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Nest Diffuser: Adding fragrance to your home interiors

Updated: Apr 1, 2022

To create a welcoming home that is radiant, evocative smells have become the most crucial part. Compared to the other interior design aspects, the history of where home fragrances came from is often overlooked. Where exactly from where did the Grapefruit Nest Diffuser, reed diffusers, and others come from. Today, we are going to check out the history of how the home fragrances came up and how the favorite smells came into the daily lives here.


A tale as old as history

Over five thousand years ago, perfumes and home fragrances developed with the aromatic resins used in places like Egypt for masking the smell of animal sacrifices. For many to this day, scents have long had religious and spiritual connotations that are quite true. The ancient Greeks used fragrances in the ceremonies that included communicating with the Gods, while Egypt used scents for holy sacrifices.


Scents that have traveled across time

They are most commonly used these days when it comes to some of the documented ancient scents. The old chemist of Tapputi used the native to the Nile or the blue lotus. It is a lot more broadly available today with the popular thanks to its soft, sweet, and slightly intoxicating scent, while here work was mainly used by the ruling class.


Scent and medicine

The scents were mainly used for covering the smell of corruption and sickness, while the fragrance along with the medicine that have always had a link at this time.



The mists of time

It both came into play around the middle ages with the active diffusion of scents when using steam extraction. The smell was used in Europe and was mainly considered decadent and looked down on by the church for a brief time. The chemistry was rapidly developing, and steam extraction allowed for a much broader selection of the scent.


An enlightening array of smells

Chemistry, artistry, and spirituality all started to flourish again in the West once the Enlightenment hit Europe. Home fragrances along with the perfumes has developed hand in hand with the chemistry discoveries that continue to broaden the range of ingredients used from the 1800's. Medieval townships were mainly developed to mask the smells of sewage, and all the unpleasant odors of the city life as medieval townships grew into cities and fragrances.


The rise of modern home fragrance

More and more has remained the same while the way we tend to employ and enjoy our scents has changed completely. How the scents are influencing our health is how the aromatherapy has links to the classical world ideas. Scents are still used for the meditation and other esoteric practices for many as it has spiritual connotations. It is seemingly a modern one for the usage of home fragrance glass bottles along with the reed diffusers for creating a different atmosphere and landscape in the home.


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