NOW Essential Oils, Frankincense Oil, Centering Aromatherapy Scent, Steam Distilled, 100% Pure, Vegan, Child Resistant Cap, 1-Ounce

I have been experimenting with essential oils for about ten years now, and have tried a wide range of brands. I've tended to stick with the mid-range brands like Aura Cacia, but I've tried some of the cheaper off brands offered on Amazon, as well as some high end brands like Do Terra and Young Living. Recently, I've fallen in love with NOW essential oils and have been buying them almost exclusively for the past year or so. The quality is great and the price is amazing for what you get. They are definitely on par with Aura Cacia for about half the price per ounce, on average. I have never gotten a NOW essential oil where I questioned if it might be a synthetic fragrance oil. I have allergies and synthetic fragrances instantly cause my nose to stuff up and often give me headaches and nausea- I have gotten a few fake essential oils through cheap retailers and some shady sellers on Amazon and I could tell right away.This frankincense oil is definitely the real deal, but as there are several different varieties of frankincense, this might not smell exactly like other brands, and might even smell a little off. I honestly don't care for any brand of frankincense on its own. I will inhale it when I have a cold or sinus infection, but otherwise I only ever use it blended with other oils. In blends, the strong, medicinal scent of this oil mellows out and just adds a little depth to lighter or more floral essential oils.I use frankincense when I'm feeling sick by inhaling the aroma from the bottle, adding it to hot baths, and adding it to a blend of other oils in a diffuser. For diffusing, I think the smell of frankincense goes with almost everything, but my go-to blend is to mix it with lavender, pine, bergamot, and citrus. Vetiver is also nice to add to this mix for a deeper, more woodsy fragrance.As frankincense is known to be antiseptic, it also goes into my homemade all purpose cleaner. The recipe I use is a couple tablespoons of Dr. Bronner's Sal's Suds, and a generous blend of tea tree oil, frankincense, pine, lemon, and lavender. All of that is added to a spray bottle filled with water and is then good to go for an all natural, better smelling alternative to Pine Sol. I change the amounts and add other oils like eucalyptus from time to time, but those are the main essential oils I use.

Great product, useful for sore muscles, aches and pain relief, massages, etc. It’s smells good too. All natural, try it!!

I have ordered this product more than 5 times, and I can tell you that it is in fact 100% pure Frankincense oil. I first started using a product that cost literally ten times per ounce more than the now food brand oil, and when I first found this product I was skeptical that it was the same.. I did a side by side comparison, texture, taste, smell, thickness... in every way it appears to be identical to the other brand but way less expensive.The reason why I started buying so much of this stuff is because my Dad is battling cancer and a health food store clerk mentioned that Frankincense oil is a good cancer fighter. I started giving my Dad 30 drops daily(not all at once, spread out through the day) of pure Frankincense oil along with 1000mg of Laetrile, and although I don't know if these substances actually destroy cancer, there is no question that within two weeks he was feeling far better because his pain had nearly vanished! At one point he was loaded on morphine and oxycodone to the point of being in a "zombie" state, and now he has been completely off of all pain meds for over 3 months! His type of cancer(tongue/throat) is extremely painful and he has gone many months now with no pain at all! Almost every Doctor he has seen(which has been many), expresses amazement that he has no pain considering the advanced stage of cancer that he had(which may not be so advanced at this point.. :)I felt compelled to write this review in hopes of helping someone else out there who may be in despair due to life debilitating pain. My Dad was at death's door and in severe pain back in July, and the pain has long since fled and he is getting better week by week. He has also been undergoing chemo and radiation therapy for several months but the pain had completely subsided before this process started). The two biggest factors I credit for the pain vanishing are Laetrile and Frankincense oil, as it was obvious that within weeks after administering this to my Dad he started to "come back to life". Note: I started both at the same time so I cannot tell you which one or if perhaps it's the combination of both that has had this powerful effect.

I'm new to using Frankincense essential oil so I don't have anything to compare it to, but NOW is a quality brand and I do love the scent of this. I mix this with Castor Oil in an amber roller bottle and apply it to my face every night, loving the results!

Frankincense is one of those oils that make you crazy seeing all the ones that are offered at prices that range from cheap to ridiculously expensive. I have a lot of NOW brand oils, so decided to try this one because it's priced somewhere in between the rest, and I trust the NOW brand.I did the paper test, but it didn't pass. It left a big splotch of oily residue after 24 hours. I'm not an expert by any means, I can only do what I've read to do as a test to make sure something is 100% pure. I did contact NOW foods and they replied that the paper test is not a very effective test, as it depends on the type of oil used..This is my first Frankincense purchase and to me, the scent is okay, but not great. It's not like I enjoy the smell after using it. However, I got stung by a wasp yesterday, which stung like crazy.. I put some of this on the sting and the pain was gone within seconds and there's no sign of the sting bite. I do think Frankincense has some very important healing properties, and a great essential oil to have. The price of NOW's is much better than some of the outrageously priced brands I've seen on the internet.I do trust NOW products. They put their oils through a lot of testing, as you can read about on their website.I marked down one star because of the smell.. It's just a personal thing, I'm sure.. It's just not my favorite scent by far.