Make Rose Potpourri At Home

The first smell you inhale when you enter a home says a lot about its inhabitants. The home must feel fresh, clean, and have an aroma such that people feel welcomed when they enter the home.

The French people have rather made this into art where there make sure that their homes are filled with fragrant such as woody notes. And this is made simply by a handful of dry flowers which are kept in a bowl. These handpicked dry flowers are called potpourri, made of a mixture of dried but natural flowers with fragrance, plants slivers, and even herb which is kept in a bowl or small pouches and placed in the home such as it feel the air with aromatic smell.

The aroma or fragrance is by mixing spices and scented fixatives with dried petals and even herbs. These are then kept in special pots with perforated lids, which will then scent the house. When beautifully made and kept in a bamboo basket or beautiful pot, it can be a decorative item too.

These are available in shops and many places in different s fragrances, but if you would like to be innovative as well as save some money, you can make this at your own home as per your choice of perfume.

The potpourri helps in keeping the environment smelling good for a long time.

How To Make The Rose Potpourri:

Ingredients are rose petals, fixatives, spices, herbs, and the essential oils

If you have some fresh rose petals, you can dry them in a flat pan or on any flat surface as they turn crisp. For each quart of petals, add one tablespoon of fixative. Dry lavender, sandalwood, orris root, oak moss, etc., which are available in chop form at the herb store, and then add your favorite spices like nutmeg, dry citrus peel, vanilla beans, cloves, cinnamon, etc. finally, add a few drops of the essential oils from the aromatherapy range or add the favorite perfume. Seal the mixture in a jar, and it mellows in it for some ten days. You must keep shaking the jar for a couple of days such that they blend in properly. Then place it in a porcelain bowl in the house or make a sachet of potpourri and place it in a drawer etc. Your home will welcome you with a refreshing aroma.