Most aroma diffusers behave like small plastic towers or pods that sit in a corner, quietly bubbling or misting away. They do their job, but they rarely feel like part of the room’s character, more like humidifiers with better marketing. It’s strange that scent and light are both mood tools, but the hardware behind them often looks forgettable enough to hide behind a plant or book.
AER OMA is a magnetic levitating aroma diffuser concept that tries to make the act of scenting a room feel more deliberate. It uses a smooth spherical pod that hovers above a base, wrapped in a glowing band of light. The designer calls it a way to enhance room fragrance with a “futuristic feel,” which is rare copy that actually matches what the object looks like it wants to do.
Designer: Vedant Kore
Coming home in the evening, you tap the touch panel on the base to wake the diffuser, and the ring light comes up as the sphere steadies in mid-air. Sliding a finger along the control changes heat and aroma intensity, with the light ring quietly reflecting those changes. It feels less like fiddling with a dial and more like setting a scene before you sit down and let the day catch up.
Instead of a water tank and essential oil puddles, AER OMA uses polymer aroma beads held in a small metal and mesh container. Heat from a roughly 12W element releases fragrance without spill risk, and refilling is as simple as swapping beads. You can choose a handful for a light scent or more for a stronger presence, making the ritual more tactile than just dripping liquid into a reservoir.
Magnets and coils in the base and sphere handle the hovering act, powered by a 12-15 V USB-C adapter, while ambient LEDs in the base ring and the band around the sphere handle the glow. The floating form and soft light sell the idea that scent is something weightless moving through the room, not just vapor coming out of a nozzle buried in plastic.
The sphere is about 250mm across, the base around 200mm, with a polypropylene or ABS shell molded into smooth curves. Color options range from deep purple to teal and warm orange, each with matching light accents. It’s big enough to be a focal object on a sideboard or bedside table, but still reads as a single, calm shape rather than tech bristling with vents.
AER OMA treats scent diffusion as a small performance instead of a background process. By floating the diffuser, hiding the mechanics, and giving you a simple touch strip and a bowl of beads to work with, it reframes a functional task as a quiet ritual. It’s a reminder that even making a room smell nice can feel different when the object doing it looks like it belongs in the future instead of the back corner of a shelf.
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