Yellow Label Lemongrass Oil, 2 Dram | Cleansing & Road Opening

Walk into any botanica and ask what clears a blocked road, and sooner or later the answer smells like this. Lemongrass oil carries the bright, cutting scent at the heart of Van Van, New Orleans Hoodoo's most famous formula, into your own hands: the grass of cleansing, luck-turning, and ways made open.

AzureGreen's Yellow Label line bottles that fragrance for every scale of practice, and this 2-dram bottle is the way in: enough for a single sustained working, a first meeting with the scent, or a daily carry that slips into a pocket or travel kit. If your road needs opening, this is the easiest first yes.

Key Features of This Lemongrass Oil

The working heart of Van Van. Lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus) is the signature grass behind Van Van oil, the New Orleans formula for clearing away evil, changing luck, and opening roads, which makes the straight oil a foundational supply for cleansing and unblocking work.

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 clearing work, which is what makes an accessible ritual bottle possible, with consistency from batch to batch.

2 drams: the first bottle and the daily carry. Compact enough for a pocket, a purse, or a travel altar, this size lets you meet the fragrance before committing to more. For floor wash makers, shops, and practitioners who clear in volume, the same Yellow Label fragrance comes in a 16 oz working bottle.

Product Details

• Volume: 2 dram (approximately 7.4 ml)
• Brand: AzureGreen Yellow Label
• Format: Blended fragrance oil
• Fragrance reference: Lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus)
• Intended use: Candle dressing, cleansing and road-opening work, daily carry
• 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

In Hoodoo and New Orleans conjure, lemongrass anchors Van Van oil, a formula whose name is traditionally traced to the Louisiana French pronunciation of vervain and whose body is built on lemongrass and its kindred Asian grasses: citronella, palmarosa, gingergrass, vetiver. Van Van clears away evil, turns bad luck to good, and opens the road, and it is used to dress mojo hands, feed lodestones and High John roots, and anoint the doorsteps of homes and businesses so that good fortune can find its way in.

In Wiccan herbalism, lemongrass carries correspondences of cleansing and psychic awareness, the bright, cutting quality the craft reads as energy that slices through what has gone stagnant.

You can add this oil to floor washes in the Hoodoo manner, dress candles for clearing and road-opening work, or anoint thresholds where the way in and out needs to stay open. Where sage purifies a space, lemongrass clears a path: it is the oil of forward motion.

How To Use Lemongrass Oil

1. Add a few drops to a small bucket of floor wash water for a single room or doorway cleansing, washing toward the front door in the Hoodoo manner.
2. Dress white candles for cleansing work or orange candles for road opening, stroking the oil from base toward wick to draw the open way toward you.
3. Anoint doorsteps, thresholds, and entryways so that the path into your home or business stays clear and welcoming to good fortune.
4. Blend a few drops into a carrier oil, such as sweet almond, for personal anointing before fresh starts, interviews, or ventures where the way ahead needs to be open.
5. Carry the bottle with you and touch a diluted drop to your wrist before interviews, fresh starts, or any day the road needs to stay open.

These are starting points. Roads open in as many directions as practitioners walk them; trust yours.

Pairs Well With

• Van Van Hoodoo Oil, 2 Dram: the finished formula this grass anchors, at matching size; keep the straight lemongrass for focused clearing and the Van Van for workings that call for the classic recipe by name.
• Sage Fragrance Oil, 2 Dram Bottle: the purifier to lemongrass's path-clearer, in the same pocket size; sage settles a space, lemongrass moves what is stuck.
• Yellow Label Sweet Grass Oil, 2 Dram: the welcome that follows the clearing; once the road is open and the space is clean, sweetgrass invites what should arrive next.
• Sweet Almond Carrier Oil, 8oz: the dilution base that turns this fragrance oil into skin-safe anointing blends, a drop of fragrance to a palmful of carrier.
• Road Opener 7-Day Jar Candle: the long-form flame for sustained road-opening work; dress the top lightly with this oil to tie the candle to your threshold work.

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 personal ritual use. 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 the connection between lemongrass and Van Van oil?

Lemongrass is Van Van's backbone. The famous New Orleans formula is built on lemongrass and its related grasses, so the straight oil lets you work the same clearing, luck-turning current on its own, or build and stretch your own blends from the foundation up.

What is lemongrass used for in folk magic?

Cleansing and road opening above all. In Hoodoo it clears away evil, changes luck, and keeps doorways and business thresholds open to good fortune, while Wiccan herbalism adds psychic awareness: the bright, cutting energy that slices through stagnation.

Can I apply this oil to my skin?

Only diluted. Blend a few drops into a carrier oil such as sweet almond 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.

Should I use lemongrass or sage for cleansing?

They do different jobs. Sage purifies and settles a space, the broad sweep that clears everything out. Lemongrass cuts and opens, aimed at the specific blockage, the stuck road, the doorway that needs traffic. Many practitioners wash with lemongrass and smoke with sage in the same working.

How long will a 2-dram bottle last?

Through a season of dressing and anointing work. A drop or two per application stretches this pocket size further than you might expect, though floor wash work will outpace it quickly; if washes are part of your practice, the 16 oz is the wash-maker's bottle.