Add your essential oils - following the safety data percentages recommended. Gently stir to combine until they are thoroughly mixed. You can decant the mixture using a stainless steel funnel in your container. Label clearly with all ingredients listed and date for safety reasons.
How to Use: Do a 24-hour patch test on your inner elbow/wrist. Wait for the result; if satisfactory, continue use. Apply liberally over the face and body and allow it to dry. If the product gets in your eyes, rinse well. If irritation occurs - seek medical advice taking the labeled container with you.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Weaver Blend

This is the one to reach for when your day have you beat, and you need to curl up in the hedgerow like Titania, surrender yourself to the night, and let sleep come to claim you.

Let it weave your midsummer dreams and take you to magical worlds filled with flowers and fragrances instead.

It’s an easy-to-follow recipe that delivers cracking results and smells rather fabulous too!

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Weaver Blend
The perfect ‘Put You to Sleep Potion’.
Equipment		Safety
Bottle (100ml), preferably dark colored Non-reactive mixing bowl or measuring jug Measuring spoons Stainless steel spoon Stainless steel funnel Label		Do not use it in the first 37 weeks of pregnancy.
Ingredients
40ml Aqueous Cream	30ml Rose Water	25ml Glycerine	½ tsp Rosehip Carrier Oil
Optional : 1% preservative - Follow the manufacturer's instructions.
Essential Oils 3% dilution rate = 60 drops
20 drops of Vetiver Essential Oil (Vetiveria zizanoides)	20 drops of Lavender Essential Oil (Lavandula angustifolia)	10 drops of Marjoram Essential Oil (Origanum majorana)	10 drops of Roman Chamomile Essential Oil (Anthemis nobilis L.)
Method: In a non-reactive container or measuring jug, mix your ingredients to a volume of 100ml/3.38 fl oz/ Add your essential oils - following the safety data percentages recommended. Gently stir to combine until they are thoroughly mixed. You can decant the mixture using a stainless steel funnel in your container. Label clearly with all ingredients listed and date for safety reasons.
How to Use: Do a 24-hour patch test on your inner elbow/wrist. Wait for the result; if satisfactory, continue use. Apply liberally over the body and allow it to dry. If the product gets in your eyes, rinse well. If irritation occurs - seek medical advice taking the labeled container with you.

The Final Word

However you choose to use these essential oil blends, let the essential oils lull you into that rather luscious sense of slumber, surrender to relaxation, and dream-weaving sleep. Sink into a pillowy cloud of gorgeous scents and fragrances enjoyed for hundreds of years.

Take essential oils from herbs, spices, and flowers and create stunning blends that truly deliver on your perfect Midsummer’s Night Dream.