A room diffuser that will work in a classroom?

[Mushroomwithaview]

I'm looking for a room diffuser or some sort of room fragrance gizmo that is going to make my whole classroom smell nice.

Have decided that the answer is to buy a fancy expensive diffuser from a posh shop. I'm okay with that if it will work.

Before I do that - has anyone got any better ideas?

(no naked flames)

My extended family on both my parents sides and my husbands have been of the "open the windows" persuasion so it isn't really a normal in my world.

I'd hate it if I was forced to be in a classroom with fake fragrance. Just open the windows regularly.

You only have to walk into any gift shop, garden centre, homeware shop etc to see shelves and shelves of home fragrance paraphernalia. There wouldn't be so much of it for sale if there wasn't a huge market for it.

Genuinely you have never seen these products in supermarkets or shops, seen adverts? The uk and us home fragrance market alone globally is 7000 million, and looks to be growing each year and will reach 9800 million by 2027

its enormous, shops don’t give all that shelf space to products that don’t sell…

10/10
Best thread ever,

I don't cope in day to day life outside of my home because of my sensitivities

This is the thread that keeps on giving. Thank you for starting it,@Mushroomwithaview

This is brilliant.

Forget the mythical chicken, MN is now divided into people who think essential oils create "a stench" that put everybody in existence on the cusp of spontaneous mucus combustion, and people who wash their children in Zoflora to make them smell nice.

This is why we created the internet 😂

MN is now divided into people who think essential oils create "a stench" that put everybody in existence on the cusp of spontaneous mucus combustion

Now there speaks a person who hasn't suffered from lifelong sinus issues and undergone surgery in an attempt to get them sorted out.

MN has been like this for years though, its always been the same on threads about fabric conditioner, nothing new.

I also suffer from sinus problems and have had a number of operations to try to fix them (doesnt fix them)

But honestly the drama on here, the instant vomiting, the having to change clothes the minute the outside world has been on them

People dont live like this, or if they do there is something much more that sinus issues going on, some serious psychological issues that mean the person wants to opt out of every day life

In a way, they do... The UK has one of the highest prevalences in Europe of childhood asthma and other allergies. Look up the hygiene and early exposure hypotheses.

Basically, we're too clean, which mucks up the immune system, and we don't expose babies enough to known allergens (for example, we need to give babies nut butters to prevent nut allergy, etc).

The research that led to the recommendation to give babies nut products (not whole nuts obviously!) to prevent allergy is quite interesting actually...

It was Professor Gideon Lack at King's who went out to Israel to give a speech on the explosion in peanut allergy amongst children... And they were like, "Hang on, we don't have a problem with peanut allergy..." And it was because peanuts were a huge staple in their diet from a young age.

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Do you worry about wandering around in public spaces in daily life smelling things? The long term effects of life are lung damage.

Just for info OP, my nephew is autistic and they cannot have strong smells in the house because it makes him have a meltdown. They can't have fresh flowers, air fresheners, perfume...nothing. Just something else to take into account.

We have the highest level of diagnosis, not prevalence.

Agreed about the peanut and nut issue, cultures where they are used from a young age and in all sorts of dishes have a lower prevalence and diagnosis level.

There are some people who have bad reactions like yourself, but I think i Don’t think it's as common as it's portrayed here.

Most people do have an aversion to certain smells. I hate orange fake smells like Air Wick.

But the prevailing view on this site is that any artificial smell (in any form) is vile and makes people gag, that is what the rest of us think is ludicrous

Wow. I'm not in UK. I've seen fragrance sticks, diffusers, and similar in loads of classrooms here

They were in loads of classrooms (or at least some) in my dcs school a few years ago. Friend of ds1 kept having to go home with allergy symptoms. It took ages for his allergy to be pinned down because it’s quite a vague thing and he has other environmental triggers and absolutely awful hayfever. Food allergies are more obvious (I ate kiwi and had a reaction etc.), hayfever follows the pollen count, animal allergies come on when you are with your nemesis animal but being allergic to some fragrances that are in some rooms you go in on some days that may sometimes be under a trigger threshold (window open, getting near end of life) and you may not have the reaction kick in until you have left the room is harder to pinpoint. I love stinky stuff. I’m always burning candles etc. at home, but I don’t stink out my shared office.

My husband has sinus issues and asthma, inc surgery on the canals , and I can categorically say having a diffuser with essential oils, absolutely makes no impact on him at all. None what’s so ever. He has had it for decades. If anything certain essential oils help. Same with my sil.

the stuff on here, with people undressing immediately, and laundering their clothes, washing their hair, scrubbing themselves, phoning hotels and asking them to remove all scented stuff, to leave the room vacant for a day before they arrive, it’s clearly a small minority .considering home scenting is a mammoth industry and most homes have something scented in there.

it Reminds me of when Covid first came out, some folks were doing the same. All this for 3 drops of pure lavender oil being diffused slowly from half a pint of water 🫣

My daughters's teacher (small independent school) has an essential oil diffuser on her desk (it plugs into a USB) and the girls love it and my daughter asked for one for home, I enjoy using essential oils and scented candles at home and when I worked full time in an office I'd often have scented flowers at my desk - one colleague found hyacinths unpleasant so I didn't take those in but generally it was appreciated y my colleagues too.

Fresh flowers may be extravagant but at the moment daffodils are £1 a bunch in most supermarkets and smell nice.

If there is an underlying bad smell in the classrooms could you address this as a funding request for the PTA? My daughter has been at a (state) school where the PTA organised a deep clean of smelly changing rooms, bad smells affect all the children and as a parent grotty classrooms are something I'd donate to improve

You're wrong, but crack on.

I totally agree with the amount of total batshittery on MN these days

or any natural smell !

You shouldn’t do that. It is an asthma and allergy trigger.

if one appeared in my dc classroom, I would begin by asking you to remove it. It is already in her asthma plan filed with the school that perfumes and fragrances are a problem.

We would escalate as needed, but it would be removed.

Those stick things make me feel sick. I would t be happy in a classroom with these in!