Something to keep towels/bedding smelling fresh?

[Posey]

My towels and duvet covers etc go into the cupboard smelling lovely and fresh but if the're in there any length of time they come out smelling all fusty.
Can anyone recommend anything to keep them smelling that lovely just washed way?

Just wash them everyday

(sorry !)

lavender bags type thing

when i was preggers and nesting made homemade ones with homegrown lavender and makes things smell lovely in an old lady way

Oh Whizz, I don't mean when they're in use, I mean when I've washed them and put them away until I need fresh ones out again. I've got so much bedding and towels they can be in the cupboard a month before they get circulated out again.

Tumble them for 10 mins

i buy bags online and dried lavender as well. works a treat! my blankets are lightly scented. they're kept in wicker baskets on top of the wardrobe.

expatinscotland -bags?

I keep mine in the airing cupboard and they smell all warm and cosy, doesn't matter how long they've been in there.

Major plug here: I found this fella on Ebay, and his stuff is just the s*&t.

abbeybotanicals

He sells these little bags for dried herbs that are brill, as well as the dried herbs. You just pop the bags in the basket and close the lid.

It's also where I get all my essential oils, and I use them A LOT b/c I make all my own cleansers.

I buy tea tree and lavender oil by the 50mL size.

Great prices, too.

All the recipes I make come out of the Kim & Aggie book: 'How Clean Is Your House'. They're easy, cheap, tried and tested and work incredibly well!

I also make their air freshner, which is nothing more than a spray bottle of cheap voddy w/the essential oil of your choice - and I toss in some dried lavender as well.

Non toxic and really works.

For a shower spray, I fill a bottle w/white vinegar and essential oils + juice of a lemon.

I scent my own candles by dressing them w/essential oils before lighting, and put a few drops of oil into the well of burnt down cathedral candles. The scent disperses as teh candle burns.

I also make my own oil mixes to burn in a burner, or use blends from Abbey. I also use some of the blends he makes as perfume - just mix them w/a carrier oil - I like jojoba b/c it doesn't go off and I don't hold a scent well.

The Champneys spa's all use Champney's pillowmist in the rooms which smells lovely. I think you can buy it in Sansbury's.

Alternatively L'occitane do linen water in 2 or 3 different scents which you can sprinkly over the linen once its in the airing cupboard

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Some people have got no taste

Thanks everyone.

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Yes, voddy. The cheap s*&te from ASDA. They even used it in one of their shows, when they were cleaning up after some hopeless minger whose home smelled like a sewer after a cholera epidemic.

It works a treat, particularly w/lavendar.

Posey, make sure everything that goes into the cupboard is COMPLETELY dry.

where's your cupboard? is it against an outside wall? is there any sign of damp? is it wallpapered inside?

It is against an outside wall and up to the ceiling (we have a flat roof) so I know it gets very cold but no sign of damp. If you overstuff the cupboard is that worse? No space to circulate air? Maybe I need a clearout.
Will certainly give the vodka thing ago, with lavender (good for aiding sleep is it not?)