Scentsy scent recipes: Mix and match your own summer wax melts

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A dash of this and a drop of that creates the perfect home fragrance! After all, choosing a fragrance of any type is a deeply personal form of self-expression. Scentsy fragrance experts ensure each of our scents are balanced and delightful. But mixology is fun! Crafting your own blend of fragrance is a creative exercise and results a scent you will truly love. Use this tutorial to blend Scentsy fragrances to create unique combinations that tell your story and personalize your home’s scent experience.

Fragrance family fundamentals

Successful fragrance mixing begins with understanding fragrance families, or categories of scents that share complementary fragrance notes and characteristics. Use these as the foundation to create fragrance blends:

Bakery: Comforting and indulgent notes like vanilla, caramel and chocolate that crosses the threshold of your favorite neighborhood patisserie.
Citrus: Energizing and clean notes like pineapple, tangerine and yuzu for a zingy reminder of a tropical beach vacay.
Floral: Romantic and garden-fresh notes like rose, jasmine and lavender that leads through a blooming garden or flower shop.
Fresh: Crisp and invigorating notes like linen, ocean breeze and rain that inspire deep breaths of clean air.
Fruity: Bright and uplifting notes like berry, apple and pear that give a fresh-from-the-orchard vibe.
Spice: Warm and complex notes like cinnamon, clove and cardamom like a cozy nook with books and blankets.
Woods: Sophisticated and earthy notes like sandalwood, cedar and pine that wind deep into the forest.

Generally, it’s a snap to blend fragrances from the same family. But surprising scents can come from cross-family combinations. The most important tip is to trust your own nose.

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Scent scaping

Scent scaping is strategically curating fragrances in a single room or throughout an entire home to define spaces, set moods and evoke emotions. It’s a companion to intentional visual home design and contributes to the overall ambiance. For example, the right fragrance can make a bedroom more relaxing, drive energy in a game room or inspire tranquility in a reading nook.

Mixing and combining scents and fragrance systems throughout your home is an essential part of interior design, and as important as lighting, colors and textures.

Multiple systems, new combos

Experiment with these versatile approaches using Scentsy Bars, Scentsy Pods and other fragrance systems:

Combine Scentsy Bar cubes in a Warmer for multilayered fragrance that develops beautifully over time.
Use different Scentsy Pods in a single Scentsy Air system or strategically place multiple components in separate rooms for a varied experience.
Pair a Fragrance Flower in a room with a Warmer using different fragrances.
Add different Scentsy Bar fragrances to multiple Warmers in the same area for a complex scent experience.

Scentsy Wax Bars are placed next to each with fragrance notes like fruits, blossoms, and shimmering water splashed behind them, combining to make their own unique, mix and matched fragrance.

Feature fragrance mixing from Scentsy

Here are eight fragrances to combine into creative blends:

Barefoot Beach
Pineapple Mango
Ocean Shimmer
Amazon Rain
Island Bloom
Coco(nuts) for Coconuts
Wild for Wildflowers
Hibiscus Pineapple

☀️Sunny retreat🧳

Combine: Barefoot Beach + Pineapple Mango

This pairing unites coconut and island driftwood with juicy citrus fruits and passionflower. Together, they create an escape-worthy blend that transforms a bedroom or bathroom into a personal island retreat.

🌊Waves and rainfall🌦️

Combine: Ocean Shimmer + Amazon Rain

Lemon, musk and sea breezes join exotic fruit, coconut milk and jasmine. This combination evokes the moment when ocean meets storm and works well in home offices and meditation spaces.

🌴Tropical refresher🥥

Combine: Island Bloom + Coco(nuts) for Coconuts

Create your own paradise or high-end resort spa by combining fresh fruit and green palm with ocean breeze and fresh coconut. Try it in guest bathrooms and kitchens.

🍍Fruit and flowers🌺

Combine: Wild for Wildflowers + Hibiscus Pineapple

Bring a riot of flowers and crisp citrus inside with this blend of wildflowers, lychee and pineapple notes. Together, it’s a sophisticated blend to enhance entertaining spaces like dining rooms or parlors.

Mix your own fragrance combos

Just dive in! Smell, sniff and whiff your way to what you really like. Then start thinking about what might work well together and what mood you want to create.

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Look for complementary notes. Study the descriptions of your favorite fragrances. Identify shared or complementary ingredients in other scents as starting points for your blends. Opposites often create the most memorable combinations. Embrace contrasts by pairing something bold and complex with a subtle, single-note fragrance for sophisticated balance. Another approach is to recreate nostalgic scent memories, like summer watermelon and ice pops, grandmother’s flower garden or that perfect beach vacation.

Pro tip: Find an incredible combo? Write it down! A personal fragrance journal is treasure of signature scents for seasons, moods and occasions. And don’t forget to add your favorite Scentsy Bars to a Scentsy Club subscription so you never have to go without your go-to blend.

Discover the pleasure of being your own scent stylist and create your own signature scent combos. Let us know in the comments what you create!