How To Make Your House Smell Like Fall

Every autumn-lover knows that fall is so much more than a season. It’s a time to pull out your family’s pumpkin pie recipe and snuggle up in your coziest blankets. 

This year, take your autumn preparations to a whole new level by making your whole house smell like fall. In this guide, we’ll talk about the best fall scents and give you a few ideas to help you bring the autumn magic into your home. 

What Are the Best Fall Scents?

To make your house smell like fall, let’s start by talking about the best fall scents in the first place. 

If you ask us, these are some of the most season-defining smells of fall:

• Apple: Apple is by far the most iconic fall fragrance. Crisp, fresh, and sweet, apple is one of those fruity, timeless scents.
• Cinnamon: Sweet and spicy, cinnamon essential oil has a delicious scent that will keep you warm as the weather cools down. 
• Cardamom: Cardamom is a defining part of the pumpkin spice smell and has a woody, slightly sweet fragrance. 
• Vanilla: If you’re looking for a fall scent that’s as sweet as it is creamy, look no further than vanilla. 
• Orange: One of the brighter smells on this list, orange is a citrusy, juicy scent that adds a fresh edge to many fall recipes and fragrances. 
• Pumpkin: Another unmistakably fall fragrance is pumpkin. Gourmand, sweet, and rich, pumpkin has a fruity aroma that is the basis of pumpkin spice drinks and, of course, pumpkin pie. 

How Can You Make Your House Smell Like Fall?

Now that you know a bit about classic fall fragrances, it’s time to talk about how you can bring them into your home and make it smell great. 

Use Scented Candles

One of the easiest ways to give your house a fall-like smell is to use scented candles. Lighting a Snif candle is sure to make any room smell like the first day of fall. 

Need some recommendations? Try these: 

• Sweet Ash, a lowkey sweet candle featuring juniper and vanilla
• Half Baked Pumpkin Smash, a delicious pumpkin candle with orange, cinnamon, and whiskey
• Half Baked Gingerbread Smash, a mouth-watering gingerbread candle featuring chai, cinnamon swirl, and nutmeg
• Off The Grid, a warm scented candle with lily of the valley, moss, cedar, and sandalwood
• Crumb Couture, a croissant candle with croissant accord, wild berry jam, blackcurrant, toasted vanilla, and sandalwood 

Make a Fall Simmer Pot

Making a simmer pot involves boiling potpourri, and it’s one of the fastest ways to make your home smell like fall. All you need to do is bring some of the quintessential fall ingredients (think cinnamon sticks, orange peels and orange slices, cranberries, pine needles, whole cloves, and so on) to a boil in a pot of water on the stovetop.

Incorporate Reed Diffusers

Incorporating reed diffusers into your home decor can bring the smell of fall indoors if you place the reeds in autumn-esque essential oils.

Try a New Laundry Detergent

Another simple way to make your home smell like fall is to switch to a new laundry detergent. The Old Money Everything Wash and Sweet Ash Everything Wash from Snif will help you embrace the smells of fall by wearing them. 

Old Money features cardamom, tonka bean, vanilla, sandalwood, and musk for a sophisticated twist, while Sweet Ash blends juniper, fir balsam, white moss, golden cedar, vanilla bean, and creamy tonka for a lowkey sweet and earthy scent. 

Bring Autumn Into Your Home

This year, bring autumn into your home with these easy hacks. From laundry detergents to simmer pots, your home can smell as good as your go-to knit sweater feels and that crockpot apple cider tastes this fall. 

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Nutritional Value, Phytochemical Potential, and Therapeutic Benefits of Pumpkin (Cucurbita sp.) | NIH

Using Ambient Scent to Enhance Well-Being in the Multisensory Built Environment | NIH

Nature, smells, and human wellbeing | NIH

What is a fresh scent in perfumery? Perceptual freshness is correlated with substantivity | NCBI