Would you use a product that so disguised odors that you didn't even know they were there?

No way. What Febreeze doesn’t want you to know is that it is the first and most potent hoarding trigger.

no dr zasio for me

Well, if there is no visible mess but kind of stinky I might do it in a pinch.
If someone was coming over unexpectedly I used to put pinesol down my drains so the house would smell cleaner than it was.

No, but for a different reason. I have a horrible sense of smell – basically practically no sensitivity to odor. So not only wouldn’t I know that something smells, I also wouldn’t know that it was being covered up.

I use Febreeze when I clean or after we clean up dog poop when our puppy decides she can’t go outside in the rain to do her business. It just adds a nice fresh smell to fabrics, the carpet, and the air. I don’t use it to cover up genuine dirty-house smell, but there’s nothing like walking into a house that smells great.

I don’t think the point of the commercial is that people should cover up smells instead of cleaning, it’s saying that their product is so good that you could do that.

It’s t probably good for large families the day after burrito night.

I don’t have a great sense of smell but I hate the smell of air fresheners and I never use them.

To expand upon what @livelaughlove21 said, Febreze® is a patented product that kills odors, not just compete with them like other products do. Its lingering scent is just an added bonus.

I prefer the naturally clean smell of a clean house.

What would happen if I sprayed some on my dogs?

@Dutchess_III I prefer the naturally clean smell of a clean house.

So do I. There are times though, when a lingering odor cannot be cleaned. Cooking odors is a prime example. The kitchen may be scrubbed spotless, but sometimes the odor lingers. The same applies for “bathroom necessities”.

As for your dogs, I hope realize that you are joking. Febreze® does make a pet odor version of their product, but it isn’t for bodily contact.

That’s true @Pied_Pfeffer. There are some smells that will NEVER come out, say if you drop a 6 month old leftover grease can on your carpeted kitchen floor. I tried everything, vomiting the whole time because I was 7 months pg at the time! Finally ripped the carpet out and installed linoleum. I will never again have carpet in my kitchen or in my bathroom.

In fact, I want to install all wood floors and just have large area rugs everywhere.

@Dutchess_III , that’s what I have. One house is all hand scraped bamboo and the other is polished concrete. Unfortunately, area rugs can (if you let them) be very expensive. Molly peed on my $4000 silk rug.

I was thinking that I could get large remnants of wall to wall carpeting. Maybe pay someone to finish off the edges for me.

No. First, I don’t want to hide the indicator that tells me something desperately needs to be cleaned. Yikes.

Second, I despise the smell of all of those products, without exception. They are gross!!

If you have food smells that are lingering in your kitchen, maybe another food smell will help? Bake some cookies, or squeeze some lemons for lemonade or something. If your kitchen is clean, you shouldn’t have food smells that linger beyond a couple of hours.

Oooooohkay, I just read that you have carpet in your kitchen. That is a disaster – why would you carpet a kitchen?

That was in our first house. It was there when we moved in, in 1983. That was the thing then. Stupid, but the thing. Same with bathrooms.

Egad.

Mmmm huh!

Yeah, you try dealing with the lingering scent of dog shit that fills the entire house for an hour after it’s cleaned and disposed of. “Naturally clean” doesn’t always cut it.

Febreeze is for spraying your room/car after you get done smokin a bowl :P

Does a decent job on regular old cigarette smoke odors, too. I always have to open the windows in the house or car when I spray it, though, because I don’t like that scent, either. It gets rid of the first odor, then I let the fresh air get rid of the Febreze odor.