The invention relates to a table of botanical ingredients useful for blending combinations that produce a pleasing, desired organoleptic effect. The botanical ingredients are, for example, essential oils or herbs and spices. The table includes different groups of cells of the table. Each group includes ingredients that possess varying degrees of similarity in one or more characteristics. Each cell corresponds to a single ingredient. The groups are arranged such that adjacent cells in the same or different groups correspond to ingredients that possess the closest similarities in one or more characteristics. The invention further relates to methods of preparing the table.