How do you make your house smell good?

[chanay]

Just that really!

I use air fresheners but I find they either don't last very long or their smell isn't very pleasant.

What are your secrets to make your house smell lovely?

I love the fresh smell of hotel rooms for instance, and I wish I could replicate that but I have no idea how to.

A clean house smells good. You don't need artificial "air fresheners.".

I keep it clean.

If you have a lingering food odour you can boil two halves of lemon on the hob and the smell dissipates and then goes, when you have done that, put the lemon in
to a bowl of cold water and heat it up in the microwave, it will soften anything needs wiping off.

It would just be for the fragrance, not to hide bad smell

Diffuser

Thank you ! 🙏

Thank you! x

Those fragrances are usually horrible.

I agree! That's why I'm looking for an alternative

A quick mop/wipe around using Flash or Zoflora.

I do love Zoflora (lavender especially)!

Keep it clean.
Open the windows and doors to let the air through, even in winter.
I love diffusers but feel you get what you pay for. I love Peppermint Grove diffusers - Gardenia, and Red Plum and Rose
If you have an animal that is allowed on furniture, make sure it only does it if there is a throw in place. Wash the throw every week.
Wash pet bed covers weekly.
Don't leave pet food bowls, bar water, out.

I always get compliments on my home scent. No one can pinpoint exactly which product it is, so it must be a mesh of everything!

The baseline is keeping your house clean with your favourite products. I use the hinch cleaning range and the berry scent lingers; harpic in the toilet which lingers too. The floor cleaner has a sweet vanilla scent.

I have room sprays from the white company (Seychelles) and 2 Neom diffusers. Large one in the living room, then a mini diffuser in the hallway. I turn it on before people come over. I use different scents but mainly from the white company as Neom’s scents aren’t that nice imo

also the ambi pur oil plug ins work well

thank you so much! your house must smell heavenly

Noted! Thank you !

For starters, keep it clean (not just tidy). Take out the rubbish at the end of the day. Wash your bedsheets weekly. If it’s an older house, air it out. Do the dishes as you go. Use drain cleaner if your kitchen sink or bathroom drains start to stink. A house that is clean always smells great. I find fresh flowers can be a bit hit and miss for fragrance. Lilies, for example, can be absolutely overpowering. The fresh flowers I like don’t have much of a smell.

Air fresheners are the worst, imo. I do use a diffuser from the White Company for around Christmas time (their Winter scent) and the Milieu one from Bolia the rest of the time. Just don’t overdo it if you use something like a diffuser; overpowering scent is not a good thing. You just want barely a hint of a pleasant smell, not something that smacks you in the face when you walk in.

We open the windows and doors sometimes, we have never used airfreshener.

I do hate when we have been away and it has that closed in smell

Open windows every morning for 25 minutes, wax melt in a metal bowl on the log burner, use extractor fan every time we cook anything at all, neom diffuser with peppermint oil in kitchen.

Keep it clean and open the windows to let fresh air in. There is no need for synthetic smells.