Looking for tips on how to make your house smell like a spa? In this post, I’ve listed clever hacks and products to make your house or apartment smell heavenly without much effort.

With these tips and tricks, you can make any home smell great! Don’t worry, you won’t need to light up candles 24/7! For people who dislike strong fragrances, I’ve also listed ways to keep a home naturally smelling clean and fresh, as well as, cheap ways to make a house smell good.

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How To Make Your House Smell Like A Spa

In this post, I’ve listed my best tips on how to make your house smell like a spa naturally or through the use of clever home products. Throughout this post, I’ve also recommended several budget aromatic products to make your home smell heavenly.

Let’s get started!

1. Open Windows In Unventilated Rooms

The cheapest way to make a house smell better instantly is to open windows. Opening windows allow fresh air to enter your home and release any unpleasant trapped odors.

Chances are, if a room in your house or apartment is slightly damp and reeks, the odor might be caused by poor ventilation. Before you start pulling out the candles and spraying a substantial amount of air freshener, try opening up a window for an hour. If your home doesn’t smell any better, try out other tips below.

2. Use Baking Soda To Take Out Odors

How do you keep your house smelling good all the time naturally and cheaply? Baking soda! Baking soda is my all time favorite natural cleaner. Not only is it an affordable product, but you can also use it to effectively clean your entire home!

Baking soda is excellent at absorbing and deodorizing odors. Instead of purchasing multiple expensive cleansers, trying using baking soda alongside other household ingredients to clean your home. If you have concentrated odors in particular parts of your house or apartment (like a rug, fridge, or trashcan), try cleaning them with baking soda!

You can purchase this inexpensive cleaning agent in any grocery store or for a great deal online (like this Value Size Arm & Hammer Baking Soda)!

3. Make Your Home Smell Good With An Essential Oil Diffuser

Looking for ideas on how to make your home smell like a spa without candles? Try using an essential oil diffuser! You can turn your home into a heavenly paradise with your favorite essential oils!

You can find essential oil diffusers in a wide range of prices. For an essential oil newbies, I recommend this Air Wick Essential Oil Diffuser in Lavender and Almond Blossom (less than $10!). An essential oil diffuser is a cheap way to make your entire house smell good!

4. Light Candles

Although lit candles are not a reliable way to keep your house smelling good all the time, they are excellent at creating immediate mood and aroma at home. If you want to make your house or apartment smell amazing for a short period of time, light up some candles! Note: candles are a fire hazard, so you shouldn’t keep a lit candle unsupervised.

If you are looking for an excellent candle, I recommend trying out Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day Scented Soy Aromatherapy Candle (it has a burn time of 35 hours!). I use Mrs. Meyer’s products at home and I love how amazing their scents are (their products also cruelty free!).

5. Use A Candle Warmer

A candle warmer is a cheap way to safely use candles at home without lighting them up. If you love candles, a candle warmer is a clever way make your entire house smell good and extend the life of your candles.

A candle warmer quickly warms up a candle, releasing the candle’s scent into your house or apartment. Since candle warmers eliminate the chance of fire and smoke, you can safely leave them on all day (I do recommend turning them off when you leave your home). You can get a quality candle warmer for less than $10 like this highly rated one from Amazon.

6. Use A PlugIn Air Fresher

How do you make your house smell like a spa with no effort? Use a plugIn air fresher like this Glade PlugIn Plus Air Freshener Clean Linen Scent Starter Kit (less than $15)!

For busy parents and workers, a plugin air fresher is a clever product to make your home always fragrant. All you need to do is plug the air fresher in and replace it with refills when it runs out!

7. Get A Dehumidifier

A dehumidifier won’t take out odors, but will help significantly reduce humidity in a room. Overtime, a damp space can cause mold and mildew. This can make your home smell uncomfortably musty or earthy.

If you live in a humid area, I recommend getting a dehumidifier to help prevent mold and mildew growth. It won’t do anything to make your house or apartment smell good, but it is a cheap way to reduce any uncomfortable moisture and prevent mold. Dehumidifiers are expensive, but you can get a quality small one for less than $50 like this dehumidifier by SEAVON.

8. Clean The Garbage Disposer

Got a stinky garbage disposer? If you haven’t cleaned your garbage disposer in a while, it could be a source of unpleasant smells in your home.

One inexpensive hack to clean a garbage disposer is to toss some orange peels down the drain and turn on the disposer. This is a clever way to naturally clean a disposer and get rid of odors. Just be sure to cut the orange peels into small chunks before throwing them in!

If the orange peel hack doesn’t work, you can buy a garbage disposer cleaner like this Glisten Disposer Care Freshener (less than $4!). All you do is drop a ball in and turn on the drain! This is a great way to keep your kitchen and house smelling good all the time!

9. Use A Toilet Spray Before Taking A Dump

Do you dislike your bathroom smelling like poop after you or a housemate does number two? If you have an unventilated bathroom, it might feel like a nightmare every time you take a dump.

Luckily for you, toilet sprays help keep your bathroom smelling always fresh and lovely by spraying before you do your business. I recommend this Lavender Vanilla Scent by Poo-Pourri. This is a cheap way to make your bathroom and house smell sweet like vanilla!

10. Deodorize Any Stinky Shoes

Got stinky shoes? Smelly shoes can cause unpleasant smells to spread throughout your home. They are also embarrassing whenever you need to take off your shoes at someone’s home.

To keep your house smelling good all the time, I recommend deodorizing your shoes with either a shoe deodorizer product or using natural remedies. For people looking to save a few bucks, I wrote a post on 3 natural remedies to naturally get rid of smelly shoes quickly.

11. Use An Air Purifier To Get Rid Of Smoke Smells

Cigarette smoke and general smoke causes unpleasant smells to linger throughout home. Not only is it a huge discomfort, but longterm exposure to these fumes are unhealthy and dangerous. Although air purifiers are not great at absorbing odors, they are effective at getting rid of smoke in our homes.

Air purifiers are expensive, but you can get a small one for around $40 like this PureZone Mini Portable Air Purifier. Don’t let the size fool you! This product is powerful enough to purify an entire room! This is a cheap way to make house smoke-free and smell good.

12. Burn Some Incense

If you aren’t sure how to make your house smell like a spa, try incense. If you don’t like strong fragrances, I don’t recommend burning incense in your home (instead, try other suggestions from this post).

If you love strong scents, try burning some incense! Your entire house will smell amazing and the aroma will linger for a while! For people who love deals, I recommend this 12 Variety Incense Sticks Set by Satya Bangalore. Not only do you get a huge amount of incense for less than $15, but these scents are probably the best out there!

13. Freshen Up Fabrics In Your Home

Does your house or apartment smell a bit musty? Overtime, odor can form on fabrics, causing your home to smell unpleasant. For a fresh-smelling home, I recommend regularly throwing bed sheets, throw blankets, pillow covers, cushion covers etc. into the wash.

One hack to make your house or apartment to smell amazing is to throw Downy In-Wash Scent beads into the wash with your fabrics to make your home smell like your favorite scents (I recommend the Downy Infusions in-Wash Scent Booster Beads with the Romantic White Tea and Peony scent!). The scent will linger for a long time and this is such a cheap way to make your house smell good without candles or other products.

14. Give Your Pets A Bath

Got a pooch at home? Dogs and other pets can get stinky, causing an odor to naturally linger through a house or apartment. I recommend giving your canine a bath as soon as a smell starts to develop.

A smelly home is inevitable with a dog, but you can lessen the impact of it through regular home cleaning and grooming. To keep your house smelling good all the time, make sure to frequently clean fabrics your pooch touches, mop floors, and wipe dirty paws off.

15. Use Wax Melts

Wax melts can make your entire house smell good without posing a fire hazard like candles. To get started, get a candle wax melt warmer of your choice like this pretty blue one for around $14. Then select a wax melt with your favorite scent to use with your warmer. Wax melts last a long time and you can get a pack of wax melts for around $6.

If you are looking for cheap tips on how to make your house smell like a spa, I highly recommend using wax melts. Not sure what scent to use? Try this Pumpkin Spice up in This Bitch Scented Wax Melts from The Candle Daddy. It smells amazing!

16. Use A Reed Diffuser

Reed diffusers are another great hack on how to make your home smell like a spa. Not only do they look adorable as decor, but they will also make your home smell great for long periods of time with no effort.

I highly recommend this Preserved Real Flower Reed Diffuser in black cherry scent by Cocodor (around $19). Although it is slightly more expensive than other aromatic products from this post, the heavenly scent and beautiful design makes it well worth the cost!

Conclusion: How To Make Your House Smell Like A Spa

In this post, I’ve listed several ways on how to make your house smell like a spa naturally and with aromatic products. A regularly cleaned home is critical to keeping your home smelling fresh. If you need help maintaining a clean and tidy home, I wrote a post on how to always keep a house clean.

There are so many cheap ways to make house smell good without candles. I hope this post was helpful and gave you some ideas on how to make your home smell like a spa! Happy homemaking!