I just got my hands on a bottle of sage EO from Naissance and I am super excited about it. The opening is not nice at all, an awkward mushy green note, like cleaning out your lawnmower. But the dry down is fantastic; a tingling crisp scent somewhere between spearmint and a dry wood.
Two questions;
1 - I am hoping to find cheaper and possibly better sources of sage EO. (Not to be confused with clary sage of which there is plenty). Naissance retails at nearly $10 per 10 ml. Surely there should be better deals out there, seeing as sage hardly is a rare and exotic plant?
2 - I would welcome ideas as to how to mitigate the unpleasant opening. So far grapefruit seems the most helpful, but there might be syntehtics out there that would be more effective in this regard.