Yellow Label Citronella Oil, 2 Dram | Cleansing & Protection

Citronella is the bright, lemony cousin of lemongrass, a sharp and cheerful scent that folk practice puts to work clearing the air and driving off what is unwanted. Citronella oil brings that clean, citrus-green note into your oil work: the fragrance of a space freshened, lightened, and swept of trouble.

AzureGreen's Yellow Label line bottles that fragrance, and this 2-dram size is the sampler: a pocket bottle to meet the scent, dress a candle or two, or tuck into a cleansing kit. If you want to try citronella before committing to a working supply, this is where to start. The same Yellow Label fragrance also comes in a 16 oz working bottle.

Key Features of This Citronella Oil

A bright cleansing and clearing oil. Citronella, a fragrant grass in the lemongrass family, has been worked in folk and conjure practice to cleanse a space, drive off unwanted influences and troublesome people, and in some traditions to freshen the way for friends and customers.

A blended fragrance oil built for ritual and craft. Yellow Label oils are fragrance compositions in an oil base, formulated for candle dressing, anointing, and soap or candle making, with a scent that stays consistent bottle to bottle and batch to batch.

2 dram: the sampler size. A compact bottle to try the fragrance, dress a candle, or anoint a charm to carry, easy to keep in a ritual kit. The same Yellow Label fragrance also comes in a 16 oz working bottle for practitioners who cleanse and clear at scale.

Product Details

• Volume: 2 dram (approximately 7.4 ml)
• Brand: AzureGreen Yellow Label
• Format: Blended fragrance oil
• Fragrance reference: Citronella (Cymbopogon)
• Intended use: Candle dressing, cleansing and clearing work, protection, diluted anointing
• For external use only; dilute in a carrier oil before applying to skin

Ingredients

AzureGreen does not publish the full formula for its Yellow Label fragrance oils; this is a proprietary fragrance composition in an oil base. If you have specific sensitivities or skin concerns, contact Plentiful Earth before use and always patch test diluted oil first.

The Spiritual Significance

Citronella belongs to the lemongrass family, the aromatic grasses whose sharp citrus scent has long been valued for cleansing and clearing. Where its cousin lemongrass is turned to psychic opening and road clearing, citronella leans toward freshening and warding: clearing a space of heaviness and bad feeling, and in hoodoo-influenced practice, gently moving along the people and influences you would rather see the back of.

In magical correspondence citronella is cleansing and clearing, a bright and uplifting protector. Use the oil to freshen and cleanse a room, to dress a candle for clearing unwanted company or influences, or, in the traditions that work it that way, to make a shop or doorway bright and welcoming to the right kind of attention. It is the cheerful, citrus end of cleansing work, lifting a space as it clears it.

How To Use Citronella Oil

1. Dress a white or yellow candle for cleansing and clearing, stroking from base toward wick as you name what you are moving along.
2. Anoint thresholds and windowsills to freshen a space and turn away unwanted influences.
3. Anoint a doorway or register to brighten a shop and welcome the right kind of attention.
4. Blend a few drops into a carrier oil, such as grapeseed, for diluted anointing before cleansing or clearing work.
5. Add a few drops to a homemade candle or soap batch at your supplier's recommended fragrance load to carry the bright citrus scent into your craft.

These are starting points; trust the tradition you stand in.

Pairs Well With

• Yellow Label Sage Oil, 16 oz: pair a bright citrus cleanser with sage's deep clearing.
• Yellow Label Eucalyptus Oil, 16 oz: two refreshing clearers for a space that has gone heavy.
• White Sage Smudge Stick: smoke-cleanse, then dress candles with the oil.
• Road Opener Oil by Espiritu: clear the way and open the road to better things.
• Protection Oil by Espiritu: layer protection over citronella's clearing.

Frequently Asked Questions

What kind of oil is this?

A blended fragrance oil: a fragrance composition in an oil base, made for candle dressing, anointing, and soap and candle making. Yellow Label is AzureGreen's house line, formulated for ritual and craft use with a scent that stays consistent from bottle to bottle.

What is citronella used for in folk magic and ritual?

Cleansing and clearing. Citronella is worked to freshen and purify a space, to drive off unwanted influences or troublesome people, and in some traditions to brighten a shop or doorway so it welcomes the right kind of attention.

How is citronella different from lemongrass?

They are close kin in the same fragrant-grass family. Lemongrass leans toward psychic opening and road clearing, while citronella leans toward freshening, warding, and moving along what is unwanted, the brighter, more protective side of the lemony cleansers.

Can I apply this oil to my skin?

Only diluted. Blend a few drops into a carrier oil such as grapeseed before any personal anointing, patch test first, and keep it away from eyes, mucous membranes, and broken skin. This is a fragrance oil for external ritual use, never for ingestion.

Which size should I choose?

This 2-dram bottle is the sampler or pocket size, ideal for trying citronella or keeping a little on hand. The 16 oz is the wholesale working bottle for shop owners, group leaders, and makers who cleanse and clear often. The fragrance is identical.