Different Types of Potpourris For Different Rooms!

Potpourris are the boxes or baskets filled with dry flowers, fruits, spices or other scented parts of plants dipped in oils and essence, which provides a pleasant fragrance that keeps the air inside the rooms fresh and scented. Different types of potpourris are available in a variety of fragrances in the market, or we can make a potpourri in our home using the available resources. Each house contains different rooms meant for different functions. There are specific potpourris specially made for each room. The main locations for potpourris in a home includes,

• Drawing room

·         Dining room

·         Bedroom

·         Bathroom

·         Store room

·         Kitchen

Potpourri for drawing room

 Potpourris made of Mint leaves, juniper wood, cypress wood, sandalwood, etc are the best flavors suitable for a living room. Living rooms are usually big and these fragrances are strong enough to reach every corner of the room to make it fresh all day. The fragrance of sandalwoods stimulates the production of dopamine, which can suppress stress-causing hormones and relieve depression. 

Dining room:

Dining room must be clean and hygienic. A good fragrance can make the dining room pleasant and insect free. Potpourri made with spices like cinnamon, cardamom, clove or pepper is perfect for the dining room. Citrus potpourris like lemon and orange are appetizer fragrances, as they stimulate the production of digestive juices.

Bathroom:

Strong fragrances help to cover the foul smell produced from the toilets. It is good to use Potpourri made of orange peel, lemon, jasmine, or sandal, can spread the fragrance easily to the atmosphere compared to others. Cedar Potpourris have an ability to destruct disease causing pathogens. That is why in some countries, people use Cedar Potpourris in bathrooms.

Bedroom:

The bedroom is an important section of a house. The fresh atmosphere in a bedroom makes us feel like heaven. The bedroom is the place where we spent more time, so it is good to change the fragrance at regular intervals. Frequent exposure to a single fragrance for a long time may make us feel irritated. Potpourris made of dried fruits like orange, mango, berries etc, and those made of flowers like Lavender, rose, jujube, rosemary etc are perfectly suitable for bedrooms. Using strong fragrance in bedrooms may alter normal sleeping pattern.  

Storerooms:

Usually storerooms do not require any Potpourris, but the need of the Potpourri in storeroom depends on the type of materials we store in it. Potpourris made of spices, roots and scented woods are good for storerooms. It is good to fumigate storerooms once in a month using fume fragrant, as it keeps the storerooms free from insects and other tiny organisms that damage the foodstuffs, stored in it.

There are different types of Pot Pourri that can influence the mode of human beings. Fragrance can stimulate a number of hormones and enzymatic activities in our body. As a source of natural aroma, potpourris are acquiring a huge acceptance worldwide. There are different small scale and large scale industries involved in the production of Potpourris.