Dr E. Joy Bowles

Dr E. Joy Bowles is best known for her contribution to the understanding of essential oil chemistry in the aromatherapy community. With her Organic Chemistry background, she developed the first course in essential oil chemistry in Australia in 1991. The third edition of her book “The Chemistry of Aromatherapeutic Oils” (2003) is still used as a text in many aromatherapy courses around the world.

In 2007 she gained her PhD on the effect of essential oils on cognitive function in dementia, and then took a break for motherhood. In 2017 she re-entered the aromatherapy world as an online aromatherapy science educator. You can see Dr Bowles in the Netflix docu-series “(Un)Well” speaking as an essential oil science author and educator in Episode 1: Essential Oils. She lectures for the Tisserand Institute, and also has her own platform https://eo-education.teachable.com where she hosts the iconic Aromatherapy Journal Club, teaching people how to read and critically evaluate aromatherapy research.