I have four dogs and rely on a number cleaning tips and home fragrance options to keep it smelling good. However, the expensive rose-scented Malin+Goetz room spray I love is too pricey, and I've just found a brilliant and affordable alternative.
Whilst researching and testing the best home fragrances, I was thrilled to find the perfect budget-friendly rosey room spray alternative from Mrs Meyer.
I've found a cheaper non-toxic room spray alternative
This eco-friendly room spray is safe to use on almost all fabrics, excluding delicates, and the bottle is made with at least 30% post-consumer plastic. It's affordable and smells great.
I love the Malin+Goetz alcohol-free room spray with floral notes, but it's proving too pricey for every day use. That's why I was thrilled to find the Mrs. Meyer's Room Freshener in Rose, available at Walmart, is the perfect alternative – and the best part is it costs less than $15.
Much like the Malin+Goetz spray, it's non-toxic, cruelty-free, and made without propellants, phthalates, parabens, or artificial colors.
While the rosy scent slightly differs – this is more of a classic rose scent, as opposed to Malin+Goetz's more unique take, with cardamom, black pepper and cashmere musk, the scent lasts equally as long, and smells just as good. It also works just as well when it comes to getting rid of dog odors.
As one of the most romantic scents for the home, both room sprays are ideal for giving any space a rosy-scented glow, and I can't get enough of either.
What I was using before
The scent in question that I had been previously using non-stop to make my home smell good for spring was the new otto home spray, available at Malin+Goetz.
I have four dogs and a whole menagerie of pets in varying shapes and sizes, so was immediately intrigued by the odor-neutralizing technology and long-lasting 'clean and aromatic' scent, and was quickly impressed by how the formula delivers on its promises.
A few spritzes in a room (I tested in my bathroom, bedroom and living room) and I could still genuinely smell it over an hour later. And, without any alcohol or other toxic ingredients, I had no qualms about using this non-toxic way to make my home smell nice around any of my pets.
Corinne Segura is an InterNACHI Certified Healthy Homes inspector, and the founder of My Chemical-Free House. Like me, she stresses the importance of non-toxic scenting, particularly when striving to keep a nice-smelling and clean home when you have pets.
However, she points out, 'Natural scents will usually always fade faster than a synthetic scent, though spraying them on porous items, and including essential oils in multiple products like cleaning products, passive diffusers, and room sprays can help the scent stay more stable.'
With this new spray though, this is no issue, and the scent lingers even without the need for one of the best reed diffusers or similar.
What to shop
This is my beloved rose otto home spray, which comes housed in a luxury glass bottle that's beautiful enough to display, with a unique spray pump for diffusing the edgy otto scent at home.
This eco-friendly room spray is safe to use on almost all fabrics, excluding delicates, and the bottle is made with at least 30% post-consumer plastic.
This natural wax blend candle, made of high-quality vegetable oil, boasts a burn time of up to 60 hours, with a cotton wick for a cleaner burn and fresh otto scent.
I've also never received so many 'Your home smells amazing' compliments since using this Jo Malone diffuser: the Pomegranate Noir Diffuser available at Jo Malone.
Strong, punchy and long-lasting (I've had mine going for almost four months) the scent quickly fills a home with notes of juicy pomegranate and smoky guaiacwood.
