What Are the Benefits of a Sleep Perfume?

There are plenty of benefits to using sleep perfumes during your bedtime routine. The secret is all in the connection between your senses and your mind, emotions, and body. A specific scent can trigger full-body relaxation to get you in the right state of mind to sleep soundly. 

“There are some limited studies about something like lavender or chamomile being calming, but I think the stronger association is the mental conditioning, which is still incredibly powerful,” Lawler told E!. “And so if you have a scent and then go to sleep, and you have a great night of sleep. You kind of tie that to this scent.”

For both Lawler and Kussman, the scent is connected to a habit or ritual. We all know our sense of smell is the strongest one that connects to our memories; that’s what makes it so nostalgic. It doesn’t have to be a childhood memory or a specific vacation, either. It can be as simple as your sleep routine. 

Still, sleep perfumes won’t work as a band-aid solution to bad sleep hygiene. “If you have made all of the mistakes on the sleep hygiene front and then hope to dose yourself in lavender and sleep really well, it’s not going to work. And then we don’t want this smell to be the reminder of how much we’re not sleeping,” Lawler explained.