Home Fragrances That Will Make You Forget You Ever Loved Scented Candles

I’m a hoarder when it comes to certain things — handbags, ankle boots, rose gold everything — but nothing more than scented candles. I have a whole closet shelf dedicated to them. It’s like a world tour in fragrance — Japanese cherry blossom, Egyptian oud, Italian neroni — and I love them all. I really do…

But here’s the problem with candles: They only work when I’m around. I can’t very well leave one burning as I head to work so its Bulgarian rose scent will greet me when I return 10 hours later. I mean, I’m too by-the-books to even leave a flame going when I top up my teacup in the next room.

And that’s precisely why a whole new crop of flame-free home fragrances has won over my heart. Each is as gorgeous to look at as it is to smell — like a diffuser that swaps standard sticks for orchid blossom branches, and one that looks like some luxe objet you might discover if you traveled to the future.

Ahead, 10 options that let you scent your home without a matchbox in sight.