How to Make Your Home Smell Like Fall to Keep the Cozy Vibes Coming

If donning your finest flannel and heading for the nearest orchard isn’t in the cards this year for you, sparking Literie’s Apple Picking in the Hudson Valley candle is the next best thing.

It's an apple-forward scent that also bakes in a little sugary sweetness and amber warmth to evoke the smell of fresh-made cider doughnuts.

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Diptyque just launched a limited-edition pumpkin fragrance for fall 2022, and it's a gorgeous, original interpretation of the season.

The Citrouille candle is fresh, vegetal, and gourmand, evoking a straight-from-the-oven, perfectly spiced pumpkin pie, made not with canned puree, but with a farmer's market gourd. Chestnut facets also complete the accord in the coziest way.

If you own a Pura Smart Fragrance Diffuser, you already know what a game-changer it is to be able to scent your space with different fragrances on your schedule. (If not, check out our review to learn all about it!)

For this season, swap out your regular Pura fragrance refill for something that’s exquisitely autumnal. NEST’s Pumpkin Chai is the brand’s highest-rated fall scent, with one reviewer saying, “The fall season hasn’t begun in our home until this scent hits the air.” It smells of pleasantly warm baking spices, but it isn’t too sweet or strong.

Woody, powdery, resinous, and sweetened with vanilla bean, the scent of the Baltic Amber scent from Voluspa is as comforting as a warm hug.

It comes in candle form, but reviewers adore the reed diffuser for making their entire space smell absolutely incredible. As one reviewer sums up, “Baltic Amber diffusers mean ‘I’m home’ to me. Its warm, soft fragrance permeates every room & closet in my house and totally relaxes me.”

Fall smells like many wonderful things: colder-than-usual mornings, the giddiness of cuffing season, hot toddies by the fire, and, of course, pumpkin-spiced everything. If just one fall scent isn't enough for you, treat yourself to this set of four from Anecdote Candles.

It includes Basic (pumpkin and cardamom), Bonfire Blaze (whiskey and chestnut), Farmers Market (ginger and meadow grass), and Ghosting (amber and tobacco spice), which are all sold separately as well. We love that you can switch up your scent from day to day while still staying in a fall mood with this set.

We highly endorse switching up your dish soap to be in sync with the seasons — especially when the season in question is fall. Grove Collaborative's eco-friendly home-cleaning supplies are some of the most incredibly scented that we've ever tried, and their Naturelust collection is no exception.

The Spiced Pumpkin dish soap (available with or without the glass dispenser) smells quite moody and romantic, with more emphasis on the “spiced” part. We’ll take anything that’ll make doing dishes a little more delightful!

We'd venture to guess that fall lovers and book lovers have a lot in common! This particular candle is a lovely blend of two of my favorite things.

Homesick’s soy-wax Book Club candle is generously sized and softly scented. I actually have to put my nose up to it to pick up its notes of vanilla, sandalwood, and nutmeg. It all combines into a nice, aged-paper smell that’s very welcoming and cozy but not too strong.

If you're a hardcore candle collector, you've probably amassed a lot of beautiful, used-up vessels over the years, and you're running out of clever ways to use them. That's where the brand Siblings comes in. Their candle-wax refills help you cut down on waste by using plant-based packaging. Plus, the step-by-step process of refilling your chosen (and safe!) candle jar is super easy.

Not to mention, the scents themselves are gorgeous. The No. 13 candle scent is fall decadence at its best: warmth, sweetness, and musk that evokes the olfactory flavor of campfire s'mores.

The Abuela’s Bakery candle from Bonita Fierce is inspired by “after fiesta desserts,” and if this panadería exists IRL, we want to go immediately.

It features notes of coconut, custard, and maple, but intriguingly, also bourbon, smoke, and patchouli. While our sweet tooth is active in every season, there’s something unmistakably fall about this sumptuous scent.

To my nose, the Tapestry Candle from Otherland's Manor House Collection smells of crushed leaves, smoke-infused leather, and smoldering embers. This is a scent that really shows off fall's sexier side.

And, just saying, it pairs very nicely with the Carole King album by the same name spinning on the living room record player.

Spritz this sunny scent into your space whenever you want a hint of fall coziness without the sugary or smoky notes that so many others have.

Bright Idea, a room spray from Brooklinen's new home fragrance collection, includes notes of cardamom, geranium, and vetiver. It completely nails the elusive cozy-yet-clean scent combination, making it a joy for spraying in any room, anytime.