tip of the week: making your house smell like you

The scent of your home is often an after thought and more about the candle light instead of the wonderful smell you can create. Have you ever walked into a house and it had a particular smell - and not a good one? You can manipulate the scent of your home with a few basic tips. Think of your favorite scents, your perfume, your favorite flowers. Find a complimentary combination including your favorite flowers - or use flowers that have no smell like hydrangas. These are all part of your preferred smells. Use those smells to create your home scent -and be consistant - don't mix with detracting or distasteful matching scents (like lavendar and gardenia). You can look up your perfume one line and find out the scents used and bring those into your home. Then test candles that will match that scent. Use expensive candles and your complimentary scents only - nothing smells worse than a cheap lavendar candle from KMart. When in doubt, buy unscented candles. All of these additions will help become your scent and special to your home. If you switch scents or use cheap candles it will muddle the effect. The only time you may want to change the scent of your home is during the holidays when you want the clove, cinnimmon, apple pie scent. Another tip: After cooking a smelly dish, like fish, use lemon scented dish washing detergent and lemon peels in your disposal. This will netralize the smell and remove any bad ordor. And don't forget your bedroom, closets (sachet is always nice) and bathroom. Bathrooms look and smell better with a scented candle. Scent your sheets with your perfume. Finally, tell everyone your about your perferred flowers. You will recieve the properly scented and looking flowers for your birthday and anniversary and you will also be known as the woman who loves gardinias or lilacs. Very feminine. Very cool. Very you.