Simmer Pot Recipes To Make Your Home Smell Amazing

If you want your home to smell absolutely amazing, then try out one of our natural, aromatic simmer pot recipes. The easiest way to freshen the place up!

I absolutely love making aromatic simmer pots, they're super simple and all natural and when I want to get my home smelling great, natural fragrances are my favourite way to go.

How To Make A Simmer Pot

What Is A Simmer Pot

Wondering what a simmer pot is? It's quite simply a pot of water you simmer on the stove top that's filled with aromatic botanicals, herbs, spices and fruits, that make your home smell lovely. Think of these as stovetop potpourri.

How To Make A Simmer Pot

Well, there's literally nothing easier than making a simmer pot. All you need is a large saucepan, which you fill at least just past half way with water and then add your favourite combination of aromatics.

Bring the saucepan of water (I usually use my Dutch oven) and simmer pot ingredients to a gentle simmer on the hob, so steam slowly comes up out of the pan.

Then just leave it simmering away on the hob, making sure to check it every 20-30 minutes or so and top up the water level. You don't want to let your simmer pot dry up.

When it comes to choosing your aromatics, we've got ten of the nicest smelling simmer pot recipes for you to try out.

In no time at all they'll have your home smelling just delicious and best of all, it's all natural, no harsh chemicals at all. Simmer pots are just the best home fragrance.

Ingredients for autumn scented stove top freshener in a saucepan with water poured onto it - includes orange, apples, star anise, cinnamon sticks

Simmer Pot Recipes

Cinnamon Apple Simmer Pot Recipe

This is a beautiful simmer pot recipe for autumn.

1-2 apples - peel and slice into wedges

1 cinnamon stick

1 teaspoon apple pie spice

6 whole cloves

Autumn Simmer Pot Recipe

This aroma blend also makes a great Christmas simmer pot too! Although when I'm simmering this one around Christmas time I do add in some fresh cranberries.

Ingredients for autumn scented stove top freshener, how to make stove top freshener, homemaking tips

1 apple - cut into apple slices

1 clementine

2 cinnamon sticks

piece of ginger

10 cloves

2 drops orange essential oil

3 star anise

pinch of ground nutmeg

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Warm and Woody Simmer Pot Recipe

3 bay leaves

5 sage leaves

5 drops sandalwood essential oil

2 sprigs rosemary

1 orange - use the orange peels and slice the fruit
A pinch of allspice is nice added to this one too.

Citrus Blast Simmer Pot

1 lemon - peel and sliced

1 lime - peel and sliced

5 drops lemon essential oil

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Calming Lavender Simmer Pot

3 teaspoon dried lavender

4 drops lavender essential oil

6 cloves

cinnamon stick

Fresh and Clean Simmer Pot Recipe

This one is great for freshening up your kitchen, especially after you've been cooking fish. It cuts through the fishy smell!

1 lemon - sliced

4 drops lemon essential oil

sprig of fresh pine

sprigs of fresh rosemary

sprig of fresh eucalyptus

Sprig of lemon thyme

3 drops tea tree essential oil

Warming Ginger Simmer Pot

thumb sized piece of root ginger - peel and slice

1 teaspoon ground ginger

1 teaspoon cloves

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 whole orange - cut into orange slices

Fresh and Minty Simmer Pot Recipe

4 drops of spearmint essential oil

1 lemon - peel and sliced

sprig fresh eucalyptus

sprig fresh mint

Strawberry Vanilla Simmer Pot

strawberry and vanilla simmer pot recipe

This one is a delicious simmer pot recipe for summer

1 teaspoon vanilla extract or scrape the vanilla beans from a pod

2 large sprigs strawberry mint - this is a beautiful herb to grow in the garden it's mint but smells exactly like juicy delicious strawberries

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Pumpkin Pie Simmer Pot Recipe

2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice

cinnamon stick

½ teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

5 cloves

1 teaspoon ground ginger

Summer Simmer Pot - fill your home with the uplifting scent of summer with this beautiful summer solstice simmer pot.

How To Store And Re-use Your Simmer Pot Ingredients

Once you've finished with your simmer pot, drain any remaining water using a sieve. Then allow the ingredients to cool down and store in an air tight box in the fridge.

You can keep the ingredients and re-use the next day. Then I'd usually discard as they start to lose their scent after 2 simmers.

What To Do With Simmer Pot Water

If you like you can save the simmer pot water and decant it into a small spray bottle and use it as a scented home room spray.

Take the usual precautions when it comes to spraying room spray, make sure you don't spray directly onto furniture or soft furnishings, in case it stains. Also if the water contains essential oils, take care using around pets, animals and children - see health caution below.

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*Health Caution*

When using natural essential oils it’s important to note that some natural essential oils are contraindicated for use with certain health conditions and pregnancy.

Always check before you use them and if in doubt consult a qualified aromatherapist. Always store essential oils out of reach of children and pets

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