Home fragrance can make an incredible difference to the atmosphere in your house, but with a wide range of fragrancing solutions and an even wider choice of fragrances available, where do you start? Here’s our guide to how to choose a home fragrance.
Think about what mood you want to evoke in your home
Fragrance is a wonderful way to create your desired home ambience, so to pick the right fragrance for your home you should first decide what kind of mood you’d like to evoke. If you’re looking for an opulent, luxurious atmosphere, seek out scents with rich notes like Midnight Oud and heady, luscious florals like Black Poppy & Orchid. Whereas if you want your home to feel bright and fresh, look for aquatic scents like Sea Breeze or clean fragrances like Soft Cotton. For a spring or summer vibe, turn to floral scents, especially those with green or fruity elements like our Peony and Orange Blossom & Mandarin fragrances.
Consider the function of the room you're fragrancing
Fragrance should uplift and enhance your day to day life at home, not interfere with the function of the room you’re fragrancing. Make sure to avoid putting invigorating scents like citrus in the bedroom, where you’ll want to focus on sleeping and relaxing – better to choose a soothing Lavender fragrance. Similarly, gourmand or fruity fragrances in the dining room or kitchen can interfere with the taste of your food, as a scent of Vanilla will trick you into thinking you’re tasting the flavour as well.
Take into account what you want to achieve by fragrancing the room
Why you want to fragrance each room will inform the best method of fragrancing to use. For rooms where you want to use fragrance to replace other, less desirable smells like the kitchen, turn to Fragrance Lamps which will purify as well as fragrancing. Other rooms like the hallway or bathroom may just want a backdrop of fragrance, for these you’ll want to use reed diffusers that provide continuous scent. And if you want to build a cosy atmosphere in rooms like the living room or bedroom, scented candles are a perfect fit.
