How to easily bring fall scents and a fall feel to your home? Make some fall-scented candles! It’s an easy way to bring fall aromas and cozy up your space for this beautiful season. We’ve prepared some simple tutorials for you, read them and get crafty!
Pumpkin Spice
DIY some pumpkin spice candles to fill your home with fall scents! Try different colors and containers to fit your space as well as possible. DIY candles are actually really easy to make, and don’t require a ton of time or fancy equipment. This homemade pumpkin spice candle is a soy candle, which means its much safer than traditional paraffin candles. Paraffin wax candles produce soot, and also emit harmful chemicals like benzene and toluene. Even if you don’t burn candles often or don’t have asthma or other respiratory issues, you don’t want any that kind of stuff in your home’s air. Soy candles also burn longer than paraffin candles.
DIY pumpkin spice soy candle (via acultivatednest.com)
Make these amazing pumpkin spice latte candles in latte cups from Starbucks! This isn’t only a cool idea but also a great fall gift for anyone. The most important thing is that you have some sort of coffee-scented oil and some pumpkin spice scented oil. It’s also important that you add more coffee than pumpkin spice. Get more details reading the tutorial.
DIY pumpkin spice latte candle in a coffee cup (via twinspiration.co)
Candles are easier to make than you might think, but there are some supplies you’ll have to gather beforehand. These amazing candles will fill your home with an aroma of pumpkin spice and vanilla, and they look really fall-like!
DIY pumpkin spice fall-colored soy candles (via www.southernmomloves.com)
These beeswax pumpkin spice candles are great for the fall. In addition to helping the bees, burning longer, and being free of the toxins in most paraffin candles; beeswax candles actually purify the air while burning. These candles are made inside real pumpkins – cut them out and pour the wax inside! Such a cool idea for a fall centerpiece!
DIY pumpkin beeswax candles in pumpkins (via www.twineandtable.com)
Cinnamon
Make this cinnamon and vanilla scented candle to enjoy the fall scents anytime you want! These candles are the perfect way to say hello to autumn. And the container options are endless! You can also experiment with swapping the cinnamon and vanilla essential oil with other popular essential oils like cedarwood or lavender.
DIY fall cinnamon spiced vanilla candle (via www.thehappierhomemaker.com)
Scented candles are awesome for adding a calm and warm atmosphere to any room and they have the added benefit of making the house smell amazing at the same time. There’s just something so “homey” about the smell of vanilla, cinnamon, and cake batter. Making your very own cinnamon candles is a lot cheaper and easier than you might think! read how to make them in the source.
DIY cinnamon candles (via mycrazygoodlife.com)
This candle contains not only cinnamon, it also contains clover, orange and ginger essential oils that make it super aromatic. Always burn soy candles long enough for the wax to melt across the container before blowing out the flame. This will avoid a tunnel forming in the wax or shortening the life of the candle. Read how to make such scented candles using soy wax and enjoy crafting some!
DIY cinnamon, clove, orange and ginger essential oil candles (via www.lifenreflection.com)
Apples
Make your own green apple mug candle using soy wax and essential oil. This candle makes a perfect gift for teachers or fall. Even if you don’t have an apple printed mug, you may decoupage it or paint an apple on the mug, there are some instructions to do that. Pour more apple essential oil to fill your home with a strong apple scent!
DIY apple candle in an apple printed mug (via thecraftingchicks.com)