It Stinks In Here!

[DudeEMETIB]

Hey buds. I have a thing with air fresheners and scented things. I live in apartment with two other guys, sometimes things get left out, sometimes farts are farted, and well, in general the place can smell.

Overtime my car will smell, and sometimes my room smells too.
Sometimes it's not even the "bad smell" that I'm trying to remove or mask, even the lack of smell sometimes bugs me if I know I could instead have a place smelling pleasantly like something else.

Which brings me to ask you guys.
What smelly things do you use?

Personally, I have two of these:


One in the living room, which is motion-censored and carrying a lavender can.
The other is in my room, and it's vanilla, not motion-censored
(I used to have the motion one in my room, but it'd shut off until I'd walk by it and I kept getting sprayed in the face...lol)


I use one of these:


In my car, it smells amazing, but it is very strong, some people don't like that...I don't mind it, after the first few days it get's softer, but still smells and keeps a good odor for at least a month if not two. I've gotten a lot of my friends hooked on this freshener.


And this is my favorite Febreze to use to just spray when something somewhere just smells awful or I can't wait for my other fresheners to soften the stink.




Hope I'm not the only person that's really into keeping their place smelling unnaturally good...lol. So how do you guys do it?
Air-fresheners, candles, incense, flowers everywhere.

[hellbent]

i wash my clothes and use soap when i shower! lolool

[hellbent]

seriously though, i use those scented bead things you can buy at the asian stores... you can mix and match the stuff.. usually lasts for 2 months

[pixie]

I've been officially banned from having candles lit in the apartment I live in (my landlord is super-paranoid, and my roommate- who kind of owns half the place- monitors my shit like a drill sergent) but before that, I used to light scented candles or have one of those oil diffusers. I found they actually worked better than febreeze or anything like that- sometimes one of us would cook something horrendous smelling, and we'd just light a candle or something.

In my room, I light incense every so often. It kind of fills my room with the smell, which I love, so that works for me.

I've also heard of people doing things like boiling herbs or cinnamon or the like in a pot of water on the stove, but I've never tried that- seems like a heckuva waste of time.

I recommend the oil diffuser/essential oils. That or a scented candle. Both are fantastic at making stuff smell awesome.

[DWarrior]

I think my room must have an ungodly smell. One corner's dirty laundry from as far back as December, another corner is trash piled around the trash bin. One side of the room is just towers of books. One such tower has a pizza box in the middle from the Fall midterms. Half the table is taken up by empty glasses, coffee cups and beer bottles.

It's a god-forsaken cave that I'm finally gonna clean up this weekend.

[Rhian]

I used to do the simmer pot and loved it, till I realized I was allergic to what I used in it.

I love some insence, but anything like glade or that crap I can't do at all.

Some febreeze is okay, and I love my windows open if I can get to it.

[Aquavelvis]

I'm extremely sensitive to smells. Most of them are too overpowering to me so strong scents make me nauseous, especially certain ones. At Christmas we visited in-laws who had a maple-scented candle going and I nearly gagged on it. On the rare occasion that I'm in a mall I have to walk on the opposite side if there's a Yankee Candle store because even the smell outside the doors is too much for me. Plus yeah, I put the kibosh on burning candles period in the house since the one time my wife fell asleep with one going and I came home to flames shooting up the front of the bureau where it was sitting.

Besides, most air freshener sprays don't seem to mask smells, they just sort of blend with them so the bathroom smells like lilac and dump.

Scent affecting taste the way it does, I also cannot deal with scented dish liquid. If I'm drinking coffee and the mug smells like green apple or something floral it totally fucks with my tastebuds.

[BrianAlt]

Originally Posted by Aquavelvis

I'm extremely sensitive to smells. Most of them are too overpowering to me so strong scents make me nauseous

I think they sell coffee scented candles and air fresheners. Perhaps stick with those?

[Aquavelvis]

Originally Posted by BrianAlt

I think they sell coffee scented candles and air fresheners. Perhaps stick with those?

Nah, I'd probably burn my lips trying to drink the melted wax.

[the1thepwnly]

i love the scented oils with the sticks sticking out. i have a vanilla scented one. i live in a dorm with 6 other guys and it smells horrible most of the time, except the little area around my desk and bed.