Favorite house smell

[Cogswel_Cogs]

I know people love when they are baking but my favorite smell in house is when I'm making soup.
What's yours?

 

[Southernmiss]

I know people love when they are baking but my favorite smell in house is when I'm making soup.
What's yours?

Clean house smell.

I alternate what I mop our vinyl floors with.

Sometimes it's just a steam mop with a splash of vinegar.
Other times it's a Libman mop with original Pine Sol , or a drop of Dawn soap in hot water, or vinegar and hot water, or simple green in hot water.

My husband and kids walk in 'mmmm smells like you cleaned today'.

 

[ronandannette]

Agree - "clean" smells great whether it's floor cleaner, bleach, furniture polish, dish soap, or whatever. I also love the smell of a bouquet of flowers or a fresh pot of coffee brewing.

 

[jdb in AZ]

Clean house smell.

I alternate what I mop our vinyl floors with.

Sometimes it's just a steam mop with a splash of vinegar.
Other times it's a Libman mop with original Pine Sol , or a drop of Dawn soap in hot water, or vinegar and hot water, or simple green in hot water.

My husband and kids walk in 'mmmm smells like you cleaned today'.

A friend of mine who cleaned houses for a living liked to use products the clients could smell, so they knew she'd cleaned there. I tried Pine Sol and DH hated it. Different strokes. We both enjoy the smell of a pine wreath at Christmas, or cedar logs burning in the fire place.

 

[Breezy_Carol]

I like the dryer vent smell. I guess it is the dryer sheet smell.

 

[Soldier's*Sweeties]

Fresh laundry

 

[dotfurio]

I like the laundry smell. However, I don't like actually doing the laundry

 

[BlueStarryHat]

Lemon Pledge and vanilla anything.

 

[Meriweather]

baked things, cookies, cake

 

[mrsheppo]

Baked goods or a citrus scent

 

[PollyannaMom]

Thanksgiving!

 

[lynxstch]

Springtime, when the lilacs are in full bloom and the windows are open and the smell of them is wafting thru the house. Or I have picked vases and vases full of them and have them in every room of the house. Nothing better than that for me!

 

[usnuzuloose]

I love the scent of cinnamon and orange peels when brewing on the stove. I also have a hazelnut candle.

 

[mombrontrent]

Definitely the clean house smell. Sometimes if I’ve done a lot of cleaning but not necessarily used a lot of cleaning products I’ll sweep and mop the floor and clean the bathrooms after just so I can get that clean house smell.

 

[ronandannette]

Springtime, when the lilacs are in full bloom and the windows are open and the smell of them is wafting thru the house. Or I have picked vases and vases full of them and have them in every room of the house. Nothing better than that for me!

I couldn't agree more - simply heavenly!! Unfortunately I don't have a lilac bush nor any place to grow one, but they are fairly ubiquitous around here as hedges and in neighbourhood parks. I've been known to snitch the odd bouquet from bushes on public land. May I ask when prime lilac season is where you live? Here it's mid/late June.

 

[lynxstch]

I couldn't agree more - simply heavenly!! Unfortunately I don't have a lilac bush nor any place to grow one, but they are fairly ubiquitous around here as hedges and in neighbourhood parks. I've been known to snitch the odd bouquet from bushes on public land. May I ask when prime lilac season is where you live? Here it's mid/late June.

We have 4 large bushes, had a hard time getting them to grow until I realized that the other trees were blocking their sun. Trimmed back those trees and the lilacs bloom so well with more sunlight hitting them. We live in Western MD, and their peak season is usually early May up till Mothers Day, unless we have very weird winter weather, which we have been having. We have gotten a late hard frost the last 2 years after they have started getting buds, and it's really cut down on the amount of them I get to pick. But I pick almost every last bloom on those bushes and try to make them last as long as I can.

 

[MrsCobraBubbles]

Freshly laundered linens. I know the smell of bleach is bad for my asthma and I would never sniff it straight from the bottle, but I love that subtle, lingering smell of bleach on my sheets and towels after I've dried and folded them. Sometimes I can't resist sticking my head in the linen closet when I walk by

Have to agree with Dotfurio--I HATE doing the laundry! It might be my least favorite chore.

 

[mumto3girls]

Windows open smell—to me there is nothing better. Some years we go straight from heat to air conditioning in the spring and the reverse in the fall. Other years we have several weeks a year where we can open the windows and skylights and let the fresh air in.

Close to that is when my mom used to dry bedding on the clothesline. When those sheets came in and were put back on the bed—loved that combination of fresh laundry and outside. I haven’t smelled that in many years as I don’t have a great place for a clothesline.

 

[barkley]

I know people love when they are baking but my favorite smell in house is when I'm making soup.
What's yours?

Thanksgiving!

i'm all about the aroma of a pot of soup-and one of the best is a type i can only get the mix from canada for that makes the entire house smell like all the elements of thanksgiving dinner. it is heavenly.

cedar logs burning in the fire place.

that's what i miss not having a wood burning fireplace anymore. we would throw in some oak and one or two cedar logs-the smell and the crackle/pops were comforting.

 

[cayennews]

Baked goods smell. Also coffee, even though I don't like drinking coffee. I still like the aroma.