Christmas is the time of year when a home is most on show. It fills with people, the kitchen works flat out, the front door opens and closes every half hour. Scent is one of the few things you can prepare the day before and that keeps working on its own all afternoon.
Here is the practical way to approach it: which scent, in which room and at what intensity.
What Christmas smells like
In Spain there are three registers that work and that guests recognise without thinking:
- Spiced citrus. Cinnamon with orange is the Christmas scent par excellence. In our catalogue that is Cinnamon & Orange, and it is the most direct option if you want it to be unmistakably Christmas.
- Gourmand. Cappuccino fits the long chat after lunch and quiet afternoons at home. It is the coffee-and-sweetness register, very welcome after a meal.
- Woody and oriental. If you prefer a less obvious Christmas, more hotel than Christmas market, the numbered Nº12 and Nº23 bring warmth without sweetness. Fig also works well in December, with its milky, woody base.
Where to put each one
- Entrance and hallway. This is where scent really works: it sets the impression for whoever walks in. The most recognisable scent goes here.
- Living room. Medium, constant intensity. This is the room where the afternoon is spent, so choose a register you can live with for hours.
- Dining room: careful. During the meal, the fragrance competes with the food. The sensible thing is to turn it down or off while people eat and bring it back afterwards. A strong spiced scent over a roast does not add anything, it takes away.
- Guest bathroom. The forgotten one, and the most noticeable when there are fifteen people in the house. A small programmed unit takes care of the whole day.
Which unit for a home
For domestic use the criterion is the square metres of the room, not those of the whole house:
- PULSE (7 m²). The one for the guest bathroom.
- AURA 5 (60 m²) and SENSE (80 m²). Bedrooms and studies.
- LUME (100 m²) and FLOW (120 m²). Open-plan living and dining rooms.
They all work without water and without a flame: there is no tank to refill, no mist and no fire, which matters with children and pets in the house. You can see them in the home section.
Three settings that make the difference
- Programme it, do not improvise. Raising the intensity half an hour before the guests arrive and lowering it during the meal is all the work required.
- Less is more. The aim is for them to notice it as they come in and forget it ten minutes later, not to carry it home in their coat.
- One scent per floor. Two different fragrances in adjoining rooms mix, and the result is neither of them.
An honest note
These are fragrances, not pure essential oils, and they do nothing therapeutic. Nor do they cover an underlying smell: if the kitchen has left a fried-food smell behind, the answer is to ventilate and neutralise first, not to add cinnamon on top.
The full range is in the fragrance catalogue. If you are not sure what suits your home, write to us from contact.
