Do you ever wonder if your house smells funny to others?

Question

I keep the place very clean & also use candles most nights. I always spray after two-zies. To me, the place smells great. In case you're wondering, nobody has said anything....just curious over here.

People's houses smell particular, even though they're very clean. Do you think it's their dust? Like....their old skin?

Answer 1

People have their own body smell just as other animals do. This is nothing to do with personal cleanliness or lack of it - just natural body odour.

This smell does permeate the house. When you go to someones hlouse and it feels like home this is because they have a similar 'odour' to their home as yours. Somr places feel unhomely no matter how welcome the hosts make you and again this is to do with odours. Most humans do not have a keen enough sense of smell to realise that this is what is wrong.

I once moved into a house that had previously been lived in by a houseproud woman. Nevertheless the house reeked of her unfamiliar odour and for weeks I was scrubbing wallpaper trying to eliminate it.

Answer 2

Age of a house and former owners are a factor. I can still smell cat sometimes here even though its been 10 years since one was in the house. What people cook can play a part too. When I lived in an apartment building all kinds of smells occured in the halls. Some good some bad.

Answer 3

If you clean it, it wouldn't smell bad. Do you change your bedsheet often? If yes, then you don't have to worry.  

Answer 4

I do!! Haha. I always wonder how my place smells to others when they visit.

I always take an "assessment" when I come back from the grocer. I'll step in and take a big whiff to see what it might smell like to others.

Like you, I'm always worried about that so I burn candles, incense and the like.

I've been over to others' homes and I can usually tell the source of a distinct smell. Sometimes I detect pets right off the bat, sometimes their food. That "mystery" scent could very well be whatever their bodies emit. :-)

Answer 5

No I don't wonder about it. every house has its own unique smell.

Ask any Realtor.

Answer 6

Yeah I used to wonder that too. When my friends used to come over my parents house if our house smelled like dog. We had a dog when I was growing up. They always said how you never would know that we had a dog because it never smelled like it. And to be honest with you, we didn't always vacuum every day or week his fur up when he shed.

Now my place smells like incenses.  

Answer 7

no

Answer 8

well every home has its own smell. not necessarily a bad one, just like their signature smell. when your use to a smell you dont smell it so that's probably why you dont notice any thing in your home  

Answer 9

LOL i always wonder what my house smells like,   cause everyones house has their own smell.  

Answer 10

my friend said that my house smells like 'italian food'. :P