To ask how to make my house smell fancy (on the cheap)

[Dylaninthemovies1]

Now, much as I would love to buy a jo Malone mandarin basil and lime diffuser, my budget just will not stretch to it!

What Reed diffusers are you guys using to make your house smell fancy.

Ps following another thread, I’m probably being tacky and common asking this! Aibu to ask?

Find a scent you like and use the same one consistently. The smell will eventually permeate your home. After using oils and scented candles for years, I've started buying non-toxic scented wax melts from a local company: m.facebook.com/alchemyaromas/posts/?ref=page_internal&mt_nav=0

I use Spring Fresh usually and even when I'm not melting the wax, I've used it so many times that the house smells of it anyway.

As another poster said,, air your home by keeping windows open as frequently as possible.

Use a nice-smelling fabric conditioner consistently so that clothes/soft furnishings smell fresh and clean.

The Method cleaning products are all on Amazon Prime and work out cheaper than in the supermarkets.

Method is great. Especially the little hidden messages on the bottom of the bottles. Make me smile.

I went to a Molton Brown outlet at the start of this year and was given a free room spray for spending over £40. It's absolutely amazing and I keep forgetting to look if they do more when I pass the outlet.

A friend of mine mixes fabric conditioner in with water and sprays her furniture every couple of days and her house smells lovely.

The air freshener that puffs out smell every few minutes-Airwick? But only the orange one, currently £3 at Asda.

Got a garden? Grow rosemary, lavender, sage. Pick big bunches of it and put in vases. Also dry some and use in winter in bowls around the house.

heat a pan of water on the stove and add a few drops of essential oil to it - as you slowly heat it the aromas will spread through the house...

Lots of (dilute!) zoflora on the paintwork, radiators etc.

@Dylaninthemovies1

Now, much as I would love to buy a jo Malone mandarin basil and lime diffuser, my budget just will not stretch to it!

What Reed diffusers are you guys using to make your house smell fancy.

Ps following another thread, I’m probably being tacky and common asking this! Aibu to ask?

OP: a house is a home It is a home because of the people who live there People leave traces of their own "smell" I can smell my husband when he gets out of the bathroom after his shower in the mornings and is on his way to work - the smell lingers. What is all this "fancy" stuff? Doesn't anyone remember potpuorrii?Open you windows, forget the chemical stuff-

Jenny Glow Pomegranate Noir is IDENTICAL to Jo Malone. They do a perfume and a reed diffuser and I swear they are the same!

When we bought this house there were endless reed diffusers all over the place - trying to hide the stale smoke smell, presumably from the elderly gentleman who lived here. It wasn’t that noticeable when we viewed the house but I went to touch the dining room curtains and oh boy! They had to come down straight away. None of the windows downstairs opened (!) as they had all been painted shut. We have now almost entirely renovated the house, so it went from stale/musty/smoke to building rubble to plaster and sawn timber, to paint and new carpet. All of a sudden it’s starting to smell like our house, but it’s taken a year. Opening up the old windows is a big part of that, but it’s so lovely to have a house that finally smells nice!

Zoflora

Wax Lyrical Egyptian Cotton diffuser is cheap and smells so nice!

Thanks for all the suggestions. I won’t use wax melts or candles as I’m extremely clumsy and also have very bad anxiety about house fires (I lost a friend in one as a child. And I have actual OCD: one of the main obsessions is around preventing fires)

I'm paranoid of the wax melters with tea lights (they seem so flimsy to me!) so I use an electric warmer.

Plug it in and the bowl heats up on a little warming plate, perfectly safe.

I'm paranoid of the wax melters with tea lights

I used to have a diffuser with tea light, but I put the dish on top of a radiator in the winter.

This
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@Iminaglasscaseofemotion

Haha i just went and bought 3 bottles of Method due to this thread too! Love the username too btw ha i used that for a music playlist and not everyone gets the reference!!

I just have an electric diffuser and use essential oils. I like sweet orange and frankincense for Christmas, and lavender geranium and tea tree smells like a spa.

Where did you buy your diffuser, evilharpy?

@Lottapianos just from Amazon, I think this is the same as mine.