From atomisers to diffusers, candles, and incense, here are six ways to work a fresh new-season fragrance into your home.
Each season brings with it a new olfactory mood.
The smell of the earth as the rainfall soaks the ground, wood burning in chimneys, and one-pot wonders to warm up the family when you get home in the evening.
The mood turns dark and introspective. Channel it with a scent check.
Blowing smoke
Created in 1996, Astier de Villatte has many facets: an artisanal ceramics workshop, a typographic printing press, a publishing house, and a perfume creator.
The ceramics workshop in Paris takes up and modernises the tradition of Parisian manufactures of the 18th century and brings the art of stamping up to date.
Its incense burners ooze personality and range in price from about €73 to €380.
The hands shown cost €322, while there's a cool cat that blows smoke for €322.
Its boxes of incense, €55 each, imbue a sense of place from Hollywood to Delhi, Buenos Aires to Stockholm and need to be experienced before you select. Peruse the range at Electra, Donnybrook, Dublin 4.
Colour pop
Designed for Hay by designers Ryosuke Fukusada and Rui Pereira, Chim Chim offers a functional and decorative design for burning oils to create your favourite room fragrance.
Available in different colour and material options, the porcelain design, which stands 14.5 cm tall, is ideal for use in bathrooms and other rooms in the home.
Nordic Nest sells a cobalt blue one for €41, while the terracotta red version shown is reduced to €30.95 from the same online shop.
It is also available in bone white directly from Hay, where it costs from €39.
Luxury for less
South African-born British interior designer Kelly Hoppen cements her collaboration with Marks and Spencer with this sophisticated scented candle range.
No. 4 has a sweet, woody scent that combines warm notes of cypress, pink pepper and coriander, with geranium, lavender and nutmeg and a base of vetiver, patchouli, ambergris and cedarwood.
With a burn time of 40 hours, the small 14.5 cm high candle costs €33.
The large is 21 cm tall and costs €78 and has a burn time of 88 hours. The ridged dinner candle holder, also shown, costs €6.50.
Diffuse the situation
Switch the mood up with Finland fragrance house Hetkinen’s Lapland scent diffuser, which brings a multi-sensory finishing touch to any space.
It captures the peace and tranquillity of Lapland's nature but also its magical aromas, including cloudberry, marsh Labrador tea and sweetgrass.
The company only uses natural, plant-based ingredients and therefore does not contain parabens, industrial fragrances or dyes, mineral oils or plastics.
The timber diffusing reeds make a strong style statement, and it costs about €34, reduced from €48.50, excluding delivery, from Finnish Design Shop.
Dramatic spritz
Make an impression and the ultimate style statement by evoking oriental landscapes with Trudon’s Altaïr.
Its fragrance unfolds through a captivating interplay of floral and woody notes. offers a deeply grounding olfactory experience, housed within a hand-blown Tuscan glass vessel, complete with a gold atomiser, that reflects the artistry of the scent within.
It costs €275 from Harrods, excluding delivery.
Seasonal gear shift
If your car is an extension of your personality and home, then consider giving the typical pine freshener that you suspend from the rear-view mirror a serious upgrade.
Helsinki-based design house Aarikka sells Mänty, a tree-shaped diffuser that is made of birch.
It absorbs the essential oil, giving the car a lasting fresh pine forest smell. It comes in white, varnished, or black finishes. It costs €59.
