Submission Guidelines

Osmology is the best place to find your favourite scented candles and home fragrances in the UK. Offering an expansive, carefully curated collection of home scents from the world’s most exciting cult brands, we aim to inspire everyone to enjoy a beautifully scented home.

We launched Scent Notes on Medium to collect and share our favourite stories, interviews, essays, poems and memoirs inspired by fragrance. Scent often unlocks insight and memory — our sense of smell is a powerful connector to the world and is often the forgotten sense in our noisy visual world.

We want to publish stories that will inspire today, next year, and if we’re lucky… for decades. This pursuit forces us to have strict editorial standards for the submissions we accept. We hope to receive a large number of inquiries and submissions, and will only consider those that fit the criteria below.

Align With Our Themes

Each story must align with our fragrant theme. We love promoting uplifting and inspiring stories about scent including works of fiction and biographical articles.

Tell a Story

Each submission should include a story, no matter how brief, to draw the readers into your article. We’re looking to publish stories between 750–3,000 words, however short pieces will be considered dependant on the quality. The types and format of stories we publish include: interesting musings, high quality listicles, journalistic works of art, narrative nonfiction, poems, short stories, memoirs, and fascinating interviews.

Entertain & Educate

Our stories seek to explore, entertain, and spark conversation around fragrance. Aim to inspire others to reminisce, muse, daydream and create.

Architecturally, Stylistically, and Visually Appealing

We’re looking for stories which have been carefully structured, and edited for grammar, spelling, readability, and cohesiveness. We suggest that writers get help from places like Hemingway App, Grammarly, and friends who can provide critical feedback (prior to submitting your piece!).

All submissions should have a featured image above or below the title. Our favorite stock photo site is Unsplash! All images must be owned by you or include a cited source. We retain the right to remove images from submissions and replace them with those our editors pick.

Please use Medium’s formatting features! Headers, quotes, italics, etc.. A careful use of formatting is what helps make an article easy to read and share.

Things to Remember

Please Only Submit Unpublished Drafts

In the spirit of trying to get your article the most exposure possible, we prefer unpublished drafts over published stories. Medium’s algorithm favors fresh stories, and our homepage is sorted by date of when the article was published (not when it was accepted into the publication). The longer it’s been since a story’s original publish date, the poorer it will usually perform.

We Reserve the Right to Alter and Edit Your Story

The Scent Notes team can edit the content of your story if grammatical errors are found, along with adding logos, bylines, ads, images, etc. to your story. If you remove this content after your story is published, it will be removed from Scent Notes, and you will be removed from our list of contributors.

We’re Looking For Long-Term Relationships

Once we’ve published your story on Scent Notes, we ask that it remain in our publication. We will not be accepting articles from writers who publish with Scent Notes and then publish the same stories elsewhere on Medium.

We will only publish author bylines that are 1–2 sentences long. Please feel free to include 1–2 links. Anything longer will be removed (including author photos, newsletter forms, excessive links, etc). These shorter bylines and a single sentence CTA to recommend and share will help increase the amount of people your story reaches.

Response Time
Our response time varies, but we’re usually pretty quick. If you haven’t heard back about a submission within 3 days, please assume it won’t be published.

To have your submission considered, please fill out this form. If your story aligns with Scent Notes themes, we’ll be in touch soon.

We’re looking forward to reading your submission!