Natural Home Fragrance

Natural home fragrance, where the scent comes straight from plant, wood, and resin. Small makers in Japan, Finland, and the United States turn hinoki cypress, palo santo, Finnish birch, and American beeswax into Japanese incense, essential oil room sprays and diffusers, candles, and soap that smell like their source material.

Scent belongs in a house the way it belongs in a forest: from the material itself. Incense is the plainest proof, a stick of cedar or sandalwood and a match, and the same holds across the shelf. Candles carry these materials into the evening, essential oils and room sprays into the air, and soap to the sink, each one chosen because it does one thing to a room and does it clearly.