by Estella Reed

Created on: February 21, 2008   Last Updated: April 03, 2011

The gentle breeze which lightly paints your guests on opening your front door could be a whiff of freshly plucked roses. The scent will not only appease your guests but also be reflective of your personal style.

When guests enter your home, you want them to be enveloped by a warm and loving feeling. You want them to perceive the ambiance, aura and feel in your home and probably discuss it while they make themselves comfortable. Not just that, you would want them to take a lasting impression with them; a memorable fragrance of your home. It could be the fragrance of fresh flowers or it could be that of sandalwood or cinnamon. You can choose what you want.

Fragrance of your home can reflect your style and your individuality just like your arrangement of furniture and display of art and collectibles. Fragrance can even reflect your mood; you can change how your home smells according to your mood. You can make it a happy and peaceful environment with the fragrance of Bergamot or Frankincense or a stimulating one with the fragrance of Peppermint or Rosemary.

Of course, we would like our homes to be a great place to be at all times; for ourselves and for our guests. To make it a better place, some would perhaps like to toss in a fluffy mohair throw in a soothing, natural color on their velvet pillow propped sofas. Others will spread an old rug with a florid pattern in the living room and trim their curtains with matching passementerie. Yet others may play Brazilian music with a soft tone in the background. Even if you do them or not, a fresh, mild and soothing fragrance which will waft aroma through your nostrils, evoking a sensuous feeling will be invaluable in making your home a better place.

Our homes will usually have odors that are unique to us. We do not always recognize familiar odors because we are acclimatized to it, but our guests will. To overcome the ever so familiar signature odor of our own home, we need to work constantly. Regular use of scent to fill our home air with a gentle fragrance will be one way of doing this.

We have the option to choose from a number of alternatives. Scented candles, potpourri, diffusers, fragrance oils, scented sachets, room sprays and lamp vaporizers are commonly used scent emitting devices in our homes. We spend so much of our energy and time to make our homes smell good so that we will feel good. Scent has this magical effect of making us feel good.

Association of scent to various therapeutic regimes for psychological

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