Fragrance Your Home
Our home is more diverse than ever. It’s our sanctuary, our workspace, our classroom. It’s a place for creativity, productivity, comfort and relaxation. A place to feel safe, to rest and restore and a place to spend time with loved ones. I believe that natural fragrance can elevate all spaces in our homes and also benefit our health and well-being by altering our mood - all brilliant reasons to say yes when Quadrille Publishing asked me to write a book about it.
Having an opportunity to work with the brilliant editorial and design team at Quadrille, with beautiful photography by Philippa Langley has allowed for the creation of something truly special, a book that I hope you’ll treasure and use forever.
Simple, practical alchemy.
Fragrance Your Home gives you an insight into my learning journey, which started in my late teens when I began to use and feel the true benefit of aromatherapy.
Essential oils can be expensive and that is why this book focuses on 7 core essential oils. Incorporating scented flowers and botanicals into projects it is possible to create many beautiful, fragrance tools for your home.
The book details 22 projects + additional home fragrance tips. Each project outlines the tools and materials you’ll need, along with step-by-step methodology that work for every living space in your home and for all seasons and moods.
Enjoy making bath tea, incense and dream sachets, alongside modern aromatherapy candle making, beautiful dried flower blends and many more ideas to scent your home.
Each project uses entirely natural products that you may already have or that you can easily purchase or find for free outdoors.
A resource for everyone.
Fragrance Your Home is a rich resource, it teaches you how to create transformative and evocative scents for your living spaces. With clear instruction, everyone can benefit from using this book.
For personal use, family fun or to make gifts this book provides fundamental information and practical guidance with scope for you to learn and develop your own techniques and styles.
Dip into the book, pick a project, or read from cover to cover. Whichever way you choose to use my book, I’ll just be happy to have encouraged you or someone you love to start a personal natural fragrance journey of their own.
I believe in the continual perfection of craft, and it’s an honour to be able to publish and share with you my many years’ experience of creating fragrance for well-being.
An incredible journey.
When I began the creative process I had no idea just how much I would enjoy it. I started writing early 2020, with a slight pause at the start of the pandemic. After settling into lockdown and a new way of life, I spent hours in the garden laboratory pouring my heart and soul into this book. I wanted to create scented projects that will help you feel relaxed, uplifted and boost your energy. Projects that you can easily achieve yourself without the need for expensive equipment or hundreds of materials.
When I recalled delving into books when I began my own natural fragrance journey and the many materials I would need, I must admit I found it overwhelming, and limiting due to requiring lots and lots of different essential oils. With that in mind, I set out to create a project book that made it simple for you to get started on your own journey and be enjoyable along the way. I wanted to allow you the freedom of using materials and essential oils you already have as well as a focus on 7 essential oils to formulate fragrance.
Fragrance Your Home is available in hardback from good bookshops and independent stores and has also been published in Dutch and German.
If you love natural fragrance and Essence + Alchemy products, I’m absolutely certain you’ll love this book. Find out what readers are saying and how to purchase a copy here.