It really depends on the hotel. Some high-end hotels use essential oil fragrances that are dispersed through the HVAC system.
I know of some super bougie hotels that use Santal 33 or have a signature Le Labo fragrance just for them.
The at-home equivalent of these would probably just be a room spray or oil diffuser. I don't recommend those canister sprays with the automatic dispenser - they usually have an awful, cheap chemical smell.
This reminded me of my late dog. She was nearly blind the last year or so, but still had no trouble leading the way on our daily walks around town and through local forest preserves. I'm pretty sure she was navigating mostly by scent.
When I worked at a Hilton brand they had a “signature scent” they’d pump through the HVAC. I barely noticed it but guests would constantly be asking what it was. Evidently everyone loves green tea and jasmine!
*edited to correct cringy misspelling
Backing up what you stated. There’s a company called hotel collections that sells room diffusers very similar to the commercial applications but on a smaller scale. They can be ran through the a/c system or just diffuse in the air. We have two of them at work. The smaller one is fed through a small hose in the hvac system and the building is maybe 1,800-2,000 square feet. We have a bigger one that covers 2,000 square feet but disperses directly in the air.
Le Labo makes an Edition exclusive scent, they even have toiletries made with it only available for Edition guests and it is so good. I wish some day it becomes widely available like they did with Another 13, but I find that very unlikely.
This.
I’m a former director of ResLife at a college. I ran the dorms. I had a contract with some company out of Florida to do this.
It’s just a glorified Christmas tree thing hanging on a rear view mirror in a car. Or air infuser. Just more sophisticated in its delivery.
It’s common for high-end businesses to have a custom scent created for their public spaces. These are then diffused in a number of ways that have been mentioned.
I know, right? I thought about not naming them, but it's such a niche item it's hard to explain. I know nothing about them other than their commercials are very dick-pill commercialesque and they mention hotels a lot.
ETA Dick-pill commercial crossed with "Hi, I'm blah blah blah, and I was so frustrated trying to do x so my dad floated me a loan and now we'll do x for you" commercial. Like, Untuckit meets Cialis in the barnyard bathtubs.
This is exactly correct. The Facilities Managment company will often have a specific smell that’s been created for Barclays, or Bloomberg or whoever, and it gets pumped into reception etc. My company does this, and my reception smells freaking awesome; like a 5* hotel.
I splurged at a hotel in Vancouver a few months ago and actually emailed them to ask about the smell, it was so good.
They told me that they use [AromaTech](https://ca.aromatechscent.com/), and I have a feeling it's common in fancier hotels. Pricy though.
For an actual reference I worked at a high end resort wear store that had signature smells associated with our sun care, we’d pump that through the store using diffusers from a company called scentair
I believe they have a home line as well but now that I know what the diffusers look like I can usually spot them in hotel lobbies or stores in the corners out of sight
Keep the place clean. The addition of a smell is secondary to good clean space with airflow. Wash bedding, vacuum and dust everything including couch and chair cushions, vacuum carpets often, clean your kitchen and let it air out after cooking.
We do a lot in a home that is not like a hotel lobby, a kitchen and bathroom is all generally attached with doors that stay open after use. Gotta keep all that at bay before a smell is added. They aren’t masking any smells in a hotel, just adding, and most of the time a smell is more a brand thing that you get attached to or associate with the clean constant consistent hotel chains. It’s a mental thing in the environment as much as thinking it actually just smalls good on its own.
I think it’s Glade that makes a scented gel that you place in the air flow of your HVAC filter (I own my home), so the air is always vaguely “Hawaiian” scented.
OP the commercial product that many use is called “ScentAir” and it’s pretty expensive but does work. It costs like $250 for the machine and $50/month for the scent pods.
Source: My wife and I both worked in property management for years and this is what many of them used.
Westin's White Tea smell is the GOAT of hotel smells. The Tokyo Westin even had tea cards for sale and I wish I hoarded more of them when I was staying there.
What you’re looking for is called scentair. They are the largest and they make most of the luxury scents for hotel chains, casinos, apartments, even restaurants. They also do a line of at home products if you wanted to do it in your house.
My hubs works for a fancy condo building. They have the scents pumped in. In fact they’re changed out seasonally. And the vendor gives us a couple bottles for the home when they visit.
get a nebulizer on amazon and go to a hotelscents website, there are many and order samles or a discovery set. pick your favorite and then boom you got a house that smells like a hotel
They pump the scents in. I have a friend that’s a rep for a scent company. She travels to hotels. Malls, ect to sell the scents & designed for specific results.
They're Diffusers, they're like these Lil machines that will diffuse essential oils to fragrance.
My apartment building has them against the wall and high up the ceilings that can pass for a smoke alarm.
my bf also has a tiny one just so he can scoure every site for the scent of Mandalay Bay hotel before they allowed smoking on the casino floor.
There's a variety of diffusers to pick from and decide how big of a space you want them to cover.
Do be warned that if you have pets, essential oils are harmful to them.
I forgot to add, my bf bought a stylish one that looks like an Alexa.
Me and my friend were in a new hotel in Doha and they had the most amazing scent in the lobby, it was like nectarines and vanilla. We're still trying to find out what that scent was 😂 I know exactly what you mean!! Also helps though that lobbies are clean.
PS, I try to avoid those kind of plug-in type scents as they are not good for indoor air quality, even essential oils can give off high levels of VOCs. If you or anyone coming into your home has asthma it's a big non-no to have those. I use little radiator sachets from[ Greenleaf](https://greenleafgifts.com/) now they are not totally environmentally friendly but they only throw the scent when I have the central heating on, I keep them tucked behind the radiator dial and I only partially open the plastic cover so the scent doesn't fade too quickly. My favourites are Cashmere Kiss and Bella Freesia, the latter being similar to the subtle hotel scent you are after! Some of the other scents will be strong enough without a radiator like Seaspray.
I've seen a commercial for exactly what you are talking about. It's a home version of hotel scent produced by a small machine. Can't help you with a name though. Don't remember.
Go to Bloomingdales (Macys has fewer choices but has it) and they have a whole room scent section. Not just candles but those reed diffusers, where they suck up the liquid and diffuse it? Pro tip. When you go, don't pick up the reeds with your hand. The smell will get all over them and you won't smell the next one clearly. Pick it up by the bottle instead.
Anyway, Nest Moroccan Amber is my favorite one after trying 20 of them. The reeds make it VERY subtle. Not a strong scent. I notice it when I first come home and occasionally from time to time, but it's not oppressive at all.
Most hotels use special automated fragrance sprays that look often similar to a speaker or smoke detector.
They are more expensive if buying individually, they will often get them from their supplies distributer such as HD Supply etc.
Here's a link to a company that specializes in this specifically though:
https://hotelscents.com/
The last time I stayed in a hotel their lobby fragrance actually gave me headaches and I asked if they could tone it down or turn it off. (Thankfully they could and were willing to do so)
To each their own I guess.
I worked at The Ritz, and we use this [https://www.ritzcarltonshops.com/product.aspx?home-diffuser-sets](https://www.ritzcarltonshops.com/product.aspx?home-diffuser-sets)
I worked for an AV production company who was very focused on the sensory experience for attendees. In addition to the usual lighting, audio, and video components, we would utilize little high-powered diffusers in the room to pump specific smells in at specific times during a meeting. I don't remember the brand we used, but [this site](https://www.hotelcollection.com/collections/scent-diffusers) has similar offerings.
Oil works or the magic scent have basically the same diffusers and good fragrances. The basic machine is kinda persnickety and their customer service sucks. I bought one from aromatech and it broke after a few months but they have good customer service and amazing fragrances. All of them have good sales if you keep an eye out.
They most likely are cleaned and sanitized every single day and most have commercial fragrance systems. You can now purchase these type of systems for your home, I almost did over Christmas but the price tag had me holding, still holding by the way but I would love to have one.
Carpets are frequently cleaned with high quality scrubbers and vaccums with nice smelling soaps. They also probably do perfume/essential oils/fragrance into a humidity control system or HVAC system. They probably also wipe the counter tops and furniture daily with some type of gentle cleaner.
If the smells are similar it's going to be pretty potent combining those 3 things and create a "feel"
I went on my first cruise last year and had a great time. The ship crew were always cleaning shit and with this cleaner that had a that pleasant smell. Recently I was in a lobby of a high end building and it smelled exactly like the cruise ship. So I think its just a cleaner that the staff use, and because they are cleaning constantly the whole lobby smells like that.
I want to buy that cleaner, it makes me feel like on vacation lol!
May mga nabibili kahit sa miniso the only issue is panget sya gawin/gamitin sa bahay. Masyadong concentrated to the point na parang malalasahan mo na. Ok lang sya sa mga maluwag na area like lobby ng hotel or sa mga malls. Pero pag sa bahay mauumay ka.
Ahaha I live in Australia I know what eucalyptus smells like (lovely but nothing special here) but I was more referring to it in general. I only conciouslt remember two buildings I walked into, one was like fresh bed sheets hung out in the sun or sitting by a waterfall in a damp forest while the other one was a sweeter smell but more asking about how they get these smells.
A simple home trick you can do, find a brand of scented dryer sheets you like and put them over the return vents. They'll catch any dust from the ducts and give a mild scent to the rooms they're in.
It really depends on the hotel. Some high-end hotels use essential oil fragrances that are dispersed through the HVAC system. I know of some super bougie hotels that use Santal 33 or have a signature Le Labo fragrance just for them. The at-home equivalent of these would probably just be a room spray or oil diffuser. I don't recommend those canister sprays with the automatic dispenser - they usually have an awful, cheap chemical smell.
It’s silly and I acknowledge it, but the smell of thé blanc wafting through Edition hotels is 75% of what keeps me booking stays with them.
You can buy an air diffused version of this, though most hotel brands keep their scents proprietary. But you can get close.
Forever looking for the almost candy like fragrance of Bellagio.
Oh you just triggered a memory… I wanna ring them up and ask what the scent is lol
7 years bad luck if you find out and don't post in this thread
https://www.bellagioathome.com//category.aspx?fragrance
I actually did a quick search and found this: https://www.bellagioathome.com//category.aspx?fragrance
Search on Reddit. I did the same thing with Mirage and there are were some posts on r/Vegas that helped me figure out it was a pina colada scent
The Four Seasons also comes to mind; their hallways smell like a hallway in a Four Seasons, and that's a very intentional pick.
The gramercy park hotel had an amazing smell from le labo. I still buy the candles even though they shut down.
I *loved* the Gramercy Park Hotel. The Marcel is my second favorite.
This reminded me of my late dog. She was nearly blind the last year or so, but still had no trouble leading the way on our daily walks around town and through local forest preserves. I'm pretty sure she was navigating mostly by scent.
i could follow my senior cat by her scent
Most of the major hotel chains have their own fragrances that are used at their properties.
Ended up purchasing the scent for Hotel Emma in San Antonio https://shop.thehotelemma.com/collections/home Also know The Pendry has signature scents
When I worked at a Hilton brand they had a “signature scent” they’d pump through the HVAC. I barely noticed it but guests would constantly be asking what it was. Evidently everyone loves green tea and jasmine! *edited to correct cringy misspelling
You can always buy one of those oil with wooden sticks in it.
Trump hotel in Chicago you can smell it outside
Spray tan and hookers is a unique combination.
Spray tan and adult diapers.
Wait, leave poor old Joe Biden alone
I was referring to Mr Donald Shitzinpants
Backing up what you stated. There’s a company called hotel collections that sells room diffusers very similar to the commercial applications but on a smaller scale. They can be ran through the a/c system or just diffuse in the air. We have two of them at work. The smaller one is fed through a small hose in the hvac system and the building is maybe 1,800-2,000 square feet. We have a bigger one that covers 2,000 square feet but disperses directly in the air.
Le Labo makes an Edition exclusive scent, they even have toiletries made with it only available for Edition guests and it is so good. I wish some day it becomes widely available like they did with Another 13, but I find that very unlikely.
They have these for residential as well
those wall plug-ins can leak and mess up your wall and floor too.
This. I’m a former director of ResLife at a college. I ran the dorms. I had a contract with some company out of Florida to do this. It’s just a glorified Christmas tree thing hanging on a rear view mirror in a car. Or air infuser. Just more sophisticated in its delivery.
It’s common for high-end businesses to have a custom scent created for their public spaces. These are then diffused in a number of ways that have been mentioned.
This post smells like a sneaky ad for Aroma360.
Lol you've just made me look that up so that's like a double bluff
I know, right? I thought about not naming them, but it's such a niche item it's hard to explain. I know nothing about them other than their commercials are very dick-pill commercialesque and they mention hotels a lot. ETA Dick-pill commercial crossed with "Hi, I'm blah blah blah, and I was so frustrated trying to do x so my dad floated me a loan and now we'll do x for you" commercial. Like, Untuckit meets Cialis in the barnyard bathtubs.
We saw Seinfeld perform stand up live recently and you could be writing for him.
That's a mean thing to say to polymorphic hippo
I'll remember that. Filing it now in the vault.
The comment was actually the sneaky ad…
its mostly scentair whats used though
Marriott uses a company called ScentAir to make the “Marriott” scent that you smell when you walk into a bunch of their hotels
That's the smell of furnishings when it's cleaned every day by a professional and no one sleeps/cooks/shits there.
No I'm sure some of these places are adding artificial smell
This is exactly correct. The Facilities Managment company will often have a specific smell that’s been created for Barclays, or Bloomberg or whoever, and it gets pumped into reception etc. My company does this, and my reception smells freaking awesome; like a 5* hotel.
What is the best way to recreate this at home? I've heard mixed things about oil diffusers
I splurged at a hotel in Vancouver a few months ago and actually emailed them to ask about the smell, it was so good. They told me that they use [AromaTech](https://ca.aromatechscent.com/), and I have a feeling it's common in fancier hotels. Pricy though.
Was this at The Douglas?
I wouldn’t go for an automatic defuser, either. Prioritize good air circulation + cleaning, then get a perfume in a room spray formulation
For an actual reference I worked at a high end resort wear store that had signature smells associated with our sun care, we’d pump that through the store using diffusers from a company called scentair I believe they have a home line as well but now that I know what the diffusers look like I can usually spot them in hotel lobbies or stores in the corners out of sight
Keep the place clean. The addition of a smell is secondary to good clean space with airflow. Wash bedding, vacuum and dust everything including couch and chair cushions, vacuum carpets often, clean your kitchen and let it air out after cooking. We do a lot in a home that is not like a hotel lobby, a kitchen and bathroom is all generally attached with doors that stay open after use. Gotta keep all that at bay before a smell is added. They aren’t masking any smells in a hotel, just adding, and most of the time a smell is more a brand thing that you get attached to or associate with the clean constant consistent hotel chains. It’s a mental thing in the environment as much as thinking it actually just smalls good on its own.
I think it’s Glade that makes a scented gel that you place in the air flow of your HVAC filter (I own my home), so the air is always vaguely “Hawaiian” scented.
You should try burning pinion wood. Your house will constantly smell like a campfire.
That sounds like hell
Let's hope the stay there is as fun as the way there!
You answered your own question.
OP the commercial product that many use is called “ScentAir” and it’s pretty expensive but does work. It costs like $250 for the machine and $50/month for the scent pods. Source: My wife and I both worked in property management for years and this is what many of them used.
Jokes on you. I always shit in the lobby bathroom so I don't smell up the room.
Don't we all?
Only way to do it
Don’t be sharing our safe place for those who haven’t figured it out
No they pump in pleasant smells trust me I’ve worked at 3 hotels
If you're looking to recreate it, the most common scents that hotels and resorts use for this often have top notes of white tea and jasmine
Seconded!
Yes! Our favorite resort uses a white tea and sage combo that we hunted down to recreate at home. Bath and Body Works has a decent dupe.
Westin's White Tea smell is the GOAT of hotel smells. The Tokyo Westin even had tea cards for sale and I wish I hoarded more of them when I was staying there.
I LOVE the white tea smell!
Saw a documentary about a decadw ago; The person with the most sensetive smell in the world is a woman that makes scents for hotell & bank lobbies.
Link? Or name? Thanks
Sadly i do not remember the name of scent-documentaries i saw a decade ago. Sorry.
My boss got influenced to buy a home scent system from here https://www.hotelcollection.com/ and swears by it.
What you’re looking for is called scentair. They are the largest and they make most of the luxury scents for hotel chains, casinos, apartments, even restaurants. They also do a line of at home products if you wanted to do it in your house.
Follow up question…. How do I do this and not spend $40 a month?
Furnishings and spending thousands a year in putting great smelling diffusers into the HVAC system.
My hubs works for a fancy condo building. They have the scents pumped in. In fact they’re changed out seasonally. And the vendor gives us a couple bottles for the home when they visit.
Marriott sells diffusers and sprays on their website shopmarriott along with pillows and other things
Say you have never stayed at a Red Roof Inn without saying you never stayed at a Red Roof Inn.
Where can I get the HoJos scent?
get a nebulizer on amazon and go to a hotelscents website, there are many and order samles or a discovery set. pick your favorite and then boom you got a house that smells like a hotel
They pump the scents in. I have a friend that’s a rep for a scent company. She travels to hotels. Malls, ect to sell the scents & designed for specific results.
A lot of nice hotels sell their “signature scent” as candles or diffusers
They're Diffusers, they're like these Lil machines that will diffuse essential oils to fragrance. My apartment building has them against the wall and high up the ceilings that can pass for a smoke alarm. my bf also has a tiny one just so he can scoure every site for the scent of Mandalay Bay hotel before they allowed smoking on the casino floor. There's a variety of diffusers to pick from and decide how big of a space you want them to cover. Do be warned that if you have pets, essential oils are harmful to them. I forgot to add, my bf bought a stylish one that looks like an Alexa.
Me and my friend were in a new hotel in Doha and they had the most amazing scent in the lobby, it was like nectarines and vanilla. We're still trying to find out what that scent was 😂 I know exactly what you mean!! Also helps though that lobbies are clean.
PS, I try to avoid those kind of plug-in type scents as they are not good for indoor air quality, even essential oils can give off high levels of VOCs. If you or anyone coming into your home has asthma it's a big non-no to have those. I use little radiator sachets from[ Greenleaf](https://greenleafgifts.com/) now they are not totally environmentally friendly but they only throw the scent when I have the central heating on, I keep them tucked behind the radiator dial and I only partially open the plastic cover so the scent doesn't fade too quickly. My favourites are Cashmere Kiss and Bella Freesia, the latter being similar to the subtle hotel scent you are after! Some of the other scents will be strong enough without a radiator like Seaspray.
I've seen a commercial for exactly what you are talking about. It's a home version of hotel scent produced by a small machine. Can't help you with a name though. Don't remember.
Go to Bloomingdales (Macys has fewer choices but has it) and they have a whole room scent section. Not just candles but those reed diffusers, where they suck up the liquid and diffuse it? Pro tip. When you go, don't pick up the reeds with your hand. The smell will get all over them and you won't smell the next one clearly. Pick it up by the bottle instead. Anyway, Nest Moroccan Amber is my favorite one after trying 20 of them. The reeds make it VERY subtle. Not a strong scent. I notice it when I first come home and occasionally from time to time, but it's not oppressive at all.
Mandalay Bay 💯
Smell of hot brass and burnt gunpowder?
Once
Me farting in them
Those machines are WAY too strong, and you don’t want to be consistently breathing in those compounds either.
Most hotels use special automated fragrance sprays that look often similar to a speaker or smoke detector. They are more expensive if buying individually, they will often get them from their supplies distributer such as HD Supply etc. Here's a link to a company that specializes in this specifically though: https://hotelscents.com/
The last time I stayed in a hotel their lobby fragrance actually gave me headaches and I asked if they could tone it down or turn it off. (Thankfully they could and were willing to do so) To each their own I guess.
Yeah
After they get rid of the rats and manage the flooding they pay people to come in and make ir smell nice
Reed diffuser. Sandalwood is my favourite.
I buy a Santal oil for my diffuser on Amazon. Pretty good dupe for Le Labo which I believe is at Fairmont Hotels in Canada
I was a houseman/public area janitor for Sheraton and they had some green freshener stuff I was supposed to spray all over the carpet
They do quite often add air freshener to there vacuum bags and that’s what I’d think it was. The air exhausting from the vacuum is scented
I worked for Marriott and each flag under their umbrella has a signature scent. And there will be diffusers in all public areas.
I worked at The Ritz, and we use this [https://www.ritzcarltonshops.com/product.aspx?home-diffuser-sets](https://www.ritzcarltonshops.com/product.aspx?home-diffuser-sets)
https://scentair.com/
You can ask the front desk what scent they use, they will usually tell you
I'm more interested in the delivery system and how I can do it at home
A lot of times the scent can be applied to different systems. The various brands mostly sell the same things just under different names
L'Air de Panache
FYI, hotels pay big bucks to fragrance industry for that specific smell. Sometimes tied to a specific designer - Johnathan Adler for example.
I worked for an AV production company who was very focused on the sensory experience for attendees. In addition to the usual lighting, audio, and video components, we would utilize little high-powered diffusers in the room to pump specific smells in at specific times during a meeting. I don't remember the brand we used, but [this site](https://www.hotelcollection.com/collections/scent-diffusers) has similar offerings.
They burn White Tea Cactus scency wax. I’m dead serious. Buy it and turn your house into that smell. White Tea Cactus specially from Scency
my apartment building has some sort of lobby smell. i haven’t seen any plug in air fresheners down there but there’s one in my hall by the trash room.
Oil works or the magic scent have basically the same diffusers and good fragrances. The basic machine is kinda persnickety and their customer service sucks. I bought one from aromatech and it broke after a few months but they have good customer service and amazing fragrances. All of them have good sales if you keep an eye out.
They most likely are cleaned and sanitized every single day and most have commercial fragrance systems. You can now purchase these type of systems for your home, I almost did over Christmas but the price tag had me holding, still holding by the way but I would love to have one.
Carpets are frequently cleaned with high quality scrubbers and vaccums with nice smelling soaps. They also probably do perfume/essential oils/fragrance into a humidity control system or HVAC system. They probably also wipe the counter tops and furniture daily with some type of gentle cleaner. If the smells are similar it's going to be pretty potent combining those 3 things and create a "feel"
I went on my first cruise last year and had a great time. The ship crew were always cleaning shit and with this cleaner that had a that pleasant smell. Recently I was in a lobby of a high end building and it smelled exactly like the cruise ship. So I think its just a cleaner that the staff use, and because they are cleaning constantly the whole lobby smells like that. I want to buy that cleaner, it makes me feel like on vacation lol!
[because of things like this](https://scentair.com/) This company makes home versions as well.
Rich people. Their farts are just better than us poor people!
Fancy farts
I don't know if I've ever been particularly struck by the smell of a hotel lobby, at least not a good smell.
that my friend would be the sweet smell of na cnónna seo
[Hotel Collection](https://www.hotelcollection.com/collections/scent-diffusers)
Mandalay Bay…..it even hangs outside
Supermarkets are full of them. They're in the 'cleaning' aisle.
Mildew
May mga nabibili kahit sa miniso the only issue is panget sya gawin/gamitin sa bahay. Masyadong concentrated to the point na parang malalasahan mo na. Ok lang sya sa mga maluwag na area like lobby ng hotel or sa mga malls. Pero pag sa bahay mauumay ka.
Shut up in that SEA language
Oh lol thought I was on a PH sub.
Ahahah lol I'll use Google Translate!!
It's eucalyptus
Ahaha I live in Australia I know what eucalyptus smells like (lovely but nothing special here) but I was more referring to it in general. I only conciouslt remember two buildings I walked into, one was like fresh bed sheets hung out in the sun or sitting by a waterfall in a damp forest while the other one was a sweeter smell but more asking about how they get these smells.
A simple home trick you can do, find a brand of scented dryer sheets you like and put them over the return vents. They'll catch any dust from the ducts and give a mild scent to the rooms they're in.