Home Fragrance Diffusers: Scents for Every Area

Whether you are fond of entertaining at home or simply prefer a clean and tranquil atmosphere, you no doubt want to keep every room smelling as lovely possible. Scent, after all, adds to room ambiance and helps you achieve a positive mood. 

Reed diffusers provide a pleasant aromatic experience and a flameless way to enhance the air in any room. Simply find a high-traffic area, place the rattan reeds into the bottle as instructed, and let the oil-soaked reeds gently suffuse the air with natural scents that linger for hours. Invert the reeds as soon as the scent fades.

Reed diffusers have become indispensable at many homes, hotels, restaurants, and business establishments. All that’s left, really, is to find the right fragrance for each room.

Your Lounge or Living Room

Floral scents like fresh cut roses or amber and lavender are pleasant and easily discernible but gentle on the nose, making them perfect for areas where you receive visitors. 

Dining Areas

Scents that are related to food, such as fruity fragrances, will not compete with the enticing food aromas already present in the dining room. Lemon basil and mandarin or black pomegranate fragrances are good options. 

The Bedroom

You can’t go wrong with lavender, which promotes rest and relaxation. Place your diffuser a good distance away from your bed, though, to keep the scent from overwhelming your sense of smell.

The Science of Home Fragrance

Scents such as pumpkin pie, cinnamon buns, licorice, and linen are among the fragrances that elicit potent emotional and physiological reactions in humans. All over the world, certain fragrances have even been attributed to many things: lavender is often heralded as a sleep aid, which helps calm the nerves; peppermint has been claimed to help reduce stress, and cinnamon relieves fatigue. Such is the supposed effect of scents that home interiors are increasingly being laced with them. 

However, two questions linger in connection: how and why? Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov once said that “nothing revives the past so completely as a smell which was once associated with it”. Psychologist Rachel Herz from Brown University agrees, claiming that smell is distinct from other senses since it is connected directly to the olfactory cortex—the portion of the brain responsible  for emotions and memory.  

In addition, the olfactory cortex is also directly linked to the limbic system, which is considered as the ‘seat of emotion’. The cortex receives smell sensations and facilitates ‘cognitive recognition,’ only after the deepest parts of the brain have been stimulated. This is how we’re able to tell specific scents from others and associate such a smell with an emotional response. 

So if you’re looking to deodorize your home, you have a wide array of choices at your fingertips: reed diffusers, scented candles, and the like. Just be sure to adorn your home with smells that evoke positive feelings for optimal effect.