How to make your house smell great?

[KennyD]

I buy the bottles of scents with the reed defusers ... they last just about three months and keep the house smelling GREAT ...
If I need a little extra ; I put a few drops of scented essential oil into a burner on hot stones ....

 

[spooger]

I love incense. Good quality incense makes a house smell great!

And if it's vanilla... it's heavenly!

mee too

i use incense all over the house - I buy a variety of stick incense each year at the Congo Market at the New Orleans Jazz Festival ... stuff from all over the world....I love the lingering aromas from incense....

 

[Ronin84]

I use incense in my house because it reminds me of the time when I was an altar boy in my catholic church, before I became a lapsed catholic.
I purchaed a thurible, a sort of perforated brass pot, with long chains to enable me to swing it. I light some charcoal and pour on the incense in the thurible and I go to each room swinging my thurible, and the divine smelling smoke exits thru the holes in the thurible.
I like to have a friend with me so that we can take turns in swinging the thurible, wow, we have a great time, but if we overdo it and we feel that we are both suffocating wo both have to run into the garden for some fresh air.

 

[Nude Beach 18cm]

Bake chocolate chip cookies for the aroma, and then you can mail the cookies to me. Feel free to add Macadamia nuts, if you like...LOL

 

[Nude Beach 18cm]

You can buy natural citrus air freshener in a spray. It costs more than the Glade type stuff, but a teeny spray works really well for a quick burst of freshness.

 

[piano1]

A drop of your favorite cologne on a light bulb; the scented warmers by "Airwick" in most of the rooms of the house. My favorite is buring candles. After a long day at work, I usually light a few candles in the house to help me relax. Here's an easy recipe for a simmering pot - 4 oranges peels and three sticks of cinnamon with a cup of water. Change every 2 to 3 days. For Christmas - 16 cloves; 1 1/2 teaspoons of "All Spice"; 3 sticks of cinnamon. Store in container for a few days and then add a quart of water and simmer.

 

[mike_n_herrin]

I used those timed spray can things of airwick, they come in multiple scents and can be set for like 8, 16, 32 minutes i think (or off).

 

[rickdboy]

A few drops of vanilla in water and heat in the microwave ?

A little academic for us as our house is always wide open to the breezes - windows are always open and when we are home both ends of the house open completely to let the tropical air through. I plant perfumed plants in the garden so the breezes will waft the scent through the house.

 

[hotschober]

I tried the scented liquid in the simmering pot and it works great.. any other suggestions.. ps.. i made the FIRST POST AND TOPIC!!!

I get the jar candles from Wal-Greens they have many diffrent smells and they smell great neighbor came over nad asked what we were baking and I am...nothing iti is the candles and the preice it great 7.99 or 3/20.00 for the big jars and 2/10.00 for the smaller jar ones

 

[jackoroe]

Picking up the doggy poop makes the house smell much better!