We usually light a scented candle if we're expecting guests to make sure there is zero dog smell in our house (though I try REALLY hard not to let it get dog smelly in here). I also have a few reed diffusers here and there just to make things interesting.
Do you use household scents? What kind do you like? Fresh, sweet, earthy?
grapefruit / 4800 posts
I'd say earthy, my husband takes care of scenting the house after dinner.
I have a couple essential oils I use to mask it though.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22276 posts
We light candles. I like baked good, fruit and fresh cotton scents.
pineapple / 12234 posts
Yes! I have an old house...and it smells like old house 
so I buy pier one diffusers/candles/room spray in crisp bamboo.
GOLD / papaya / 10206 posts
@HLK208: that's a neat idea, you use the same scent all through the house. I get a little crazy and buy all the B&BW seasonal candles so I change it up all the time. I kind of like the idea of having a 'scent' that would be like our signature.
honeydew / 7909 posts
We use homemade baked scents in fall and winter and fun fruity scents in summer. Big fan of scentsy and b&bw wallflowers. I avoid lineny and floral scents.
grapefruit / 4800 posts
@prettylizy: 
Thanks.
We got an oil kit for Christmas and have been experimenting with nicer smells. Both of us are big lavender fans and I usually throw some lemongrass and tea tree oil in too. I need to get a better diffuser or something because my husband really does put up good competition.
GOLD / papaya / 10206 posts
@Maysprout: our house has been pretty dry the last few weeks so I've been running a humidifier and I have been adding some lavender essential oil to the water just for a bit of oomph. I find it super calming.
blogger / pineapple / 12381 posts
@autumnlove: I'm with you. I dislike the idea of covering up smell more than the original smell itself. Then I just smell the first smell and the overpowering second smell. No smells for me besides my cleaning supplies and whatever living smells like!
grapefruit / 4800 posts
@prettylizy: That sounds really nice, now I want a humidifier.
My husband has been washing his hair with Dr. Bronners lavender soap and I just want to eat him up afterwards. So instead of doing that I bought culinary lavender and have been sticking it in brownies, so delicious and smells great too.
blogger / pineapple / 12381 posts
@Maysprout: Mmm... Love Dr. Bronners! Have you tried the almond one? It's truly snack-worthy
papaya / 10560 posts
too scenty and i get a headache. fresh scents don't bother me though...like clean laundry.
watermelon / 14206 posts
I like candles. I like linen or just fresh, clean scents. I can't stand vanilla scented anything.
blogger / pineapple / 12381 posts
@katiew92081: I'm so with you on vanilla! (not the actual baking vanilla, just anything vanilla "scented")
clementine / 780 posts
I'm sensitive to smells and they give me headaches. I just like an open window, or whatever it is I'm cookin'
watermelon / 14206 posts
@mrs. jacks: Yeah, I love to eat vanilla...just don't like to wear it or my house to smell like it, lol
GOLD / papaya / 10206 posts
@katiew92081: @Mrs. Jacks: man I LOVE vanilla scented things. My mom hates them too so I rarely use them in our house. I read somewhere that putting two capfulls of vanilla extract in a oven save dish in a 350 oven for 20 minutes will make the whole house smell like heaven in 10 minutes. I wonder if that would bother you guys/her too?
bananas / 9229 posts
We have a candle lit almost all the time when were home! Also have a reed diffuser in the bathroom and bedroom!
blogger / pineapple / 12381 posts
@prettylizy: I don't think that would bother me... It's the fake vanilla scent that just. kills. me!
GOLD / papaya / 10206 posts
@Mrs. Jacks: my first every perfume that I bought myself at age 12..... so awful!!
persimmon / 1479 posts
@prettylizy: LOL, My mom had that
I have a wax warmer plugged in that turn on when we turn our living room lights on. I am super paranoid about our house smelling like dog. I usually order from Scentsy and mix up the smell depending on the time of year-usually an apple/cinnamon or a light fresh scent.
grapefruit / 4817 posts
Most scents will give me a headache, and some scents (like baked goods) make me nauseous. I'm really sensitive to scent and hate going to people's houses (my MIL) where there are candles burning. It's always way too strong and I have to sit there and be miserable or secretly blow out candles or unplug glade wall plugs.
honeydew / 7488 posts
I am not a huge scent fan, but I have somehow found myself with a stockpile of scentsy warmers and scents (coworker was selling and I felt bad for her). All of the baked good scents make me nauseous so if I have to pick, I choose fruity or soapy clean scents.
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