New Year’s Ritual Sense in Fragrances

The New Year is a wonderful moment of transition from the old to the new, carrying people’s full expectations and aspirations for the future. And fragrances, just like the wonderful magic hidden in the air, can skillfully add a unique warmth and hope to this special occasion, leading us to embark on a wonderful journey of scents.

Spring cleaning during the New Year is a traditional activity that every household sticks to. When we carefully clean every corner of the room and make everything look brand new, it would be really wonderful if a citrus-scented perfume slowly spreads in the air. The citrus scent has an auspicious meaning, and its fresh and slightly sour-sweet fragrance seems to dispel the tiredness and gloom of the past year, bringing full vitality and good luck.

For example, Hermès’ Eau des Merveilles perfume has a prominent aroma of citrus fruits like oranges and lemons in its top notes. During the spring cleaning process, just spray it a few times in the room. As we are busy cleaning, the fresh scent will linger around us, making the originally boring cleaning work become relaxing and pleasant. Moreover, when family members and friends step into the house, they will first smell this fresh fragrance with an auspicious meaning and immediately feel the strong New Year’s atmosphere.

I interviewed Ms. Li, who is enthusiastic about spring cleaning during the New Year. She said with a smile, “Every year when I do spring cleaning, I will spray citrus-scented perfume. I feel that the whole house is injected with new vitality. Once, after I just finished cleaning, relatives came to visit. As soon as they entered the door, they praised that the house was fresh and pleasant, and it made people feel comfortable. Since then, this has become a fixed little ritual for me during the New Year.”

During the New Year, there are one family gathering after another. Everyone sits around together, sharing the bits and pieces of the past year and imagining the beauty of the future. At this time, lighting a rose-scented candle, the soft candlelight and the romantic rose fragrance blend with each other, which will make the whole gathering atmosphere especially warm and sweet.

Jo Malone’s Red Roses scented candle is much loved by people. It highly restores the rich and elegant fragrance of roses. After lighting it, the faint rose fragrance will gradually spread in every corner of the living room. When the family gets together, having the New Year’s Eve dinner and watching the Spring Festival Gala, with the candlelight flickering and the rose fragrance lingering, it adds a touch of romance to this happy family moment.

Miss Zhang shared her experience, “During the family gathering last New Year, I deliberately lit a rose-scented candle. The originally lively atmosphere became more affectionate because of this fragrance. My grandma even said with a smile that it felt like going back to the romantic time when she was young and in love. Since then, every important gathering at home, I will light a candle to continue this romance.”

If you want the house to be filled with the fragrance full of hope for the New Year for a long time, pairing a diffuser with suitable compound fragrance essential oils is a great choice. You can choose a compound fragrance that combines the steady woody scents like cedar and sandalwood with some fresh floral scents like orange blossom and jasmine. The woody scent symbolizes stability and steadiness, while the floral scent implies beauty and vitality. The combination of the two just fits our expectations for the New Year.

Drop such essential oils into the diffuser, adjust the appropriate evaporation intensity, and place it in the corner of the living room or on the bedside table in the bedroom. In this way, the house will be filled with a rich and reassuring fragrance all day long. Whether it’s waking up in the morning to welcome the first ray of sunlight in the New Year or falling asleep accompanied by this fragrance at night, people can deeply feel the hope and tranquility brought by the New Year.

Mr. Wang is quite fond of this way. He said, “I think the diffuser makes the air in the house more textured. That compound fragrance is very unique. Every time I smell it, I feel that the new year is full of possibilities and I feel particularly at ease. Now it has become an indispensable part of my New Year. I feel that it carries all my yearnings for life in the New Year.”

In this New Year, we might as well make use of these fragrance products and carefully arrange them according to different scenes, so that every corner of the house is filled with unique scents, full of warmth and hope, and let fragrances become a charming touch of color in the ritual sense of the New Year, and start our wonderful journey of scents.