5-Star Signature Interior Scents We Love for Fall
Did you know that the best hotels spend substantial money on creating pleasant, sometimes signature scents for their properties using professional scent marketing techniques?
This “scent marketing” is used to enhance the guest experience, create a positive and memorable impression, evoke specific emotions, and build brand loyalty. Carefully-selected fragrances are often diffused through HVAC systems and can range from calming and fresh to unique signature scents that are exclusive to a hotel brand. To create a similar olfactory experience at home, we have located some of our favorite candles, diffusers, and more for you to consider this season.
Votivo
Votivo, a creator of iconic fragrances since 1994, is a leader in the luxe candles market. The brand recently announced the launch of its reimagined Signature Collection—its first redesign in 30 years. The new collection offers a fresh and dramatic aesthetic while maintaining the brand’s beloved fragrance formulations. Especially luxe is the new Tortoise Candle—an elegant tortoiseshell glass vessel with a generous, twin-flame candle, and a chic glossy metal lid, perfect for considered home décor.
The Tortoise Candle, which is a dramatic statement piece, is available in Votivo’s top eight fragrances. Our pick for the season is Red Currant, a joyful and luscious scent that sets the mood for entertaining and all things festive. We also love Clean Crisp White, which is unbeatable in the bedroom.
Votivo also offers a Signature Reed Diffuser in a classic vessel design offering continuous fragrance diffusion with fiber reeds that release twice the fragrance, no flipping needed; and a Room & Linen Spray, suitable for both atomizing the air, and for directly spraying onto linens and fabrics. Both options are beneficial to leave at home to work their magic while you’re traveling, and come home to a fresh abode.
The scents are fresh, rich, complex, and very elevated. Shop the full Votivo range here.
Greenleaf Gifts
If you enjoy buying a bouquet but dislike its short lifespan, or if you love the look of fresh-cut field blooms and the aesthetic of farmhouse chic, you’ll love the Flower Diffuser by Greenleaf Gifts. This unique and elegant 8 fl. oz. glass vessel is giving early Art Deco, topped by a big white sola paper bloom that absorbs the scent through a wick and diffuses it. This arrangement lasts for at least 60 days and can be both a statement piece or as unobtrusive as you wish.
Minimalist or maximalist—you decide. The glass and the oil itself are clear, and the flower is an off-white, so this piece goes with most decor. Choose between scents of Cashmere Kiss, Classic Linen, Hydrangea, and Orange & Honey.
Greenleaf products feature classic designs with contemporary touches and like all good scents evoke a sense of nostalgia as well as present-day intentionality. The Flower Diffuser is boxed attractively to make it a good gift for the season, a housewarming, wedding, birthday and especially Mother’s Day.
Our pick: Hydrangea: This charming and timeless fragrance, reminiscent of a blooming Nantucket summer, is made with mandarin, fresh peony, jasmine and lily, grounded by moss and musk.
Family-owned for three generations, Greenleaf remains committed to its roots, distributing primarily through independent retailers who have been integral to its growth and success. It all began in 1975 with a kitchen mixer when Bob and Sylvia Caldwell sought to complement their seasonal wholesale greenhouse business in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and created the first scented envelope sachet in their family kitchen using Sylvia’s Sunbeam Mixmaster!
Today, beyond fragrance, Greenleaf demonstrates its commitment to making a positive impact through its Greenleaf Cares initiative, where 3% of every purchase is donated to fighting human trafficking.
Carrière Frères
Everyone wants a country home in France, are we correct? Bring the ambience of a French chateau and its gardens into your home with the Stimulating Scents Collection from Carrière Frères—a sensorial celebration of seasons and life lived outdoors in rhythm with the seasons.
This vibrant collection of floral and fruity botanical candles is designed to invigorate the senses and elevate the everyday. Each scent captures the natural beauty of France and the Mediterranean and its fruits, botanicals, and spices. La Rose Aime La Menthe, Yuzu, Spearmint, and more offer a refined, transportive experience that blends French perfumery with the calming and healing power of nature.
If you’re not quite ready to let go of the bounty of Summer and prefer to visualize yourself strolling in a vineyard in Alsace, or browsing the produce markets in a village in Provence, or opening the window of your garret in the Marais wide to breathe in the Summer night, this is a lovely brand of candles and diffusers to consider.
Carrière Frères, known for its heritage in French candle-making and devotion to botanical purity, continues to blur the line between fragrance and wellness with this radiant lineup—a touch of Europe in your home.
Ryan Porter | Candier
To transport you to a different state of mind or destination, we recommend the mind-boggling range offered by Ryan Poter|Candier. These sassy scented soy candles have found a cult following among celebrities and big corporate brands—from Disney to Tinder!—and have been commissioned with themes, slogans, and the like.
Our picks for a fun home reset, or a gift this season, are La Fleur Parfumee, which are luxe yet carefree candles. They come in enviable and ever-popular scents that evoke iconic getaway destinations: South Beach is illustrated with pink flamingoes and is lushly redolent with the scent of orchids, coconut, vanilla, and musk. Palm Springs features a watercolor of a midcentury swimming pool and boasts notes of citrus and jasmine. And our favorite, Mojave Desert, features a wonderful desert landscape and is incredibly evocative with its scents of pinon, palo santo, amber, and musk. There’s also West Village and The Hamptons, for thise die-hard New Yorkers!
We’re using our candles to manifest our next 5-star Airbnb or resort stay! Speaking of which: These candles are travel-friendly and easy to pack with their gold-tone tin and lid.
Ryan Porter | Candier’s La Fleur range is extensive and is inspired by the season, place, and mood. It’s a cheeky and chic luxury scented candle inspired by the Parisian coquette aesthetic. All candles are made with natural, non-toxic soy wax, clean-scent fragrance oil, and hand-poured in the USA. The packaging is clever and completely sustainable. Krysten Kauder is the founder behind Ryan Porter’s empowering and versatile products. The company donates a portion of all sales to Girls Inc., supporting the next generation of female leaders and founders. Candier also partners with Greenspark to offset carbon.
Apotheke
For candles, diffusers, room sprays, and a groundbreaking electric diffuser that actually walks the 5-star talk, Apotheke is a brand that is used in upscale inns and accommodations as well as homes that seek that freshly-made over suite chic. We have two products that make a unique addition to your home this season. Recreate your Summer share at Fire Island with the bright and citrusy scent of Sea Salt Grapefruit room spray. This product, which comes in a sleek rectangular bottle, can be sprayed directly into the air or onto drapes, soft furnishings, or any surface that is in need of a scent boost. Just spray 3-5 times lightly into the air to infuse your room with the scent of tangy sea salt, black pepper, and ripe grapefruit with sweet tarragon and a fresh dewdrop accord for a bright and citrusy fragrance. Made with premium essential and perfume-grade fragrance oils, this luxury room spray is designed to provide an exceptional scent experience that lasts. Made in the USA by a female founder, it’s also pet safe.
If you’d like to really bring out the big guns for scent around the clock, Apotheke’s Scent Tower Electric Fragrance Diffuser uses cold-air diffusion technology to turn fragrance oil into a dry nano-mist. This safe, residue-free process keeps fragrance suspended in the air for longer, ensuring even and consistent scent coverage throughout spaces up to 850 square feet. The Scent Tower’s advanced atomization technology offers an innovative way to enjoy your favorite Apotheke fragrances at home or anywhere you spend substantial time. The device is portable and rechargeable, and unobtrusive. The remote-operated Scent Tower is crafted from recycled aluminum and boasts an off-white, matte finish, lending it a sleek and modern appearance. Fragrance oil is not included and is sold separately, but you can stock up on different Apotheke scents for different moods and seasons.
