How to make my house smell like a spa?

[Mum2020]

Just want it to smell nice, for a viewing.

I don't know a thing about making it smell like a spa, but I shampooed my rug this evening and it's made the whole downstairs smell amazing!

With what did you shampoo the rug? Can I shampoo my stairs carpet with it?

Hold in your farts

Could you buy one of those plug in diffusers you put scented oils?

I used to have one from Neal’s Yard (It was expensive, it I had vouxhers) and it made the house smell amazing! I’ve see. Similar used in spas.

It’ll be aromatherapy oils you need.

Buy a White Company Fir Tree Candle or diffusers. You only need to burn it for 15 mins and the whole house is scented. Very Spa-like.

Bergamot or lemongrass essential oils in a diffuser will give a real spa smell !

White Company have a Spa range

@Mum2020 I used the vanish carpet shampoo. It's about £6 a can

@Mum2020 and yes you can do your stairs and carpet with it

Essential oils on tissues on the radiators (remove just before they arrive).

Rather than aiming for a spa feel though I'd just get a pot of coffee brewing.

You need a swanky aromatherapy candle. My friend gave me a Neom one that’s so amazing I haven’t even burnt it yet and someone asked me the other day why my cloakroom smelled so nice.

Aldi do some gorgeous ones as a better budget option!

I burn candles and can hardly smell anything makes very little difference - Yankee ones, Ikea, Aldi, jo malone - perhaps it my my sense of smell not the candles! Though I can smell chocolate and wine easily..

Air the place well - airfresheners and scented candles will make viewers think you are trying to cover something up.

If you're looking to sell, just a thought...

If I was looking to buy and walked into a house that smells strongly of air freshener or other fragrances, I would wonder if you were concealing a another smell: damp, mould, dog, weed, tobacco etc.

Oops, what Wowfudge just said.

I think you'd be better off getting all the windows open for a couple of hours, then go for a natural smell ( like coffee) if you feel the need to.

Or maybe a bunch of fragrant flowers in the hallway and on the landing.

I'd be suspicious of strong artificial smells, also some people are sensitive to chemicals or even flowers. Just fresh air is good and don't cook anything smelly for a couple of days beforehand either.

Whenever I dry freshly washed items on the radiator it makes the house smell great. You could soak some tea towels in something nice smelling and drape them over the back of the radiator then stick the heating on just before they come!

Scentsy?

I stuck the bread maker on before viewers came once

Fresh flowers are lovely, freesias, lilies and hyacinths.

Spas smell damp!
Open the windows.

I did a 2-week stint in an estate agent when I was 18 as holiday cover so this is what I can take from that experience.

I was given a box of sprays and the keys to an empty house with the instructions to spray x here and x there, give x number of pumps to x bottle. Close the door on the rooms after you have sprayed them, so I did and returned to the office with the box, as there were no scents at all after spraying, only a box of bottles with numbers and instructions.

I was asked to open up the house late that afternoon for viewing so when I did I was very surprised.

• The scent of flowers when opened the front door in to the hallway,
• The coffee brewing and bread baking in the kitchen,
• The bathroom had a kind of fruity shower gel type scent at the bath/shower side and towards the toilet end smelled of disinfectant
• The bedrooms smelt of clean linen.
• The living room smelled of furniture polish and leather.

I should add that the house was completely bare. The house was sold that day pending reports.

Thanks all! Sadly, I Can’t step out today as the car is still at servicing. I don’t have a coffee/bread maker. I have:

1. Lavender and eucalyptus essential oil
2. Rose room fresheners - spray kind
3. Comfort yellow fabric conditioner

What’s the best I can do with these?

@smurfy2015 oh wow! That’s a brilliant kit to have!