How do you make your house smell nice without gross chemical air fresheners?

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Gisinfectany
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lol, that should say disinfectant.

Gisinfectany

I actually quite like that word, though it sort of sounds like a STD

Idea from another thread, get a breadmaker, and bake all day, smells lovely and homely.

Ecover spay cleaner is great at cleaning but also smells really nice, also if you put a small scoop of Ecover washing powder in a spray bottle to clean bath/sink/toilet it smells great and gets rid of all grease/dirt, though you do have to rinse it all well

incense sticks - i jusdt bought fairy dust ones - i neded to know what fairy dust smalls like - smells nice

custardo where do you get them? are they sparkly?

no, they not sparkly - apart from the glitter on the holding bit at the bottom. just fancy manufacturing. i bought from yankee candle - dont know whether thats a nationwide store. £1.75 for 10

however in our pund shop they were selling 20 fer a pund but was usual stinky insence smell

we got strawberry and coconut and rasberry too!

rather than toasting coffee, boiling lemons etc, just make biscuits for the fastidious guests - house smells nice, good-mummy points for home baking AND there are biscuits at the end of it all.
This was how I won over my MIL when DH was still DP

do they smell good? I can get new yankee candles have never seen incence sticks, so if the verdict was good I will look for some x

Incense, yeruk. good smelly candles.

i like them - but them im a tie dye kinda person

me too!

pure oils, vanilla is good, jasmine ,lily whatever takes your fancy... few drops burning or dropped under couch cushions or on a rug or wiped onto a windowsill

Try to have the windows open every day (for a short time if it is cold). Unless you live somewhere with a foul smell, eg next to a factory, nothing beats frsh air. Healthy too.

i agree about the oils.

also a car freshner - like the magic tree one in your cushion covers.

Get an Ioniser, air purifier. Tchibo are selling them for £24.00, have just bought one and they make the room smell/feel like the windows have been open all day.

I like Marks and Spencer's 'Naturally inspired carpet and fabric freshener' - contains nothing but alcohol, water and essential oils and comes in a pump spray - just mist over carpets/cutainns etc. They do a lovely linen one that smells as though you've just done lots of washing! - just a 'clean' smell rather than most fresheners that smell like flowers or fruit and are really obviously air fresheners.

Bake Lemon Drizzle Cake on a regular basis lol

open windows lots

have scented candles everywhere

buy lillies as frequently as can afford it

burn ylang ylang or jasmine oils

vanilla-scented candles, that is

and how about a couple of drops of your favourite essential oil on the hallway lightbulb?

ooh can't believe I'm the first to suggest:

Buy some lovely essential oil (e.g. Body Shop Satsuma/Grapefuit is nice) and put drops on your hoover bag and filters. When you hoover it is all nice and ZINGY!

oh Lacrimosa beat me to it

lilies smell of dead people