Scent is scientifically proven to be one of the first things we notice when we meet someone new or enter someone’s home. It’s only natural that we’d want our homes to smell as good as the luxury perfumes we wear.
However, with the average price of fragrances skyrocketing in the past few years, committing to a new perfume can be a big decision. For those wanting to try before they buy, and embrace the fragrance in their homes before they purchase, Eflorist has shared a simple and easy hack for a home that smells of luxury and to help find out whether you like a certain scent.
Better still, it will only cost you mere pennies. Flower specialists at Eflorist say you can create your own fragrant air freshener with essential oils and bicarbonate of soda, which is available for as little as 65p.
All you need to do is add one tablespoon of bicarbonate of soda to a small bowl or dish. If you’re planning on displaying the air freshener, you may choose to purchase one that matches your home decor, but any small dish or pot will do the trick.
Then, stir five to six drops of an essential oil into the bicarbonate of soda with a spoon until it has thoroughly combined together. The bicarbonate of soda will absorb odours and freshen the air on its own, and the addition of the essential oils will help to add a fragrant and fresh scent to your home.
But what flowers or essential oils are the best for fragrance? The team at Eflorist has studied the world’s top five best-selling perfumes to reveal how you can capture their scents in your home using flowers and their extracts.
1. Dior – J’adore
With notes of orange blossom, jasmine grandiflorum and centifolia rose, Dior’s J’adore fragrance is dubbed as the grand feminine floral by the House of Dior. To bring the scent of J’adore into your home through flowers, Eflorist recommends incorporating orange blossom, jasmine, and cabbage roses together into a bouquet, or, use these essential oil scents in your DIY air freshener.
2. Frederic Malle – Portrait of a Lady
Turkish rose, raspberry, black currant, and cinnamon, as well as touches of clove, patchouli, sandalwood make up Fredreic Malle’s Portrait of a Lady fragrance. A bouquet made up of damask roses will capture the main scent of this perfume, and a mix of salvia blackcurrant flowers and carnations will bring in the blackcurrant and clove notes that make the iconic scent.
3. Kilian Paris – Love Don’t Be Shy
Killian Paris’ Love Don’t Be Shy fragrance includes a mix of notes varying from neroli to orange blossom and even marshmallow – as well as jasmine and rose as the middle notes. To create a bouquet based on this fragrance, flowers such as jasmine, roses, and bower flowers will help to bring in the main notes.
As well as a touch of the sweet marshmallow scent that comes from the bower flowers. You can even purchase marshmallow essential oils that you can add to your DIY air freshener.
4. Maison Francis Kurkdjian – Baccarat Rouge 540
Baccarat Rouge 540 is one of the most popular perfumes in recent years, with its notes of jasmine facets, saffron, and freshly-cut cedar – and this is another fragrance that has taken TikTok by storm, with videos garnering millions of views.
Baccarat Rouge 540 is also a popular perfume that is duplicated, with many creators promoting the alternatives to save on the expensive price tag. Online you can get a 200ml bottle for a staggering £485 – almost £500.
Geranium is a popular flower known to smell like cedar, so Eflorist recommends including this in your bouquet. Alternatively, you can purchase cedarwood essential oils. Some other additional flowers and fragrances include jasmine, and the saffron crocus (also known as the autumn crocus).
5. Ariana Grande – Cloud
Ariana Grande made her mark on the fragrance industry back in 2015 with her debut perfume, ARI, with Cloud releasing in 2018. With its notes of lavender blossom, juicy pear and bergamot, this perfume has stayed consistent in the best sellers list for the past seven years.
To create a bouquet based on the Cloud scent, include lavender, freesia for the pear scent, or a pear essential oil, and bee balms (also known as monarda) – a common flower known to smell of bergamot.