You already know that getting high-quality z’s helps hold you wholesome. However when life will get hectic, it may be robust to squeeze these important eight hours right into a packed schedule.

For those who’ve been dwelling off of half-baked REM cycles these days, even little issues—like including a soothing sleep spray to your nighttime routine—may also help transfer the needle. The perfect sleep sprays are made with calming scents, like lavender, and will be spritzed in your physique or bedding that can assist you drift off.

Right here at SELF, we’re all about making small adjustments that may add up over time, so we put a number of sprays to the take a look at to search out out whether or not they actually work. We additionally tapped a board-certified doctor and a sleep psychologist for his or her knowledgeable recommendation on what these mists can (and might’t) do for you. Discover their suggestions and store our winners under.

Our prime picks

1. Greatest General: Lush Sleepy Physique Spray
2. Greatest Finances: The Laundress Magnificence Sleep
3. This Works Deep Sleep Pillow Spray
4. L’Occitane Cocon de Sérénité Stress-free Pillow Mist
5. NEOM Excellent Evening’s Sleep Mist
6. Tub & Physique Works Aromatherapy Lavender Vanilla Pillow and Physique Mist
7. Being Frenshe Hair, Physique & Linen Mist Physique Spray

FAQs about sleep sprays

How we examined these sprays

SELF staffers every took dwelling one of many sleep sprays under to guage its scent, packaging, and the way a lot they loved utilizing it. As they spritzed them every evening, testers famous how the mists affected their sleep schedules (for higher, for worse, or by no means). The winners scent nice and actually helped staffers take a load off on the finish of a protracted day.

Store the perfect sleep sprays

We now have recs for catnap champions and severe snoozers alike.

Greatest General: Lush Sleepy Physique Spray

Professionals

• Mister has a lock
• Creates a effective spray
• Can apply it to your bedding or your physique

Cons

Years in the past, I visited a buddy and watched her douse her room in Lush’s Sleepy Physique Spray earlier than moving into mattress. I used to be instantly hooked on the scent and ended up shopping for the matching physique lotion to maintain on my nightstand. The scent jogs my memory of the perfect dream I’ve ever had, the coziest blanket, or the proper morning espresso, with notes of tonka bean and ylang ylang.

Whereas that is technically a physique spray, it comprises important oils that may irritate delicate pores and skin, so chances are you’ll need to mist it over your sheets or pj’s as an alternative. (Plus, there’s not loads of analysis that claims sleep sprays are any more practical when used on the pores and skin, Shelby Harris, PsyD, a sleep psychologist, the director of NY Sleep and Psychology, and the writer of The Girls’s Information to Overcoming Insomnia, tells SELF.) Personally, I like spritzing it over my mattress—and I like how the candy scent lingers all night.

Greatest Finances: The Laundress Magnificence Sleep

Professionals

• Finances-friendly
• Giant bottle will final a very long time

Cons

• Layered, perfume-like scent isn’t for everybody

Sandalwood offers this spray an earthy, refined aroma that you just’ll daydream about till it’s bedtime once more. “Truthfully, I’d put on this as a fragrance on an everyday day (if I wasn’t fearful about needing a nap at 3 p.m.),” one SELF tester says. “For the way fancy it smells, I assumed it will be costlier.”

One other perk: It’s lower than $20 and it’s the most important bottle on this record—discuss a steal.

Thisworks Sleep Plus Pillow Spray

Professionals

• Packaging feels high-quality and high-end
• Doesn’t scent too candy
• Very effective mist

Cons

“I’m a reasonably problematic sleeper—I can’t appear to sleep via the evening no matter something, however I really feel fairly assured that this has made a distinction,” one SELF tester says, including that she makes use of two to 3 sprays on her aspect of the mattress each evening. “Falling into my already-very-comfortable mattress and having that added burst of lavender and chamomile actually calms my thoughts.”

If the scent speaks to you, This works additionally makes a chilled physique butter with magnesium, a tub soak, and even a rollerball for journey (lengthy flights simply received a significant improve).

L’Occitane Cocon de Sérénité Stress-free Pillow Mist

Professionals

• Distinctive perfume
• Mild scent—not too robust
• Packaging feels luxe

Cons

• Some Amazon reviewers say the scent doesn’t final lengthy

This spray will lull you to sleep with a recent citrusy mix that’s stress-free in its personal method. It combines lavender with orange, rose, and bergamot oils for a “floral scent that makes my bed room really feel like a spa,” our tester says. “I’ve by no means used a sleep spray earlier than, however this one actually makes me by no means need to dwell with out one!”

Not tremendous into florals? Don’t fear—our tester says the perfume isn’t overpowering within the slightest.

NEOM Excellent Evening’s Sleep Mist

Professionals

• Glossy packaging
• Can be utilized on your self or your linens

Cons

• Some could discover the patchouli scent too robust

One tester is hooked on this mist: “I’d been utilizing it for a couple of nights in a row, and after I forgot it in the lounge final evening, I discovered myself tossing and turning extra (and even contemplated getting away from bed to spray it),” she says. “The bottle recommends you spray it in your physique or in your pillow and sheets—I attempted each and I vote pillow!”

Bonus: “I believe the packaging is elegant and the bottle appears to be like good on my dresser,” she added. Select from three sizes (or seize an additional to toss in your suitcase to your subsequent journey).

Tub & Physique Works Aromatherapy Lavender Vanilla Pillow and Physique Mist

Professionals

• Mild scent
• Finances-friendly
• Apply it to your physique or your linens

Cons

• Some Tub & Physique Works reviewers don’t like that it smells like child powder