Room scent

Two things that are not candles. A reed diffuser and a room spray, mixed in the back, using the same oils as the jars. No plug, no heat, no mist machine, no claim that the air is healthier afterward. They make a room smell like balsam, bayberry, cedar, or tea. Then they stop.

Reed diffuser

Vessel

4 oz glass

Base

Dipropylene glycol and oil

Reeds

Eight rattan reeds

Scent

Balsam needle, bayberry, or dry cedar

Span

About 8 to 10 weeks in a closed room

Price

$36

Flip the reeds once in the first week, then leave them. Flipping every day dumps oil on the table and finishes the bottle early. In a Portland winter the heat runs hard and the solvent leaves faster. A small shut room can be done in six weeks. A room with the door always open lasts longer and smells weaker. That is air exchange, not a weak bottle.

Keep the glass off the sill. Cold glass plus a warm radiator nearby makes the level drop on one side and can slick the wood under it. Set it on a tile. The oil will mark bare wood if it creeps.

Room spray

Vessel

2 oz glass, atomizer

Fill

Ethanol and oil

Scent

Balsam needle or black tea

Span

An hour or two in the air, then gone

Price

$22

Two or three sprays into the room, not onto a flame, not onto wax, not onto a vent. The tea is dry, with a little bergamot peel in the oil. It is a smell, not a drink, and it will not cover wet wool or a shut stairwell. If you wanted the candle, take the jar. The spray is for a room where you do not want a flame.

What it will not do

It will not match the shop exactly. The shop door opens all afternoon, and your February living room may not open at all. Scent reads louder in dry, heated, closed air. If it is too much, cap the diffuser or take the spray out of the room. We will not tell you the oil is doing anything else.

Black tea and unscented are candle options. The diffuser does not come unscented, because a diffuser with no oil is a bottle of solvent. Unscented in this shop means the beeswax pillar or a jar poured without oil.