Scent works the magic of provoking memories, inducing a particular feeling, or even altering a person’s mood. A citrus scent can brighten up the day and make one feel more energetic to work.
As promised, let’s discuss five ideas on how to add new, fresh scent fragrances into your life in order to feel more inspired and energized. From essential oils to smell enhancing cleaning products, let’s take a look at simple changes to make your days filled with refreshing scents.
Wake Up To The Fragrance
Wake up to scents that will refresh you, and choose the ones that give you energy in the morning. Essentials such as grapefruit, lemon, and orange have invigorating and refreshing properties.
Put a few drops of essential oils on a tissue or cotton ball somewhere close to where you sleep. There are also shower gels that have citrus or eucalyptus scents to make the shower experience even more invigorating.
Or you may turn on the lights and bright scents of a soy candle before washing up. A whiff of fresh fruits or flowers to refresh your nasal, will wake up your sleeping senses than any hot cup of coffee.
Create A Scented Space
It is true that what we experience in our environment affects our emotions and perception of things. It is also important to enhance your home or working space with positive aroma to create the right atmosphere.
Begin with simple practices such as ensuring that windows are opened to allow fresh air to circulate frequently. Next, fix a necessary oil diffuser to release refreshing smells such as rosemary, peppermint or pine.
It is also possible to put a vase of flowers as well as herbs in pots, boil spices to get a pleasant aroma, or use reed diffusers. Don’t disregard lighting, organization, and music also. Intentionally created calm environment brings positive attitudes.
Make Cleaning A Luxurious Ritual
Chore time can be transformed into therapeutic me-time with the help of fragrances. Add a few drops of lemon or lavender essential oil or liquid soap into your washing machine before washing your clothes.
When doing more rigorous cleaning such as washing the dishes, pour hot water and a few drops of essential oil into the sink basin so that the steam can release the scent. While dusting, you should add your preferred oil to the cleaning solution.
You may also need to wear perfume or scented lotion so that your favorite smell comes close to you when performing domestic chores. Prefer making the space full of greenery over completing a list of tasks.
Create A Personal Fragrance
Create the best home fragrance that will help you feel relaxed, refreshed and reward yourself at the end of the day. Add a few drops of essential oils such as bergamot, ylang ylang or sandalwood into fractionated coconut oil.
To use applies to the pulse points on the wrists, behind the ears or the neck. Include the oil blend in an atomizer to spray the linens and pillows before going to bed. Or pour your custom potion into a bath to the sound of candles being lit.
Your individual odor indicates the execution of tasks and receiving personal care. Find out which notes make you feel happy, which are calming, or which give you a warm feeling of coziness, citrus, lavender or warm vanilla respectively.
Discover the serenity of restorative environment with appealing fragrances. Take short breaks during your day to rest under sunlight, flowers, trees, herbs and freshly cut grass among others.
Conclusion
Introducing pleasant smells into the existing schedule enriches the experience of mood enhancement and erases stress. The perfume also unites your mind, body and soul – this is what a signature scent is all about. Start paying attention to how various scents impact you.
At home, open windows more frequently to let in clean air. Place collected pine cones, eucalyptus, roses or any other aromatic flora in vases. Allow good aromas to help bring you back to the present moment.
Then it is important to purposely select those that resonate with your spirit. In no time, you will be observing more smiling and a deeper sense of calm and purpose when approaching any activity. May the magic of scent make each of your days new.
