Camping with a hotel feel
This is how to keep every festival fresh
Camping is no longer a reason to compromise on comfort. With a few clever scents and handy items, you can turn your festival trip into a wellness weekend in disguise. And if your tent smells the best of all? Well, then you know where they can find you.
If there's one thing that holds me back from a multi-day festival, it's hygiene. Or rather: the lack thereof. Think of a tent that you can smell from ten meters away, with a scent cocktail of sweaty socks, musty tent fabric, and thin beer that gushed over the edge of the can during a post-chat session. But it doesn't have to be that way. Your tent can be the star of the festival campsite. With these tips, you can keep everything fresh and fruity, and even my slightly germophobic daughter would join in.
Germophobia essentials for camping with a hotel feel
My best friend Anna and I have camped quite a bit together. We are a bit spoiled, with a slight variant of germophobia, so we always came well prepared. In our camping bag were the essentials to maintain the feeling of luxury and cleanliness even while camping. I wish I had known about wasparfum.nl back then because I would have taken half of their collection with me on the trip. As soon as I open their site, I get an enormous cleaning urge. They have the nicest products that also look very beautiful. Because why shouldn't a bottle of cleaning product be a bit aesthetically pleasing? Just a side note, but when I clean the inside of my car with a splash of their cleaning product Oslo, it smells like a perfumery for a week. Truly delightful.
Start the festival in the car
Start with their delicious car perfume – I am personally addicted to the scent Diamante Ylang or the warm Amore. I recommend adding the setlist of Dua Lipa's Radical Optimism tour on Spotify, and you’ll already be in festival land just around the corner from your house.
Freshening up the tent (and keeping it) for camping with a hotel feel
As soon as the tent is up: clean it with the scent Oslo – my personal favorite. Fresh, stylish, smells like Scandinavia in a bottle. But New York and Tokyo also work well. The bottles also have a spray nozzle, which is ideal for me; you never overspray. Oh yes, did I mention they look so beautiful that you’d almost want to keep them outside your cleaning supplies cabinet? cleaning supplies would you?
Bed-time = zen-time (even while camping)
Once your bed is made (yes, even while camping that should be possible), spray a bit of fabric spray on your sheets and pillow. My favorite is Lavanda; when I close my eyes, I am in a chateau in Provence. Aside from the lovely, fresh hotel bed feeling that this spray gives, you can also use it to spray that shirt you want to wear again. Perfect during a festival weekend. Just spray it on, and it can still go for another round.
Room spray for camping with a hotel feel
The room sprays from wasparfum.nl are beautiful (read: Instagram-worthy) and delightful as a mini pampering moment. My tip: Smeraldo, with a mix of sweet fig, daisy, and wild rose. Nose close to the bottle and you’re already mentally in Italy. Or choose Lavanda, for the scent of fresh laundry and those French lavender fields. Side note; are you looking for a nice gift at the end of the school year for the teacher, that lovely crossing mother, or the hockey coach? Then such a room spray is also a really nice idea. Just a tip.
Scent hangers: deluxe tent perfume
A diffuser in a tent? Dangerous. At least; I would knock it over immediately and then everything would be wet and a bit too fragrant. But scent hangers? Perfect. Hang them in the peak of your tent and they eliminate odors before you even smell them. Extra style points if you hang one at the entrance. A scented candle on your camping table is also possible. I have a friend who even room spray puts one on her front door so her guests enter in the right ‘scent flow’. Really.
PS: even the Dixi deserves a scent upgrade
Maybe I'm going overboard, but the friends of wasparfum also have a toilet cleaner in the scent Elda. I find that a thousand times cozier than a yellow chlorine bottle. If I were to go to a festival, I would definitely introduce that Dixi to this. Or do you think I'm going overboard now? Be honest.
