Name: DIY Holiday Room Spray Recipes
Prep time: 2 min
Total time: 2 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: DIY Room Spray
Ingredients: 4oz vodka; 30-40 drops essential oils (essential oil blends below); 1/8 tsp Caprylyl/Capryl Glucoside or Poly Suga Mulse D9 to solubilize essential oils (optional); 4oz glass spray bottle; Small funnel for spray bottles; 25 drops vanilla oleoresin; 10 drops tonka bean absolute; 3 drops nutmeg essential oil; 3 drops clove essential oil; 25 drops vanilla oleoresin; 0 drops bitter almond essential oil; 3 drops sweet orange essential oil; 2 drops cinnamon essential oil; 20 drops vanilla oleoresin; 10 drops tonka bean absolute; 10 drops peppermint essential oil; 20 drops fir needle essential oil; 20 drops black spruce essential oil; 25 drops sweet orange essential oil; 10 drops cinnamon bark essential oil; 5 drops clove essential oil; 30 drops cedarwood essential oil; 5 drops cinnamon bark essential oil; 20 drops vanilla oleoresin 10 drops tonka bean absolute 5 drops ginger essential oil 2 drops cinnamon leaf essential oil 2 drops nutmeg essential oil; 15 drops cacao absolute; 10 drops spearmint essential oil; 5 drops vanilla oleoresin

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Create a variety of Christmas room sprays with this easy tutorial. These simple seasonal air freshener sprays are crafted with natural ingredients and essential oils to safely fragrance your home. Read on to learn how to make your own homemade Christmas room sprays, and bring the aromas of the holiday season into every room of your house.

DIY holiday room spray with essential oils

Do you love the scents of the holiday season? Peppermint candy canes, egg nog, warm spiced ciders, and the smell of fresh greenery from Christmas trees or wreaths. Not to mention the delicious aroma of Christmas baking with the smell of sugar and spice and everything nice.

What isn’t so nice however, is the toxic chemicals found in many store-bought room sprays or air fresheners.

Why Make Your Own Holiday Room Spray?

Commercial brand air fresheners often contain numerous endocrine-disrupting chemicals and respiratory irritants.

These harmful chemicals include formaldehyde, phthalates, and 1,4 dichlorobenzene. Unfortunately, exposure to these ingredients has been linked to cancer, asthma, skin irritation, and other health issues.

Luckily, there’s better way to bring the scents of the season into your home because our DIY Christmas room sprays contain none of those toxic chemicals. Instead, we formulated these recipes with natural ingredients and scented them with essential oil blends perfect for the holidays.

However, please note that essential oil safety is important to consider before making your own Christmas room sprays with essential oils. For instance, there are some essential oils that you should avoid using around small children or pets.

Ingredients for Homemade Christmas Room Sprays

Making these Christmas scented essential oil room sprays requires only two ingredients: vodka and one of the holiday essential oil blends listed below.

For packaging, I recommend that you use a dark glass spray bottle for your room spray. A dark amber or brown glass bottle is ideal. However, a dark cobalt blue glass bottle will work as well.

The benefit of dark colored glass is that it protects the essential oils from light and UV rays. But if you don’t have a brown glass bottle on hand then it’s a good idea to store your room spray in a dark, cool cupboard away from heat or UV light.

DIY Christmas room sprays with essential oils

Also, keep in mind that since essential oils and water don’t mix, your Christmas room sprays will need to be given a little shake before each use. Alternatively, you can also add a natural solubilizer which will suspend the oils in the liquid, eliminating the need to shake before spritzing.

The best choices for room spray include Poly Suga Mulse D9 and Caprylyl/Capryl Glucoside. Both are naturally derived, non-toxic solubilizers that are also safe for the skin.

In terms of essential oil brands, I recommend Simply Earth essential oils for their quality, purity and affordability. You can learn more in our full Simply Earth review. They also offer a monthly essential oil recipe box. However, you can use another brand of essential oils for these recipes as well.

Essential Oil Blends for DIY Christmas Room Sprays

First, choose one of the essential oil blends below to naturally scent your spray.

Egg Nog Room Spray

25 drops vanilla oleoresin
10 drops tonka bean absolute
3 drops nutmeg essential oil
3 drops clove essential oil

This eggnog essential oil blend is deliciously sweet with notes of warm spice. It gets its authentic eggnog scent from a unique combination of essential oils, including decadent tonka bean absolute.

We used a similar egg nog essential oil blend in our holiday eggnog sugar scrub.

25 drops vanilla oleoresin
10 drops bitter almond essential oil
3 drops sweet orange essential oil
2 drops cinnamon essential oil

This Christmas cookie room spray smells like a plate of fresh baked sugar cookies. Its scent comes from our original sugar cookie essential oil recipe. For even more complicated cookie blends that can be used in both perfume and room sprays, be sure to see our sugar cookie essential oil blends.

If you enjoy sugar cookie scents, you might also like to try making our sugar cookie body butter, Christmas cookie soap or our sugar cookie body scrub.

Candy Cane Room Spray

20 drops vanilla oleoresin
10 drops tonka bean absolute
10 drops peppermint essential oil

This candy cane essential oil blend smells just like the classic Christmas candy. Vanilla and tonka bean oils create a sweet candy base that blends perfectly with the refreshing aroma of peppermint essential oil.

Tip: You can also buy a pre-made candy cane essential oil blend, like the one in my candy cane sugar scrub recipe.

Christmas Tree Room Spray

20 drops fir needle essential oil
20 drops black spruce essential oil

This blend fills the air with the scent of a fresh Christmas tree farm. It’s the perfect DIY Christmas room spray for those who have artificial trees or to imbue your home the with the organic scent of holiday greenery.

Alternatively, you can also use a pre-made holiday essential oil blend with a seasonal aroma.

DIY essential oil room spray for Christmas

Spiced Cider Room Spray

25 drops sweet orange essential oil
10 drops cinnamon bark essential oil
5 drops clove essential oil

Equal parts sweet and spicy, this cider essential oil blend will transport you to a cozy night in front of the fireplace. A base of sweet orange is balanced with the warmth of cinnamon and clove to create a delicious natural Christmas air freshener spray.

Related

Orange Spice Christmas Soap

Cedar Spice Room Spray

30 drops cedarwood essential oil
5 drops cinnamon bark essential oil

A blend that combines the woodsy scent of cedarwood with just the right amount of spice. It’s reminiscent of the aroma of fresh garland and a cup of hot spiced cider on a cold day.

Gingerbread Room Spray

20 drops vanilla oleoresin
10 drops tonka bean absolute
5 drops ginger essential oil
2 drops cinnamon leaf essential oil
2 drops nutmeg essential oil

A gingerbread room spray blend that combines notes of vanilla and the molasses-like sweetness of tonka bean with the spiciness of cinnamon bark and ginger. This quintessential scent is perfect for creating a homemade Christmas spray that fills your home with the aroma of fresh baked gingerbread cookies.

As a shortcut, you can also pair vanilla and tonka bean with a bottled gingerbread essential oil blend!

Peppermint Mocha Room Spray

15 drops cacao absolute
10 drops spearmint essential oil
5 drops vanilla oleoresin

A delicious blend that will remind you of a hot cup of peppermint coffee on a cold winter’s day. This essential oil room spray blend is infused with with spearmint and has undertones of warm, sweet vanilla and rich chocolate.

DIY holiday room spray in amber glass bottle

More Essential Oils for Christmas Room Spray

You can also try creating your own unique Christmas room spray fragrance with your favorite essential oils.

If you like arboreal scents, experiment with oils such as fir needle and pine. And if you enjoy the scents of Christmas baking, you’ll want to use essential oils that smell like cookies. Or even sugar plums.

Related

Sugar Plum Essential Oil Blend

More oils perfect for creating personalized Christmas blends for room spray:

Rosemary
Eucalyptus
Pine
Ginger
Cardamom
Cassia
Cypress
Clove
Frankincense
Myrrh
Sandlewood

DIY Holiday Room Spray Recipe

Ingredients

4 oz vodka
30-40 drops of essential oils (see recipes above)
1/8 tsp natural solubilizer such as Caprylyl/Capryl Glucoside or Poly Suga Mulse D9 (optional)

Supplies

4 oz glass spray bottle
Small funnel

How to make holiday room spray

Start with clean, sterilized supplies.
Using a small funnel, combine the vodka, essential oils and solubilizer in your spray bottle. Choose your favorite holiday essential oil combo from our recipes above.
Next, replace the lid of your spray bottle and shake the mixture well.
Shake your Christmas room spray again prior to spritzing so that the essential oils remain distributed in your product.

Recipe notes

The vodka helps the scents last longer, and will act as a preservative for your room spray.
Please don’t use witch hazel instead of vodka – it does not contain enough alcohol to be effective.
Use caution, as dark colored essential oil such as vanilla oleoresin are more likely to stain fabrics, rugs and carpets. Also, take care not to spritz your room spray on, or near wood furniture.

Christmas essential oil room spray on wood tray

1 room spray

DIY Holiday Room Spray Recipes

Prep Time: 2 minutes

Total Time: 2 minutes

Create a variety of holiday DIY room sprays with essential oils! Read on to learn how to make your own festive room sprays, and bring the aromas of Christmas and the holiday season into every room of your home.