5 tips for beautifully fragrancing your home

Some interiors have an ambient fragrance that transports us instantly. A unique scent revealed by the breath of a fragrance diffuser, the light of a scented candle, the cloud of an incense stick, or the mist of a room spray. Create a world that reflects your personality: Estéban guides you in your choice of home fragrances, a new Art of Living. Here are a few tips and tricks for scenting your home effectively.

How to diffuse a home fragrance?

The diffusion duration of home fragrance

Powerful and captivating or subtle and delicate, home fragrances have the power to help us relive unforgettable memories with a single inhalation. To diffuse a home fragrance properly (in accordance with our lifestyle and desires), you must take into account its duration of diffusion, which depends on the capacity and type of home fragrance medium chosen, as well as usage relative to personal habits.

Below, we detail the diffusion duration of the various Estéban home fragrance media, ranked from longest to shortest:

• - The Premium scented bouquet (2.5L): 6 to 12 months
• - The Triptyque scented bouquet (250ml): 1 to 3 months of diffusion
• - The Ellipse scented bouquet (200ml): 1 to 2 months of diffusion
• - The fragrance sachet (scented ceramic) ≈ 2 months of diffusion
• - The car diffuser (scented ceramic) ≈ 4 weeks of diffusion
• - The Decorative or Initial scented bouquet (100ml): 3 to 4 weeks of diffusion
  
• - The 100% vegetable wax scented candle 180g: 30 to 40h depending on the model
• - The electric fragrance diffuser: from 30 min to 21h depending on the diffusion cycle and model (for the Easy Living Edition, the diffusion duration varies from 10-21h in alternating mode)
• - Indian incense: ≈1h per stick
• - The room spray: instant diffusion

The rhythm of home fragrance diffusion: gradual, immediate, or constant

The type of fragrance diffusion medium also plays a role in the rhythm of diffusion. Thus, vegetable waxes release their fragrance gradually and increasingly (reaching a diffusion plateau after about 2 hours of use), while the room spray allows for rapid and immediate diffusion of the home fragrance thanks to its spray mechanism. Other media, such as electric fragrance mist diffusers and capillars (bouquets, fragrance trees, and flowers that function via capillary action), dispense their scents constantly and autonomously, without variation in the intensity of the perfume. Note that the perfume continues to diffuse for some time even after the container is empty.

The intensity of home fragrance diffusion

Due to their materials and operating modes, the choice of diffusion medium will play a role in the intensity of diffusion. Diffusion intensity is an important variable to consider because the size of the room where you plan to place the scented object, as well as your own expectations (desire for a more or less intense scent), will guide the final choice. Here is an indicative ranking of the diffusion intensity of Estéban media:

• - The electric home fragrance diffuser: adjust the intensity according to your wishes
• - The room spray: medium to strong
• - Incense: strong
• - The Estéban 100% vegetable wax scented candle: light to medium
• - The car fragrance diffuser: medium to strong
• - The fragrance tree: medium to strong
• - The scented bouquet: medium to strong
• - The fragrance flower: medium to strong
• - The scented sachets / fragrance pouches: light to medium

However, within these media themselves, the choice of the perfume creation will also play a part. For the same bouquet format, for example, the diffusion intensity will appear lower with a soft and fresh scent like Esprit de Thé or Terre d’Agrumes, whereas it will likely be felt more strongly with a leathery woody scent like Figue Noire or a fruity amber one like Rouge Cassis. At Estéban, we meticulously adjust each medium so that the diffusion strength is as pleasant as possible (neither too light nor too overpowering), but the consumer also has the ability to adjust this intensity by regulating its use or by varying the number of components (number of stems in a scented bouquet, for example).

When it comes to perfume creations, there is something for every taste and every desire at Estéban.

• - A classic world, composed of assertive perfumes evocative of landscapes (Oriental amber, African spices, Canadian forests, Asian tea fields, etc.) and legendary fabrics (Cashmere Iris, Pure Linen).
• - An Indoor Gardens world, fresh and authentic, evoking strolls in the heart of nature. Orange, cedar, jasmine, orange blossom, cotton: literal notes for an uncompromising immersion.
• - A contemporary world, a collection of design & perfume creations confronting dense and airy notes to offer the home a new horizon.

Every world, every creation, has its olfactory signature and intensity (the perception of a perfume nevertheless varies according to each person's degree of sensitivity).

The choice of perfume is therefore, in addition to the medium, a criterion to take into account when diffusing a home fragrance according to the desired atmosphere. Do not hesitate to test several.

Refills: extending the lifespan of your fragrance diffuser

For over 40 years, Esteban has been committed to respecting the environment. All Esteban home fragrance diffusers were created with a sustainable approach to reuse. Thus:

• - all capillars (fragrance flowers and trees, scented bouquets) are accompanied by a wide choice of refills (perfume and capillary medium), sometimes available in different formats.
• - all candle formats are refillable with easy-to-use candle refills possessing the same qualities as the original candle, for a gesture that is both practical and economical (please note, our 450g candle refills are not compatible with our old 450g candle model, which has metallic lacquering on the inside, unlike the current format which has a dark blue gradient lacquer and a less flared shape).
• - Car diffusers are also infinitely refillable: you simply need to renew the pre-perfumed ceramic inside the case.
• - Finally, fragrance mist diffusers are refillable throughout the life of the product because they function with drops of perfume concentrate poured into the diffuser tank. The perfume can therefore be renewed indefinitely, provided that one remembers to purchase concentrate.

Using a refill is an ecological and economical gesture to extend the lifespan of your Estéban home fragrance diffuser and enjoy it indefinitely!

Where to place your home fragrance diffuser?

Whether you have opted for a capillary fragrance diffuser (scented bouquet) or an electric fragrance diffuser (fragrance mist), our home fragrance diffusers release a subtle scent for delicate room fragrancing.

Scented bouquets

The fragrance tree, having a fairly local diffusion despite its capacity, also falls into this category. Formats larger than 200ml will allow for fragrancing medium to large rooms while ensuring an optimal sensory experience. Practical and easy to live with, the scented bouquet adapts to the most inaccessible places and continuously diffuses its home fragrance for weeks, without any intervention!

The Esteban team's advice

Our scented bouquets accompany you during your beauty routine: placed in your bathroom, their relaxing scents transform these moments of well-being. With the Ylang Ylang, Légendes d’Orient, Amber, or Bois de Cashmere & Ambre Gris diffusers, let yourself be transported into a rich and sensual world, a relaxing pleasure from home.

Fragrance mist diffusers

Ideal for the living room and dining room, the electric diffusers, with their contemporary, bohemian, or graphic design depending on the model, integrate perfectly into your decor. In addition to enhancing your interior, our electric fragrance mist diffusers create a true olfactory and luminous atmosphere where home fragrance becomes a source of emotions.

These home fragrance diffusers allow for continuous or alternating use (every 15 seconds) according to your desires. You can also adjust the diffusion intensity by means of the number of drops of concentrate deposited (between 10 and 15 drops for a full tank).

The Esteban team's advice

Use your room fragrance diffuser with Estéban perfume concentrates.

Our electric fragrance diffusers create an atmosphere conducive to relaxation in your home. The luminous features of the diffusers (dimmed light, oscillating like a candle, colored, etc.) are most often accompanied by water effects, for a highly relaxing sound and visual experience. Gradually, the benefits of fresh scents such as Citronnelle & Menthe, or soothing ones like Neroli, bring you harmony and inner peace.

Through the sense of smell, home fragrance diffusers are now essential for well-being rituals at home.

Fragrance sachets

A natural home fragrance?

Esteban creates perfumes in harmony with your convictions. We select the most noble raw materials with the greatest care, favoring the integration of bio-sourced materials, in order to create innovative and high-quality perfumes with passion, stemming from French expertise. Thus, the wax in our scented candles is 100% of vegetable origin, mainly based on European rapeseed grown without GMOs; the alcohol in our scented bouquets is also of vegetable origin (derived from French beets or European organic wheat, depending on the perfume collections). We use rattan for the fragrance stems in our Indoor Gardens world, mulberry paper for our fragrance flowers, and wood from sustainably managed forests for our fragrance trees and candle refill caps.

Our Indoor Gardens collections all contain natural extracts, and the iconic “Au Naturel” ranges total between 95 and 99% ingredients of natural origin depending on the media. The 12 fragrances in the Indoor Gardens collection contain 82% ingredients from organic farming and are vegan. Furthermore, all our packaging materials are recyclable and the bottles for our bouquet refills are also made of recycled materials!

The home fragrance is a source of olfactory escape. Today, it is part of a true art of living, which allows everyone to breathe their personality into their home and feel good there; it is essential to know the different room fragrance diffusers and how to use them in order to scent each space effectively.