Vanilla or peppermint extract: Saturate a few cotton balls with cooking extracts and place them on small saucers around the room. They also work great when placed in a vacuum bag or dust cup to add a bit of scent as you clean.
Cordelia Smith founder of Formulary 55 believes you can't go wrong with citrus. “Most choose fresh, clean scents for their home— typically something in the citrus family. Anything that offers a clean-smelling experience.” Another way to choose a home fragrance is to base it off of a favorite personal fragrance.
Once you have a fresh olfactory slate to work with, there are some tried-and-true scents to use for helping to sell a house, including vanilla, citrus (like orange or lemon), and other clean, fresh scents. Cilantro and cucumber are also good, as are aromatic kitchen herbs such as thyme or rosemary.
It's all thanks to a clever gizmo known as an HVAC scent diffuser. These are ultra-quiet attachments to heating/air conditioning systems that use high amounts of air pressure to deliver nanoparticles of scented oils uniformly around a room, area, or building.
Good choices for scents in hotels include sandalwood, vanilla, cedar, lemon blossom, citrus, neroli, leather, and white tea. You can then add in less common scents specific to your hotel experience, such as lemon verbena, jasmine, coconut, patchouli, lavender, and more. And that crisp smell on hotel sheets?
Crafted by luxury fragrance company Antica Farmacista and named after its coveted address on Central Park South, the scent evokes the park's delicate beauty, brimming with notes of elderflower, mountain mint, and ripe strawberries.
Reed diffusers are a great way to make your home smell like a hotel. The trick to getting the entire house smelling great is to place a couple of reed diffusers around the home. Remember, the larger the home, the more reed diffusers you need.
"Not wild, more friendly, and welcoming like a Scandinavian forest. It's the scent of home, the scent of IKEA. A familiar and genuine woody fragrance which is also clean and distinct – a modern interpretation of IKEA and the company's historical roots," says Ilse.
Victoria's Secret Velvet Petals Fragrance Mist features a sexy-warm mix of sweet almond glaze and creamy sandalwood. A soft floral fragrance with an added touch of cozy gourmand notes.
A study conducted by researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and the University of Oxford has found that vanilla is the world's most universally-loved scent.
Lavender is also known as the 'herb of love,' and has been used to entice men long before the times of bottled fragrances, it would even be rubbed over women's clothes to give off the sensual scent.
Citrus scents are often cited as some of the most pleasant smells and have been shown to boost energy and reduce stress. This is excellent news for perfume lovers, as citrus scents are frequently used in the top notes of your favourite fragrances.
