How to make liquid car fragrance

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.

Do-it-yourself liquid car fragrance

To create an aromatic liquid, any jars of medicine or oils will be used. The easiest way to make it is to pour the selected aroma oil into a bottle, seal it with a cork bottle cap with a hole through which a decorative cord will be pulled, and, if desired, decorate it in any way possible, for example, covering it with fabric or painting it with vintage paints. The cord, dipped in oil, will be soaked, filling the space with a wonderful aroma.

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.

Simple ways to make a scent for your car

If you don’t want to bother too much, then you can build a car fragrance using improvised materials. This will come in handy: food spices, dried herbs, aromatic oils. You just need to put herbs or spices in a beautiful bag and hang them in a convenient place inside the car.

In the case of essential oils, it is better to use figured pieces of fabric in the form of Christmas trees, smiley faces, etc. It is better to take material such as felt, felt, fleece - the aroma will last longer. But essential oils will need to be added every week as they wear off. A car air freshener can be made based on an old one, purchased if you have an old bottle lying around. Replace the middle by inserting a piece of paralon or cotton wool and drip the aroma onto it.

By the way, essential oils have beneficial properties that a motorist would benefit from knowing:

• valerian, sage and bergamot soothe and help eliminate depression;
• cloves, coriander and cypress invigorate, evoke positive emotions, and restore strength;
• cinnamon and tangerine tone the body;
• wormwood improves concentration;
• Thuja increases stress resistance.
• cypress and jasmine normalize emotions, restore nerves, and rejuvenate.

Oils can be combined to make the smell as pleasant as possible for yourself; you can read special literature regarding this.

It is better not to use relaxers, and keep calming ones to a minimum. Preference should be given to citrus and coniferous fruits. The road requires attention and concentration!

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.

DIY gel fragrance for your car

Gel products are more durable. They are made on the basis of gelatin, glycerin and any essential oils to taste. Gelatin is dissolved in warm water according to the instructions on the bag, a little glycerin is added, everything is mixed well and the aroma oil is added to the cooled homogeneous mixture , after which it is placed in the bottle. To obtain a spectacular appearance, the mixture is tinted with food colors or simple gouache, and fancy small shells, beads or even flowers are placed inside. These bottles look amazing and smell incredible. The main thing is not to forget to make holes in the lid.

Christmas trees and other ideas...

You can make a simple and familiar Christmas tree air freshener yourself. To do this, it is enough to cut out the appropriate figure from felt, make a hole for a cord so that it can be conveniently hung and soaked in the chosen oil. By the way, it can be not only a Christmas tree, but also any other figure, for example, Cheburashka, a heart or an original pumpkin for Halloween. The active bouquet of such impregnated felt lasts about one week, after which it should either be activated by adding aromatic oils to the surface, or replaced. You can make a simple freshener by sticking dried cloves into an orange.

In fact, there can be many ideas. Here are photos of some of them.

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

Now let's get creative!

Store-bought flavors do indeed need to be changed frequently. A Christmas tree that is familiar to everyone, but an old one, can become a stencil so that you can make a car flavor yourself from felt, for example. There doesn’t have to be a Christmas tree - a heart, a sun, a smiley face, etc. On New Year's Eve you can cut out Santa Claus or a snowman. It all depends on the driver’s imagination and mood. What you need to make aromatics:

• a piece of felt or other similar fabric;
• pencil in a contrasting color to the fabric;
• sharp scissors;
• favorite essential oil;
• cord or thick thread for hanging the flavor.

Top 3 options for making car air fresheners

A bag of spices

The simplest and most unpretentious option is to hang a bag of spices in the interior of your car. To do this, choose the spices that you like. This can be cinnamon, star anise, cardamom, mint, lemon balm, dried ginger, dry citrus peel, rosemary, bay leaf, vanilla, cloves, cumin, savory, etc. Combine several spices (preferably no more than 5), place them in a linen bag purchased in advance, and hang them in the car. If you are a coffee lover, then the bag can be filled with aromatic coffee beans.

Gel flavor

Preparing this product will require a little effort. Here is the list of required ingredients:

• empty small glass container with lid. It is best to use leftover jars from used store-bought mixtures. But if there are none, then 30 ml medicine bottles are perfect.
• gelatin;
• salt;
• water;
• essential oil (you can use several oils at once, but no more than three).

Mix one tablespoon of gelatin with warm water to form a thick paste. Next, prepare a concentrated salt solution (you will need one tablespoon of this solution). Mix the two substances, adding a few drops of essential oils. The mixture is poured into a jar and left for a day in a cool place. During this time, the gelatin will harden and you will get a fragrant briquette inside the glass. All you have to do is wrap a string around the neck of the jar and hang it in the interior of your car.

Soda freshener

To prepare you will need:

1. Any container with a tight-fitting plastic lid. You can use a salt shaker or a plastic pill bottle;
2. soda;
3. glycerol;
4. essential oils.

Mix one tablespoon of baking soda with the same amount of glycerin and add a few drops of essential oils. You should end up with a viscous but flowable mixture. Then, this mixture must be placed in a container and tightly closed with a lid, having previously made several small holes in it. That's all. The only thing is that from time to time you will have to shake the jar of soda to fill the car interior with aroma.

Required tools and materials

To prepare the air freshener, you should prepare a number of tools and materials:

• Essential oil.
• Vodka.
• Distilled water.
• Cotton wool.
• Special container.

In stores that sell various types of aroma candles and lamps, it is not difficult to buy essential oils with any aroma. By the way, some types of odors have a beneficial effect on human health. You need to choose the scent that you like best. Price for a 15 ml bottle. is approximately 100 rubles.

Since the essential oil is extremely fragrant, some may think that it will be enough and no additional materials will be required. But this is not true, because the oil is not durable, and its smell will disappear in just a couple of minutes. To consolidate the effect and increase the durability of the aroma, you will need to buy vodka (alcohol content of at least 57 percent) with distilled water.