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Home scenting creates the ultimate welcoming environment. At Valzara, our home fragrances help you set the right mood for you and the people you welcome into your home. We have a scent for every room, so feel free to browse through our reed diffuser offerings to find the right one for your needs. We currently have four scents to choose from: lemon basil and mandarin, amber and lavender, fresh cut roses, and black pomegranate. You can use each scent on their own or mix them to create your own custom scent. Use our products, to elevate the feel of luxury in your home.

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Making the Most of a Fabulous Fragrant Reed Diffuser in Your Home

There's something so delightful about having a beautifully fragrant home, and the best way to achieve that is by using a reed diffuser. It's so much more effective, not to mention more pleasant, than other commercially available artificial sprays, or potpourri that needs to be in a huge pile and big bowl to be effective. Of course, you get what you pay for, and a luxury product will always provide better value for your money in the long run, provided you use it properly. So how do you get the most out of your home fragrance diffuser? The first step is to ensure you place it in the right position. Putting it by an open window will suck the fragrance out rather than diffusing it around the room. Place it in a position where that beautiful fragrance will be able to reach all the corners of the room instead.

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The Right Scent: What Aromas to Fill Your Home Fragrance Diffuser With

Home owners often worry about the visual aspects of their home. There are other things that can make a room come together, though, and one of these is a room’s smell. It can be a subtle thing but the right fragrance can do a lot to affect the mood of a room’s occupants and create the perfect ambiance. The trouble is that many people just buy a few random incense sticks and light them up every once in a while. Worse, some people actually depend on an occasional spray of air freshener.

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Creating the Right Mood Using Reed Diffusers

Reed diffusers are certainly a lovely way to scent your home. However, these scents can be used for an even more useful purpose - to change your mood. We know that oils are used in aromatherapy to influence the way you feel and make you feel more relaxed, so why not apply this to your home? The next time you purchase refills, be sure to pick up a selection to cover a variety of purposes.

So which reed diffuser refills can you use for each purpose? If you want to relax, the obvious choice is the classic lavender, but you can also opt for ylang-ylang or jasmine. These are ideal choices to use in your reed diffuser to unwind in the evening. If you are feeling anxious, try cedarwood, bergamot, camomile or patchouli. Marjoram can be used to calm down an active child before bedtime.

If you want an uplifting fragrance, then lemon is the perfect choice. Who doesn't love a fresh citrus scent? Or if you need to concentrate, try bergamot, basil or thyme. And when entertaining, choose the welcoming scent of sandalwood or cinnamon. Your reed diffuser is the ideal way to fragrance your home according to your mood, so stock up on a selection of refills and your home will always smell just right!

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Scents and Our Mood: What Kind Does Your Home Fragrance Diffuser Emit?

A person’s mood can be greatly affected by the five senses. A beautiful scenery can make you feel excited and upbeat, while extreme temperatures can cause discomfort and irritation. People would sometimes turn to food for comfort, and of course there are those who listen to music as a way of relaxation. These are just some of the simple ways our senses affect and, to a certain degree, change our moods. The sense of smell, however, is something that many people overlook. Plugging in the headphones, eating comfort food, and even visiting a place we love are common things that people would do when they are having a bad day; however research shows that aromatherapy might actually be a more effective solution, since the olfactory bulbs are directly connected to the part of the brain that processes emotion.

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Precautions When Storing Reed Diffuser Refills

When getting your home a reed oil diffuser oil package, you can either wait till the last drop of oil is used up and purchase an entirely new one or just save yourself the hassle and purchase  a couple of refills along. If you choose the latter, you need to know how to properly store your oils or else they will lose their therapeutic properties. Below are some tips to ensure their maximum shelf life:

Keep away from heat. Never leave the oils in an area where they can be exposed to direct sunlight. This will cause rapid deterioration in oil quality due to frequent heating up and cooling down. Find a cool, dark place to store them safely away from heat and also from curious children and pets.

Prevent oxygen buildup. Oxygen that accumulates in the bottle by taking the headspace (empty space) can cause essential oils to oxidize faster, which is bad for their volatile aromatic and therapeutic components. Once these components are permanently separated, even shaking the bottle would be no use. Reducing the headspace will prolong the oils shelf life. You can do this by transferring larger quantity of oils into multiple smaller bottles just enough for your next use. Refills of smaller are readily offered by some sellers though.

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Reed Diffuser Advantages

Freshening up the home with fragrances can be really relaxing and homeowners have different options, one of which is reed diffusers. What edge do reed diffusers have against other home fragrance options? Let’s take a look.

Against Scented Candles

Reed diffusers are simply safer because there’s no fire involved. When you light any candle, it’s dangerous to leave it unattended. When you sleep, for example, you’ll have to put out the flame. You can leave a diffuser going while you sleep so the room remains fragrant as you sleep. You also won’t have to worry if you leave and forgot to take off the reeds. Your home won’t be in danger of burning, you’d just need some reed diffuser refill sooner.

Using reed diffusers is also clean and neat. You won’t have to clean up wax or soot when you use them.

Against Electrical Diffuser

Electrical diffusers, as you’ve probably got from the name, needs electricity to work. Thus, they contribute to your electric bill. Placement inside a room is also limited because they need to be near a socket. Reed diffusers don’t have these limitations as they only use the room’s temperature to evaporate the scented oils and the bottle can be placed virtually anywhere in the room.

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Which Scent Is Best For The Bedroom?

Sleep is golden. However, sometimes it’s still somewhat difficult to shut our bodies down and fall asleep. It’s a chore despite the best of intentions in place (you’ve tired yourself out thru exercise, the room is decluttered, there’s no distraction, whatsoever). However, did you know that there is a way to easily get off to dreamland—by tickling our noses?

Filling the bedroom with the right scent at the right time can create the perfect atmosphere for relaxation, sleep, or even romance. Our sense of smell is the most powerful of all senses after all, so it’s quite reasonable to maximise its perks. Still, the question remains: which scent is the best candidate for full-on relaxation?

When it comes to scents that aid sleep, one particular aroma almost always garners top honours: lavender. It’s been holding serve in folk medicine since the Middle Ages, with one 17th century London apothecary named John Parkinson claiming that lavender is “good for all griefs and pains of the head and brain”.

Fast forward to today’s medicinal conventions, lavender still holds a special place. Clinical tests have shown that the scent tends to improve overall sleep quality across different ages and genders, though it’s been found to be most effective on women, younger people, and those with mild insomnia (severe cases are out of the question).

So go ahead, fill up your reed diffuser with the best lavender scented oil on the market, and enjoy deeper, more relaxing sleep with every whiff.

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Have you ever experienced going on an extended trip away from home, and getting terribly homesick after a few days? It could happen during a business trip, or in a college dorm room, and even in a new home after a recent move. Homesickness is not easy to escape from. You could be enjoying the sights of Paris one moment and suddenly find yourself thinking about your mom’s cooking after a whiff of newly baked bread. Many research has been made on the relationship between smells and memory, and while there is no solid explanation yet, it was noted that scents can be an even more powerful trigger than sight. This is why bringing familiar scents are advised for those who have to leave home for a few days and may experience homesickness.

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What’s your favourite smell? For many Londoners, nothing could be more delightful than the aroma of freshly baked bread. A recent survey featured on the Daily Mail also identified the distinct smells of bacon, coffee, and freshly washed clothes as amongst people’s favourites. Finally, natural scents such as freshly cut grass and flowers round up the top ten. If you’re a fan of natural scents, you can infuse your home with such fragrances by decorating with flowers. You may want to grow your own flowers right in your backyard and let the scent of delicate blooms waft through the air, or harvest the blossoms to fully enjoy their beauty and sweet smell inside your home. A more convenient way to get that fresh scent in your home is to purchase a home fragrance diffuser.

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Feel Better with Aromatherapy at Home

Are you feeling a bit stressed, anxious, or generally under the weather lately? Try aromatherapy, a fascinating alternative medicine that involves the use of aromatic essential oils. You can do this in the comfort of your own home through luxury reed diffusers.

Stress Relief and a Boost in Energy

The aromatic compounds in essential oils serve as relaxants that help soothe the mind and eliminate anxiety. Lavender, lemon oil, peppermint, ylang ylang, and bergamot are often used for stress relief.

Aromatherapy is also known to be more effective than coffee or pills in giving the body an energy boost. The scent of essential oils like black pepper and sage may raise the body’s energy levels, increase circulation, and stimulate the mind.

Using Reed Diffusers

In the past, aromatherapy at home meant burning scented candles and incense, despite the danger of fires. With the coming of reed diffusers, any part of the house may easily and safely be scented with a pleasing and therapeutic aroma.

The effectiveness of your scent depends on two elements: The quality of the reed diffuser that you have and the number of reeds used in the diffuser oil. Achieving the desired therapeutic effect from your reed diffusers requires the balance of these two elements.

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Lovely Scents Boost Your Mood and Productivity

Do you need a quick pick-me-up or productivity boost? A bit of aromatherapy would do you some good. Indeed, scientists have established a close connection between mood and scent. In particular, the scent receptors in your nose are connected to the part of your brain that promotes learning and processes memories. That is why it is so easy to connect certain smells to memories and their concomitant emotions.

The Science of Scents

A previous “mood mapping” study featured in the Oxford Journals delves even deeper into that correlation. The researchers studied the effect of pleasant scents, specifically a citrus aroma and the smell of vanilla, on shoulder tension. They found that the fresh, tangy fragrance of citrus stimulates, whilst the sweet scent of vanilla relaxes.

In another study, participants were asked to stay in a florally scented room; a second group was assigned to an unscented room. Both were tasked to write about past experiences and to instruct a mime accordingly. The first group was found more likely to use positive or cheerful words and interact with the mime.

Knowing the facts above, you might want to get a reed diffuser refill and once again fill your room or office with the uplifting fragrance of lemons or lavender. Sometimes, all it takes is the right scent for you to inhale happiness and exhale all the stress out of your system.