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Botanical name: Melaleuca alternifolia

Color: Very pale yellow/green

Consistency: Thin

Perfumery note: Top

Related Planets/Deities: None

Aroma: Strong, spicy, warm, medicinal-yet-natural

Energetic Properties: Healing, opening

Aromatherapy Properties: A pale yellowy-green or water-white liquid with a warm, fresh, spicy-camphoraceous odor. It blends well with lavender, clary sage, rosemary, oakmoss, pine, ylang-ylang, geranium, marjoram, and spice oils, especially clove and nutmeg. 

Spiritual Uses: Tea tree has a limited history of spiritual/magickal use. Some suggest it is useful in ritual purification, especially of spaces inhabited by sick people. It also appears to be helpful in clearing blocked or stagnant energy.

Blends well with: Lavender, Marjoram, Geranium, Nutmeg, Clove, Myrrh, Rosewood, and Cinnamon.

History: Native to Australia, and long used by Aboriginal peoples, Tea tree was a surprising discovery for Captain James Cook, who landed on the continent in 1770. From that point, Tea Tree’s reputation as a potent medicine spread among colonists. Formal scientific study of the Tea Tree was begun in the early 20th century. Recent studies have shown that, among other things, Tea Tree is more effective than commercial medications against the scabies mite (in an in vitro solution), and has shown effectiveness against MRSA, the antibiotic-resistant superbug that sometimes infects hospitalized patients whose immune systems have been compromised.