The Ultimate Guide to Thanksgiving Essential Oil Blends

Natasha Bruce-Carline
The Ultimate Guide to Thanksgiving Essential Oil Blends
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Thanksgiving is the ideal time to fill your home with scents of warm, cozy gatherings and the gratitude that goes hand in hand. What better way to set the scene for such a celebration than to create bespoke Thanksgiving essential oil blends? With just a few fall-inspired essential oils and an essential oil diffuser, you can create the perfect fragrant backdrop to America’s favorite autumn celebration. Whether you are hosting a gathering of family and friends for Thanksgiving or simply enjoying a quiet, reflective evening, Thanksgiving essential oil blends can elevate your space beautifully.

In this guide, I share my opinion of the best Thanksgiving essential oil blends for your diffuser, your candles, and room sprays. Plus, a few safety tips for using essential oils to create warm, welcoming atmospheres.

Why Use Essential Oils for Thanksgiving?

Thanksgiving is all about gratitude, connection, and joyful celebrations of homely comforts. It is easy to incorporate aromatherapy into your Thanksgiving holiday to enhance the senses and set the perfect tone for connection, togetherness, and relaxation.

Essential oils affect the mood and well-being, but are pure and natural to keep your home free of synthetic ingredients.

Using essential oils in a variety of mediums, such as a diffuser, candles, or a room spray, can help you enjoy these active benefits throughout your Thanksgiving celebrations.

Using pure and natural essential oils during the Thanksgiving holiday does so much more than just make your home smell amazing. Used properly, it helps create an environment of restful calm and comfort, genuine connection, and joyful thankfulness.

Aromatherapy Benefits Of Diffusing These Essential Oil Blends

    • Clove & Cinnamon Bark: Warm and comforting, ideal for crisp, cold days.
    • Orange & Cardamom: Uplifting and joyful, perfect for family gatherings.
    • Cedarwood & Fir: Earthy, grounding, and serene, great for mindfulness and connection.
    • Dwarf Pine & Peppermint: Clean, refreshing, and energizing after a big meal.

These essential oil combinations for scent can easily and quickly help you set the Thanksgiving mood for gratitude, harmony, and celebration. Try a few drops of each in your diffusers.

Good essential oil combinations for scent can:

    • Create a long-lasting fragrance that feels warm and inviting,  induces relaxation, and sets the mood.
    • Soothe and relax - Perfect if either you or your guests are stressed or anxious to help you unwind to enjoy the celebrations after a long day of cooking! 
    • Uplift and Invigorate for Thanksgiving Day, full of joy and laughter.

Best Thanksgiving Essential Oil Blends

Here are some fall-inspired diffuser blends for Thanksgiving you can try at home. Each essential oil blend is carefully designed to evoke feelings of warmth, gratitude, and seasonal joy.

Follow the safety instructions and always consult your diffuser manufacturer's instructions for specific guidance on your diffuser. 

Safety For All Blends:

    • Not for topical use
    • Label the bottle clearly, listing all ingredients and the date.
    • Do not diffuse in a home where cats are present.

How To Use:

    • Follow your individual diffuser’s manufacturer's instructions, especially in terms of dilution advice.   

Pumpkin Spice Gratitude Diffuser Blend

This warm and welcoming diffuser blend is perfect for cozy evenings or for setting the scene before Thanksgiving dinner. Its aroma is spicy, warm, and sweet, the classic pumpkin spice scent that feels like Thanksgiving in a bottle.

For a 5ml Diffuser Blend, Simply Mix:

Forest Gathering Diffuser and Candle Blend

This glorious, seasonal aroma is deeply earthy, grounding, and calming. It is the perfect diffuser blend that creates a balanced scent for relaxation and reflection after your Thanksgiving meal.

For a 5ml Diffuser & Candle Blend, Simply Mix:

These beautiful woody autumnal scents work well for diffusers and scented candles.

Joyful and Bright Citrus Blend

Packed with uplifting citrus notes, the aroma of this blend is fresh, minty, and joyful. It is the perfect way to brighten and enliven your Thanksgiving celebrations. 

For a 5ml Diffuser Blend, Simply Mix:

Thanksgiving Candle Blend

This is for those of you who just live to make your own DIY candles. This is a lovely, warm, and cozy fragrance blend. Fill your home with the spicy fall scent and let the citrus essential oils uplift you at the end of a busy day. Grab a blanket and a warm drink and curl up on the sofa to reflect on everything you are grateful for. 

For a 5ml Candle Blend to Use in 200g of Soy Wax:

Thankfulness Room Spray

Turn your favorite diffuser blend into a room freshener by making a handmade Room Spray for your Thanksgiving celebrations. This will not only give you a warm and welcoming atmosphere, but one that will hang around for ages! Get the lowdown and a spray base formula from Crafting the Perfect Scent: Your Guide to Room Spray. Please note that you do need the dispersant and preservative for the best results! 

Try This Thankfulness Room Spray Blend:

Safety: 
    • Not for topical use
    • Shake well before each use.
    • Do not spray towards the face, pets, and their bedding or rest areas. 

Safety Tips When Using Thanksgiving Essential Oil Blends

These recipes are all designed to be diffused, or used in a candle or room spray. They are not for use on the skin.

    • Always follow your diffuser manufacturer's guidance, especially when it comes to diluting your blends or not. 
    • Avoid direct skin contact when working with spicy oils like Clove Bud or Cinnamon Bark. It is advisable to wear gloves.
    • Ensure your essential oils are pure and natural and free from synthetic additives.
    • Follow IFRA safety guidelines when creating your own Thanksgiving diffuser blends (Cat 12), scented candles (Cat 12), or bespoke room sprays (Cat 10B).

Frequently Asked Questions

It's natural to have a few questions about these Thanksgiving essential oil blends, so let’s address some of them here and now.

Can I Use These Essential Oil Blends On My Skin?

Please do not use the Thanksgiving essential oil blends in this article on your skin. Spice oils like Clove Bud and Cinnamon have very low skin safety dilution rates and need very cautious handling.  These blends have higher amounts than would be safe to use on your skin, to have really good strength and throw for your diffuser and candle blends.

That said, it is easy to design your own as long as you follow the IFRA safety guidelines to make skin-safe essential oil blends to apply topically. Click the link to find out How To Find Safety Information On The VINEVIDA Website.  

Can I Use Fragrance Oils With Thanksgiving Essential Oil Blends?

Yes, you can! You can use them in lots of different ways, as well as to enhance your own bespoke diffuser blend for Thanksgiving.

Use The Right Type Of Fragrance Oil For Your Diffuser

If you are using diffuser blends for Thanksgiving, you need to make sure that you have the right fragrance oil for the type of diffuser you have.

If you have a Cold Air Diffuser (CAD) or a nebulizing diffuser, you will need VINEVIDA’s Diffuser fragrance oils, which are specifically formulated for these machines.

For most other types of diffusers, please use VINEVIDA’s Soaps & Candles fragrance oils. They can be used in many types of aromatherapy diffusers. Naturally, they can also be used to create soaps, candles, and hair and beauty products. As well as for home cleaning and scented home products.

You need the right oil variation for the type of diffuser you own. If in doubt, always consult your manufacturer's instructions before using Thanksgiving diffuser blends in your machines. 

Mix and Match According To Your Needs

When it comes to combining fragrance oils and essential oils together, it pays to give it some thought beforehand.

Essential oils have all of those wonderful active benefits that can uplift, calm, and soothe us. They can influence the mood and instill certain feelings. We can use these to our benefit when designing blends to diffuse in our homes.

For the ultimate Thanksgiving holiday celebration, we can combine fall scents with those active properties of essential oils. For instance, we could take NO. 65 - Pumpkin Spice fragrance oil and add uplifting Sweet Orange essential oil to raise the energy and the mood.

If your family is stressed, irritable, and fractious, soothe them by mixing Roman Chamomile into fall-inspired fragrance oils like NO. 184 - Walk In The Woods or NO. 185 - Fall Is In The Air.

Using Jasmine, Neroli, and Rose fragrance oils can save you a LOT of money compared to using the essential oils. Using Sandalwood, Oud, and Palo Santo fragrance oils can help with the sustainability concerns of these precious commodities.

For more ways to combine essential and fragrance oils for the Thanksgiving holidays and have the best celebration yet, check out - Make Your Thanksgiving Diffuser Blends Pay…Scent The Home In Every Way You Can Imagine.

Can I Use These Thanksgiving Essential Oil Blends For Candles?

Yes, by all means, use them. Remember to use no more than 10% of combined fragrance oils and/or essential oils per 100g of wax. As it can seize and you will need to discard it. 

Why Can’t I Diffuse My Thanksgiving Essential Oil Blends Around Cats?

We don’t recommend diffusing certain essential oils around cats.

Essentially, cats cannot process essential oils in the same ways as humans do. Their liver does have the same enzymes to break down the oils, and so they can build up and become toxic.

If you need more specific advice, we always recommend seeking the advice of your veterinarian, because they have the knowledge and experience of your pet that we simply do not have.

Discover more in-depth information for cats and dogs. Read - Are Essential Oils Safe for Pets?

The Final Word

There are so many exciting ways to use Thanksgiving essential oil blends, and we have explored just a handful of them. Don’t be afraid to have fun with them and discover more ideas for yourself.

Always stick with the IFRA safety guidelines for skin-safe dilution, and you will be good to go! 

Why not have a go at these quick and simple projects for a fragrant Thanksgiving holiday: 

    • Pumpkin Spice Gratitude Diffuser Blend is ‘Thanksgiving in a bottle’ and has warm and uplifting energetics to make you feel comforted and relaxed.
    • Forest Gathering Diffuser and Candle Blend is a luscious, fresh air-inspired woody aroma. Perfectly seasonal, earthy, grounding, and calming. Ideal for quiet reflection after your Thanksgiving meal.
    • Joyful And Bright Citrus Diffuser Blend oozes positivity and joy and is a great way to brighten and enliven your Thanksgiving celebration by invigorating and energizing your lucky guests.
    • Thanksgiving Candle Blend is one to curl up on the sofa with your favourite blanket and a hot drink in your best mug. Sit back and reflect on all the things you have to be thankful for.
    • Thankfulness Room Spray will give you long-lasting fragrance and a gentle, warm, and inviting atmosphere to your Thanksgiving celebration. The sweet Vanilla tones through it are just delicious.

If you fancy having a go at more Thanksgiving essential oil blends, check out - Cozy Thanksgiving Diffuser Blends: Elevate Your Celebrations with Essential Oils.

The right Thanksgiving essential oil blend can transform your space into a haven of warmth, gratitude, and comfort. Whether you prefer spicy, woodsy, or citrus notes, there’s a perfect blend for Thanksgiving waiting to elevate your home.

So, this season, as you gather with loved ones and share in thankfulness, let the scents of fall remind you of life’s sweetest blessings.

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