After a long day, how pleasant it is to relax in a home that smells good. No one would disagree: fragrance is an essential part of our daily lives. It helps us feel good and gives us a sense of comfort. Creating a space that welcomes the senses is essential to making you feel at home.
As well as covering unpleasant odors, fragrances will bring a touch of freshness into the home.
Whether you're looking for a home fragrance for your bedroom, or want to make a room more welcoming to visitors, scenting your home is the gesture that helps you reveal and create a unique ambience in your interior. Let's take a look at how you can create a warm environment with fragrance.
Before thinking about perfuming your home air out all the rooms. First thing in the morning, open all the windows, whatever the season. You'll be creating air currents that will chase away any odors, or at least attenuate them. Leave them wide open for a quarter of an hour or more if you feel the need.
Here you have an airy home. Now you can start perfuming your home. To create an atmosphere in your home or even to create a wake for guests, pick a room that inspires you, then choose a unique scent for it. Use a scent that's different from the rest of the house, if you like. This will help create an atmosphere in your home that's more appealing and satisfying! The choice of fragrances is so vast that you'll be spoilt for choice. Depending on the room, a few simple reflexes will help you accomplish this task. Let's see how you can succeed.
The living room is the central room of your home. It's where you spend most of your time and also where you welcome those you love. Being greeted by a pleasant scent is a sensation that quickly puts you at ease. As a general rule, the better your living room smells, the more relaxed and happier you'll feel.
Use a scented detergent to wash all textiles: cushion covers, curtains, etc. If the scent of your detergent is subtle, you can add fabric softener at the end of the rinse cycle. Ideally, you should wash them all at the same time.
On a daily basis, use a fragrant deodorizing spray on your textiles and carpets. Speaking of carpets, sprinkle with baking soda and leave for 30 minutes. Vacuum and then spray on your favorite fragrance.
As well as being pleasing to the eye, scented candles provide a unique olfactory ambience. Use them whenever you feel like it: after cleaning, or in the evening after a long day, relaxation is guaranteed.
Scented bouquets produce a unique ambience in addition to being decorative objects. Their fragrance diffuses continuously throughout the room and lasts a long time.
You can reproduce any scented bouquet you like.
You can reproduce all these tips for your bedroom and any other living area.
Scenting the kitchen sounds complicated. It's normal, since it's the room that produces the most odors in the house. The scent of your favorite dish is pleasant as it simmers. But once you've finished enjoying it, it's a different story. Then there's the garbage can, which gives off an unpleasant odor as it fills up, and to top it all off, the drains emanate a more than peculiar scent. It's time to put an end to this unbearable combination of bad smells.
Eliminating food odors is one of the most difficult things you can do. Yet there are a few things you can do to get rid of them. While you're preparing your meal, open your window and turn on your hood. When you've finished, leave the window open, then close the door. This will prevent the smell from spreading further into your home.
Smoking the garbage can sounds like mission impossible. but in reality, there are tricks that will change your mind. When you change the garbage bag, clean it and sprinkle baking soda on the bottom. Then put the garbage bag away and place a piece of absorbent cotton on which you've put a few drops of essential oil. Lavender essential oil is perfect for this purpose. Its scent is both soothing and refreshing. No more reason to be afraid of opening the garbage can!
This tip will seem totally logical to you, but it's best to remind yourself. When cleaning your kitchen, use products that smell good. Clean the sink and sanitaryware with baking soda, then rinse with very hot water to purify the pipes. No more unpleasant odours.
To eliminate strong odors from food in the fridge, think baking soda. It's very simple: pour 2 or 3 teaspoons of bicarbonate into a dish and place it in the fridge.
As it's not advisable to use perfumes near food, here's an easy and completely natural recipe for perfume for the kitchen. Take a saucepan and fill it with water. Add orange peel and cloves. Bring to the boil, then turn off the heat to let the steam spread the fragrance. Cloves are well known for their powerful aroma and ability to relieve stress in the body. They are often added to aromatherapy blends for this reason, as well as for their intense aroma. Orange peel provides a fresh, pleasant citrus scent.
This natural fragrance can of course be used throughout the home and eliminate stubborn odors.
To scent the bedroom, you can do everything recommended for the living room. And don't forget to scent your closets with scented sachets. Scented sachets combine olfactory pleasure, ease of use and effectiveness. Solid musk diffuses fragrance on your linen. Place a square between your sheets and clothes in the wardrobe.
For the bathroom, apply the tips for scenting the kitchen. The little secret is to put a few drops of essential oil on the cardboard of the toilet roll to spread a pleasant scent continuously. Since there's no food, you can put any fragrance you like on it: perfume diffuser, air freshener spray, bakhoor, follow your olfactory desires!
Here you go! You've got everything you need to know about perfuming your home. There's a wide range of fragrances to best suit your requirements. Let your imagination run wild as you create the scented ambiance of your dreams.
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