I’m between 4-5 stars on this one. For the TLDR, skip ahead to the last paragraph. If you want my in-depth waterless diffuser adventure, read on.
My only issue is that I have to manually click the button each morning. My ADHD-having brain forgets until I’m sitting in my kitchen, sometime after lunch, wondering why I can smell normal kitchen smells. Then oh! I click the button, and select 12-hours, which is the longest cycle available on the unit.
There is no app to control any settings, no automatic turn-on or turn-off on timers. It’s a manual operation only.
So that took off a star-ish.
However, it is not a bad machine! My entire first floor, roughly 1300 sqft, smells like warm marshmallows. (AirScent 1050. It’s a delicious, gourmand fragrance that has completely taken over all my bath and body works wallflowers.)
And it is SILENT. Literally makes no noise at all when it puffs out the good stuff. This added that star-ish back on. So 5 stars it is!
What led me to these waterless diffusers was a rabbit hole I found myself downst. (Why is downst not a word but betwixt is?) I have about 100 B&BW Wallflower refills in my collection. But I now live in an older house with about 3 electrical outlets per room. Those outlets are prime real estate, and I can’t block both sets of holes with a clunky top-heavy lit-up turtle burning Book Loft oil, which only has a one-room throw, if even that. Airwick has a battery-operated diffuser, and I found a hack where you can use the wallflowers with the older Airwick model. Well, save your $17. The hack works for 3 days, then the viscous Wallflower oil clogs the machine, and makes a sticky mess on everything.
Then I started looking into other plug-less options. The capacity for an HVAC-hookup intrigued me, but then i remembered my last grand idea into whole-home fragranceness, when I shelled out too much for the ridiculously expensive Aroma360 thing. I never hooked it up (oh hello again, ADHD), and it ended up in a donation bin before we moved. So I hope someone in Fort Myers has a delicious hotel-scented home for an absolute bargain. I try.
Then I saw the rechargeable waterless diffusers on Amazon, and they’re $40. Um, yes?! Thankfully I actually read the description. (If you can’t tell, scenting my house has become my entire personality at this point. I’m reading EVERYTHING.) The charge lasts only 1-2 days, so this option wouldn’t work either. I really want my half bathroom, which is directly off the breakfast nook, to smell not like things that happen in there. And it only has one outlet. And I would never remember to charge this unit every 1-2 days. (As mentioned earlier, I can’t even press a button every 24 hours.)
If you’ve gotten this far, bless your sweet heart. I’m almost done.
Then the higher capacity units, such as this one, became more practical options. I read every review of every model. It came down to this one, and the Air-Versa app-controlled model. Both had great reviews, and a few negative ones. I wanted the longest-lasting scent (at least 12 hours, all-day would be better), and the least amount of hands-on operation. So I bought both, just to compare the two.
This one I got during the Big Spring sale, and it ended up being about $55, instead of the current $99. The AirVersa was $77.
I placed the AirVersa in the pass through window between living room and kitchen. I used the 1014 fragrance. Very pleasant and clean. And it did scent the entire downstairs. Con - the unit made a “psssss” sound every few seconds when it dispersed the vapor. It was app-controlled, and it had a constantly “On” setting.
The AirScent tower I placed in my upstairs hallway on the lower shelf of the console table, with 1050 warm vanilla. Fantastic throw. My kids’ rooms smell like smores. But I’d have to press the button at least 1-2 times a day to keep the smell going. Which I always forgot to do.
I switched the locations of the 2 units. Now the AirVersa pssssses upstairs, but I never have to hear it or think about it. And the AirScent is in my kitchen, with a reminder in my phone 2 times a day to press the button. My bathroom still smells bathroomy, so after all that research and $$ spent, I still haven’t solved that problem.
But I found a Reddit post where someone suggested soaking ceramic pie weight beads in fragrance oil, tying them in a mesh sachet, then tying the sachet inside the air vents to scent the rooms. So my Wallflower collection just may still be of use after all.
TLDR? This unit is fantastic and completely silent. But you do have to manually turn it on each time, and it works 2, 4, 6, or 12 hours at a time. I recommend the AirVersa app-controlled unit instead. Plug it in, forget about it, and check on it in a month for refill status. Just ignore the psssing sound.