Styling your home for a certain season or holiday doesn’t only mean adding visual interest, it can also include other senses, for example, smelling. If you ask me, I’d say that fall is number one season when we are all craving for delicious smells to feel warm and cozy. Some of you might say that scents aren’t that important but it’s on the contrary, and I will prove it to you.
Why Using Scents For Home Decor?
Using scents and aromas enhances the atmosphere of your home and they complement your fall decor perfectly. Using texture in decor, colors and dimensions to feel the eye and scents you can create a full sensory experience. Besides, there are many physical benefits of smelling natural fragrances: some scents are known to reduce stress, others will bring pain relief, third ones will calm you down and make feel cozy. What smells to pick and how to incorporate them into home decor with an effortless feel? Here are some ideas.
What Scents Are Cool For The Fall?
First of all, these are scents that you like, of course, but you can also add vanilla, apple, cinnamon, caramel, pumpkin spice, orange and others to make your home feel like fall. Select the fragrances that evoke the feelings of warmth, comfort, and nostalgia or all of them together, and you can also scent every room in a different way to achieve a full sensory experience. Remember that if you blend too many scents, that can overwhelm a little bit.
Fall Scented Candles
Choose fall-scented candles that will bring seasonal design and smell at once, for example, a soy cinnamon candle in a pumpkin-shaped glass. If you don’t want to buy candles or want something really personalized, you can always make some yourself as there are lots of sets for making candles, just mix up your favorite fall scent blend and go! When ready, place your candles wherever you like: on the mantel, windowsills, next to your bed, in the home office and include into fall arrangements and centerpieces to make them not only beautiful but also fragrant.
An apple candle, just like any other fall-scented candles will make your space feel very autumn-like.
A candle decorated with cinnamon sticks is great aroma decoration both for the fall and winter and it looks very pretty.
This jaw-dropping soy wax candle in a dough bowl is done with fall essential oils, decorated with petals and dried oranges.
Go for a number of fall-scented candles to make your home beautiful, cozy, warm and welcoming.
This pretty clear glass pumpkin candle is scented with cinnamon and it both looks and smells like fall.
A pumpkin spice scented candle is perhaps the most classic thing you can get to fill your home with fall aromas.
A soy wax scented candle in a wood-shaped apple form is a nice fall favor or pretty decoration.
The fall-scented candle in a Starbucks cup will remind your of your favorite pumpkin spice latte you usually buy during this season.
Orange and clove candle is a lovely touch to the serene decor of the room and it will fill it with autumn smells.
Apple and cinnamon are among the best aromas to make your home smell like autumn.
Fall Wax Melts And Oil Diffusers
One more way to incorporate a scent in your space is using oil diffusers with your fave autumn aromas or getting some fall wax melts for a lamp, they can be not only fall-scented but also fall-inspired, for example, leaf or pumpkin-shaped. Blends for oil diffusers and wax melts can be crafted, so if you feel like adding a personal touch, go ahead!
Using fall scented diffusers is the easiest way to fill your home with fall scents, buy some ready mixes and go!.
A fall-scented diffuser styled right will instantly add to the style of the room and will bring a scent, too.
This lamp is melting pretty fall-shaped wax melts that also smell like the fall, what a gorgeous idea!.
Beautiful soy wax scented tablets will be a nice idea not only for the fall but also for Christmas.
Pumpkin-shaped and scented wax melts will not only look cute but will also do the function of filling your home with truly fall scents.
Fall Potpourri And Simmer Pots
My favorite method of adding a smell to a space is a simmer pot. Make your own one using oranges, apples, cinnamon sticks, cloves, rosemary and make your space feel like autumn. Customize potpourri mixes with different scents and colors to match your decor and then display the mix in sachets, bowls and jars and give them as favors at fall parties.
Scented autumn potpourri includes orange, apples, cinnamon for an ultimate fall fragrance in your home.
Potpourri mix with dried fruit and berries, cinnamon, pinecones and bark for a more neutral look is a nice party favor.
Packs for making fall scent potpourri will be perfect party favors in the fall.
A harvest simmet pot may include apples, orange, anise and a whole bunch of fall-themed essential oils.
Dried apples, orange adn cinnamon are potpourri classics for both fall and winter.
Cook apple cider using some tutorials on the web, and it will make your home smell fall-like, and you will enjoy drinking it, too.
Make a fall simmer pot using apples, candles, anise and cinnamon and fill your home with adorabel fall scents at once.
Make fall potpourri using anise, apples, thyme and various herbs to fill your home with adorable warming scents.
Other Fall Scent Decor Ideas
What other scented decor to make or buy? Garlands and wreaths of orange and apple slices, lavender wreaths with wheat and grasses incorporated. Make dried orange napkin rings and blend your own room spray with your favorite scents, go for a fall linen spray to make sleeping more less anxious and more cozy. Get inspired!
Make a cool natural fall centerpiece including cinnamon, orange and apple slices, pinecones and anise to make your decor all-natural and fragrant.
Apple and cinnamon are two natural fall scents for your home, you can pair them up adding to potpourri or just make some decor.
The black vase with burgundy eucalyptus that will fill your home with its fragrance at once, and it will last quite long.
This dried apple garland is a lovely way to incorporate natural decor into your space and get a fall scent for the space at the same time.
This bold wreath shows off orange slices, small oranges dried and some greenery, apple slices, and I promise, it will fill your space with a fall aroma.
Accent your party place settings with dried oranges that highlight the Scandinavian and natural feel in decor and add a scent to it.
This super simple fall centerpiece includes apples and cinnamon to make your tablescape natural and fragrant at the same time.
This super simple and natural fall centerpiece consists of pinecones and cinnamon and it will add a lovely aroma to the space.
This bright fall place setting includes a green plate, a yellow napkin, dried orange, leaf and cinnamon, so each guest will smell the fall.
Fall-scented room and linen sprays are a great idea to fill your home with scents and you can easily make them yourself adding what you like.
This beautiful and natural fall decoration includes a rough wood slice, pillar candles, pinecones, a bottle with grasses.
Make a simple and all-natural fruit fall garland mixing dried apples and orange for an adorable fragrance and some nuts.
This gorgeous wreath is made of wheat and lavender, wheat brings a rustic autumn feel, while lavender brings the color and the scent.
Making an orange and cinnamon wreath is easy: hot glue all you need to the form and add a rustic burlap bow.
Orange, cinnamon and eucalyptus decorations hanging around the house will make your space feel like the fall.
This cute and easy fall decoration is made of cinnamon, dried oranges, pinecones and anise and can become a natural centerpiece at any table.
Preserved burgundy eucalyptus will add a fall feel with its color and will small no less worse than fresh branches.
Pumpkin spice oil can be added to candles, potpourri, lamps and other places where you want that truly fall smell.
This bright and all-natural fall arrangement is done with orange and apple slices, cinnamon, faux leaves and some pretty pinecones and acorns.