The Best Diffusers to Make Your Home Smell So Fresh, So Clean

Hyascent’s hourglass oil diffuser is one of my favorites because not only is it highly effective in imparting your scent of choice to any given room—it’s also beautiful and calming to look at. There are ten different scents to choose from, though I recommend Urban Tomboy if you’re partial to leather and black pepper. If you want to figure out which scent will suit you best, Hyascent’s scent quiz is just the thing to take. In each diffuser, your choice of scented oil makes its way through artisanal wood, staining it before wafting out to the surrounding area and lasting an average of four to six months. The brand offers gift sets that are perfect for the holidays, and if you want something a little more fancy, limited quantity Crístal diffusers made of hand-etched Bohemian glass from a small Czech town located near the childhood home of Hyascent’s founder.

For those scent-lovers who are also a little hi-tech, Scentify’s Plug-in Diffuser has four different strength settings, a smart mode that ensures it will only run at certain levels of light, and can run all day long to keep your home smelling great around the clock. Some of Scentify’s essential oils are cheekily named after cities or places they’re meant to evoke, and if you can’t get enough of Scentify in your home, you can try out the Car Diffuser, which is smart enough to run only when the car’s vents are blowing.

Another great option for those who are tech savvy is the Aera, a diffuser that uses microdroplet technology to dispense aromatherapy essential oils as microscopic scent molecules (for every aerosol droplet, there are 125,000 Aera droplets). This means that your favorite fragranced is emitted more evenly and in a way that guarantees it’s hypoallergenic. The Aera can be operated through Aera’s app, which features a variety of ways to customize how you want your diffuser to work in your home, or paired with Amazon’s Alexa, and the company guarantees that its technology won’t create any dead or heavily concentrated scent zones.

The Pura diffuser not only efficiently makes your room of choice smell fresh and inviting—it lets you switch between two different fragrances. All you have to do is select your favorite pair and let your mood decide the rest. You can control your Pura from anywhere using the brand’s app and a built-in color wheel LED light is there to add ambience.

The AroMini from Aromatech is definitely a favorite among the technology-forward fragrance diffusers. It uses nebulizing and cold-air diffusion technology to preserve the essential oil particles in their purest form, so that they don’t become diluted through heat during the diffusion process. This approach maintains the intensity of each scent, and the way in which it is evenly dispensed through each room. Plus, Aromatech has a diverse catalog of very unique scents to choose from and they are all 100% pure.