Did you know that several centuries ago in Holland, tulips were more valuable than gold?

Now, you may not be able to use flowers as currency anymore, but we still think they're pretty precious.

And today we'll share some of our favorites with you.

Welcome back to Essential Oil Solutions with Dutera, the podcast where you'll hear exciting, useful, and simple everyday uses for essential oils from experts in the field.

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to learn more. Today we're excited to talk to Samantha Lewis, a member of the Dutera

product marketing team about the best florals for summertime. Plus, we'll look at the fascinating

history of fennel.

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Samantha, thank you so much for being here with us today.

Thanks for having me.

This is a topic I'm very excited to talk about because sometimes I don't feel like it gets enough attention.

So florals are such an amazing group of oils.

Can you tell us a little bit about what makes them different from some of the other essential oils we have?

I totally agree.

This is such an incredible topic and I do think it needs a little bit more attention. I mean, woods and herbs and grasses all are talked about quite a bit, but I love

talking about florals. So floral essential oils from a chemistry perspective are all very unique.

Most have a monoturping backbone, but span across the chemistry will, containing alcohols,

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