How to make a car fragrance with your own hands? 5 original products for cars

Have you ever gotten into someone else's car and suddenly smelled a delicious smell? Natural, without chemical components? And throughout the trip you could feel it in the cabin, relaxing you and giving you vital energy? You will be surprised, but homemade air fresheners have these properties. We will dedicate this article to them and tell you how to make a car flavor with your own hands.

How to make car fragrance from essential oils

Use essential oils as ingredients for making a car stink. They are inexpensive and easy to buy at your local pharmacy. Decide what effect you want to achieve by introducing a particular scent into your daily driving:

• Ylang-ylang will help relieve stress and fatigue. It is recommended to choose oil if your profession involves communication and you experience constant overstimulation. Avoid making ylang-ylang fragrance if you drive for a long time. It causes drowsiness;
• prefer verbena on a long trip. It concentrates attention on the road, drives away sleep, prevents motion sickness of the driver and passengers;
• Patchouli gives a boost of energy and prolongs wakefulness. The oil will become a lifesaver for truckers and forwarders;
• If you or family members suffer from colds, build a fragrance machine out of fir. It kills germs and prevents the spread of viruses. Recommended for use during the disease season. Fir is also irreplaceable in the summer, when the street is full of midges. This smell is unpleasant for insects, so they definitely won’t set foot in your car;
• Cinnamon ether is suitable for a salon in which the smell of cigarettes is felt. It eliminates it and adds vigor.

Pleasant car compositions are made from lemon, grapefruit, mint, rosemary.

Making your own fragrance from essential oils

To make car perfume, prepare materials and ingredients:

• soda
• water from the kettle
• selected essential oil

Pour 12 drops of essential oil with boiled water. The container for the flavoring should be ceramic or plastic. Slowly pour the resulting mixture into another bowl with the prepared soda. Use the entire pack (500 g). Once the mixture becomes thick, stir to break up any lumps. Transfer the mixture into silicone molds and let it harden for a day.

If you have a taste for beauty, add dye to the mixture. Pour it into interesting glass jars that are mounted in a dashboard. You can put the finished flavor in a bag or wrap it in regular gauze. It is better to put this craft under the chairs.

What fragrances are not suitable for cars and why?

Some odors can cause reactions in the body that increase the risk of an accident:

• relaxation and drowsiness (lavender, chamomile, jasmine, lily of the valley);
• overexcitement, causing you to exceed the permissible speed limit (the smell of freshly cut grass);
• feeling of fatigue or fantasies that dull attention (perfume, shaving lotion).

“Herringbone” flavoring cannot be used in a car if people smoke there, because... its microparticles, when combined with tobacco smoke, contribute to the penetration of more nicotine and tar into the body. The use of aerosols containing a lot of aldehydes, phenols, acetone, benzene, toluene, etc. is also harmful to health.

Lemon, citrus, vanillin, herbs and spices

Car fragrances are divided into 2 groups:

1. Calming - lavender, vanilla, chocolate, hops, lemon balm, incense, valerian.
2. Exciting - citrus fruits, musk, eucalyptus, rose, rosemary, geranium, juniper, bergamot.

Citrus fruits contribute to a surge of energy. A glass of coffee and the aroma of lemon zest or oranges will help the driver not to fall asleep while driving, and grapefruit will improve coordination. Over time, reflexes may develop that link a driver's driving behavior with the smell in his car. This will help, if necessary, to cheer up or calm down with the help of aroma. But if a smell is associated with some experience, it can cause a reaction associated with it that is not subject to consciousness, for example, aggression instead of a calm and forgiving attitude towards the mistakes of other road users.



How to make a car flavor from coffee

If you prefer the scent of coffee, making your own flavoring is a breeze. Buy a gift bag. It is transparent and has a mesh structure, which helps the smell spread. Price in retail stores is 20–50 rubles. Pour your favorite coffee beans into it and hang it in your car. The aroma lasts for 30–45 days. In addition, a bag hanging near the windshield will perfectly absorb condensation and help it dry quickly in rainy weather.

By the way, such flavors can be bought ready-made. Read about how to choose the right one here.

Benefits of homemade flavoring

Store-bought car fragrances are made using chemicals. This is the main reason for refusing ready-made air fresheners and wanting to make a scent with your own hands. Synthetic scents that imitate natural scents are, to say the least, unhealthy. At the most, they can cause harm, cause allergic rhinitis or other diseases.

An atypical reaction develops with frequent contact with an allergen. A substance that might not cause an allergy in a single “encounter” can become the main cause of respiratory tract diseases if inhaled frequently.

What else can be added in defense of homemade “smells”?

1. Store-bought fragrances offer mainly exotic aromas. Psychologists have proven that the natural smells of the familiar world around us are better for humans.
2. Often store smells are not 100% satisfying. Considering that you will have to “inhale” the purchased aroma for more than one day, it is worth thinking about the advisability of such a purchase. After a while, the annoying smell begins to irritate and spoil your mood.

And now, after compelling arguments, let’s begin to describe the designs of homemade, homemade flavors. What can they be made of and what smells can be “loaded” into them?

You can find out what the mysterious abbreviation means and how to make VD 40 with your own hands in the article by our specialist.

How to make a car flavor from gelatin

Gelatin flavors are good because they have disinfecting properties and an unobtrusive odor. To make the gel composition you will have to spend half an hour. If this doesn’t bother you, proceed to follow the instructions:

1. Get a plastic jar for the gel. Pour gelatin into it and fill it with water in proportions of 1:1.5. Stir.
2. Add 3-7 drops of glycerin depending on the volume. For 0.5 glasses of water, 3 drops respectively.
3. Pour in the dye (to create something beautiful), 2-3 drops of any essential oil. Shake or stir the mixture if the neck of the jar allows.
4. Wait until it hardens and take it into the car.

Citrus freshener

When buying fruits or flowers, we don’t even think about the possibility of their alternative use. For example, from several dozen dried clove flowers and 2-3 oranges you can make a high-quality freshener of natural origin.

The manufacturing scheme is as follows:

• divide the flowers into equal slides (for each of the oranges);
• stick flowers into the surface of the fruit until you get original “hedgehogs”.

This freshener will “work” for 12-15 days. In a car, it can be placed in the glove compartment, placed on the dashboard or on the rear parcel shelf (behind the passenger seat).

How to make a car freshener from perfume

The easiest way to make fragrance is to use an old perfume bottle. It would be ideal if there were droplets of your favorite perfume left in it, however, their absence does not matter. Break off the neck of the bottle and fill in the hydrogel. Process the cut line, cover with oilcloth. Wait 12 hours for the hydrogel to absorb the odor. After this, place the fragrance in a secluded place in the car. Make sure that children do not have access to it, as the bottle, even with a treated edge, is dangerous.

The smell stays in the car for 7-10 days, after which the hydrogel can be replaced. Whether it will smell again depends on the quality of the perfume. A good pacifier is enough for two or three times.

That's all you need to know in order to make a cool car air freshener with your own hands.
Finally, watch a few videos. They will help you implement your plans quickly and easily. Good luck on the roads! " Back

Self-production

The main advantage of self-made flavors is their naturalness. Psychologists say that a person perceives familiar smells better; this should be taken into account when choosing a base. You can make several options, store each one in a tight bag in the glove compartment and change it if desired.

In a linen bag

You need to prepare a piece of natural fabric no larger than 15x20 cm, dried herbs, flowers and petals, pine shavings, citrus peels. Then:

1. Sew the side seam.
2. Turn out and straighten the corners.
3. Decorate the front side (with a pattern using fabric paints, letters embroidered with stitches, etc.)
4. Fill and tie with ribbon or coarse twine.

Herbs are bought at the pharmacy, at the market from herbalists, or prepared independently. Those collected immediately after the dew has disappeared and dried in the shade smell more intensely. You can enhance the smell with a few drops of essential oil.

Based on gelatin or hydrogel

Do-it-yourself gel flavors do this:

1. Gelatin (1 pack) is diluted with water according to the instructions on the package.
2. Add 1 tsp. glycerin. It is necessary for the mass to dry for a long time and remain viscous.
3. Gradually (drop by drop) mix in the essential oil, achieving the aroma of the desired intensity; 1 jar may require from 7 to 20 drops.
4. Pour the mixture into a tin or glass jar with a capacity of 80-150 ml with small holes in the lid.

The flavor is given color using food coloring.

You can make a hydrogel-based fragrance, which is sold in flower shops:

1. Add essential oil (20-30 drops) into a jar (as in the previous version).
2. Add 50-60 ml of water and shake.
3. Add about 40 hydrogel beads.

The product will be ready in 10-15 hours, when all the flavoring liquid is absorbed into the balls.

With soda or dough

Baking soda is used in the manufacture of air freshener because... it retains the absorbed aroma for a long time. In addition to this, you need essential oil and a suitable jar. Pour a 1 cm layer of soda onto the bottom, add 6-12 drops of oil and shake.

For the dough freshener you need:

• flour - 100 g;
• salt - 100 g;
• water - 50-70 g;
• dye - 1/4 tsp.
• essential oil.

It is better to take fine table salt. The process of making aroma stones:

1. Dissolve the dye in water.
2. Mix flour with salt, add coloring.
3. Add 6-10 drops of oil and knead into a stiff, elastic dough.
4. Roll the dough into stones of any shape: round, oblong, square, reminiscent of sea pebbles.
5. Dry at room temperature.

During drying, upon contact with the surface of the table, small depressions appear on the surface of the products. You can make holes in the stones, thread ropes and hang them in a bunch.

From essential oils or vanillin

A liquid fragrance is made from essential oils by mixing 10-20 drops with water and sprayed with a spray bottle. And the bags with vanilla need to be cut, wrapped in thin, but not loose natural fabric and tied.

You can use several scents in homemade air fresheners, but you need to know how to make the right mixture with your own hands. The bouquet is created from oils of the same category, starting with minimal quantities - 3-4 drops. Adding vanillin to the mixture enhances the odors. It goes well with bergamot, rosemary, satin cedar, ginger, patchouli, apple, strawberry. These smells will invigorate you on a night trip.

From coffee or perfume

Freshly ground grains have the strongest odor, but it dissipates quickly. For a coffee freshener, sew a smaller bag than for herbs. If you plan to fill it with grains, 2/3 of the upper front part can be made of thin transparent fabric so that the grains are visible and give off the aroma better. An inexpensive variety of grains is suitable for sachets. Decorate the bag with coffee beans or inscriptions.

Manufacturers offer oily car perfumes. Such fragrances are installed next to the driver, on car air conditioners, or in the corner of the car. You can make a perfume-scented freshener yourself like this:

1. Cut out any shape from felt, felt or fleece.
2. Sew on a loop.
3. Spray with perfume.

This freshener needs to be refilled every 7-10 days. It is better to use light perfumes, without cloying or harshness. Complex perfumes combined with car fumes can mutate, causing lethargy and headaches. Don’t neglect your own comfort on the road in favor of some fragrance.



Solid version in the vehicle with your own hands - coffee

Perhaps the most common aromatic remedy. To make it, just take a piece of ordinary burlap, make a small bag out of it, pour coffee beans inside and tie it with a decorative cord. There can be a lot of design options for such a product. Everything will depend only on the imagination of the master. Such a fragrant bag will delight you for a long time with a stable, invigorating coffee scent.

The miracle bag can be filled not only with coffee, but also with any spice or a mixture of them. Good aromatic spices are vanilla, cumin, cinnamon, cloves, anise, and fennel.

In addition, recipes for solid products can be so-called “flour stones” or incense sticks. The recipes for their preparation are also simple. In the first case, flour and soda are mixed in water with the addition of a small amount of vegetable oil and a few drops of the selected aroma oil. For beauty, you can add food coloring to the batch. Then the text is formed into balls, which are placed in the refrigerator until they harden, after which the “stones” can be laid out in the cabin. And in the second case, about half a glass of baby liquid soap, a little alcohol and aroma oil is poured into a suitable container. Everything is thoroughly mixed and thin wooden sticks are dropped into this substance. After lying in this solution for several hours, they will be well saturated and will serve as sources of aromas.

Felt air freshener

Many people have seen on the shelves freshers made of solid material in the shape of Christmas trees, coffee beans and other figures.

You can do a similar thing with your own hands. All you need is a piece of wool felt. The latter can be bought in a store by choosing a color that matches the interior of the car.

The algorithm of actions is as follows:

• Cut out a square shape from wool felt. In this case, each of the edges should be about 10-12 centimeters;
• draw on the piece the shape you want to see in the end. For example, it could be a classic Christmas tree, some animal or object. You can take an item of interest and circle it with a marker around the perimeter of the workpiece;
• cut out the resulting shape and trim the edges;

• Apply a small amount of essential oil to the felt (decide on the smell in advance). The benefits of essential oils as flavoring agents are undeniable - they are of natural origin, and inhaling their aromas is beneficial for the body;
• attach a string to the edge of the product and hang it in the most convenient place. This design can last about two weeks. All it takes is just two drops of oil. Once the scent wears off, all that remains is to renew it.

At the same time, do not repeat the mistake of most car enthusiasts who hang the air freshener on the rearview mirror. This product will distract you from the road and may cause an accident.

The best option is to mount the “smell” somewhere near the rear window or in any corner of the dashboard.

Idea No. 1. Spices to help

To make such a freshener, you definitely need a tactile bag. You can make it from a sock by cutting off the desired part and rewinding it with thread.

You can put in the bag:

• coffee beans;
• cinnamon stick;
• vanilla bark;
• dry herbs.

You can use a mixture of herbs and spices to create new flavors.

Which scent should you choose?

The flavoring industry is developing at a rapid pace; today you can choose a product of any scent and color.

Smells help the driver on long trips, improve reaction and invigorate. Coffee beans smell especially nice. The aroma spreads throughout the car's interior, creating an unobtrusive smell, like in a coffee shop. It invigorates and gives freshness.

For spice lovers, use cinnamon, vanilla, anise or cloves, and to eliminate drowsiness, coriander and thyme are added to the bags.

You should choose a scent based on your condition. The smell should be pleasant, and not create inconvenience.