Help me make my bedroom smell nice. Why does it smell so bedroomy?

[Grockle]

I'm fed up with my bedroom smelling so stuffy & unaired.

It is a south-facing room, so gets quite warm but I have blinds that keep most of the heat out.

The windows (bay with 3 big opening windows) are always on the latch so there should be plenty of fresh air. The windows are open every morning & whenever I am at home.

Bed linen is washing every week at 60. I'm currently washing the mattress protector & will wash the pillows tomorrow. The duvet was dry cleaned a few weeks ago.

The carpet is a few years old (at least 4) but doesn't smell & the room is cleaned, vacuumed (including under the bed & in the fitted wardrobe) & polished as often as needed (at least once a week but often 2-3x).

There is no laundry bin in the room, a scented candle & 3 pot plants.

What else can I do?

^If we have mice I am moving out. How would they get upstairs?

Some rooms have very poor ventilation/air circulation and it is a design fault that there isn't much you can do about. Does your room have a single door and window? Can you get a current between them or not?

It's a bay window with all 3 sections opening, so it does get a cross breeze. And I often open the other upstairs windows so there is a draught through the house. It doesn't seem to matter what I do, it always smells unaired.

No-one else is bothered by it & I often can't tolerate smells that other people don't even notice so maybe it's just my sense of smell.

IME you know when you have mice. If you are not sure, I think you probably don't.

I hate the smell of our bedrooms but dh seems to think I am imagining it. Tbh my house has never smelt the same since my last pregnancy when my sense of smell went through the roof.

I dunno everything just seems to smell a bit guffy

Do not make your beds immediately after you get up. Move the duvet right down to the foot of the bed, or roll it down. Better yet strip the bed of duvet and pillows. Pile them on the (clean!) floor and come back after an hour or so to make the bed.

That will def help. We lose a lot of mousture from our bodies during sleep, and it tends to seep on to the linen.

I had this problem in the smallest bedroom and suspected it was the divan base. The mattress was about three years old but the base was much older. I've now replaced both the mattress and base and the smell has gone.

My bed has a wooden frame and is only a couple of years old so it can't be that. It's making me crazy because I can't fix it!

I do try to leave the duvet turned down so everything can air before I make the bed.

I think I must just be smelly

Take a look under the floor boards, check that there is nothing dead under there. Sometimes mice or rats can get in and go rotten causing a bit of a stink, or have known rotten oranges to be under the floorboards. Strangely I have heard of landlords putting them in tenants rooms under their floorboards to make them move out.

Wear PJs, because they stop the smell of your body going into bed linen and the smells end up in the washing basket rather than your bed linen, and brush your teeth at night because lots of people that snore fill the room with their stinky breath. Get someone to smell check you who is a honest and caring friend. If its you, upgrade your deoderant. At least that way you can rule it out!!

It's not a rotting, unpleasant smell... It just always seems unaired despite everything. Apparently I do not smell (& I shouldn't!) so I really think it is probably my sense of smell!

Having read all of these I realise that I must be a stink bomb because I don't do any of them .

Grackle it sounds like you are very conscientious and so maybe you just have a very sensitive nose.

Also watching this with keen interest - for the past two weeks our spare room has had a vile stink - possibly a dead rodent in the wall cavity - BUT the smell has not abated at all. It's gross.

Slattern. I am sure you smell just fine.

Hope the smell disappears, cuddled. Yuck.

I have found a lovely reed infuser thingy that I got for christmas. My room now smells lovely but I am now feeling a bit sick because it's so overpowering. I can't win!

Is it the light fitting? Sometimes you can get a bad smell from light fittings (seriously).

Um... I never thought to check that! I have checked pretty much everything else though. How odd. I am not tall enough to sniff the light fitting.

Its just that when light fittings get older they can get brittle and smell. We had a bad smell in dds room for ages. I replaced it and miles better straight away!

cathycat we had a 'fish' smell from our light in our dining room from our last rental, I'm not sure if it was the Ikea lamp shade or the actual electrical fitting.

Talking of Ikea, our Poang chairs smelt of fish until we washed them. I think it must the type of glue they use.

[washed the cover that is]

How about a fan?

I suspect your shoes. That hamsterish smell can always be traced back to shoes imo. Put them in a tied carrier bag and freeze them for 24 hours. That'll kill the smell.

Toddlerama - Professional stench hunter and destroyer.

Fish smell is shorting electrics and the plastic. Needs investigating asap.

Daft question but are all the clothes in your wardrobe freshly washed or dry cleaned? Sometimes just a jacket that is worn regularly for work, say, can smell...

How about a scented candle in the fireplace?

All clothes in the room are washed - I can't wear work clothes for more than 1 day so they go straight in the wash. It's not shoes...as I said, they're mainly sandals etc in plastic lidded boxes.

Tis lovely in there today though so I think it is just me being sensitive.

Plant pots! Check them. As soil gets old it can get wiffy especially if water is not draining properly. I had that problem with a smelly lounge. Got rid of the plants, and no smell.