Safe ways to make my gas log fireplace smell. . . fireplacey

Factual Questions
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I recently got off my butt and got my fireplace in working order after three long years. Because I’m as lazy as that first sentence would suggest, I also installed some of those fake gas logs into my vented fireplace, so I’ll never have to really worry about cleaning up ash or finding wood. It’s lovely. And great!

But it has zero smell (as it shouldn’t!).

I’ve been coming up with ways to tuck little things in there that will make it smell a bit more like a burning fire, but I just wanted to see if anyone here has any good ideas. My main thought is getting one of those little grill grates/ sleeves that you use to cook veggies on the BBQ grill with. You know the ones, metal, has little holes in it? Then soaking some wood chips in water, sticking the chips in the grill thing, and sticking that on the side of the fire. Good idea? Bad idea? Are there better ideas? Is all hope lost?

2

I’d go with fireplace scented candles.

3

IANA fireplace technician, but I don’t think it sounds like a good idea to use the gas flames in your fireplace to burn or smoke any other substances. I also don’t know what happens if your soaked wood chips block any of the vents on your gas log.

Why not do what I do and burn pine-scented candles in the fireplace? I don’t have a gas log setup going at the same time, but I see no reason why you couldn’t, if you keep the candles well away from the gas flames. Or just burn the candles on the mantelpiece while you’ve got the fire going in the grate.

4

All good points, certainly. In my Googling, I also came upon some wood incense to burn near the fireplace as an option. Hmm.

You’d think there’d be some official product I could buy to do this though- sort of how they have 1,000 ways to make a fake Christmas tree smell a little more like a real one :stuck_out_tongue:

5

You could burn wood in there. Problem solved.

To give an actual answer, the only thing I had been able to find is that E-how, which I’m sure you already saw.

And here’s a Yahoo answers.

6

You can’t burn anything as it might/will affect the combustion process of the gas. You want that to be a clean, efficient and safe burn and for it to draft properly up/out the flue.

The incense seems to be a great option. Let the gas fireplace system remain as pure as possible.

7

It would be a bad idea to put wood in a gas fireplace. Think of it as a gas furnace that you can see into it. The only thing burning should be gas.

8

If you want to go the incense route, I can highly recommend anything by Incensio de Santa Fe. Though it’s not my native northwoods-scented fire, it’s still got a good wood smell to it, and overall it makes a room cozy.