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Many plastics absorb odors over time. You could try filling it up with undiluted white vinegar and letting that sit as long as your baby will let you. 
I’m the one with the Scentsy boss, by the way. She loves the thing, obviously, so maybe you will, too. I’m just sensitive to artificial fragrances. If you’re not, and you find a scent you like, it will definitely help cover up the diaper smell.
<Marge Simpson> sniff Mmmm … that really covers the cat crap! </Marge Simpson>
Yeah, have you tried a diaper pail made of something non-porous? I dunno, metal or something might smell better.
I replenish a cinnamon broom a couple of times a year. Other than that, I not only don’t care for most artificial scents, they give me a headache if they’re constant (like a diffuser, a plug in, tart warmer, etc). I’ve had to do battle at work with my Scentsy-selling co-worker over the right to pollute my air. But I digress.
I don’t mind using citrus scented cleaning products and I’ve been known to make a batch of apple butter in the crockpot when I want to make my home smell really good, but other than that, just the cinnamon broom.
I open windows when I can, and I like the scent of the fireplace all winter. I use plug-in things here and there (vanilla or some variation on “rain” or “ocean”, depending on the season) and I only break out the spray for something obnoxiously stinky, like if we go too long before taking out the trash.
I’ve also got a solid air freshener by the litter box.
I would prefer not to bother with scented stuff but with three cats and an old house with icky carpets, it always smells a little funky in here no matter how good we are about the litter.
My home always smells wondeful, permeated as it is with essence du
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For 10 months out of the year we don’t do anything special, but for the holidays (Nov-Dec) we often put some holiday potpourri on the stove. It smells wonderful and puts everyone in a holiday mood.
5 Cups water
1/2 Orange cut into wedges
6 Whole cinnamon sticks
2 Heaping Tbsp whole cloves
Combine all ingredients in a medium saucepan and heat with medium heat until it starts to simmer. Reduce heat to low and enjoy the aroma.
Add more water as needed.
What’s a cinnamon broom? 
And you just need to add a bottle of good red wine to make a delicious holiday drink!
All that stuff described in the poll stenches to high heaven. Open the damn windows. The outside world smells great.
Fresh outside air, even city “fresh” air is better than filling the house with essential oils or perfumes or scent maskers (nose anesthetics actually).
IMO of course …
I suppose I could - the thing is the Diaper Genie minimizes the funky diaper smell (it has a long tube of bag that the smelly diaper gets locked in), but the plastic of the pail smells like gross plastic - it’s hasn’t absorbed gross diaper smell, it just smells nasty all on it’s own. It smelled nasty when it was brand new, I was still pregnant and it had nary a dirty diaper in it.
At this point it’s a bit like choosing between the gross plastic smell, or the poopie diaper smell. As gross as the plastic smells, the diapers are much, much worse so for the time being the Diaper Genie stays.
And perhaps I’ll add a Scentsy to the mix to see if I can improve things.
As for opening the windows. I live in Canada dude. It’s November. It’s -10 outside. There’s a pretty limited amount of window opening I can get away with. (In the summer, they’re wide open all the time).
I like food-related candles – the sugar cookie, vanilla frosting type. I can’t stand the fake floral scents, and my lungs can’t abide cinnamon since the chemo. Something light and vanilla-y is all it really takes, now that we gave the cats away,and the dog is finally housebroken.
Really, how hard is it to understand that not everybody likes the same things you do? And not everybody’s outside world smells all that great? What about people who live in the same town as a paper mill or ethanol factory?
Opening my bedroom windows has no effect at battling the smell of cigarette smoke that otherwise would permeate (even though I leave my door closed all the time). Also, it’s too freaking cold to open them anyway.
I’d love to have my windows open more but it seems like it’s always too hot or too cold outside. My BF is a heavy smoker so my house usually smells like that. Yuck! However he has been gone for a little while so I washed the walls, shampooed the carpets and Febreezed the shit out of the furniture. Also, I found this awesome carpet odor eliminator. It’s the only one I’ve ever used that actually seems to work, not just overpower the bad smell.
Open windows or Lysol disinfectant spray are generally all I use. If something smells bad it’s usually garbage and needs to go out of the house anyway.
Fresh air and fresh flowers for me.
It appears you missed the “IMO of course” section of my post. FTR, yes I clearly understand that different people like different things. Within just the 48 posts between your OP & my reply quite a few different preferences are expressed. And then I expressed mine too.
I did notice that opening windows & using the great outdoors wasn’t one of your poll options. Though it is, IMO, a great way to make your house smell nice. So I decided a semi-serious counterproposal was in order.
Because we all know how serious polls on air fresheners are.
You can’t just tag “IMO” onto a post where you’re saying something rude about other peoples’ choices and have it all of a sudden not be rude. It’s still rude, and you look silly because you think the disclaimer nullifies the rudeness.
It didn’t.
I have a light bulb ring (had a tin one which got lost) made of ceramic, you put this over a cold light bulb, dab in a few drops of an essential oil (I usually buy something from Crabtree & Evelyn or in health food stores and such), and turn on the light. I favor pine or fir in the evening, I don’t care for foody smells or flowers when I’m cooking. I can’t stand Glade plug ins or sprays, they smell fake and cheap, and to me that’s one more bad smell on top of another.
Hey! You keep your special Milwaukee perfume down south where it belongs!