Scenting a home is not a matter of putting an air freshener in the living room and leaving it at that. Each area has a different job and a different problem, and using the same smell throughout the house wastes the most interesting thing about the sense of smell: it links places with states of mind.
Here is the room-by-room guide, with what each one calls for and which fragrance from the catalogue fits.
Why treat areas differently
A scent consistently linked to an activity ends up working as a signal: as you walk into the bedroom, your body recognises that this is where you rest. It is neither magic nor therapy, it is association through repetition — the same reason a song takes you back to one particular summer.
There is also a practical reason: the bathroom and the kitchen have a smell problem to solve, and the living room or the bedroom do not. Those are different needs and they call for different products.
Hallway
The first impression, for you and for anyone who comes in. It is the area where scent is most noticeable, because you perceive it just as you cross the threshold, before your nose adapts.
This is where your home's "signature" goes: Lemon if you want a clean feel, Orange Blossom if you prefer something bright, Nº22 or Nº23 if you want it to be noticed and remembered.
Living room
An area where you spend many hours, so it needs a scent you can live with without tiring of it. Medium, steady intensity.
Green Tea is the easiest to carry all day long; Fig brings something warmer for the evening; Nº4 or Nº10 if you are after a woody, understated register.
Kitchen
Here the aim is not to perfume, it is to control. Frying grease clings to textiles and surfaces and the smell is still there hours later.
Extraction and cleaning first; then, if needed, a neutraliser (Aloe Vera or Cotton Fresh). And no fragrance while you are cooking or eating: it competes with the food and always loses.
Bedroom
Low intensity, soft registers and switched off overnight: it does not need to run while you sleep.
Lavender and Jasmine are the classics; Green Tea if you prefer something more neutral. Put plainly: they help make the room pleasant, they are not a sleeping pill.
Bathroom
The room where neglecting the smell shows most, and where the problem is almost never the cleaning but the interval between cleans.
A small unit on a timer covers the whole day: the PULSE covers 7 m², the typical size of a cloakroom. With Mint or Lemon if you only want freshness, or with a neutraliser if there is an underlying smell.
Home office
Light, citrus registers, and scheduling only during working hours. Lemon, Mint or Green Tea.
You will read here and there that rosemary "improves memory", citing one particular study. The results of that kind of work are small and disputed; what is true is that a space that smells good is easier to spend time in, and that alone justifies the effort.
How to set it up without scents crossing
- One scent per area, and areas kept apart. Two different fragrances in adjoining rooms mix and neither one wins. If the home is open-plan, a single scent is better.
- Start at low intensity. You adapt within minutes; whoever walks in does not.
- Schedule it in time slots rather than leaving it switched on: that is what keeps consumption under control.
The units for the home — PULSE (7 m²) for the bathroom, AURA 5 (60 m²) and SENSE (80 m²) for bedrooms, LUME (100 m²) and FLOW (120 m²) for the living room — are in the home section, and the fragrances in the catalogue.
If you would rather approach it from the decorating style, you will find that in scent and interior design. And if you are unsure about your own case, write to us from contact.
