How to Make Your Home Smell Like Fall: The Ultimate Fall Scent-Layering Routine

There’s something about the way fall smells that makes you want to bottle it up and bring it home.

Think crisp autumn air, freshly picked apples, warm cider, cinnamon and nutmeg, sugary apple cider donuts, and that unmistakable smell of fallen leaves. It’s basically a New England fall festival in fragrance form.

So why stop at using just one fall fragrance?

One of our favorite ways to make your entire home smell like fall is by layering complementary scents throughout your space. From the products you clean your counters with, to the fragrance warming in the background, to the scent of your freshly washed blankets, every layer can work together to create that cozy fall atmosphere.

And if you want your home to smell like you just stepped into the best fall festival ever, we have the perfect combination.

Meet Our Fall Scent Trio 🍎🍂

We chose Fall in New England, Apple Cider Donuts, and Autumn Delight because they naturally blend beautifully together in a home. Even better, they’re tried-and-true L+L favorites. Each has been in our fall lineup for 2+ years, with customers coming back for them season after season. So we wanted to share the best of the best and show you how we layer them.

🍎 Fall in New England

Our #1 best-selling fall scent and a true L+L favorite. Crisp apple and sugared pear blend with maple syrup, Earl Grey tea, honey, cinnamon, vanilla, and warm nutmeg. Fresh, cozy, and quintessentially New England fall.

🍩 Apple Cider Donuts

Straight from the fall festival. Fresh apple and warm cider meet fried donut, sugar crystals, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, and tonka bean for that unmistakable fresh-from-the-cider-donut-stand smell.

🍂 Autumn Delight

The outdoorsy side of the trio. Apple, fall leaves, berries, citrus, cinnamon, pecan, and cedar give this one a crisp, woodsy feel that balances the sweeter scents beautifully.

Together, they create the orchard, the cider donut stand, the crisp leaves + all the cozy smells of a fall day.

Now let’s bring it all home. 🍂

Step 1: Start With Your All-Purpose Cleaner

Here’s one of the easiest tricks for making your house smell good for fall: start scenting while you clean.

Instead of cleaning your home and then adding fragrance afterward, your cleaning routine becomes the first layer.

Our All-Purpose Cleaner is available in Fall in New England, Apple Cider Donuts, and Autumn Delight, so you can start building your fall fragrance while tackling your everyday cleaning.

Imagine wiping down your kitchen with Fall in New England and getting those crisp apple, pear, maple, and warm spice notes in the background before you’ve even turned on your wax warmer.

Or go full fall bakery with Apple Cider Donuts, or bring in that crisp, woodsy fall feeling with Autumn Delight.

It’s an easy way to make something as simple as cleaning the kitchen feel a whole lot more like fall.

Step 2: Layer in Anywhere Aroma

Next, bring that fall fragrance beyond the kitchen and into the rest of your home with Anywhere Aroma.

Mist it into the air, over curtains, on upholstered furniture, throw pillows, blankets, and other fabric surfaces to create little pockets of fall fragrance throughout your space. Always spot-test fabrics first.

This is also where mixing and matching gets really fun.

If you cleaned with Fall in New England, try spraying Autumn Delight around the room for an extra layer of crisp leaves, cedar, fruit, and spice.

Or pair Fall in New England with Apple Cider Donuts for that straight-from-the-orchard-and-cider-mill feeling.

Because all three fragrances share complementary fall notes, you don’t have to use the exact same scent in every product. Layer them throughout different areas of your home and let the fragrances blend together.

Pro tip: Curtains are one of our favorite places to use Anywhere Aroma. Give them a light mist and enjoy a little burst of fall fragrance as you move through the room.

Step 3: Warm Your Wax Squishies™ for Long-Lasting Fall Fragrance

Now for the star of the show: Wax Squishies™.

Our squeezable soy wax melts are an easy way to keep your favorite fall fragrance going in the background while all of those other scent layers come together.

Choose Fall in New England, Apple Cider Donuts, or Autumn Delight, squeeze your desired amount into your wax warmer, and let this become the main fragrance for the room.

Want that classic apple orchard and quintessential New England fall vibe? Warm Fall in New England.

Want your house to smell like someone just walked through the door with a fresh bag of cider donuts? Go with Apple Cider Donuts.

Want something a little more crisp and woodsy with fall leaves, fruit, spice, pecan, and cedar? Try Autumn Delight.

While your All-Purpose Cleaner and Anywhere Aroma add fragrance in different areas of your home, your Wax Squishies™ keep that cozy fall scent warming in the background and help tie everything together.

Step 4: Make It Extra Crisp + Cozy With Autumn Laundry

Okay, now we’re taking it one step further.

If our first three fragrances make your home smell like a fall festival, Autumn Laundry adds that fresh, crisp, cozy element that makes you want to grab a blanket and stay home.

Autumn Laundry features notes of cashmere, sunlit citrus, crisp air, herbal lavender, soft jasmine petals, white musk, patchouli, and tonka bean.

Instead of adding even more apple, cinnamon, and sweetness, it brings a fresh, clean, airy layer into the mix.

Wash your blankets, bedding, and towels in our Autumn Laundry Luxe Detergent and suddenly you've added another completely different layer of fall fragrance to your home.

Your wax warmer smells like apples and warm spices. Your curtains and furniture carry hints of cider donuts, fruit, or crisp leaves. And when you curl up with a freshly washed blanket, you get cashmere, crisp air, soft musk, and lavender.

That is fall scent layering.

Create Your Own Fall Scent Combination

The best part about scenting your home for fall is that you don’t have to make every room smell exactly the same.

Because Fall in New England, Apple Cider Donuts, and Autumn Delight complement one another, you can mix and match them based on the kind of fall atmosphere you want to create.

For the ultimate New England fall festival at home, try:

• All-Purpose Cleaner: Fall in New England

• Anywhere Aroma: Autumn Delight

• Wax Squishies™: Apple Cider Donuts

• Laundry Detergent: Autumn Laundry

Now imagine walking through your house.

You catch crisp apples, pear, maple, and warm spices in the kitchen. Somewhere in the background is the unmistakable smell of warm apple cider donuts. Hints of autumn leaves, cedar, and fruit add that outdoorsy fall feeling. Then you grab a freshly washed blanket and get crisp air, cashmere, lavender, jasmine, and soft white musk.

BONUS: Don’t Forget the Bathroom Sink 🍂🫧

One last little touch: put a fall Whipped Soap by the sink.

It’s such an easy way to carry your fall scent theme into the bathroom—and it gives your guests a little seasonal moment every time they wash their hands. Plus, a cute jar of whipped soap sitting next to the sink instantly makes the space feel a little more fun and festive for fall.

Our Whipped Soap comes in plenty of seasonal scents, including Sticky Apple Butter Cake, Autumn Luxe, Harvest Ritual, and Vintage Cranberry.

Or keep your fragrance layering going with Fall in New England or Apple Cider Donuts, both available in Whipped Soap too.

It’s a small detail, but when the kitchen smells like fall, the living room smells like fall, the blankets smell like fall, and even the soap sitting by the sink smells like fall?

You’ve officially committed to the season. 🍎🍂

Make Your Home Smell Like Fall 🍁

Making your home smell amazing for fall doesn’t have to come down to one fragrance product sitting in one room.

By layering complementary scents through the products you’re already using—from cleaning your counters and misting your curtains to warming Wax Squishies™ and washing your coziest blankets—you can create a fall fragrance experience that carries throughout your entire home.

And these aren't fragrances we just picked because they happen to work well together. Our customers have been loving these fall scents for years, with Fall in New England becoming our #1 best-selling fall fragrance.

Start with the crisp orchard-inspired notes of Fall in New England, add the warm gourmand goodness of Apple Cider Donuts, bring in the fallen leaves and woods of Autumn Delight, and finish everything with the fresh, cozy scent of Autumn Laundry.

Your house might not actually be a New England fall festival...

but it can smell like one. 🍎🍂🍩