How do you make your home smell luxurious?

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Any reed diffuser recommendations you use to make your home smell luxurious? Or other scent products?

yankee candles (actual yankee ones)

I love DW Home candles from TK Maxx/Homesense.

Firstly, give your house a good spring clean and wash pet bedding, cushions, curtains etc. Wash down all surfaces and soft furnishings so you have a blank slate. Dirty surfaces collect bacteria and start to smell.

Air your house regularly especially high traffic areas like hallways, bathrooms & kitchen. I keep windows open daily even in winter to let fresh air in & prevent damp.

Then start to think about layering scents in your homes. I personally use Arabian oud and burn it in an incense burner as the scent lingers for longer.

I use Neom / Lintro wireless diffusers with lavender in the bedroom and vanilla & sandalwood everywhere else. I even have one in my car.

I've just discovered the rhubarb and rose diffuser from molton brown. It smells amazing in my whole house now. Wouldn't pay £59 for it but found one for £18 on vinted

I use pure essential oils in a diffuser, because most of the commercially available candles and reed diffusers trigger my allergies. I'm not sure why but pure essential oils don't make me wheeze and sneeze. Every now and again I buy a "fragrance" oil because I'm tempted by "pumpkin spice" or "palma violet" and they smell lovely, but after a short while I get a headache, asthma or the sneezes and itchy eyes. Perhaps there's something they use to bring out the scent that doesn't agree with me.

I like being able to choose the oils depending on mood and time of year. I've got a big box with loads of little bottles of pure essential oils and paw through them deciding what smells will be right for whatever I'm doing.

At Christmas I'm fond of a mix of blood orange, frankincense, myrrh, cloves and cinnamon. In summer I tend to choose herbs like lavender, bergamot, rosemary and clary sage. Grapefruit, lemon verbena and rosemary when I need to concentrate. Rose otto, oud and sandalwood are a lot more expensive, but very luxurious. I was disappointed by pine and lemon essential oils, they were both too reminiscent of toilet cleaning, my current favourite is the clean refreshing lemony litsea cubeba.

I've just bought a electric Habitat diffuser for £25 that is a total dupe for the WC version I also have.

Windows open back and front to circulate.

Shoes in a cupboard.

And I iron bedding with lavender scented water in the iron.

Aromaworks at boots, the lemon one is amazing and quite a decent price too

Agree with pp that airing regularly makes the biggest difference!

I don't like many artificial scents, and hate lavender, but I do love this room spray https://www.spacenk.com/uk/fragrance/home-fragrance/spray-diffuser/figuier-room-spray

I pop a little bit of fabric softener on a clean cloth and run it over the top of each radiator before I turn them on. Within minutes the whole house smells amazing. People often comment on it and it's so simple

Another one with allergies and pets.

I use DDog friendly essential oils and air the house regularly, even in the depths of Winter.

Open windows every day to clean the air. Clean bedding, cushions, throws etc.
I use water with lavender to spray our bedroom. Have a neon diffuser and do use white company candles too from time to time.

I agree that airing/cleaning makes the biggest difference.

Avoid cheap scented candles - sorry, but Yankee candles are awful! Same goes for cheap diffusers. Or even expensive ones used too much. I do like a scented candle or a diffuser with good quality essential oil, but remember that you get used to the smell, as you do with perfume - so what smells subtle to you, will be like being hit over the nose to others.

At this time of year it's nicer to have flowers in the house. But a house smelling of fake scents from candles or diffusers always feels a bit cheap.

thanks everyone for the suggestions