Review: The Diffuser of Dreams

I love a good hearty candle; the more indulgent and luxe it is, the more I believe (for some odd reason) that it will magically eliminate stress from my living space and summon the relaxation vibes of every island spa in the world. There’s something therapeutic about lighting a candle and continuing on with your day as it warms, flickers and burns in the background, warm scent gradually filling the room. Except, that it needs replacing every few weeks, adds to my growing collection of unnecessary (yet too beautiful to bin) glassware and is a constant fire hazard for someone like me who is in and out of the room every twenty minutes.

Over the past year, I’ve tried numerous alternatives but always found myself back in the candle aisle, like a kid failing terribly at replacing sweets with well, peanuts. Reed diffusers I’ve tried either gave no scent at all, or gave too much and were finished within weeks, and oil diffusers were clunky and a chore to work. Or so I thought. I wanted something functional yet a breeze to use, with a statement aesthetic. Something which would fill my space with the inviting fragrance of home and look effortlessly cool doing it.

Enter this beauty; the Odoga Aromatherapy Oil Diffuser*.

I’d spent copious amounts of time one evening browsing aromatherapy ideas, when I stumbled upon this and fell in love.

Beautiful geometric design? Check. Compact size? Check. Easy to use? Check.

Add a few drops of fragrance oil into the water, and it diffuses over the decorative iron cover into beautifully cascading layers of aromatic mist. The diffuser is remote-controlled for even more brilliance, with a vast range of settings which allow you to have either the light OR scent on (or both at the same time, of course), dim the light to a flickering candle setting or use the 15 second interval mist mode so you’re not steaming through too much fragrance at once. It also has a safety feature where it turns off automatically when there’s not enough water left in the tank.

This is possibly my top home purchase of the year.

Gone are the days of stressing over unevenly burnt wax, or worrying that the candle is burning away at the other end of the room as you’re halfway to the land of dreams. Or looking disappointedly at the reed diffuser which was meant to smell like sea air but just smells like air. Now I just top up the water, add a few drops of any fragrance oil (you can buy these in sets if you feel like experimenting – honeydew is a current favourite) and wait for the mist to roll. Dreamy.