Friday Question #146
By kilax, January 28, 2011 5:46 am
Which scents do you like to use for your home?
Food scents! Since Steven cooks almost every day, our house usually smells like food – and quite often something with an onion base. An onion-hater would not survive long in our home. And we like it when the house smells like food!
But we also use air fresheners and scented soap – warm vanilla sugar in the fall and winter, and cucumber melon in the spring and summer. See? Still food scents.
I also like pumpkin and blueberry scented candles. Yummy! Then there’s buttercream, french vanilla, vanilla cupcake…
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My friend sells candles and the birthday cake scent is my favorite. I love food scents, especially dessert scents.
I’m not a big “scent” person because candles kind of give me a headache. I understand the “food” smell though. It always smells like onions, garlic, or something vaguely ethnic in our apartment…though usually, that ends up getting mixed with brownie-smell. It’s a weird combination.
I’m a big “spicy” scent person– things like patchouli really work for me. Maybe it just makes me nostalgic for my college days, back when I used to light incense in my room, ha!
I like food smells – apple pie and pumpkin spice. And most berry-ish smells I love….
Like yours, my husband cooks frequently enough that our house always smells like something delicious too! But otherwise we light candles. These days we have something fresh & beachy (still around from my bridal shower – love it!), a winter-y pine, and cinnamon. Just depends on our mood I guess! Happy Friday!
Vanilla and coffee are my favorites.
Vanilla, vanilla, and… vanilla. I actually have that warm vanilla sugar body spray, but I rarely use it because it seems strange to me to have a food-scented body spray… 😉
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I’m cinnamon candles in the fall, then more vanillaish in the winter. Moving onto flowry scents in the spring/summer. I love SMELL. Laundry detergent, shampoo, soap. I don’t get why anyone would want to go “unscented.”
I try to go sessional with our scents. We use scented candles for the light and the scent. Lately our house has smelled like wet dog and onions for onion soup.
But on our mantel we have some lovely apple candles,
I am like you–I enjoy the “warm” scents like pumpkin, cinnamon and vanilla. Although in the summertime I will often switch it up to something “fresh”. I am just perpetually concerned that the house smells like cat. :p
When my house doesnt smell like food (garlic and onion), it smells like oranges. The smell of oranges is my all time favorite smell.
I love the smell of sandalwood. In the winter, cinnamon. And often lavendar.
I’m such a hippy.
Oh my gosh….I am OBSESSED with Wallflower Air Freshners! I usually get the pumpkin/cinnamon scent (can’t remember the name….), but my sister bought Frosted Cranberry and it is the BEST smell ever. I immediately went to Bath & Body to get more last week, and they were OUT! (It is only a “seasonal” scent….grrrr). So I actually found some on Ebay and ordered them. Yes, I am strange. But I love walking into a home and having it smell fresh and wonderful right off the bat. 🙂
Ha. That totally sounds like something I would do. I get obsessed and have to find things. 🙂
I’m into the food/bakery smells, like vanilla, french vanilla, birthday cake, sugar cookies. I also like citrus flavors.
Our home is always scentless unless I bake/cook something. I actually never realized this until you mentioned it!
Vanilla – worse, not only do I use vanilla candles and oils – but I wear vanilla perfume and/or scented lotion.
My favorite is Fresh Linen from Bath and Bodyworks.
Jason gets headaches from a lot of “artificial” scents (cinnamon is the worst for him) so I’ve avoided anything scented for years.
My mom’s house always smells so good, though, and I’m not sure what she uses.
I mostly use warm vanilla sugar for my bedroom- the bathroom soaps alternate, it just depends what I pick up on sale. I think right now it’s a tangerine one that my sister gave me for Christmas. Warm vanilla sugar is probably my favorite overall 🙂
I’m a vanilla scent all the way. Love any kind of candle or defuser or spray that has vanilla in it. It’s not over powering in anyway and it makes the air smell very cool. Plus, It’s more manly than other scents like flowers or roses.