This Is How To Make Your Home Smell Like A Hotel! - Home Scentsory (2024)

Looking for some super simple and effective ways to make your house smell like a hotel?

We all lust over that special hotel scent and want quick easy ways to get that luxurious hotel smell at home.

The good news is that it’s easy to recreate that gorgeous hotel scent at home, so you get the ‘scentsory’ equivalent of being wrapped in a luxury fluffy bath robe when you walk through your front door!

First off, let’s summarize the best ways to make your home smell like a hotel, then dive into the details!…

How to make your home smell like a hotel – the easy way!

The easiest way to make your house smell like a hotel is to invest a small amount in an amazing product that creates a hotel smell at home! You can also make your home smell like a hotel by diffusing specific blends of essential oils like grapefruit, peppermint, orange and lavender.

So let’s look at the best products to make your house smell like a hotel, then the best essential oil blends to get an amazing hotel smell at home!

The BEST products for a hotel smell at home

Fancy hotels often diffuse luxury scents through their lobbies and communal areas, then provide scent sprays with the same fragrance for their staff to spritz in the guest’s rooms.

This means that the gorgeous scent is consistent throughout the whole hotel, and guests tend to remember it and associate it with the hotel.

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Assuming that you had a great experience during your stay, the special smell adds to the whole experience and you associate it with that sense of luxury afterwards.

So how do you make your house smell like a hotel to create the same luxurious feeling at home?

Well, it’s pretty easy really!

You just have to find the right scent and use it consistently so that it ‘layers’ throughout your home.

The easiest way to do that is simply to get a couple of stunningly scented fragrance diffusers and place them at strategic points in your home.

What kind of scent should you go for?

For this to work, the scent has to be something quite light and fresh.

If you start to layer rich heady fragrances the effect can be overpowering – which isn’t what you get in luxury hotels!

To achieve the perfect hotel smell at home, you need to have a fragrance on the citrusy side with just a touch of floral notes too.

To really achieve the right effect when you set out to make your home smell like a hotel, you need to get hold of a fragrance that’s on the citrusy side, sometimes with just a touch of floral notes too.

Fortunately there are a couple of amazing reed fragrance diffusers available that fit the criteria 100 per cent!

The number one choice to make your home smell like a spa is the Archipelago Home Fragrance Diffuser in Mango Tangerine . You can buy in the Ritz-Carlton hotel shop and let me tell you – it smells truly AMAZING!!

The fragrance is on the tropical side, but manages to stay fresh, elegant and distinctive – just like a luxury hotel!

A single bottle lasts for months, so it’s actually also very good value.

If you’re after a guaranteed way to make your home smell like a hotel then that’s the product I recommend, but there are also some great lower budget options.

The best lower budget fragrance diffuser for a gorgeous hotel smell at home is the LOVSPA Coastal Citrus Scented Reed Diffuser.

As well as the hotel worthy refreshing citrus notes, it also encompasses mint, basil and jasmine flowers. The result is a divine smelling frangrance to make your home smell like a super-luxe hotel!

Finally, if you’re after a scent that smells like a luxury hotel then you have to check out the Hotel Series of reed diffusers by Pristine. It includes a divine Ritz-Carlton Hotel scent, a sparklingly fresh Marriott Hotel choice, and a luxurious Maldives Villa option. They’re all amazing, check them out here.

Now let’s look at some amazing essential oil blends and DIY methods to get that hotel smell at home!

Homemade(ish!) solutions to make your home smell like a hotel

Hotels often use industrial diffusers and luxurious oils to infuse communal areas with scent, and you can simply scale this down to do the same thing in your own home.

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First you’ll need to get hold of an electronic diffuser.

I love these because not only do they make your home smell great, they’re also amazing for relieving congestion if you’ve got a cold or allergies. Plus, they put moisture into the air which is great if you suffer from dry skin.

I really recommendthis one– it has astoundingly good reviews, a really unique design, and is good value. What’s not to love?!

I also can’t resist linkingthis diffuserbelow! They also do it in pink and I think it’s stunning… and again, amazing reviews.

Next up, you’ll need some amazing smelling oil to go in your aromatherapy diffuser.

Remember to check out the safety guidelines for the oils you’re thinking of using – for example some essential oils aren’t recommended during pregnancy or for children or pets.

Several London boutique hotels use the classic Jo Malone Lime, Basil & Mandarin fragrance throughout their buildings, and it’s a really good example of the best kind of scent to go for.

To get the same effect at a fraction of the price, you can experiment with blends of similar oils. Start off with two drops of lime, two of basil and two of mandarin. Then you can play about with the quantities and see what suits you best.

Another great blend to make your house smell like a hotel is a combination of peppermint, orange, grapefruit and lavender oil (try 1 drop of each to begin with) for a gorgeous energizing blend.

By the way, if you’re getting into essential oil blending you can save a lot of money by investing in an essential oil starter kit instead of buying your oils individually. Just be wary of the very low priced ones as they’re often weak and inauthentic. For a good value set with top quality oils I suggest this brand, they also do sets with diffusers which are worth checking out.

Once you’ve found your perfect hotel scented blend for your diffuser, you can also make an essential oil home fragrance spray.

Simply grab yourself an empty mini spray bottle (or plant mister spray), and mix your oils into water to spray around the rooms in your house!

Just add up to 20 drops of oil in total and top up with distilled water (or you can use tap water, but the spray won’t last as long) and one teaspoon of salt to help it mix well.

If you find it tricky to get it all in the bottle you can try using a mini funnel to help.

And if you prefer to completely avoid the hassle of mixing up your own oil blend, try something like this delicious rose bergamont room spray. It’s reminiscent of the Aesop Anouk blend used at The Rose Hotel in Venice, California for an amazing aroma.

Remember, for a true ‘hotel experience’, your diffuser should be near the entrance area of your home so that the fragrance is strongest there, then subtly spread through the rest of your home!

So there we have it guys, that’s how to make your home smell like a hotel!

I hope you have fun trying out these amazing solutions to get a gorgeous hotel smell at home!

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