Add fragrance to your home, including candles, wax melts, incense, and diffusers.
There are so many great ways to add fragrance to your home, including candles, wax melts, incense, and diffusers. Fill your home with classic aromas or contemporary blends of flowers, herbs and spices, you could also try a reed diffuser from our collection. Alternatively, pick a scent to suit the season from our range of specially fragranced tea lights, cloche sets and votives.
Gone are the days when home fragrance just meant spraying artificial scent around the house to mask odours. Today, home fragrance is as much a part of home decor as any piece or furniture or art. "The sense of smell should be used as a tool to create the tone you expect from a room.
Types of home fragrances
- Scented candles - Let’s start with arguably the most popular option. These are widely available in the market in a variety of scents, sizes, shapes and colours – hence their popularity. Their dancing flames offer a warm (and romantic) ambience to any room. A scented candle can be placed anywhere around the home, though preferably at a safe distance from young children and pets lest they become a fire hazard. Typically, they are recommended for spaces where you spent most of your time in, such as the living area or your bedroom as you will need to put out the flame after a few hours once the top layer of wax has melted evenly. The wicks should be trimmed after use to prevent black smoke.
- Electric diffusers - As its name suggests, an electric diffuser requires an electric source or battery power to operate. Water-based types typically contain a small basin where you would fill in water and a few drops of your preferred essential oils.
- Reed diffusers - These are relatively convenient, long-lasting and low-maintenance compared to others on this list. They uses porous, wooden reeds to draw essential oils or fragrance from the bottle of a bottle to the top of the reed. The scent is released into the air as the oils are absorbed into the reeds. You need only flip the reeds upside down once a week to ensure their pores are not clogged – no lighter or electricity needed. However, the scent is quite subtle, so it is best used to perfume smaller spaces.
- Room sprays - Designed to function a cologne or perfume, room sprays offer the fastest fragrance fix. Thus, they are your best option to mask unpleasant odours. Those with lofty ceilings, busy furniture and a lot of movement in the house would benefit from room sprays, as they offer better mobility and flexible concentrations by number of sprays.
- Incense - This may be an old-school option, but it’s still used in many modern contexts. Despite their religious connotations, some people burn incense because they find the experience of burning incense calming and to a certain extent, healing.