11 Home Scents That Will Transform Your Space
Pro tip: you don’t need to live in a French chateau to make your place smell like one.
Pro tip: you don’t need to live in a French chateau to make your place smell like one.
More than any other sense, scent has the ability to instantly trigger memories, but it’s also great at transporting us to places we’ve never been—except in our imagination. When it comes to the home, it seems to be the most overlooked way to not just set a tone, but transport your guests somewhere entirely new, yet familiar.
Inspired by homes we’ve covered here at Dwell, the following candles, diffusers, and incense can help create the illusion you’re in a creaky old castle in the French countryside when you’re really in a cramped one-bedroom.
Here’s what to buy if you’re looking to conjure the vibe of a…
Rustic New York home in a meadow-like habitat
Riffing on local farmhouses, architects Patrick Walker and Elizabeth Demetriades covered the 4,000-square-foot house in rough-sawn red cedar and capped it with a standing-seam galvalume roof.
Kindra Clineff
Northeast by DEHV Candles
White Oak, Apple, Toasted Almond, Honey & Clovebud baking pies from your backyard apple trees. well-loved books. memories that bring joy in solitude. generations of tradition. a euphoric sense of belonging. warm. nostalgic. gourmand. The founders personal fav!
Sunlight floods the interiors through the greenhouse volume.
Courtesy of Ippei Shinzawa
Boy Smells Hinoki Fantôme Candle
A richly scented, all-natural candle that's developed, mixed and hand poured in the founders' home in Los Angeles. A resinous aroma of smoking Japanese cypress and jasmine petals. Warm and meditative, with an element of earthy spice notes and quiet, fresh moss. Hinoki, shown in studies to induce physiological relaxation, makes this candle an absolute cold-weather necessity to warm and invigorate the nasal senses. Notes: resin, hinoki, cardamom, jasmine, moss, guiac.
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