FRAGRANCES FOR YOUR HOME

Brunette10 - as you would like suggestions for home “fragrances” , I’m thinking that demands for you to open the windows aren’t the answer!
Living next to a field that is regularly covered in fresh silage and with a neighbour who likes chicken manure for their garden, I find that opening the windows is the cause of the problem.
Having tried scented candles ( smoky, leaves soot on walls, can be knocked over by cat, glass can overheat etc) and plug ins ( horrid fragrances, can overheat etc) I’ve stuck with reed diffusers located in safe places.
My current favourite is by Wax Lyrical in Red Cherries fragrance. Costs around £7 from Morrisons. “ A fruity cherry fragrance with juicy strawberries, raspberries and notes of floral violet supported by a base of vanilla”
Have had this “diffusing” for 2 weeks now and have had at least 5 people asking me what the lovely scent is? Even my OH, prone never to notice anything in the house, has commented about that nice smell!!
Baking bread, and wafting flowers are fine, but they don’t help in every room, all day. Plus, so many flowers sold these days have no fragrance!

I sprinkle my Sebo hoover bag with essental oil such as lavender and it leaves a lovely fragrance which is not overpowering as I clean.

Open the windows and bin the artificial smells

Exactly right mcem

As some-one who is allergic to many perfumes I too prefer fresh air, windows open whenever possible. I also am allergic to the scent of many flowers so have to be careful what I have in my home, love the smell of sweet peas, roses (if you're lucky enough to get scented ones) & lavender.

I try to use natural products & also love the scent of lemon

Sorry if someone else has said this.
Your nose/brain gets used to smells quite quickly so you stop noticing them. It's the same with a perfume that you wear. Other people will still notice them when they meet you or visit your home but you might spend half your life and a lot of money chasing an effect that wears off very quickly!

True Grace diffusers are lovely. I have Moroccan Rose around my flat. John Lewis and Waitrose stock them. Not inexpensive, but worth it.

I am a sucker for reed diffusers. Some work better than others. In fact I always have one or three on the go. No they do not go through the whole house as a rule, but do give you a blast of scent when in an enclosed space. A question of trial and error.

I hate plug in air fresheners, but have just discovered reed
Diffusers. Marks and Spencer’s are lovely and don’t cost the earth. They last at least 6 month and I have one in the hall and one in the kitchen

Plug ins are dangerous to pets as they are right on their nose level. Ditch all the chemicals and just keep house clean and put fresh flowers about, as already suggested. Having said that, I do have a gel air freshener in the downstairs loo as it's very small and enclosed! Nothing in the upstairs bathrooms.

Funny how other people's houses always smell different, isn't it?

Fresh flowers or opening windows would be my advice. I did notice, though, that when I was given a nice Molton Brown handwash and put it in the downstairs cloakroom it made the whole room smell very pleasant.

(However, when I checked the price it was twenty five quid a pop which was an added incentive to just open the window when it ran out.)

Those plug in are horrible. I stayed in a B and B once which had one in the bedroom. I unplugged it and put the plug on a painted window sill as I wanted to use the plug to charge my phone and didn’t want the chemical smell in the room . The next morning the thing had leaked and stripped a circle of paint off the sill. Goodness knows what it’s doing to your lungs if it has that effect.

Jo Malone diffusers seem expensive but the last about 6months. I have Lime and Basil Downstairs and English Pear and Freesia in my bedroom. They don’t have the fake smell of some diffusers. It smells like fresh flowers in the room. The

Meant can't beat fresh air.

Plugins can be nauseating.Can't beat fresh air although that can be tainted if the wind is in the wrong direction and wafting into your home the stench from 'muck spreading.'

I have one of these,which filters the air and uses natural oils which come in various fragrances.It gives a lovely perfume throughout the home without any chemical nasties.

www.amazon.co.uk/AMOS-purifier-freshener-changing-fragrances?tag=gransnetforum-21

Brunette10
Everyone's olfactory senses are different as are bottled/boxed/wax fragrances so unless you come across a fragrance you like in a formulation you like, then our suggestions are not much use. Pomegranate and fig fragrance (or any other) is not the same in wax form, oils, sprays or diffusers and varies from brand to brand.
Artificial scents can be overpowering and some people are allergic to them.

Brunette10

I had a dozen red roses on Valentines Day(totally unexpected) I didn,t want to throw them away when they died, so I dried them, put them in a decorative glass vase and bought an essential oil from M&S and add drops of the oil to the dried petals eh presto my own personalized natural air freshener.

Dried lavender is a wonderful base for making pot-pourri, I try to make fresh each summer by gathering blooms & heads from the garden drying off in the airing cupboard wth Lavender. Then sprinkle with drops of one of two essential oils, maybe rose, geranium, bergamont many others to choose from. Place in a wide open bowl turn the pourri every few days refresh with oils when necessary. Enjoy!

I second the idea of binning fragrances. Nothing like the smell of fresh air, cut grass and baking.

Be careful with diffusers if you have pets. The oil can burn them if they brush against the sticks. Personally I like fresh flowers or dried lavender

Bake bread....!

Why intentionally assault your nose with artificially contrived long-chain molecules?

Remove the sources of any bad smells and ventilate your rooms while conserving energy.

Sparingly use personal fragrances to match your mood but ditch the smelly smoking candles and plug-ins.

Fresh flowers are the best fragrance for a house. I have a beautiful bunch of stocks in my living room at the moment.

I find all the other ways of creating fragrance smell chemically and overpowering and have an unpleasant after smell, some give me migraine.

Although a great fresh air fan there are occasions when a helping hand is welcomed and although I love my candles again there is that danger element.
Having been introdiuced to ASHLEIGH & BURWOOD,London and given one of their attractive Fragrance Lamps complete with bottles of Lamp Fragrance which comes in differing sizes and aromas I vouch this will gloriously fill your room and surrounding area (availably from above or through Amazon)
At the moment I have Sea Breeze floating in the air and it is just as though the sea air is pouring in through the window.

Ahh a girl after my own heart, I was going to ask the same question.The ones I have tried and loved are Marks and Spencers fig, oil diffusers and oil drops very expensive smelling, also somebody has just bought me a Katherine Kidston oil diffuser, think it's linen, or something similar, it's lost its label unfortunately, that's also lovely, without being overpowering.I think though for the best effect it's better to use the same fragrance throughout your home, maybe in different ways with candles, room sprays etc.I also spray cushions and other soft furnishings, it seems to work, as my dil always says it smells lush.