
Amazing aromatics
Heavenly scented flowers, candles, room diffusers, soaps, perfumes, and even laundry powders can all help to make your home smell gorgeous. By Lynda Papesch.
People’s olfactory sense adapts to the smells around them so often they are not familiar with how they and their homes smell, until a different perfume pervades their atmosphere. They can small perfume on others, but not necessarily themselves, for example.
A change in perfume will revive the olfactory sense, although only for a while, before olfactory fatigue, or adaptation, sets in again. One trick to gauging how you, and your home, smell to others is to go outside, get some fresh air, and then head back inside.
Floral, citrus, spices and Oriental notes are among the most popular scents used in perfumes, home and cleaning products, including candles and diffusers. The cosiness of vanilla is a classic, while tangy citrus is used in a multitude of cleaning products. More masculine aromatics, such as pine and cedar are popular with the men in our lives.
Studies have shown that some of the top favourite smells in a home are freshly baked bread, bacon, freshly cut grass, coffee, cakes baking in the oven, the seaside, freshly washed clothes, and a Sunday roast. That’s why they’re often recommended for open homes although there is no reason they cannot be used any time or anywhere.