What does your home smell like?

United States
August 19, 2007 1:38pm CST
So, what does your home smell like? Does it smell like you're baking apple pie? Cooking beef or fish for dinner? Or, walking in an English Garden? Does your home smell like your pets? Just a couple minutes ago they played one of those fresh fragrance Glade commercials on TV and it made me wonder just exactly what other people's homes must smell like in order for them to want to cover up with fragrance. Personally, I like fragrances, air sprays, potpourri, etc. However, most times I clean so much that the smell of bleach and ammonia overpowers any possible fragrance that I could spray into the room. Just for once, I'd love for my home to smell like lavender or roses. Years ago, when we lived in the country we had a honeysuckle bush outside our home and so I'd bring in fresh bunches of flowers weekly and they always smelled divine! No such luck living here. What type of fragrance do you use in your home? Do you use fragrance to cover up and mask odors or just to provide a pleasant living environment?
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raychill
@raychill (6525)
• United States
19 Aug 07
I buy different sorts of yankee candles to fit whatever season is around. Like, pumpkin-esque scents for fall and christmas-y for christmas. whatever. So that's usually what my apartment smells like. I also use febreeze and stuff, I'm pretty weird about a lot of scents so most of mine are fairly subtle.
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beautyqueen26
@beautyqueen26 (16030)
• United States
19 Aug 07
Yeah I get scent confused too. Like when I go somewhere and someone is burning an apple pie spice candle and using one of those glade plug ins that smells like flowers. My nose doesn't know which way to turn! LOL!
raychill
@raychill (6525)
• United States
19 Aug 07
It's like "maybe she's cooking apple flower pie?"
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beautyqueen26
@beautyqueen26 (16030)
• United States
20 Aug 07
Apple flower pie? How do you think of this stuff? Tee hee!
maddysmommy
@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
24 Aug 07
At the moment my house smells like coffee and toast LOL I usually use an aerosol spray can, vanilla or lavendar smell and on occasion i light up a few scented candles. I usually use them cover up smell and provide a pleasant living environment, especially if I know someone is about to visit us LOL
KrisNY
@KrisNY (7590)
• United States
20 Aug 07
My house smells like different things at different times- I love lilacs so when they are in season they are always in the house giving the house that smell- sometimes it smells musty- That is when I know I need to start the dehumidifier in the basement- Sometimes it smells cinnamony- this is my favorite- I use these glade plug-ins with apple cinnamon. Not to mask an odor but to make the house smell nice! My daughter has a light and smell glade thing in her room and it smells like flowers- she loves it!
carlaabt
@carlaabt (3504)
• United States
20 Aug 07
I don't really like most floral scents. Growing up, we weren't allowed to use anything floral because it made my dad really sick. I guess that's why I don't like it now. My mom always used fruity scented things, so I do, too. We have those Airwick air fresheners that spray every few minutes in our bedroom, Elliott's room, and our family room. I usually get the Papaya and Mango, but sometimes I switch it up. I also use a bunch of citrus oust (that doesn't really smell like citrus, but the smell isn't bad). And I do use Febreze sometimes, but not that often.
Nardz13
@Nardz13 (5054)
• New Zealand
20 Aug 07
Hi. Our home has the smell of "Sandalwood"... As you come in the front door you smell "Daphne" because we have a daphne flower growing right there... Pizza can be sometimes smelt along with the smell of apple crumble, if thats what Ive just cooked...
jolenegreen
@jolenegreen (1209)
• United States
20 Aug 07
hmmmm....Mine smells like Fresh Linen. I use the Glade plug it ins, potpurri, Lysol ect. EVERYTHING I buy smells like fresh linen. When fall gets here I like it to either small like pumpkin spice or cinnamon apple. And thenwhen it starts snowing I like the smell of pine. I LOVE IT!