How to make your living room smell good

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This room is probably the most popular hangout zone in the entire house. And the most public. Your guests don’t want to encounter stale, stinky air or weird pet pee smells. And you don’t want that for them.

Sometimes vacuuming sends out a stinky odor. To combat this, put a cotton ball with a couple of drops of essential oils into the vacuum bag. An easy way to transform vacuuming into a scent-infused experience.

Mind the carpet. Carpet tends to trap odors and requires routine deodorizing to combat odors that come from pet dander, sweat, smoke and mildew. White vinegar, baking soda, club soda and humidifiers are just some of the methods to neutralizing carpet smells
Use a diffuser with a couple of drops of your favorite essential oils. This allows you to customize the scent to your liking! Or get crazy and combine oils for your perfect combination.
Open a window and let the fresh air in. Of course, this is pretty dependent on the weather outside. This might not be the best deodorizing option in the middle of winter or during a thunderstorm.
Find your zen by burning incense. Not only does incense smell great, there’s also something so satisfying about watching it turn to ash little by little.
Light a candle. While not as natural as essential oils, candles are effective at masking those stinky smells in your home you want to keep at bay.
Spray a room refresher spray. Not only do air fresheners smell good, but you get to choose how they smell. There’s about… oh, a bazillion different scents of air freshener out there. Do you want ocean breeze, vanilla, or tropical fruit?

The scent is one of the first things that people notice about your home.

You know how you notice a weird smell when you get home from a vacation? That’s what your house smells like all the time to people who don’t live there. That’s because the longer you’re exposed to scents, the less you’re able to notice them. It’s called sensory adaptation, or informally, “nose-blindness.”

They say that the actual smell of clean is no smell at all. But getting your house to smell like nothing is next to impossible. Between the kids, pets, cooking, and just living everyday life, you’re bound to wind up with a mixture of different aromas.