Title: How to Properly Scent Your Home
When you step into a beautifully decorated room, you might be captivated by the elegant drapery and intricate furniture details. However, if an unpleasant smell greets your senses, it can ruin the entire experience. To ensure your space smells inviting and pleasant, follow these expert tips.
1. Start with Cleaning
Alexandra Pauly, founder of Biche luxury grooming brand, recommends cleaning your space thoroughly before introducing new scents. Regular cleaning of your kitchen, bathroom, bedding, and furniture is essential to prevent unpleasant odors from lingering. Use light-scented fabric sprays and natural cleaning solutions to keep your home fresh.
2. Consider Room Size
Jessica Dawes, CMO of Diptyque Paris, advises matching the size of the room with the fragrance intensity. Use smaller diffusers or candles in tight spaces like bathrooms to allow the scent to diffuse evenly without overpowering the room. Adjust the amount of fragrance based on the room size for a balanced and harmonious atmosphere.
3. Choose the Right Fragrance Application
Frances Shoemack, founder of Abel natural perfume brand, suggests using room sprays for immediate impact and versatility. Room sprays are perfect for targeting specific areas, refreshing fabrics, and controlling scent intensity with each spray. For consistent fragrance, diffusers work well in bathrooms, while candles create a cozy ambiance in bedrooms and living rooms.
4. Embrace Fragrance as Part of Design
Nuria Cruelles, perfumer for Loewe, highlights the importance of fragrance in enhancing the overall design of a space. Candles can create a warm and cozy atmosphere, while room sprays offer immediate freshness. Consider fragrances as an essential element of your home’s ambiance and design.
By following these tips, you can elevate your home’s scent game and create a welcoming environment that complements your beautiful decor.
Loewe’s home fragrances are inspired by the scents of a garden and can be customized by blending different aromas such as Oregano and Tomato. Curelles notes that the collection works well because each fragrance is like a unique olfactory portrait. Shoemack provides tips for layering scents, suggesting pairing complementary families like citrus with herbs or woody scents with spices. She also recommends sticking to three scent families to avoid overwhelming complexity and looking for ‘bridge notes’ like vanilla to connect different fragrance families.
Beverly Nguyen collaborated with Atmos Fragrance to create a series of all-natural room sprays called “The Memory Book,” inspired by her childhood memories in California. Nguyen starts her day by burning palo santo and incense papers from Santa Maria Novella to clear her mind, then sprays Dawn on her shower curtains for a refreshing scent of star jasmine and cedarwood.
Foundrae’s new line of scented candles, created in collaboration with Givaudan, reflects the brand’s core values in tangible scents. Founder Beth Hutchens finds solace by lighting a candle, taking deep breaths, and reflecting inward to center herself. The flickering flame serves as a reminder of her inner light and its ability to illuminate, offering a reset no matter where she is.
