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Somewhere in north east Tasmania, a farmer named John Hood noticed something curious about his fence. One section hadn't rusted, the section that had been covered, season after season, by the sprawling branches of a wild shrub pressing up against it. The shrub was Kunzea ambigua. Hood suspected its oils were antioxidant. He began extracting them and testing them on his farm.
That's how one of Australia's most promising essential oils came to be more than a roadside bush. It wasn't discovered in a laboratory or commissioned by a fragrance house. It started with a farmer and a fence that didn't rust. Have you ever noticed that on a bright summer morning, you reach for something crisp and citrusy, but on a cool winter evening, you're instinctively drawn toward something warmer and woodier? There's a logic to this, and once you understand scent families, the way you choose and use your oils can start to change. There is a moment, recorded across four separate books of the Bible, where a woman breaks open an alabaster jar and pours its entire contents over the feet of Jesus. The house, the text says, was filled with the fragrance.
What was in that jar was spikenard, and it was worth approximately a year's wages. At the time, that was an almost incomprehensible act of sacrifice. Today, genuine spikenard essential oil remains rare, precious, and deeply underknown. If you've never encountered it, we think it's time!Kunzea:
Tasmania’s Best Kept Botanical Secret
Floral, Citrus, Woody, Resinous
Your Guide to Scent Families
The Oil
Once Worth A Years Salary
