Any Homescent Lovers Here?

[prabha_friend]

Hi All. Good Evening. I am a very good avid Homescent Lover. I always want my home to smell pleasant. Have tried from incense sticks to diffusers. Currently I am looking for a 'continuous release' electric aroma diffuser. I know that the quality of oils play a major role here. Sometimes even thinking of making a one by myself (DIY. Possible?). Is anyone here have a continuous release aroma diffuser at their or an HVAC one at your office? My budget is 100$ Max. Thanks for reading. Please reply. Thanks.

 

[Cotswold]

In my opinion those machines pump dozens unknown chemicals into the air which are very likely poisoning everyone in the house.

It just beggars belief to me that so many people obsessed with clean air in their parks, streets and cars go home to breathe in a fog of fumes for maybe over 12 hours a day. Not only that, they sit there thinking "this is nice"..........unbelievable.

You may as well place ten burning cigarettes around the rooms. Maybe direct the chimney from the central heating, or wood burner into the house? That should have the same effect but poison everyone much faster and possibly at lower cost.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

You would probably do better to find one of the many electrostatic air "purifiers" to remove some of the more objectionable smells, though that might be outside of your budget. The problem with aroma diffusers is that they are "additive" devices. They ADD one scent to obscure or overpower another scent. Electrostatic purifiers are scent REMOVERS that take the smelly chemicals out of the air.

As Cotswold points out, anything that adds a new aroma adds new chemicals. BUT there is also the issue that if it doesn't obliterate the source of the bad odor, that bad odor will likely come back when the diffuser goes dry. You would do far better to discover if there is a source of bad smells that can be cleaned up on a regular basis.

By the way, this is not the first time you've asked this question. Look into the "Similar Threads" section below. You're the first link!

Some people report getting bad headaches from having too many additives to the air - essentially a scent headache. When my wife and I go shopping, there are certain stores I can't enter due to the cloying level of perfumes, scents, and odors emanating from their displays. For instance, Bath & Body Works and, to a lesser degree, the perfume counters at J.C. Penney's and Macy's department stores. No disparagement of what they sell is intended. It is just that in some parts of their stores I smell EVERY scent at once - and the blend is nearly nauseating. I would re-think the idea of just masking the smells.

It could be worse. The street names would mean nothing to you but there are some homes near Hickory Ave. a few miles from us where their back-yard neighbors are an animal pound and a sewage treatment plant. Try diffusing THAT away! And I feel sorry for the scent hounds trapped in the animal pound, animals known for the sense of smell, who have to live next to the one place that smells worse than they do.

 

[prabha_friend]

Anyone saw the movie: Perfume-The story of a Murderer?

 

[Pat Hartman]

I am also very sensitive to scents and hate it when I have to be near people wearing excessive levels of perfume or aftershave. Masking a bad odor just adds chemicals to the air you are breathing as the others already pointed out.

Unless you have the misfortune to live downwind of some offensive smelling business, the best option is to eliminate the source of the odor. If it is your pets, bathe them, clean their cages, clean their litter boxes daily, remove their food dishes when they are not eating, and be scrupulous about vacuuming up pet hair. If it is lingering cooking odors, add an exhaust fan to the kitchen to send the odors outside of the house where they can bother the neighbors If it is the bathroom, add an exhaust fan or use a drug that reduces flatulence. If you live in a moist climate, you may have mold and mildew growing in your house. This is also very bad for your health. I also happen to be allergic to mold. I can smell it when I walk into a house even if the owners are used to it. You need to remediate what is there and do something to control the humidity or leaks to prevent future growth. Maybe a dehumidifier would help. Because of the mold allergy, I don't even use my fireplace because most wood ends up growing mold as it waits outside to be burned. Most of my allergies have gotten less bothersome as I aged but mold became much worse.

 

[Isaac]

I like good smells in the house but I'm usually limited to candles because my wife is pretty sensitive and anything that smells strong bothers her

 

[Mark_]

Hi All. Good Evening. I am a very good avid Homescent Lover. I always want my home to smell pleasant. Have tried from incense sticks to diffusers. Currently I am looking for a 'continuous release' electric aroma diffuser. I know that the quality of oils play a major role here. Sometimes even thinking of making a one by myself (DIY. Possible?). Is anyone here have a continuous release aroma diffuser at their or an HVAC one at your office? My budget is 100$ Max. Thanks for reading. Please reply. Thanks.

Trick I learned from a realtor; Let vanilla extract thicken a bit so it can be placed on an incandescent lightbulb. Place the thickened extract on a low watt lightbulb and let it dry. Turn on the light the bulb is in and your house will smell like a bakery in a few minutes.

 

[AccessBlaster]

I like the smell Coffee beans

 

[The_Doc_Man]

It's not a "house smell" memory, but when I used to play music on Bourbon Street, our band was a bunch of night owls. We would leave the bar when our shift ended at 3 AM and head for home in the suburbs - but the best route at that time of night was Interstate 10 through the city (to avoid traffic lights, of course). It took us past the Sunbeam bakery just as the morning's first batch of freshly baked bread was coming out of their ovens - and they had a LOT of ovens. Talk about your overpowering smell! We would salivate until we hit the end of I-10 (because in 1970, it wasn't finished yet). There was a 24-hour White Castle on the route and we would hit them for about 3 or 4 CastleBurgers each. (They were sliders, not full-sized hamburgers.) Talk about a good "smell memory!"

 

[Isaac]

It's not a "house smell" memory, but when I used to play music on Bourbon Street, our band was a bunch of night owls. We would leave the bar when our shift ended at 3 AM and head for home in the suburbs - but the best route at that time of night was Interstate 10 through the city (to avoid traffic lights, of course). It took us past the Sunbeam bakery just as the morning's first batch of freshly baked bread was coming out of their ovens - and they had a LOT of ovens. Talk about your overpowering smell! We would salivate until we hit the end of I-10 (because in 1970, it wasn't finished yet). There was a 24-hour White Castle on the route and we would hit them for about 3 or 4 CastleBurgers each. (They were sliders, not full-sized hamburgers.) Talk about a good "smell memory!"

That sounds really nice Doc.
Funny I also have good memories of White Castle only because we went there a few times when I visited my brother when he lived near Detroit for a couple years.

 

[Mark_]

Definitely miss sliders. I'm going to be heading near Detroit in a couple months for my nephews wedding. Will definitely have to stop for some!

 

[Isaac]

Definitely miss sliders. I'm going to be heading near Detroit in a couple months for my nephews wedding. Will definitely have to stop for some!

I see them in the grocery store but figure it's just not the same

 

[Pat Hartman]

Definitely miss sliders. I'm going to be heading near Detroit in a couple months for my nephews wedding. Will definitely have to stop for some!

A couple of local grocery stores carry them frozen. I've never eaten at one. There has never been any White Castles in any town where I lived or worked.