Chocolate & Roses DIY Room Spray for Valentine’s Day

Capture the romantic scent of roses and chocolate in a bottle with this non-toxic and all-natural homemade room spray! Your entire home will be filled with the delicious, fragrant aroma of dark chocolate and fresh roses. Best of all, you’ll avoid the chemicals that are found in most store bought room sprays.

Roses and chocolate may be a cliché Valentine’s Day combination, but you can’t deny that their aromas blend exceptionally well together. So well, in fact, that we can’t believe this exact DIY room spray recipe hasn’t been done before!

Creating this roses and chocolate room spray is incredibly easy, and with Valentine’s Day right around the corner, we thought this recipe would be timely. Although, as far as we’re concerned, any time of year is the right time for the smell of roses and chocolate.

This fragrant room spray recipe combines natural rose essential oil and cacao absolute for a delicious, intoxicating aroma that evokes feelings of love and romance. Whether you make it for yourself or for gifting, it’s the closest you can get to bottling the real thing.

Plus, check out these other DIY recipes using our romantic chocolate rose essential oil blend:

DIY chocolate rose room spray ingredients

Vodka

The vodka in this romantic DIY room spray helps disperse the essential oils, prevent bacterial growth, and creates a long lasting, potent aroma.

Added bonus — cheap vodka works just as well as expensive vodka or a high-quality grain alcohol like Everclear). We never recommend substituting vodka for isopropyl alcohol (or rubbing alcohol), which is highly toxic and flammable.

Cacao absolute

Cacao absolute, otherwise known as chocolate essential oil, imparts an incredible dark chocolate aroma to this Valentine’s room spray recipe.

We’re not exaggerating when we say that cacao absolute smells like the finest, most exquisite chocolate money can buy. Chocolate connoisseurs will definitely not be disappointed!

Since it’s an absolute and not a true essential oil, cocoa absolute will dissolve fully into your vodka.

If you love the aroma of chocolate as much as we do, check out our other recipes that use chocolate essential oil, such as our chocolate rose bath bombs, chocolate rose bath soak, and our peppermint hot chocolate body butter.

Rose essential oil

Rose oil’s aroma, while beautiful, usually comes at a hefty price. You’re more than welcome to use pure Bulgarian rose essential oil in your DIY room spray if you’re fortunate enough to have it in your collection! A few drops is more than enough for such a concentrated floral oil.

However, we opted to use less expensive rose absolute instead, which is soluble in alcohol and commonly used in perfumery.

Yet another option is to use an inexpensive blend of diluted rose otto and jojoba oil. Alternatively, you can also use rose geranium essential oil, which has a rose-like aroma.

Essential oil solubilizer

Since oil and water don’t mix, using a diluted rose essential oil means you’ll need to shake your DIY room spray vigorously before use. However, another option is to add a solubilizer or emulsifier to your recipe.

We like this natural fragrance solubilizer from Simply Earth (Caprylyl Capryl Glucoside). You can use it in a 1:1 ratio to completely disperse the essential oils in a water-based recipe such as this homemade room spray.

Another option is Poly Suga Mulse D9, a natural and biodegradable surfactant.

Why make your own DIY room spray?

Numerous studies have shown that commercial room sprays and deodorizers can pose a risk to your upper respiratory system as well as your overall health.

Scented products that promise to leave your home smelling fresh and clean often contain phthalates, formaldehyde, aerosol propellants, and other harmful ingredients. These chemicals have been linked to cancer, allergies, endocrine disruption and reproductive damage.

Additionally, fragrances can trigger migraines, headaches, skin irritations, and asthma in those who are susceptible. Synthetic fragrances have become the new secondhand smoke, therefore it’s much safer and kinder to avoid them for the well-being of yourself and your houseguests.

Plus, natural essential oils simply smell better! There’s no better way to promote a romantic atmosphere than with the aromas of real rose and chocolate essential oils.

Chocolate & Roses Valentine’s Day Room Spray Recipe

4oz vodka or high-proof alcohol
30 drops cocoa absolute
15 drops rose absolute or rose essential oil
15 drops natural fragrance solubilizer (optional)

How to make chocolate rose room spray

1. Using a funnel, pour vodka into a dark-colored glass spray bottle.
2. If using rose absolute, simply add your essential oils directly to your vodka.
3. Alternatively, if using a diluted rose essential oil, combine it with an equal amount of essential oil solubilizer before adding it to the vodka or alcohol.
4. Replace the spray nozzle of your bottle and shake well to combine. Your Valentine’s Day room spray is finished – use it to imbue any room with the romantic fragrance of chocolate truffles and fresh roses!

DIY room spray tips

• For a stronger roses and chocolate fragrance, you can use as much essential oil as you’d like. Just keep in mind that cacao absolute is very dark, so you should be mindful of using your room spray near light-coloured furniture, rugs, or fabrics.
• Remember to shake your room spray prior to spritzing it, so that the rose essential oil remains distributed in the liquid. However, if you used rose absolute or included the solubilizer, no shaking is required.
• Keep in mind that absolutes are completely soluble in alcohol, so if using rose absolute in your fragrance spray, you can safely skip the solubilizer.
• We recommend choosing a dark coloured glass bottle (such as the amber bottle pictured in this post). The dark colour will prevent UV rays and light from breaking down the fragile essential oils. We don’t recommend using a plastic bottle, as essential oils are very potent and can erode plastic over time.

More romantic DIY recipes

Looking for more romantic DIYs or gift ideas for Valentine’s Day? Check out:

• Rose Bath Bombs Recipe
• Chocolate and Roses Bath Tea
• Chocolate Rose Bath Truffles
• DIY Rose Soap Recipe
• Rose Sugar Scrub Cubes

In addition to using a room spray, you can also set the mood for romance with a “fall in love” candle. Or, apply an aromatherapy perfume to promote love and attraction. And before you pucker up, don’t forget to make these DIY recipes for soft, kissable lips:

• DIY Rose Lip Balm
• Plumping Rose Lip Mask Recipe
• DIY Rose Lip Scrub

We have a variety of homemade room spray recipes on the blog. If chocolate and roses doesn’t appeal to you, you might find your new favourite scent combination in this post, which includes a collection of DIY essential oil room spray recipes!

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Even more DIY home fragrance ideas

We also wanted to share some of our favourite blogging friends’ ideas for home fragrance this Valentine’s Day. Although, these ideas can be utilized any time you want your home to smell fresh and clean or a little bit romantic!

Vanilla Rose Reed Diffusers

Cyna and Irena of Country Hill Cottage blended the intoxicating scents of vanilla and roses to create a home fragrance that’s both romantic and relaxing. This eco-friendly DIY also includes free printable gift labels, adding a personal touch and making them perfect Valentine’s Day gifts for your friends and family. Additionally, these DIY reed diffusers are made with all-natural ingredients and safely fragranced with essential oils, so you can feel good about gifting them to your loved ones.

Get the recipe: Vanilla Rose Reed Diffusers

DIY Air Fresheners with Essential Oils – Unicorn Style!

Rebecca from Soap Deli News blog created these adorable unicorn air fresheners as gifts for her best friends. She believes that we don’t need a man to remind us how awesome we are just because it’s Valentine’s Day – and we agree! These lovely air fresheners are made with essential oils and biodegradable glitter. They’re perfect for use as drawer sachets or to keep your closets smelling fresh! To learn how to create these cute DIY air fresheners, read more on Soap Deli News.

Get the recipe: DIY Air Fresheners with Essential Oils – Unicorn Style!

DIY Soy Wax Dipped Roses

Cari from Everything Pretty created these beautiful DIY soy wax dipped roses. Cari uses soy wax rather than paraffin wax for her projects, as soy wax is natural, renewable and eco-friendly. She lives in a rural area so she strives to support her local soy farmers. Her recipe also uses a natural fragrance. Right now, these flowers are sitting on her desk, adding a lovely, non-toxic scent to her work space! This recipe is highly customizable, and would also work with real flowers or another wax of your choice.

Get the recipe: DIY Soy Wax Dipped Roses