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    Home » DIY Projects

    21 Projects to Make Your Room Smell Good

    March 31, 2021 by Patti Estep Leave a Comment

    Basket with lavender and rose scented geranium leaves
    Gallery of images, sachets, potpourri, soap and padded hangers.

    Learn about 21 ways you can make your room smell good. From candles to cleaners and several other easy and affordable DIY projects created for your home or gifts to family and friends.

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    Everyone wants their home to smell nice and fresh especially if you are having guests over.

    Over the years I have made many different DIY projects that will make your house smell amazing so I'm sharing a list of 21 ideas below. All are easy to create and utilize a mix of natural materials, essential oils, and fragrance oils.

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    How to Make your Room Smell Good - 21 Ideas

    How to make your home smell better with 21 ideas on projects you can easily make. These DIYs are inexpensive and will certainly have your house smell amazing in no time.

    1

    Homemade Air Fresheners Made with Gelatin and Fragrance Oils

    Made with gelatin, these little air fresheners are great for removing bad odors making any room smell good.

    2

    Hydrosols - How to Easily Make Them from Your Own Herbs and Flowers

    This is a natural room spray bottle that doubles as a nice facial tonic. A beautiful floral spray made on the stove with distilled water and your own plants.

    Scented Candles

    Of course, candles are on the list. Here are two of my favorites.

    3

    DIY Teacup Candles - Scented for Holiday Gift Giving

    Thrifted or heirloom teacups make great receptacles for scented candles.

    4

    DIY Packing Tape Labels Make Beautiful Holiday Candles

    Dollar store vases and packing tape dress up these fragrant candles for the holidays.

    Homemade Sachets

    Sachets whether in drawers or linen closets make your home smell extra fresh.

    5

    Homemade Floral Sachets with Peonies, Lavender and Mint

    Dried fragrant flowers from the garden come together in netted pouches for beautiful smelling sachets. Place them in drawers or under your pillows.

    6

    How to Make Wax Sachets with Pressed Flowers

    Hang these all over the place for a pretty sachet that adds a little decor as well as fragrance.

    DIY Diffusers

    Diffusers are just what they sound like. Items that help diffuse a few drops of your favorite essential oil through the room. Here are some you can make at home.

    7

    DIY Essential Oil Diffuser For All Your Favorite Scents

    Just another great use for clay pots. Burn essential oils in water on the top to diffuse a wonderful pure scent through the air.

    8

    Make Your Own Wood Bead Diffuser

    Super simple and can be hung anywhere. Wooden beads soaked with fragrant oils or a couple of drops of essential oils permeate the home and bring a nice scent to the indoor air.

    9

    DIY Reed Diffuser - Easy Aromatherapy for Your Home

    Simple reed diffusers can be made at home with your favorite fragrance. They last quite a long time and are pretty to look at too.

    Fragrant Cleaners

    Strong cleaners usually smell terrible. Try making a few homemade cleaners with natural elements for a fresher smell.

    10

    DIY Cleaner Recipes with Essential Oils

    Essential oils come together with other basic ingredients to make good and nice-smelling cleaners. One that helps remove bad smells from carpets using baking soda and drops of citrus essential oils. Just sprinkle and vacuum. Another that works well on granite countertops.

    11

    How to Make Homemade Lemon Vinegar for Cleaning

    Add fresh lemons to white vinegar to cut down on the strong odor of this cleaning mainstay.

    Homemade Potpourri

    Okay, next to candles, potpourri is probably the product most often thought of when it comes to room fragrance. Here are a few easy and natural modern potpourri recipes that you can make at home.

    12

    Garden Potpourri You Can Easily Make from the Garden

    Flowers straight from the garden are dried and a little fragrance can be added to a fixative such as oakmoss to boost the scent.

    13

    Stovetop Potpourri - Perfect Handmade Gifts for the Holidays

    Packaged in pretty jars this combo of spices and dried fruit. This one smells great as it simmers in a pot of water on the stove.

    14

    Homemade Potpourri Made With Natural Apples, Oranges and Cinnamon

    Dried fruit slices and cinnamon sticks in an old wooden bowl make a pretty centerpiece and add fragrance to the room.

    15

    Pomander Balls - Full of Spice and Everything Nice

    Pomander balls studded with round spices are pretty and fragrant.

    Scented Soaps

    Soap set out in the bathroom is an easy way to keep the room smelling nice and fresh. Here are two fun ways to easily create soap that's scented and nice looking too.

    16

    Melt and Pour Soap - Rich Orange Cinnamon Scent

    Melt and pour soap. It's that easy. Melt it and pour it into a mold. Add fragrance and dried orange peels too and set them out for everyone to enjoy.

    17

    Handmade Gifts: How to Make Soap Balls

    This one is fun and is really meant not to be used but for decoration. The soap can be used but the color will come off onto your hands. Don't worry it rinses right off too.

    18

    DIY Scented Pine Cones for Gifts or Decor

    Mainly for the fall and winter, pinecones coated in scented wax are another great fragrant way to scent the home.

    19

    How to Make Scented Padded Hangers

    Create some beautiful hangers with a little scent inside. Any closet could benefit from this easy project.

    20

    Scented Mug Mats: Beautiful Spiced Filled Handmade Gifts

    Set a hot cup of tea or coffee on these mug mats and enjoy the fragrance the heat distributes.

    21

    10 Scented Plants Perfect in the Garden

    Finally, a list of scented plants you may want to grow or buy in the store. A bouquet of pretty flowers that are also scented can fill a room with amazing fragrance.

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    About Patti Estep

    Patti is the creator of Hearth and Vine, a home and garden blog filled with projects to inspire your creative side. She loves crafting, gardening, decorating and entertaining at her home in Pennsylvania. When she is not working on a project at home or searching for treasures at nurseries and thrift stores with her girlfriends, you’ll probably find her with family and friends, at a restaurant, or home party enjoying new and different food adventures.

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