The Fall Home Scents I Use Every Year

Fall home scents are the first thing I change when the weather turns, usually a few weeks before I move a single piece of decor around. The Nest Pumpkin Chai classic candle is the one I light first every year. It is warm and spiced without smelling like a bakery, which is the line I care about, because I do not want my living room smelling like dessert at nine in the morning.

If you want that same scent going all day without lighting anything, the Pumpkin Chai reed diffuser does it, and I keep mine in the entry so the house smells like something the second you walk in. The Voluspa Baltic Amber classic candle is my other constant.

Amber is less obviously fall than pumpkin, which means I burn it from September straight through winter and never get sick of it. For the pieces that just sit there and work, the Crate and Barrel Fete orange cinnamon bowl filler goes in a shallow bowl on the coffee table, and the World Market Autumn Grove pumpkin potpourri goes in a wood bowl in the kitchen.

Potpourri feels a little old fashioned and I do not care, because it fills a room for weeks with no flame and no outlet. The Williams Sonoma mulling spices are what I simmer on the stove when people are coming over, and the smell is better than any candle I own. T

heir spiced cider essential oil collection is the version of that for a diffuser if you do not want a pot going. Last is the Williams Sonoma figural pumpkin soap dispenser, which sits by the kitchen sink and is the only decorative thing in this whole group. My approach is one scent per floor so nothing competes, and I stick with warm and spiced rather than anything sweet.