Home Fragrance Guides

The best scented candle suits the room you burn it in. What to check before you buy, and the best candles for living rooms, bedrooms, kitchens, bathrooms and hallways.

A five minute morning routine, a weekly and monthly plan, and the soft scents that keep a bedroom smelling fresh from morning to night.

How to scent a flat or small UK home room by room: fibre reeds per room, one scent or two, and reed diffusers compared on cost per month.

How to fill a UK living room or open plan space with scent: room size rules, warm scents, two bottle placement and picks by cost per month.

Where to put a hallway reed diffuser away from front door draughts, how many fibre reeds to use, and which scents greet guests, with cost per month compared.

Nine large reed diffusers from 200ml to 1 litre compared on lifespan and cost per month, plus when two 100ml bottles beat one big one.

Over a night, one or two people breathe out moisture and warmth into a closed room. By morning the air is humid and stale. Six simple habits fix it.

Large rooms need more than one small bottle. How to choose and place reed diffusers so a big or open plan room actually smells good.

A simple guide to matching fibre reeds, bottle size and placement to your room, from a small loo to an open plan kitchen diner.

Cooking smells cling to fabrics in open plan homes. How to clear them, stop them spreading, and keep the kitchen fresh without plug ins.

Fresh and bright for hallways, warm for living rooms, comforting for bedrooms, herbal for kitchens and zesty for bathrooms. A room by room guide.

Fix the drain, towel and damp smells first. Then a fresh citrus reed diffuser with fewer fibre reeds keeps a small bathroom smelling clean all day.

Before guests see your home, they smell it. Here is how to make your hallway and entrance smell welcoming every day.