Have you considered swapping out the scented candles and diffusers for a stove-top air freshener? Try this stove-top simmer with lemon, rosemary, and vanilla that is super easy to prepare and will keep your house smelling fresh and sweet all day long.
You may have heard that before having people over, you should bake cookies to fill the air with a pleasant aroma to psychologically influence them to have a better time at your house. Well, a stovetop air freshener acts the same way.
Having all the windows shut all the time can make the house feel a little stuffy and unpleasant. There are several solutions to this problem, such as lighting up some scented candles, using a scent diffuser, or spraying some air freshener around your house.
However, making a stove-top air freshener is a more natural solution to stuffy rooms. . All you need is a few simple ingredients tossed into a pot, and then you can have your whole house smelling fresh and bright throughout the day. This is a quick and easy DIY project for a lemon, rosemary, and vanilla stove-top simmer that you absolutely have to try.
What You’ll Need
- A few sprigs of fresh rosemary
- 1 lemon cut up in slices or wedges
- One to two vanilla pods or a few drops of vanilla essence
- 2 cups of water
Depending on your scent preferences, you can even play around with these quantities and increase or decrease how much rosemary, lemon, or vanilla you use.
Instructions
When it comes to making the stove top air freshener, the instructions couldn’t be easier.
Simply toss everything into a big pot and set it on the stove. Turn on the flame to low and let the air freshener start to simmer. You can check on it every hour or so and keep adding in more water as needed. And there! It really is as simple as that!
With your stove-top air freshener simmering on the stove all day long, you can expect your whole house to be filled with the lovely fresh, and sweet scents of rosemary, lemon, and vanilla. You can pour everything out from the pot into a jar and put it into the fridge to use some other time again.
Each batch can be used several times before it needs to be thrown out. Since rosemary, lemon, and vanilla are all relatively strong scents, they don’t die out very soon and continue to freshen up the house even after multiple uses.
Do you think you’ll be trying out a stove top air freshener any time soon, or will you keep sticking to the scented candles and scent diffusers? If you’re feeling adventurous, you could even try mixing in different ingredients for some fun, new scent combinations.
