How to Achieve Your Ideal Car Aroma With Drift Car Scents

Perfumes and colognes help us express our own style, but the smells we associate with our cars hold even more potential. The scent of our vehicles can be something we can identify without the use of our four other senses, signaling to our brains that we’re in a familiar place. In many ways, we can also use car aromas to feel relaxed before we drive, excite our senses for the adventure ahead, or even feel comforted before we head out into chaotic traffic. 

Before we reveal how Drift can help you achieve your ideal car aroma, let’s examine where aromatherapy began. The best car aromas draw from this critical history to lift our moods and create a comfortable and safe environment. Aromatherapy has also been shown to help improve our health in other ways, so introducing it into your vehicle can ensure your next journey behind the wheel is enjoyable and healthy. 

The History of Scents: Aromatherapy 

The National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy describes aromatherapy as a mix of art and science that brings an individual's physical, emotional, and spiritual health into harmony. For the Alliance of International Aromatherapists, it’s about restoring and enhancing well-being. Regardless of how you define “aromatherapy,” the use of essential oils stems from a long history of incorporating scents into our daily lives.

The Egyptians used aromatherapy in oils, resins, and balms, while Hippocrates scented his bath and massage oils. Aromatic oils also had a large role in Chinese and Indian culture, but it wasn’t until the Persians started diluting essential oils in the 10th century that our understanding of aromatherapy began to develop. René-Maurice Gattefossé published a book entitled Aromatherapy in 1937, coining the term we now incorporate into discussions of alternative healing methods. 

Aromatherapy Health Benefits 

Essential oils and aromatherapy offer multiple health benefits. Improving sleep quality, reducing anxiety, and boosting mood are just a few examples, according to the Cleveland Clinic. In addition, certain essential oils can help reduce stress, including the following: 

• Sweet orange 
• Bergamot
• Lemon 
• Pine
• Frankincense
• Ylang-Ylang 
• Jasmine
• Mandarin
• Laurel
• Patchouli 
• Rose 
• Sandalwood 

Aromatherapy can also be used to combat insomnia, anxiety, or osteoarthritis pain, according to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. Mount Sinai notes that aromatherapy taps into the powers of the hippocampus and the amygdala, which contribute to our overall well-being. Additional health benefits include assisting with wound healing, hair loss, constipation, dementia, psoriasis, and menopausal symptoms. 

The Impact of a Car Aroma

Your car’s aroma may not impact you until you start smelling something unpleasant. Pets, food crumbs, spills, smoke, mold, and many other odors can turn an environment you enjoy into what can feel like punishment. While routine cleaning can help your vehicle stay and smell fresh, the best car air freshener can also help you breathe deeply the next time you sit in the driver’s seat. 

Indeed, we often associate the way our car smells with perceptions of cleanliness, comfort, and personalization. A fresh-smelling car can lift our mood, while a personalized scent helps us surround ourselves with smells we appreciate. A car aroma can also make us feel safe or put us on edge. 

Why Traditional Car Air Fresheners Are Ineffective 

The smell of fresh-baked bread, a loved one’s perfume, and dinner baking in the oven: these scents simply cannot be faked. Scented candle companies may spend thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours attempting to recreate them for our noses, but our olfactory senses cannot be fooled. Those senses are the same reason why synthetic blends fall short of creating our perfect car aroma. 

The market for car air fresheners includes various types, from sprays, vent clip-on units, and solid gels to hanging cards, paper sachets, and diffusers. Yet nothing can replace the smell of a premium car freshener that infuses your car’s interior with genuine scents. At Drift, we stand behind our distinctive car fresheners and the refreshing scents they emit to complement your style. 

How to Achieve Your Ideal Car Aroma With Drift 

Drift’s luxurious car fresheners help you express your style with a sleek design that complements your car’s interior. We sustainably source our Wood car freshener from alder wood, our Stone car freshener from organic stone, and our Metal car freshener from alloy metal. You can rest assured that our premium fresheners are free from formaldehyde, propylene, parabens, mineral oils, DEA, phthalates, and petroleum. 

Our vegan, pet-friendly, and cruelty-free car air fresheners easily store in their packaging until you’re ready to use them. Once it’s time to freshen your car’s interior and enjoy a new car aroma, simply open the scent block and allow it to acclimate until the scent dissipates. Attach the included metal clip to your driver or passenger side visor, and install the scent block by magnetically connecting it to the visor clip. 

What Car Aromas Fit Your Style? 

After you choose your favorite car freshener, it’s time to select your personalized car aroma. Drift’s sophisticated scents include the following: 

• Pine: Inhale the freshness of a mountain forest with notes of musk, green moss, cedarwood, and mountain pine. 
• Teak: Sit in the seat of luxury as you drink in amber, teakwood, atlas cedar, and oakmoss. 
• Amber: Multiple vanilla notes, lavender, and amber make this a car aroma you’re unlikely to forget. 
• Cabana: Feel the cool ocean breeze on your skin and experience the mix of sea salt, driftwood, bergamot, and coconut. 
• Grove: Experience the tang of citrus, mountain greens, blond wood, and vanilla sugar.

With so many scents to choose from, picking your favorite can feel like deciding which of your favorite desserts you want to only eat for the rest of your life. Join our Scent of the Month Club to experience a variety of new premium scents every 30 days. You can also take our Scent Quiz to determine which scent best fits your style. 

Enjoy Your Own Blend of Car Aromatherapy 

Signature car scents like those from Drift refresh your car’s interior and create a car aroma unique to your personal preference. You can easily swap out scents as you please to blend them at your leisure. Explore our elegant car air fresheners to craft a car aroma distinctly your own.