How to Choose the Perfect Candle Scent for Your Home
Choosing the right candle scent isn’t just about fragrance it’s about creating a mood, setting the atmosphere, and making your home feel like your sanctuary. As makers of hand-poured coconut and soy wax candles in the UK, we’re often asked:
“How do I choose the perfect candle scent for my home?”
So today we’re sharing a friendly, easy guide to help you discover the best candle scents based on your mood, your space, and the feeling you want to create. Whether you're new to scented candles or simply looking to refresh your home fragrance, this guide will help you find your perfect match.
Start With the Mood You Want to Create
Before looking at specific candle scents, start by asking yourself a simple question:
“How do I want this room to feel?”
Once you know the mood, choosing the scent becomes so much easier. Let’s explore the four most popular home moods and the fragrances that match each one beautifully.
🧘♀️ For Calm & Relaxation
There’s nothing quite like coming home, lighting a candle, and instantly feeling your shoulders drop. If calmness is what you’re craving, go for soft, soothing fragrances like lavender, chamomile, rose, or sandalwood. These scents encourage slow evenings, quiet moments, and peaceful rituals.
Lavrose Pick: White Lavender with Gemstone Scented Candle
This candle brings a gentle, spa-like aroma to any space. Perfect for bedrooms, cosy corners, meditation spaces, or your evening wind-down routine.
🌿 For a Fresh, Clean Home Feeling
When you want your home to feel bright, open, and airy (especially after a good tidy-up!), fresh scents make all the difference. Think crisp, refreshing notes like eucalyptus, white tea, fresh linen, or herbal blends.
Lavrose Pick: Citrus Fresh Scented Candle
This fresh, uplifting fragrance is ideal for kitchens, bathrooms, hallways, or any room that benefits from a clean, energising scent. It instantly refreshes the space without feeling overpowering.
✨ For Cosy, Warm Evenings
Some scents feel like a warm hug comforting, rich, and perfect for slow evenings at home. Warm scents like vanilla, amber, woods, and gentle spices create that “wrapped in a blanket” feeling we all love, especially in autumn and winter.
Lavrose Pick: Chocolate Orange Scented Candle
A customer favourite for cosy nights in. The warm, sweet blend fills living rooms and reading nooks with soft, comforting aroma ideal for unwinding after a long day.
🌞 For Energy & Mood Boosting
If your space needs a bit of life something to brighten your mornings or help you stay focused throughout the day fruity and citrus scents are the way to go. Notes like lemon, grapefruit, orange blossom, and berry blends are naturally uplifting.
Lavrose Pick: Summer Bouquet Scented Candle
Light, fresh, and energising perfect for home offices, kitchens, or any room where you want that “fresh start” feeling.
Matching Scents to Your Rooms
If you’re still unsure, here’s a quick room-by-room guide:
- Bedroom: Lavender, rose, chamomile calm, soft, relaxing
- Living Room: Versatile scents like amber, vanilla, florals or fresh blends
- Kitchen: Citrus, herbs, clean scents
- Bathroom: Eucalyptus, white tea, coastal or spa-like fragrances
- Home Office: Citrus, fresh florals, energising blends
This is where you can create a whole atmosphere throughout the house each room with its own moment and personality.
Let Seasonal Scents Guide You Too
Your home changes with the seasons, and your candles can follow:
- Spring: Fresh florals, herbs, airy scents
- Summer: Citrus, berry, seaside notes
- Autumn: Spices, woods, warm gourmands
- Winter: Cosy vanilla, amber, chocolate-orange
And yes rotating scents really does make your home feel new again.
Follow Your Heart (and Your Nostalgia)
Sometimes the perfect candle isn’t about mood or season at all it’s about memory.
A scent that reminds you of a place you love.
A moment from childhood.
A holiday.
A person.
Lavrose itself began from scent memories rose fields and lavender summers so we know how powerful fragrance can be.
Trust What Makes You Feel Good
At the end of the day, the best candle scent is the one you keep coming back to the one that makes you smile the moment you open the lid.
All our Lavrose candles are hand-poured in Surrey using a natural coconut & soy wax blend that burns cleanly, slowly, and gently fills your room with fragrance. Whether you're looking for calm, energy, freshness, or warmth, we’ve got a scent for every space and every mood.
If you ever want help choosing, feel free to message us we love helping people find their perfect candle.
Warm wishes,
Todor & Elizabet
