Home fragrance – feel good with fragrances at home
Whether it’s a fragrance dispenser, sachet, diffuser or room spray for quick use – home fragrances are available in many variations, colors and shapes. If you are looking for your perfect room scent, you should consider what purpose it should serve for you. Our sense of smell determines how we perceive our surroundings – so the scent of a room is an important factor with which you can improve the well-being in your home.
All about the feel-good scent for your home
The right room scent is more than just a decoration
Of course, choosing your home fragrance comes down to your personal taste. However, a home fragrance can strongly influence the mood and atmosphere in your home through different scents. For example, the right scent can invite you to relax after work or provide special relaxation after using your own sauna. Elegant bottles, colorful sticks, interesting design – many diffusers or fragrance stones are also suitable as eye-catchers in your home. home fragrances are a kind of accessory with which you can give your home its own feeling and a kind of character.
What makes a good home fragrance?
Many cheap home fragrances smell artificial, but are easy to define as they get by with one or two scents. High-quality, natural room scents, on the other hand, are layered and extremely complex, which should make more of an impression on your visitors. For example, if your home smells like cedar, some lavender, and a citrus note, they’ll assume that’s just how your home smells. Cheap fragrances, unfortunately, can’t offer that because they seem too obvious.
How to choose the right fragrance for you
Which fragrance is the right one for you cannot be answered in a generalized way, because every person perceives smells differently. Especially in the beginning you should sniff your way through and test as much as possible. Maybe you already know someone whose apartment always smells irresistible – you could ask them whether home fragrances are involved. While high-quality and natural scents can give your home a positive atmosphere, you should refrain from using cheap sprays with fake vanilla scents. Especially cheap sprays can quickly cause headaches with heavily dosed artificial fragrances, destroying your relaxing atmosphere. If possible, you should only use fragrances with natural ingredients – or make your own home fragrance with high-quality essential oils.
Support your mood with scents
Smells influence your mood via the subconscious. For example, room scents can make you feel more relaxed or recharge your batteries when you get home. By the way, chic bowls with scented sticks, candle holders for scented candles or elegant flacons also make wonderful home accessories. This is especially true for aroma lamps and electric diffusers, which can provide atmospheric lighting in your room with built-in lights. Potpourris and scented stones are great if you don’t want to use electrical outlets – plus, they permanently release their scent into the environment and greet you with their aromas right when you walk in.
Practical scents for the closet
There are even so-called “air designers” who specialize in furnishing hotels or boutiques with the right room scents – but you can also use room scents throughout your home to feel completely at ease. In addition to being used as an atmospheric home accessory, fragrances can of course also help you to get rid of annoying odors. The classic for this are scented pillows and sachets, which can permanently banish bad odors from your closet or suitcase with their filling of various spices, herbs and flowers. Conveniently, many scented sachets also keep pests like moths away from your clothes with lavender or pieces of Swiss pine.
Natural room scents for the whole house
If you want to quickly spread an intense scent in your home – for example, during spring cleaning – we recommend a room spray. Whether purchased or homemade – it can be used to dispel all kinds of odors. You can scent your sofa, pillows and curtains in no time with a “laundry spray” that is specially designed for use on textiles. If you want to prevent annoying odors from the vacuum cleaner, special “vacuum cleaner fragrances” are suitable for this purpose, which ensure that good-smelling air escapes from your vacuum cleaner. You can also use various room scents during an aroma oil massage or a wellness day at home to additionally support the relaxing effect.
Soothing fragrance blends for every taste
While you can look for these scents if you’re looking for a special effect, you can also create your own individual natural fragrance blend using these ingredients.
- Lavender, spruce needles and lemon balm promiserelaxation and tranquility, as they have a particularly calming effect.
- Mint, rosemary and citrus fruits bringnatural freshness into the room.
- Lavender, chamomile and cinnamon ensurea restful sleep, as they reduce both tension and stress.
- You can stimulateenergy & concentration with blends of eucalyptus, mint and lemon, as they boost your mental performance.
- Citrus fruits, especially Orange, Mint, Pepper and Cocoa, providea good mood and uplift your spirits.
- Christmas spirit is brought by cloves, cinnamon and orange oil.
- The romantics patchouli, vanilla and rose petals will help you conjure up a romantic atmosphere.
- Keeping insects away is easy with a combination of lemon and basil, bay leaf or cloves, as the critters don’t like these scents as much as we do.
Make home fragrance yourself: Natural and fresh
Quick and easy homemade
We would like to introduce you to a few instructions with which you can easily create your own natural home fragrances. With a few simple steps, you can create your own home fragrance, which you can use to banish bad odors and even save some money. We wish you a lot of fun trying it out!
Fragrance sachet: Discreetly scented
Scented sachets are especially easy to make yourself, because basically you just have to put some dried flowers in a sachet and you’re done. You can put your scented sachet under your pillow to fall asleep (especially recommended: lavender!) or hang it in your closet so that your clothes always smell pleasantly fresh.
What you need:
- air-permeable, empty sachet
- dried flowers, herbs or spices
How it works:
First, mix your dried filling, grinding it a bit to make the scent a little more intense. Then fill the bag two-thirds full with the mixture, so that some air remains in the bag and can absorb the scent and distribute it in your room. Afterwards, you can hang/place your sachet in the desired location and shake and squeeze it every now and then to freshen up the scent a bit.
Diffuser & fragrance oil: a great combination
Once your diffuser is filled with fragrance oil, it spreads the scent throughout the room via the sticks, making it smell wonderful. You can make both the diffuser and the fragrance yourself, saving money and packaging – and choosing exactly what you want your room to smell like. Of course, you can also just make the container yourself and buy a matching oil later.
What you need:
- Bottle, bottle or jar with a narrow neck
- 5-10 shish kebabs or bamboo sticks
- 200 milliliters of vegetable oil, odorless
- 10-15 drops of essential oil
How it works:
As a base for the fragrance oil, first fill the vegetable oil (for example sunflower oil) into the container and then add the essential oil. It is better to start with a few drops and add more later if the scent is not strong enough for you. Now dip the sticks with one end into the oil mixture, turn them over and put them in with the other end. Since the tips are now already covered with oil, the scent can spread immediately in your room.
The scent jar: what the kitchen has to offer
Once you look around your kitchen, you should find many of the ingredients for the scent jar. You can choose the fresh ingredients according to your personal taste and give your home a pleasant scent. By the way: The finished, sealed scent jars will keep in the refrigerator for about one to two weeks – so they are also good as a spontaneous gift.
What you need:
- Canning jar
- Pot/microwave
- a knife
- Water
- fresh citrus fruits
- fresh herbs
- Spices of your choice
Here’s how:
First, cut the citrus fruits – for example, orange, lemon or lime – into small pieces and put them into the canning jar. Then add the spices and herbs and fill the jar with water before closing it. Afterwards you have to heat the jar in a water bath or in a microwave oven (Attention: Leave out the metal lid!). Now you can take off the lid and place the scented jar wherever you want.
Baking soda: Simple air freshener
Grandma was right: baking soda is great because it’s versatile and pulls bad odors out of the air. That makes baking soda the perfect base for a homemade air freshener.
What you need:
- Canning jar
- a needle
- Baking soda
- essential oil, spices or dried flowers & herbs
How it works:
Here, you get to get crafty first and use the needle to poke small holes in the lid. Then fill half of the jar with baking soda, add your other ingredients and mix everything well. After that, you can close the jar and set it up. Now the dreamlike scent will drift through the holes in the lid and beautify your living ambience. If the scent fades over time, shake the jar gently – this will release the fragrances and make the scent more intense again. If the scent is completely gone, you can simply refill the jar.
Homemade room spray: Quickly at hand
If you ever need to combat an annoying odor, a natural room spray will serve you well. We recommend that you keep a small supply on hand so that you always have a bottle on hand when you need to make a quick fix.
What you need:
- empty, well rinsed spray bottle
- large glass jar or pot with lid
- Strainer
- one or two citrus fruits
- possibly a sprig of rosemary or a few drops of essential oil
- about 500 milliliters of white vinegar
- odorless alternatives: Extract of grain or vodka
Here’s how:
First, choose one or two citrus fruits and squeeze or peel them. For this recipe, you only need the peels; you can then use the pulp elsewhere. Then put the peels in your jar, pour vinegar over them and seal it. Allow the mixture to sit for two to three weeks while the lemons soak up the vinegar. When the lemons are no longer covered with it, you should keep adding a little vinegar. Once the vinegar has turned a darker color, you can filter out the peels and transfer the vinegar to the spray bottle – it has now taken on the smell of the citrus and is an ideal room spray!
