#ADDTOCART: AURA HOUSE
Paid partnership with Aura House. Opinions and pet-related paranoia are entirely my own.
There is a specific kind of grown-ass sober adult who pays serious attention to how her house smells. Not in a Yankee Candle, gingerbread-cookie way. In a "my home is now the most important room I exist in and I want it to feel like a place I would never want to leave" way.
If that is you, I have notes.
Here's the thing nobody talks about with long-term sobriety: when the bar stops being your third place, your living room becomes the destination. Not the staging area for the night out. The actual night. So it had better feel like somewhere you chose.
A house that smells like something you picked, for the person you are now, is one small lever. The sober life is built out of small levers.
Enter Aura House.
A sleek aluminum diffuser that uses cold air, not water, not heat, not paraffin wax doing God-knows-what to your lungs. Twist in the oil, press a button, done. It covers up to 650 square feet and one oil lasts about a month. Mine's running "Dubai" right now and my living room smells like a luxury hotel I could not otherwise justify.
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Three things that moved it from "nice" to "I'm keeping this" (& telling all of my friends):
Pet-safe. Most diffusers and essential oils are on the no-fly list for dogs and cats. Aura House oils are safe for pets, people, and plants. If you have an animal you'd walk through traffic for, this is the box you check first.
Sephora Clean and IFRA compliant. Not decorative words. An actual published list of 50+ ingredients that aren't in it. I looked it up so you don't have to.
It disappears into the decor. I am a modern maximalist. There is a lot going on in my house. This reads as a small sculptural object, not "oh hi, air freshener."
One honest note: it's strong. Start on low, use the schedule function, turn it up later. It's harder to take a scent off the walls than to put it on them.
It's a premium price point. That's the tradeoff, and for a sober adult building a home that reflects the life she has now, the math works.
Done drinking. Not done living. Not done caring how the house smells, either.
XOXO, Alysse
P.S. As Tamar Routly put it on the new season of The Sober Curator podcast: “Aura House is a party in your nose.” #ADDTOCART →
