Finding a way to relax and take your mind off the daily grind can often be a challenge, especially if you don’t have the time or money to hit the spa. That’s where fragrances come in! From scented candles to reed diffusers and essential oils, introducing calming and uplifting smells into your home can help you unwind, re-energize and create soothing scents.
Smell yourself to Your Happy Place.
Olfactory triggers (smells) can shortcut you to a memory, quickly. It stands to reason if we learn to bring scents that evoke an emotion or feeling into our daily lives we start to associate positives with the scents. The smell can trigger and shortcut you back to that happy state.
What Scents Can Help De-Stress?
Lavender, lemon, and eucalyptus are some popular choices for reducing stress. The aromas from these scents have been known to help soothe tired minds and bodies. Chamomile, sandalwood, geranium, sweet orange, ylang-ylang, frankincense and jasmine are a few more essential oils with mild sedative effects that can support relaxation. You can choose to purchase pre-made fragrances like candles and reed diffusers but with such a wide variety which is right for you?
Which smells help you sleep?
Which Essential oils help make you feel happy?
Natural oils that help to calm you?
These questions have inspired our wellness collections of candles, reed diffusers and pillow mists.
Make Your Home Smell Good Naturally.
You can enhance your home’s atmosphere with natural fragrances that have therapeutic effects to help you relax. Some scents can even boost your productivity, creativity, and energy levels, our ‘Be Happy’ collection boosts your mood, perfect for motivating yourself when the going gets tough.
Explore Be Happy candles and room diffusers
Rituals to restore you.
You’ve no doubt heard the adage it’ll all be better in the morning! Easy if you can drift off and wake up refreshed. However, sleeping can be problematic for some. Rituals can aid that passage between awake and sleep. A warm bath to relax you, the gentle waft of lavender along with limiting screen time are all accredited with aiding sleep, but have you heard of pillow mists?
Pillow mists spray as you’d expect. A spitz of a fine mist on the pillow put the essential oils just where you need them.
Shop Lavender Pillow Mists to aid a good night’s sleep, naturally.
Burn Candles for Aromatherapy Benefits.
Burning candles can be an effective way to incorporate aromatherapy into your home. Candles come in a variety of scents, from uplifting and invigorating fresh citrus to deeper and more calming florals like lavender. Make sure you use candles made with natural ingredients to enjoy the therapeutic benefits. Candles also add to the ambience visually there’s something mesmeric about watching a dancing flame.
Use Essential Oils for Enlightened Home Fragrance
Essential oils offer a more complex aroma than fragranced air fresheners which can smell artificial and harsh. Natural essential oils with the right diffuser can spread the beneficial scents throughout your house, for you to enjoy their calming scent.
De-stress aroma’s such as ylang-ylang, patchouli and bergamot, peppermint scents are magical essential oils and can have an amazing impact on the atmosphere in your home and more importantly your well-being.
Incorporate Room Diffusers Into Your Setup
Room diffusers can be an efficient way to spread the scent of essential oils throughout a space. You don’t need to buy expensive devices – reed diffusers are really effective. The stick reeds are very absorbent and draw up the essential oils allowing the scents to drift throughout the space. The air is stirred as you move through your space, which results in you wafting the delicate natural scents it’s very pleasing.
Candle Light Being Mindful
Candles with subtle scents and oils are fabulous for creating a more intense smell but reserve these for when you can be present with them. Candles must be watched and never left unattended. By watching the flame it calms you too. Candles are lovely when relaxing in the bath, providing that spa-like feel at a fraction of the cost.
Incorporate Scents into Everyday Moments
The well-being range of Be Happy, Sleep Well and De-stress help calm and lift your mood. Yet there’s a growing trend to incorporate beneficial scents into daily routines. Bringing energy to working at home or connecting a smell to a daily routine such as work smells like this, meditation smells like this. We call this a scent scape, where your work-life balance is matched by a smell. Sensory experiences you create especially for the way you live can include sight, touch, smell, taste, and sound. If you have a running playlist you’ll know the sounds getting you ready to run. Scent scapes do the same, if you smell lavender you may think snooze.
For mindful moments, yoga and meditation you may consider elements such as air, earth and energy which perfectly partner a daily practice. Explore Air, Earth and Energy collections of home fragrances and find the perfect match for how you wish to balance your energies.
