This Fresh Fragrance Tip Is The Perfect Way To Repurpose An Empty Perfume Bottle

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High-end perfumes can cost quite a pretty penny. Once you're done using the fragrance itself, you may find yourself debating what to do with the beautiful packaging. Scent aficionados can find themselves torn between tossing the lavish bottle, recycling it, or leaving it empty to collect dust on a shelf or vanity. Alternatively, finding a way to repurpose the fragrance container is a great way to get creative and turn the old into something new. Perhaps the most obvious and simple way to salvage the elegant packaging is to turn your empty perfume bottles into an adorable DIY vase. But for a more intermediate project, you can try a fresh fragrance hack that is the perfect way to repurpose an empty perfume bottle: turning it into an oil burner. 

If you've been wondering whether you can use perfume to make your home smell better, this DIY can not only find a new purpose for your fancy bottles, but give your home a lovely scent – without the need for the actual perfume. Replace the scent with a fragrance oil of your choice, throw in a wick, and just like that, the bottle you used to use to apply perfume to yourself can now be used to distribute scent to a room. All you'll need are pliers, a wick, a bottle of fragrance oil, and, of course, an empty perfume bottle to create a unique and elegant oil burner for your home.

To create the main component of your oil burner, start by removing the metal sprayer at the top of the perfume bottle with pliers. With the sprayer gone, pour a fragrance oil of your choice into the bottle. For a steadier pour, use a funnel. After the oil settles, insert a wick into the bottle, making sure it goes deep enough to get sufficiently saturated. When browsing for wicks, try finding some that are the right thickness for your perfume bottle's neck. You'll also want to ensure that the top of the wick has a way to stay outside of the bottle, so try to find some that have a core that will help safely burn and diffuse your oils. These Maitys 4-Piece Oil Lamp Wicks can be found on Amazon for $14.99. With the wick properly installed and saturated with the scent, light the core to diffuse the fragrance throughout your home.

While the task of repurposing your perfume bottle into an oil burner can be simple enough, you might find it more difficult to choose the right signature home scent for your design style to fill it with. If you don't find your perfect fragrance match with pre-made oils, you can try your hand at making your own by combining fragrance and essential oils with carrier oils – lightly or unscented oils that can be combined with essential oils to make them more compatible for every day and sometimes topical use. Combine a 1-to-1 ratio of your chosen fragrance and essential oil scents with a carrier oil and mix well. Pour your concoction into your new oil burner and bask in the lovely ambiance and smell of your home.