21 Projects to Make Your Room Smell Good

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.

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.

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.

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.

Spray bottle of floral water with fresh lavender and mint on a linen towel.

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.

Blue teacup candle and pink in background

DIY Teacup Candles - Scented for Holiday Gift Giving

Thrifted or heirloom teacups make great receptacles for scented candles.

Stacks of square Christmas holiday candles with packing tape labels of Noel and Joy.

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.

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.

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.

DIY Terra Cotta Diffuser square ~ DIY Essential Oil Diffuser ~ gardenmatter.com

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.

Two wood bead diffusers and a pair of scissors

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.

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.

Bottles of homemade cleaners and essential oils

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.

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.

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.

Simmering potpourri in a tall weck glass jar.

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.

A bowl of homemade potpourri with dried apples, oranges and cinnamon sticks.

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.

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.

Melt and pour soap with sweet orange and cinnamon oil adds a nice cozy feel to any room. Great for showers, weddings, hostess and helper gifts.

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.

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.

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.

How to Make Scented Padded Hangers

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

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.

Collage of fragrant plants including lavender, mock orange, lily of the valley, peony, lilac and more.

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.