Michelle Gilbert, CA, APAIA, R.SPE.P.

What do we smell in a beautiful aroma, and what do we sense deep down when we smell it? Where does it take you? What do you find when you get there? How does that inform your life now?

That’s what moves me.

As a qualified aromatherapist and educator, I love dissecting a formulation or product brief and finding ways to make it better. It sets my heart alight when my knowledge makes your natural products business shine.

But the stories these molecules tell… oh, the stories. The magic they make! We don’t even understand it fully.

I work at that intersection. Plants hold stories, and I let them guide me in the telling. I’m a trained perfumer and aromatherapist, but those are labels that don’t describe the magic that happens when your personal story arises to be told in scent. My hope is that it opens up places in you that you had forgotten about… transports you… helps you reclaim missing pieces you had forgotten you’d lost.

My official bio:

Michelle Gilbert, CA, APAIA, R.SPE.P. is a qualified holistic aromatherapist based in Cleveland, Ohio. Her background and approach is broad, ranging from the clinical to the esoteric.

Michelle is an instructor at the internationally renowned Aromahead Institute, School of Essential Oil Studies. She is a contributing writer for Aroma Culture magazine, and has appeared in Health Magazine and other publications. She also serves on the Education Committee for the Alliance of International Aromatherapists.

She is one of very few people worldwide to be a Registered Practitioner of Spiritual PhytoEssencing, an approach to aromatherapy that invites deep personal soul-level healing.

Michelle believes in the resiliency and wisdom of the natural world as a mirror for our well-being and personal evolution.

Michelle’s work is influenced by her formal studies in many wisdom traditions. She interweaves evidence-based essential oil data with concepts from perfumery, Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, east-west psychology, indigenous traditions, homeopathy, and subtle energy modalities.