In this blog post, we introduce some of the work we've recently done on the analysis of essential oils using benchtop NMR spectroscopy. Specifically, we've developed some analytical methods for quantitative assays of key components, such as citral, linanyl acetate, linalool, decyl aldehyde, and eucalyptol. The sample preparations are straightforward, and the data can be collected in seconds or minutes, depending on the specific sample. If the contents of this blog post are of interest to our readers, we hope that it will encourage them to read our full peer-reviewed manuscript, which was recently published in the Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry journal, as part of a special issue on quantitative NMR.