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or orange spice perfume.

Pomanders. Traditionally associated with Christmas, these natural and easy-to-make scent balls can perfume a home for years. To make a pomander, simply stick whole cloves into an unblemished orange, taking care that the cloves are no more than 1/4 inch apart, and let the orange dry out in a paper bag for about a month to cure it. Once the pomander is cured, it will last for years, only needing an occasional refresh with natural clove oil.

Essential oils. Mix several drops of your favorite essential oils with 2 cups of water in a spray bottle to make a natural room spray. Make sure the essential oil is a naturally-extracted one, not a lab-created smell-alike.
Candles. If only scented candles will do, consider bayberry candles. The bayberry is coated with a natural wax that has been made into candles for centuries. Just make sure they are real bayberry wax candles and not bayberry-scented. Burning bayberry candles still produces the soot that is found in other scented candles.

When choosing a safe home fragrance, a good rule of thumb is to stick with fragrance sources that are minimally processed. The farther removed a fragrance product is from the source of the fragrance, the more likely it is to contain harmful compounds.

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