Tusko

i like to always have my window open ( i hate stale air) but now that it's getting chillier, it's not always possible, and because i sleep with my door closed at night (roommates) there's less of a breeze, and my room gets stale very fast. or maybe i just fart alot in my sleep. who knows.

anyway, i know the easy way out is to get some candles etc, but, i'm currently lazy and have stuff to do that doesn't involve buying candles today.

i hate fake/overpowering smells. i'd love for my room to smell like a spring meadow, a rainy day or a wood cabin out in the forest (you know that musky wood smell? i LOVE that smell. i am a bit jealous because my friend has carried that scent with him for life. it's wonderful)

anyway, i'm going with the simmer cinnamon/nutmeg/cloves/anise/cardamom etc, and it works well.

but the stove is not in my room.


i want to be able to transport something.

i can't just stick anise pods/cinnamon stucks/shaved nutmeg in a jar and stick it in my room. that doesn't really work.

any ideas on how i can do something like this?

snowy

You CAN make your own potpourri. All it takes are some dried rose petals, or dried lavender, or cinnamon, or any number of other things, list found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potpourri along with some essential oils. Or, if you're lazy, you can find high-quality, natural potpourri.

Use a wax/potpourri warmer (it's a little chimney thing with a bowl-shaped top and a little spot for a teacandle, or else you can get an electric one), and follow the directions on it for using water and traditional potpourri. In turn, you can also use wax tartlets as a scent for your room using this warmer. You place a wax tartlet in the top and the teacandle down below, and the wax diffuses scent throughout the room via essential oils added to the wax as it heats up.

My SO is very particular about scents but does not seem to mind the wax tartlets as much.

Or buy Nag Champa incense. Your room will smell like hippie--but in a good way.

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Tusko

potpourri is a little.. um..

faggy for me.

:shifty eyes:


i usually have incense, but i find that it's often super overpowering. that and everybody and their mother has nag champa/patchouli in this town (the ratio of dreadlocks to non dreads is astounding)

i think i just want my room to smell like wood chips, sun burns and manly BO. maybe i should cut some wood and wear flannel.

squeeeb

you can heat the cinamon in a pan and carry it around wafting..

you can fabreeze your room

you can stick cloves into an orange, like a round porcupine, and set it in the window and it will give off a pleasant smell....

as for musk, if you can get a deer to pee all over you room, that might work...

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Hyacinthe

why not?

If you have a heater / sircon that runs on water (mine does) add a few drops of essential oils when you fill it up.

Buy a little demister thing empty out the over powering stuff (though there are some nice ones available I use a green tea scent in my car) and refill it with water an a few drop of essential oils.

Get a few bags of pot pourri and stick them in the back of draws or your cupboard depending on the scent it will help the smells spread throughout the room.

I dehydrate my own fruit in my study and it always smells like desserts (makes me hungry sometimes) apple pie or banana dumplings etc. Though that may be a little expensive just to make your room smell nice.

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Dilbert1234567

i have a candle heater, i melts the candle and releases the scent with out a flame.

http://www.candlewarmers.com/

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ShaniFaye

I know several hetero men that would take offense to their like of potpourri being "faggy"

how is potpourri more faggy than candles?

Along with the potpourri my husband picks out we also use oil burners and have quite a collection of essential oils to use in them depending on what we feel like smelling.

I also live at yankee candle, to me, they have the BEST candles for actually scenting your home

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hunnychile

Yankee Candles are wonderful & prbably the best candles out there! They even smell good without having them lit.

I put a few of the "fresh linen" fragranced ones in my walk-in closet and it smells nice and my Hub doesn't think it's faggy at all. He likes the smell too.

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Midnight

check out the local lumber yard.

they sell cedar for lining closets. people have cedar cut all the time. they are bound to have some off cute eventually. you dont need to line the closet, just toss the bits in a mesh bag on a hanger in the closet. you can also pick up some knee highs(stockings) at the dollar store and fill them with all sorts of things, and turn them into little balls of scents that you enjoy and tuck them all over the place. my husband was particularally fond of hickory and cedar, so i had little bags i made (the stockings work for this as well) tucked all over the place, including lying across the top of the heater vents in every room (we had forced air heating) although the same thing works with putting them on top of a radiator. the dollar store many times will have potpourri warmers, you dont have to use potpourri in them, but can put any combination of things that you enjoy the smell of and just add a little water and let them heat as well. (as was mentioned in another reply)

be creative!

Redlemon

So, hide it in a box with holes in it.

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Cynthetiq

and a room that doesn't smell like jockstraps and stinky socks is less faggy??

seriously, YOU want it to smell nice, so get over those points.

any kind of "smell" system can be considered "faggy" since you aren't just all musky from your sweaty football romp.

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Wulfgate

If you want a nice wood smell, find a place near you that sells the wood/wood smell that you like and buy it. Put pieces of it in your closet or under your bed or whatever. Every few weeks or so get a piece of fine grit sandpaper and sand the top layer off of some of the pieces. That way you always have that fresh wood smell.

I've only tried this in my closets so I'm not sure how it would work for the whole room. But at least your closet would smell good. :0

Willravel

Rune, your screen name reminds me of Dune by Frank Herbert, in which the spice was so important. Neeways, I like to make apple cider around the holidays with a ton of cinnamon. Cooking is my favorite way to make the house smell good. Whole wheat bread, soup, or even things with cinnamon or five spice that would make your house smell of cinnamon, all bring me joy.

As for transporting, all you need is a mug for your cider. Also, it's not faggy. Hehe.

Bear Cub

You can microwave fruit too, then set it out. I've nuked some lemons, cut them in half, and set them out before.

snowy

I also really love Yankee Candle's tartlets for the wax warmer: is my favorite. Makes the whole house smell like clean laundry.

The beauty of the wax warmer, as Shani suggests, is the ability to use a variety of things in it--you can use essential oils with a bit of water, potpourri with water, or liquid potpourri. The one I have looks like:


If you look at Yankee Candle's website, they have a ton of wax warmers, oil warmers, and reed diffusers, which might be another thing to look at for adding scent to your home.

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StellaLuna

Buy a mug keeper-warmer-thingy. Heat the water on the stove, pour it into a mug with orange peels and a cinnamon stick, and pop onto said KWT.

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Kadath

I am enjoying the reed diffuser we are currently using. It's an orange smell. Pleasant without being overpowering.

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Starkizzer

I'm with Kadath. I have a reed diffuser in my room by West Brook called Ocean Mist. It is very clean smelling, crisp and fresh. I have to sleep with my door closed at night due to roommates as well, but when I wake up at various times of the night I get a hint of the fragrance.

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