Arabian Aromatherapy is an age-old tradition using natural attars to re-balance and heal emotionally, spiritually and physically.

We use only the highest quality and purest of attars to re-balance your soul, mind and body.

Attar is a Persian and Arabic word meaning fragrance, scent      or essence. An attar is a specific type of fragrance product first produced by Avicenna, who is considered to be the greatest individual physician who ever lived. Although attars can include some individual essential oils that are used in their own right as suitable fragrances i.e. sandalwood, patchouli, lavender etc., many attars are combinations of oils – sometimes as many as 30 or 40 blended together according to centuries-old secret Attari family formulas.

Most scents are obtained from the Middle and Near East and Indian sub-continent using traditional methods of collecting and gathering flower blossoms and immersing them in a base oil, usually a near-scentless sandalwood. These are the same fragrances used by both men and women of the East for centuries, to create spiritual beauty.

Ancient healers and prophets of centuries gone by used fragrant oils to enhance mood, adjust emotions and uplift the soul. Attars can be used to treat the whole person: physically, emotionally and spiritually.

The source and quality of floral oils and attars is extremely important, because only if the oil is true and pure can proper effects be achieved, especially in the realm of the soul. The attars we use are obtained via steam distillation or enfleurage methods without any chemical dilution or preservatives added during processing. There is also no child labour used or negative environmental effects caused as a result of the manufacturing or processing of these attars. Furthermore, due to the religious traditions of most of the manufacturers there is strictly no alcohol used. The manufacturing plants supplying the oils are visited regularly to ensure strict conditions of purity and quality are met.

Abu Ali Ibn Sina, known in the West as Avicenna, invented the process of steam distillation and was the first person ever to distil the oil of rose. It was he who developed the use of attars for physical ailments using specific scientific formulas. He designed an elaborate system whereby attars and flowers were assigned mizaj or temperaments, which allowed treatment of physical conditions by considering the inherent imbalance and temperament of an individual and re-balancing with an attar of an appropriate temperament. Every item of food, medicine, herb or attar all has its own mizaj. Something that has positive effects for one person may be detrimental to a person of a different mizaj.


After carefully analysing a person's mizaj, we will then prescribe the appropriate attar or attars to be used on specific points on the body with techniques specific to each individual condition. The attars can successfully treat physical illnesses as well as emotional conditions and be used for spiritual advancement and meditation.


The sufi tradition developed the spiritual use of aromatherapy by relating different scents to the stations the soul passes through on its journey of return to the Creator and to the various physical, mental and spiritual illnesses that reflect the soul’s growth through the respective stages of the soul.


The use of attars in healing is part of the Unani Tibb Eastern Medicine tradition, which is a holistic system of medicine that in addition to attars, uses herbs, dietary and lifestyle adjustments to heal and re-balance in a gentle way that works with the body and encourages it to heal.