JOHN STEELE is an aromatic consultant, archaeologist and author. He distributes a select line of botanical essential oils and exotic floral absolutes from all over the world. He has served on the Board of the AMERICAN AROMATHERAPY ASSOCIATION and consulted on future trends in aromatherapy for the AVEDA CORPORATION.
He has also lectured for the AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PERFUMERS annual symposium and the FRAGRANCE FOUNDATION'S SUMMIT 2000 think tank in New York. His chapter on "The Sacred Use of Fragrance in Ancient Egypt and Amazonian Shamanism", first presented at the PSYCHOLOGY OF PERFUMERY SYMPOSIUM at Warwick University, was published in FRAGRANCE: the Psychology and Biology of perfume (Elsevier, 1992).
He has also presented these topics at workshops in Brazil, Canada, the 2nd and 3rd Scientific Wholistic Aromatherapy Conferences in San Francisco and the 2nd Australasian Aromatherapy Conference in Sydney, Australia.