The best Smells for Selling your Home
How something smells is very important to us English folk from bed clothes to gravy, the wine in our glass to perfume / aftershave for the loved one – We have sensitive noses!
Now our homes are very much part of our characters and habits, how our homes look and how they are kept many times express the lifestyles of their owners, some will be neat, some well lived in, some tired and some bang up to date with wifi gadgets controlling everything from temperature to of the water to who we are letting in at the front gates.
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As we all lead busy lives, and we can not always have a Sunday roast cooking away in the oven filling the house with tempting aromas, we sometimes can forget about or become oblivious to how it smells and especially to those guests we invite and of course, when it comes to selling, those prospective buyers!
There are many remedies for neutralising smells at home such as from those from pets and these include scented candles, humidifiers, fragrances reed diffusers, plug in air fresheners, sprays and much more. The cost of these products can vary massively from grabbing a basket full of easy to use air fresheners from the local pound shop to more luxury lines.
What smells do we tend to prefer in our homes? Let us not forget that aromas needn’t be those we have to purchase in, they can be from the likes of cooking, cutting the grass, making coffee ie as per this survey carried out in 2017*:
- Laundered clothes
- Freshly baked goods
- Freshly cut grass
- Scented candles
- Flowers
- Freshly brewed coffee
- A clean bathroom
- Toiletries (bath bombs etc).
Surveys can vary obviously and one carried out in 2015 and released on Daily Mail online** showed that within the top 50 smells preferred at home were such aromas as bacon, BBQ’s, doughnuts, new books and freshly washed hair. Importantly, this survey of 2,000 people also stated the top 20 worst smells at home and these included usually suspects such as bins, body odour, sewage, blue cheese and plastic burning.
Now what you can also take from the Daily Mail’s survey is that within the top 50 preferred smells at home many are available within air fresheners such as: fresh flowers, vanilla, cinnamon, orange, coconut, cherry and many more.
Personally, I always advise the following when looking for the best smell for your property when looking to sell and just about to undertake a viewing, think about freshness during the sunny / warm days such as freshly cut grass (mow the lawn an hour or two before) or such air fresheners as pine fresh as well as thinking about fresh fruit aromas, wine/sangria. During the darker days, chilled weather and miserable outside you should think of air fresheners with cinnamon / spices and look to have kitchen smells of coffee, roasted chestnuts, freshly cooked bread.
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* The nation’s favourite household smells revealed by House Beautiful: https://www.housebeautiful.com/uk/lifestyle/news/a2093/britains-favourite-household-smells/
** Freshly baked bread, bacon and freshly cut grass: Our top 50 favourite smells revealed (and the 20 worst) by Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3096334/Our-50-favourite-smells-revealed-20-worst.html
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