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Describe Home as a Scent

Describe Home as a Scent

What Does Home Smell Like?

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Sharon Falsetto Chapman
Apr 12, 2025
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Home is where the heart is and this week’s Describe *** as a Scent article is very close to my heart. I recently moved house and moving into a new home with unfamiliar smells, after spending sixteen years in my last home, was unsettling. So, I decided to take a look at what home smells like.

Home is a myriad of different scents, uniquely personalized to the individual. But it also draws in the scent of the building itself, its surroundings, and what goes on in the home. A home has a unique scent story of its own and yours might be quite different to mine!

In this article, I’ll be challenging you with some different scent prompts for home and getting you to think about what your home would be if it was a fragrance.

"The home should be the treasure chest of living.”

Le Courbusier (1887-1965), Swiss-French designer and painter

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