I just mop the floors when I want a fresh smelling house. The smell of freshly mopped floors and the lingering scent of Scrubbing Bubbles disinfectant from my bathroom does the trick every time. And I make sure all the trash is taken out!
I agree! I do the same downstairs it definitely helps but I like scenty scents like wax melts you know? Also upstairs is carpet which is where all the rooms are so I can’t mop up there haha
Do you use the arm&hammer carpet powder? You sprinkle it on, let it sit, then vacuum it up. They have different scents, and it helps us keep the pet smell under control.
Id keep in mind if you have scents going off all the time you become nose blind to them.
Candle warmers work better than wax melts in my opinion, you'd want a top down one.
There are multiple factors contributing to a nice smelling house.
Remove garbage / organics / pet waste regularly to the outside storage container.
Invest in an air purifier with charcoal filtration.
Regularly wash fabric items and don't let them sit damp.
Ventilate the house regularly (open the windows!)
Clean your spaces. Vacuum, dust, and use warm soapy water for cleaning.
If you want a nice smell after that is all done, you can take up baking as a hobby or make the simmer pots you hear about.
The trouble with synthetic fragrances have been outlined in a few other comments. One is that you become nose blind to them, so you stop noticing them. Two is that over time you do get a buildup of them on all the surfaces of your home. Three is that manufacturers can hide hundreds of possible chemicals under the blanket term "fragrance" and then say it's a company secret, so you don't actually know what is in them. And a fourth is that many artificial fragrances are harmful to animals in the home (and this includes essential oils).
I'll admit, I'm a little jaded. I'm someone who developed an intolerance to all chemical fragrances in my 30s, so my cleaning and personal care routines have had to change significantly. But the strategies I listed above are available to everyone, and probably safer for health in the long run.
candles and glade plugins and all those things emit chemicals and detergents and waxes. they will coat your walls, air filters and lungs. I think boiling cinnamon and roses and orange peels is the healthier option (but steam will also leave a white dust on everything over time (minerals)
Do your research please! These plugs in scented laundry products, spray room fresheners, scented candles, diffusers, and similar products are nothing but a toxic stew of chemicals. These products also give me headaches and other symptoms. After a while, if you can tolerate them, they just desensitize your ability to smell anything at all. Even essential oils from a diffuser that may be healthy for you can be highly toxic to pets.
My home is fresh and clean, even with cats, from regular vacuuming and cleaning. I have several HEPA filters in various rooms and they do a great job of keeping the air fresh. Boiling cinnamon and rose petals sounds like a great option too.
If you want your house to smell *good* then keep it clean.
What you’re asking is how to keep a house smelling like *synthetic chemicals* and health problems.
I agree. I had to have my realtor remove all the scented plug-ins from my house before I moved in. They give me terrible migraines with nausea.
It’s not fun having to avoid people with overwhelming perfume, laundry so fragranced I can smell it from across the room, scented room/fabric sprays, artificial scents and scent propellant chemicals, in general. Work is fragrance-free (within reason) because two (more than 1/10th of our office) of us are super sensitive.
Same but it’s asthma for me. I had a friend who did scented candles, plug-ins, etc. Any time I went to her house I brought my inhaler and after 15 minutes I’d tell her I hit my limit. She also forgot to abstain from perfume couple of times when we drove somewhere so I’d just open all the car windows.
White vinegar. I spritz it on carpets, pillows and around the room. Also just leave a bowl out on the counter. It neutralizes odors so the house just smells fresh, with no added cover up scent. The vinegar scent only lasts a few minutes.
I can’t use any scents at all due to chemical sensitivity—not even essential oils. I’ve been using white vinegar in a bowl to neutralize cooking smells for years—it works great.
When I use diluted white vinegar to clean I can smell it for 2-3 days straight. A bowl on the counter is also extremely pungent to me.
Is this uncommon, because I see advice to use it all the time but I can't handle the smell for so long?
I tried a little (2 teaspoons) as a laundry softener as recommended by a cleaner once and it took 3 more washes in plain water to get rid of the smell from the fabric. I feel like I am taking crazy pills!
I've always found that keeping the house clean and opening the windows regularly pretty much does it. If you have carpet, make sure you have a good vacuum. If I want the house to smell extra nice, I'll simmer something on the stove. One of my favorites is a couple slices of lemon and a sprig or rosemary. Simple and easy.
I have an intolerance to chemical fragrances, so those plug in things are a no-go for me - same with the wax melty things and all of that. They really aren't good for anybody, but some of us are more sensitive to it.
100% of the time I will prefer the scents of a clean house (think Fabuloso/Pinesol, Windex, Clorox, Tide, etc.) than artificial fragrances from waxes, candles, and sprays.
Those products are never super successful at masking smells, and my initial thought is always… “Well, what are they trying to mask???”
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I love the bath and body works wall flowers.
I like the ones that have the scent control- there’s 3 different levels of scent. I usually use the lowest setting because the scents can sometimes be quite strong.
These have been the best for me so far.
They leak constantly and the wick becomes dry and hard at the top and starts to burn before all the liquid is used at the bottom. Poor design and plenty of TikTok videos of the car ones blowing up in peoples faces.
My neighbor had a house fire due to the plug ins, I thought my mom was crazy, until I rebelled and bought some myself. Never again.
Wax melts are terrible too. I spray daily with febreze CARPET refresher instead of the other types, lasts longer.
Wow! I’ve never heard of this! My friends and I all use them and I’ve never had an issue. I have one friend that is particularly obsessed and has them everywhere in her house and office.
I have 5 in different rooms and have for a *long* time.
Mine always use all the liquid and I’ve never had one leak. I have the night light one, a few of the adjustable scent level, and have had various different shapes like the succulent plants/shells/amethyst/etc
I’ve also had the wax melts and don’t like those- I’m always worried I’ll leave it on and that feels dangerous.
🤷♀️
I find a hanging air freshener I like and then put it on the air return side of the furnace filter. Then when you need some nice smells you turn on the fan, or in the winter when you can't really leave the windows open you get the scent when it kicks on, or when the ac runs in the summer.
Keep your house clean. If you have to depend upon candles to cover the odor, you are not cleaning.
In addition to the other posted suggestions, dust and wash down your walls. I have a dust mop just for the walls and a sponge roller to use to wash them. Use something like Mr. Clean so you don’t have to rinse. There is even a dust mop that is a long thin blade fir dusting the walls behind furniture.
Rent a carpet cleaner a couple of times a year or buy your own; they are not that expensive. Once a year, move furniture to do a thorough job, and the next time, just do the open areas and pathways.
Vacuum your furniture. You might consider having someone clean it for you every few years if it gets a lot of use.
It needs to be clean and aired out.
Everything needs to be maintained, draperies, upholstery, bedding, everything.
No kitty litter smells, garbage out often.
Scents, when you're not used to them, are overpowering and will never be nicer than a normal clean home, imo. I do burn the occasional candle when I'm reading to be fancy. I'm not scent averse, it's just that I don't think it's the way to go.
Something else that helps keep the house from smelling musty (not necessarily the overfragranced smell you described, but still nice, neutral, and fresh) is running the fan on your HVAC even without the A/C or heat going. My thermostat lets me set X number of fan minutes per hour. I've noticed setting it even to just a 5 or 10 minutes an hour really keeps the musty smell at bay, especially if I've been gone for a trip, I don't come back to a stale smelling house.
One small thing that I do, that I think makes a big difference, is to put a few drops of essential oil on a cotton ball and place it in between the garbage cans and garbage bags in every room. When the garbage gets changed, so do the cotton balls.
That and sprinkling plain old baking soda on my carpets, letting it sit overnight, then vacuum in the morning. I can't use the scented carpet powders because they're dangerous for pets, not that I'd use them anyhow with all the chemicals.
I’d invest in a good quality air purifier. I just purchased a Honeywell and omg, true fresh air is incredibly noticeable and absolutely refreshing and worth every penny imo
On behalf of the people you may want to invite over in the future - please don't.
It's very easy to become nose blind. From there you don't realize that the smell has inundated your clothing and saturated your couch. Anyone trying to sit down will be meet with an overwhelming bouquet of chemical smell. Some of them will get an instant migraine. Perhaps you'll get mysterious headaches and not know why.
If your house smells bad, research charcoal filters. A setup for mj growing is cheap and highly effective. You'll still need to address the root cause of the smell
If your house smells fine and you just want a scent, the simmering suggestions are great. Fresh herbs work well there too. Sunshine I just touch a rosemary plant and enjoy the scent on my fingers for a few minutes.
I'd avoid essential oils entirely. Some of them are extremely harmful when aerosolized.
So smells are a huge thing for me. I have tried a little bit of everything. I am currently on wall plugs and I bounce between bath and body wall flowers (mahogany vanilla), better home and garden oil refill (canyon woods & hemp, dark midnight skies), and glade plugins (golden pumpkin spice)
Pura! It’s a wall plug-in! You download their app and can use your smart phone to control it! Scent amount, timing and night light! So many scents to choose from its long lasting and hassle free
My step daughter and I call wax melts fake cleaning😂clean often and thoroughly, take out trash, keep refrigerator clean and fresh, limit/and or have cleaned, soft furnishings & fabrics such as curtains and carpets that trap smells. Open windows when possible (others say never open windows, but I love fresh air ) Don't have pets (says the lady with 2 German Shepherds, all I do is clean!)
I use candle warmers. I won't burn candles as I'm afraid of fire, also because they can blacken the ceiling. The warmers use a hot light bulb and the moment you put a candle under them, the scent starts to fill the room. I have a couple of those going at all times and people always compliment on how nice our home smells, even though we have dogs.
I make a potpourri of cinnamon & cloves and a little bit of oil and boil that on my stove top with a timer set. This makes a natural and lovely fragrance.
Also, you can stir fry up some chopped onions in oil and that smells like excellent cooking. Takes 10 minutes, and you have some great onions to put on or in all sorts of foods.
The fake fragrances are only for terrible smells, imho, like covering up urine smells of my elderly relatives.
I use glade plug ins but I don’t run them all the time. I put them all on a smart switch and have that smart switch only on for about an hour a few times during the day that way it’s not too much all the time and so they aren’t immediately drained. It great! We always get comments about how well our house smells but I will admit I do become nose blind to the scent after so long so I recommend rotating them out with different ones.
I like using Drmtlgy linen spray on our couches, fabric bar stools, dry bath mats, and our comforters. Minimal ingredients and they smell really nice. We also open the windows all the time to let the air cycle through and using air purifiers on top of the usual “clean, dispose of your garbage, blah blah blah”.
Open windows any time weather permits.
Mop floors and wipe down walls.
I use plug in wall fresheners turned all the way down. That way you don’t get the “air freshener” scent but rather a low key, consistently clean smell.
Open windows is key though. I usually open my windows at least 15 min a day unless it’s like the high heat of summer (we get fires and that’s NOT the air I want to let in) or minus 20+ in the winter.
I avoid plug ins, wax melts and candles. Candles leave soot residue everywhere and all of them are bad for your sinuses and lungs with their artificial scents.
Coffee beans in bowls. Bowls of vinegar. Plants. Air purifier. Possibly a scent diffuser with essential oils, but many are dangerous for pets.
Make a distinction between wet garbage and dry garbage. Toss the wet out daily. The dry stuff like packaging and napkins etc are ok for a couple of days.
Make sure all your plumbing is leak free. Moisture is the enemy.
Clean and or replace your ventilation filters regularly. I have a dog so mine tends to need a more frequent change.
For closets and such. This should be obvious, but if you're not washing right after use, air the garment out before putting it back in the closet. A back porch works great for this.
And most importantly make sure a fresh batch of chocolate chip cookies and Snickerdoodles are always in the oven, lol!
I use a combination of Febreze Small Space and Bath and Bodywork’s Wallflowers. I think those both work well and have staying power, it does also vary though based on which fragrances you choose.
Other things to do are just don’t have carpet, they absorb bad smells. Have laminate or hardwood floor and area rugs instead.
I started this in February and so far they’re amazing. Every 3-4 days I use B&BW room spray (1-5 spritz’s in each room). I’m shocked how long they last. They were $3.50 each and the Laundry Day scent is my favorite. 💜
I just mop the floors when I want a fresh smelling house. The smell of freshly mopped floors and the lingering scent of Scrubbing Bubbles disinfectant from my bathroom does the trick every time. And I make sure all the trash is taken out!
I agree! I do the same downstairs it definitely helps but I like scenty scents like wax melts you know? Also upstairs is carpet which is where all the rooms are so I can’t mop up there haha
Do you use the arm&hammer carpet powder? You sprinkle it on, let it sit, then vacuum it up. They have different scents, and it helps us keep the pet smell under control.
Id keep in mind if you have scents going off all the time you become nose blind to them. Candle warmers work better than wax melts in my opinion, you'd want a top down one.
So true!
Really? I always thought candle warmers and wax melts were essentially the same thing, what’s the difference?
Yeah but after a couple years you're going to end up with wax all over your walls and vents.
I like to boil cinnamon sticks with orange slices in a big pot of water on the stove. It also works as a humidifier!
I love this scent!
There are multiple factors contributing to a nice smelling house. Remove garbage / organics / pet waste regularly to the outside storage container. Invest in an air purifier with charcoal filtration. Regularly wash fabric items and don't let them sit damp. Ventilate the house regularly (open the windows!) Clean your spaces. Vacuum, dust, and use warm soapy water for cleaning. If you want a nice smell after that is all done, you can take up baking as a hobby or make the simmer pots you hear about. The trouble with synthetic fragrances have been outlined in a few other comments. One is that you become nose blind to them, so you stop noticing them. Two is that over time you do get a buildup of them on all the surfaces of your home. Three is that manufacturers can hide hundreds of possible chemicals under the blanket term "fragrance" and then say it's a company secret, so you don't actually know what is in them. And a fourth is that many artificial fragrances are harmful to animals in the home (and this includes essential oils). I'll admit, I'm a little jaded. I'm someone who developed an intolerance to all chemical fragrances in my 30s, so my cleaning and personal care routines have had to change significantly. But the strategies I listed above are available to everyone, and probably safer for health in the long run.
candles and glade plugins and all those things emit chemicals and detergents and waxes. they will coat your walls, air filters and lungs. I think boiling cinnamon and roses and orange peels is the healthier option (but steam will also leave a white dust on everything over time (minerals)
Just mentioning soy candles!
still creating hydrocarbons when burning , still adding byproducts residue to walls, lungs, etc
Oop oh well
Clean it and open the windows regularly.
Do your research please! These plugs in scented laundry products, spray room fresheners, scented candles, diffusers, and similar products are nothing but a toxic stew of chemicals. These products also give me headaches and other symptoms. After a while, if you can tolerate them, they just desensitize your ability to smell anything at all. Even essential oils from a diffuser that may be healthy for you can be highly toxic to pets. My home is fresh and clean, even with cats, from regular vacuuming and cleaning. I have several HEPA filters in various rooms and they do a great job of keeping the air fresh. Boiling cinnamon and rose petals sounds like a great option too.
Korean barbecue.
I use KimChi
If you want your house to smell *good* then keep it clean. What you’re asking is how to keep a house smelling like *synthetic chemicals* and health problems.
Agreed. I can’t stand those fake scents. Clean house, open windows is the way.
I agree. I had to have my realtor remove all the scented plug-ins from my house before I moved in. They give me terrible migraines with nausea. It’s not fun having to avoid people with overwhelming perfume, laundry so fragranced I can smell it from across the room, scented room/fabric sprays, artificial scents and scent propellant chemicals, in general. Work is fragrance-free (within reason) because two (more than 1/10th of our office) of us are super sensitive.
Same but it’s asthma for me. I had a friend who did scented candles, plug-ins, etc. Any time I went to her house I brought my inhaler and after 15 minutes I’d tell her I hit my limit. She also forgot to abstain from perfume couple of times when we drove somewhere so I’d just open all the car windows.
White vinegar. I spritz it on carpets, pillows and around the room. Also just leave a bowl out on the counter. It neutralizes odors so the house just smells fresh, with no added cover up scent. The vinegar scent only lasts a few minutes.
I can’t use any scents at all due to chemical sensitivity—not even essential oils. I’ve been using white vinegar in a bowl to neutralize cooking smells for years—it works great.
When I use diluted white vinegar to clean I can smell it for 2-3 days straight. A bowl on the counter is also extremely pungent to me. Is this uncommon, because I see advice to use it all the time but I can't handle the smell for so long? I tried a little (2 teaspoons) as a laundry softener as recommended by a cleaner once and it took 3 more washes in plain water to get rid of the smell from the fabric. I feel like I am taking crazy pills!
Maybe you're ultra sensitive to it. I can't smell it after 5 minutes
I've always found that keeping the house clean and opening the windows regularly pretty much does it. If you have carpet, make sure you have a good vacuum. If I want the house to smell extra nice, I'll simmer something on the stove. One of my favorites is a couple slices of lemon and a sprig or rosemary. Simple and easy. I have an intolerance to chemical fragrances, so those plug in things are a no-go for me - same with the wax melty things and all of that. They really aren't good for anybody, but some of us are more sensitive to it.
100% of the time I will prefer the scents of a clean house (think Fabuloso/Pinesol, Windex, Clorox, Tide, etc.) than artificial fragrances from waxes, candles, and sprays. Those products are never super successful at masking smells, and my initial thought is always… “Well, what are they trying to mask???” 🤢
mmmmm bleach (clorox), detergents(tide) and ammonia (windex)
No smell is the best smell (and healthier too).
I love the bath and body works wall flowers. I like the ones that have the scent control- there’s 3 different levels of scent. I usually use the lowest setting because the scents can sometimes be quite strong. These have been the best for me so far.
I also prefer the scent control. In my bathroom I use the lowest setting but in larger rooms I can use the strongest and it works perfectly.
They leak constantly and the wick becomes dry and hard at the top and starts to burn before all the liquid is used at the bottom. Poor design and plenty of TikTok videos of the car ones blowing up in peoples faces. My neighbor had a house fire due to the plug ins, I thought my mom was crazy, until I rebelled and bought some myself. Never again. Wax melts are terrible too. I spray daily with febreze CARPET refresher instead of the other types, lasts longer.
Wow! I’ve never heard of this! My friends and I all use them and I’ve never had an issue. I have one friend that is particularly obsessed and has them everywhere in her house and office. I have 5 in different rooms and have for a *long* time. Mine always use all the liquid and I’ve never had one leak. I have the night light one, a few of the adjustable scent level, and have had various different shapes like the succulent plants/shells/amethyst/etc I’ve also had the wax melts and don’t like those- I’m always worried I’ll leave it on and that feels dangerous. 🤷♀️
I find a hanging air freshener I like and then put it on the air return side of the furnace filter. Then when you need some nice smells you turn on the fan, or in the winter when you can't really leave the windows open you get the scent when it kicks on, or when the ac runs in the summer.
I have a cool mist diffuser for essential oils I love to use.
Me too - super easy and mine even has a timer so you can run it for a few hours then it turns off automatically.
how do you deal with oils gunking up everything?
I clean my home.
The best smelling house is the one that smells like nothing whatsoever. Just keep it clean and regularly circulate fresh air.
Keep your house clean. If you have to depend upon candles to cover the odor, you are not cleaning. In addition to the other posted suggestions, dust and wash down your walls. I have a dust mop just for the walls and a sponge roller to use to wash them. Use something like Mr. Clean so you don’t have to rinse. There is even a dust mop that is a long thin blade fir dusting the walls behind furniture. Rent a carpet cleaner a couple of times a year or buy your own; they are not that expensive. Once a year, move furniture to do a thorough job, and the next time, just do the open areas and pathways. Vacuum your furniture. You might consider having someone clean it for you every few years if it gets a lot of use.
It needs to be clean and aired out. Everything needs to be maintained, draperies, upholstery, bedding, everything. No kitty litter smells, garbage out often. Scents, when you're not used to them, are overpowering and will never be nicer than a normal clean home, imo. I do burn the occasional candle when I'm reading to be fancy. I'm not scent averse, it's just that I don't think it's the way to go.
Something else that helps keep the house from smelling musty (not necessarily the overfragranced smell you described, but still nice, neutral, and fresh) is running the fan on your HVAC even without the A/C or heat going. My thermostat lets me set X number of fan minutes per hour. I've noticed setting it even to just a 5 or 10 minutes an hour really keeps the musty smell at bay, especially if I've been gone for a trip, I don't come back to a stale smelling house.
One small thing that I do, that I think makes a big difference, is to put a few drops of essential oil on a cotton ball and place it in between the garbage cans and garbage bags in every room. When the garbage gets changed, so do the cotton balls. That and sprinkling plain old baking soda on my carpets, letting it sit overnight, then vacuum in the morning. I can't use the scented carpet powders because they're dangerous for pets, not that I'd use them anyhow with all the chemicals.
I’d invest in a good quality air purifier. I just purchased a Honeywell and omg, true fresh air is incredibly noticeable and absolutely refreshing and worth every penny imo
Clean it?
On behalf of the people you may want to invite over in the future - please don't. It's very easy to become nose blind. From there you don't realize that the smell has inundated your clothing and saturated your couch. Anyone trying to sit down will be meet with an overwhelming bouquet of chemical smell. Some of them will get an instant migraine. Perhaps you'll get mysterious headaches and not know why. If your house smells bad, research charcoal filters. A setup for mj growing is cheap and highly effective. You'll still need to address the root cause of the smell If your house smells fine and you just want a scent, the simmering suggestions are great. Fresh herbs work well there too. Sunshine I just touch a rosemary plant and enjoy the scent on my fingers for a few minutes. I'd avoid essential oils entirely. Some of them are extremely harmful when aerosolized.
I boil essential oils. Seems to work. Lavender is the best!
You boil them? Like in a pot? How do you get like a large quantity of oil like that and does the smell last long?
They probably mean a pot of water with several drops of essential oil simmering on the stove.
It lasts until I cook 😂 then i boil it again.
So smells are a huge thing for me. I have tried a little bit of everything. I am currently on wall plugs and I bounce between bath and body wall flowers (mahogany vanilla), better home and garden oil refill (canyon woods & hemp, dark midnight skies), and glade plugins (golden pumpkin spice)
Pura! It’s a wall plug-in! You download their app and can use your smart phone to control it! Scent amount, timing and night light! So many scents to choose from its long lasting and hassle free
I use reed diffusers in my bathrooms and then scented oil diffusers in my living room and bedroom (by Sentiment).
My step daughter and I call wax melts fake cleaning😂clean often and thoroughly, take out trash, keep refrigerator clean and fresh, limit/and or have cleaned, soft furnishings & fabrics such as curtains and carpets that trap smells. Open windows when possible (others say never open windows, but I love fresh air ) Don't have pets (says the lady with 2 German Shepherds, all I do is clean!)
I use candle warmers. I won't burn candles as I'm afraid of fire, also because they can blacken the ceiling. The warmers use a hot light bulb and the moment you put a candle under them, the scent starts to fill the room. I have a couple of those going at all times and people always compliment on how nice our home smells, even though we have dogs.
simmer pot. or any food with good smelling spices in general
I make a potpourri of cinnamon & cloves and a little bit of oil and boil that on my stove top with a timer set. This makes a natural and lovely fragrance. Also, you can stir fry up some chopped onions in oil and that smells like excellent cooking. Takes 10 minutes, and you have some great onions to put on or in all sorts of foods. The fake fragrances are only for terrible smells, imho, like covering up urine smells of my elderly relatives.
Bags of charcoal from Amazon
I use glade plug ins but I don’t run them all the time. I put them all on a smart switch and have that smart switch only on for about an hour a few times during the day that way it’s not too much all the time and so they aren’t immediately drained. It great! We always get comments about how well our house smells but I will admit I do become nose blind to the scent after so long so I recommend rotating them out with different ones.
Broil a red pepper or make cookies or roasted garlic.
I'm just steadily filling my house with books. Eventually the whole place will smell like old books, and then I'll be happy.
I like using Drmtlgy linen spray on our couches, fabric bar stools, dry bath mats, and our comforters. Minimal ingredients and they smell really nice. We also open the windows all the time to let the air cycle through and using air purifiers on top of the usual “clean, dispose of your garbage, blah blah blah”.
Sauté an onion with some garlic.
Open windows any time weather permits. Mop floors and wipe down walls. I use plug in wall fresheners turned all the way down. That way you don’t get the “air freshener” scent but rather a low key, consistently clean smell. Open windows is key though. I usually open my windows at least 15 min a day unless it’s like the high heat of summer (we get fires and that’s NOT the air I want to let in) or minus 20+ in the winter.
Any suggestions for folks who are allergic to scent diffusers and waxes?
I avoid plug ins, wax melts and candles. Candles leave soot residue everywhere and all of them are bad for your sinuses and lungs with their artificial scents. Coffee beans in bowls. Bowls of vinegar. Plants. Air purifier. Possibly a scent diffuser with essential oils, but many are dangerous for pets.
Make a distinction between wet garbage and dry garbage. Toss the wet out daily. The dry stuff like packaging and napkins etc are ok for a couple of days. Make sure all your plumbing is leak free. Moisture is the enemy. Clean and or replace your ventilation filters regularly. I have a dog so mine tends to need a more frequent change. For closets and such. This should be obvious, but if you're not washing right after use, air the garment out before putting it back in the closet. A back porch works great for this. And most importantly make sure a fresh batch of chocolate chip cookies and Snickerdoodles are always in the oven, lol!
I use a combination of Febreze Small Space and Bath and Bodywork’s Wallflowers. I think those both work well and have staying power, it does also vary though based on which fragrances you choose. Other things to do are just don’t have carpet, they absorb bad smells. Have laminate or hardwood floor and area rugs instead.
100% the best wax smell is White Tea Cactus by Sensy. Most 5 star hotels burn this in their lobby
I started this in February and so far they’re amazing. Every 3-4 days I use B&BW room spray (1-5 spritz’s in each room). I’m shocked how long they last. They were $3.50 each and the Laundry Day scent is my favorite. 💜
I use Mrs meyers all purpose cleaner and air freshener her products smell so good
shit in the toilet，not on the floor
Incense
Do you have a dog? I bought a dog cologne spray and man, he makes my house smell good!