Our story
Built on what is in the bottle
Much of the aromatherapy trade sells packaging and promises. We began Aura Elixir to offer the plant itself: named precisely, its origin and its method stated plainly.
- Founded in
- Montréal, Québec
- Between us
- No resellers, no multi-level marketing
- On every listing
- Latin name, origin and extraction method
- For
- Your home, and the practitioners who care for others
The long tradition
Before the pharmacy, there was the still.
Before the molecule, there was the plant.
An essential oil holds the compounds a plant builds over its whole life to protect itself, to attract pollinators and to recover from damage. Several tonnes of petals, gathered before the heat of the day, yield a single kilogram of rose otto. A small vial of helichrysum carries the distilled work of thousands of flowers.
People have prepared aromatic plant extracts for more than five thousand years. Egyptian physicians recorded them in the Ebers Papyrus around 1550 BCE, Dioscorides gathered them into his pharmacopoeia in 77 CE, and Avicenna described steam distillation in the eleventh century: the method behind most essential oils today.
- 5,000Years of recorded aromatic practice
- 3Facts named on every bottle: plant, origin, method
- 0Recruiters between you and the oil
- 20%Off retail sizes for verified practitioners
Our story
Aura Elixir began in Montréal, in a market crowded with oils sold through recruitment schemes and with promises no study could support. We wanted the opposite: the plant itself, named precisely, priced honestly and explained with care.
We built the house the way an engineer builds a system: measure first, then claim. Every bottle carries the facts that decide what is inside it. Where research supports a use, our guides say so; where it does not, we stay quiet.
The house serves two kinds of hands: people discovering oils at home, and the practitioners (aromatherapists, massage therapists, estheticians, salons) who use them with clients every day.
Our sourcing
We work with a Québec distillery whose standards match ours: steam distillation, cold pressing and careful extraction, with the species, origin and method recorded for each oil. For each product we name the botanical species, the country it grew in and the way it was extracted, because those facts decide what is in the bottle.
Named origins
Every listing gives the plant’s botanical name, its country of origin and its extraction method. Where an oil has a defined chemotype, we state it.
We do not describe chemistry we cannot document, and we do not repeat claims we cannot trace. Batch laboratory reports are not published on the site today; when our distiller provides them for every batch, we will make them available.
The science we keep to
The compounds in these plants (terpenes, esters, phenols, aldehydes) are studied in peer-reviewed research. Our guides draw on that literature, and our language stays within what it supports.
What we offer
Single-origin essential oils and absolutes, formulated synergies, cold-pressed carrier oils, hydrolats, massage blends, raw materials for formulation, and crystal water bottles.
Our professional programme serves aromatherapists, naturopaths, massage therapists, estheticians, salons and integrative practitioners who need practice quantities. Verified professionals receive 20% off retail sizes.