Home Fragrances

[Matt Crunk]

My wife inherited our current home, which used to belong to her grandparents. I'm not saying the place is haunted, but from time to time we'll get a faint scent of cigar smoke and old spice drifting through the house when there is no reason for either to be there. Those are both scents my wife strongly associates with her grandfather.

 

[Stewart Field]

I have several Glade plug-ins around the house so faint apple/cinnamon is the primary scent. Whenever I hand-wash my shirts, the smell of my homemade laundry soap is quite strong. I hate the smell of a dirty house so I'm in favor of fresh odors around the place.

 

[CaramelSmoothie]

I don't like apple and cinnamony smells. I prefer bakery smells. I bought a whole bunch of candles from a woman who sells candles. I'm burning Brown Sugar Cookie and it smells divine! My New Year's resolution was to start making my own candles because commercial candles are pricey!

 

[vitanola]

My sainted grandmother firmly believed that Airwicks and other air fresheners were but a poor substitute for daily vacuuming and airing. When at home, we do air the house every couple of days and vacuum each morning, so the place has a very slght "Old House" mustiness, a whisp of coal smoke in winter, linseed oil floor polish, whatever flowers that we drag in, wool (on rainly days damp wool) the cigar smoke which clings to some of my clothes a year after I've quit, and in the dining room area the odor of whatever dinner is cooking.

We are spending most of our time at my parents house these days, though. There I am working hard to assure that the place has no odor at all, which is not an easy task given Mom and Dad's various health problems. I vacuum, scrub, and regularly clean the conveniences, but the house is in sore want of an airing. Baking helps, bread especially.

 

[CaramelSmoothie]

Yes, baking bread sure does help and I can attest to that! Anyone visiting my home will think they've stepped into a bakery between the weekly bread baking and the candles that emit pastry scents.

 

[TheSwingingBee]

Currently mine smells like Eucalyptus Mint from Bath and Body Works plug ins, but we're just trying to mask the gross old carpet and padding smell. We're currently renting and getting ready to sign for another year, I'm going to ask if they would let us pull up the carpet and re-do the wood floors that are under it.

 

[scarletgrenadine]

My house really changes depending on the day. Sometimes the wind catches in the chimney and there are whiffs of woodsmoke. Otherwise, I hope it just smells clean. Or maybe faintly of fresh coffee. I like the Air Sense air fresheners, particularly the orange oil one, but I am all out.

The houses my grandparents lived in always had this nostalgic component for me. One smelled of cypress wood, fresh-cut flowers, fruit, red wine, furniture polish, and humid Louisiana heat. Outside, there were flowers and brick and a faint whiff of cat, as all the houses in that part of Louisiana are raised and stray kitties tend to sneak underneath. The other house smelled of heated brick, as there were brick floors through much of the lower level. It was a Spanish-style house centered on a courtyard, and all the azaleas and vines and greenery outside were continually being wafted in by the opening and closing doors. Nicotine too, faintly, and dried flowers and ash and electrical storms.

 

[Stearmen]

Right now mine smells pretty clean since it was raining today, and I did some cleaning. Latter this week, it may have an Early American Motorcycles fragrance!

 

[Foxer55]

Absolutely NOT. I am severely allergic to perfumes, deodorants, paint odors, and the like. NO deodorizers in my home and I leave immediately when I find I'm in such an environment.

 

[LizzieMaine]

There's a certain smell that comes out of the back of a tube radio that's been on for a few hours, a sort of toasted-dust aroma. Mix that with cooking grease, Fels Naptha, Lestoil, damp salt air, and cat, and that's what my house smells like.

 

[McPeppers]

For those blessed with easy access to your A/C's register - you can place various smellgoods up against the filter - fresh cut grass, christmas tree boughs, cinnamon sticks, lavender.

Ours is only a foot off the ground in its little closet so a painters bucket and boom. smellgood

 

[Stearmen]

There's a certain smell that comes out of the back of a tube radio that's been on for a few hours, a sort of toasted-dust aroma. Mix that with cooking grease, Fels Naptha, Lestoil, damp salt air, and cat, and that's what my house smells like.

You made me go turn on my Atwater Kent! [video=youtube;2WH88Jp9ecA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WH88Jp9ecA[/video]

 

[GoetzManor]

My wife usually has the Glade plugins about the upstairs, but in the basement, (my man cave, if you will) I have a candle that smells like warm pipe tobacco. In fact, that's what it's called. It's a wonderfully relaxing scent when you come home after a long day.

 

[Dixie_Amazon]

Lemon Pledge and Johnson's Paste Wax still make me thing of my mom.