Transform your home into a breath of fresh air with the perfect air freshener.
Let's face it: sometimes life just doesn’t smell great. Whether it's lingering trash, cooking smells, or pet odors, there are plenty of scents that can stick around longer than you'd like. Fortunately, a good air freshener—used alongside your regular cleaning routine—can help eliminate those unwanted smells and restore your home to its fresh, inviting state.
After evaluating factors like fragrance, type of air freshener, and conducting hands-on testing, we’ve compiled a list of top picks that will rejuvenate any space. Whether you're freshening up your home, car, or pet-friendly area, we've got the perfect air fresheners for every living space. Check out our top recommendations below!
1. MRS. MEYER'S CLEAN DAY Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day Room Freshener Spray
This bottle of Mrs. Meyer's Room Freshener offers a more budget-friendly approach to flameless home fragrance. This reviewer-favorite air freshener comes in 11 different options, but whenever we find the limited-edition Rose scent, we get it.
Clean and uplifting with notes of rose and apple, this spray lingers briefly in the air without ever being overpowering.
2. Air Wick Freshmatic Automatic Spray Kit
An understated and entirely automatic air freshener option, this sleek dispenser from Air Wick spritzes its included canister of Fresh Linen fragrance intermittently for up to 70 days. And it's three-setting timer allows you to choose just how intense you'd like the scent to be in your home.
This battery-operated device is great for making entryways, bathrooms, and laundry rooms always smell clean and inviting.
3. Caldrea Lavender Cedar Leaf Linen and Room Spray
One reviewer calls this air freshener from Caldrea “Febreze for rich people,” which we’d say is a pretty apt description.
The Lavender Cedar Leaf Linen and Room Spray smells slightly woodsy and herbal, yet it's not overly floral. It's a perfect pick to spritz in the linen closet or over a pile of laundry that's still warm from the dryer.
You also get a lot of bang for your buck with this air freshener, as its 16 ounces of fragrance is sure to last you quite a while.
4. P.F. Candle Co. Room & Linen
One of our favorite candle brands also comes in air-freshener form. P.F. Candle Co. has several aromatic, musky scents in its repertoire— but we're partial to the Teakwood & Tobacco room spray, which layers in a woody, smoky element.
The scent level is subtle, and is recommended to be used on bedding, linens, and fabrics for a bit of a refreshing boost.
5. House Edition Bamboo Charcoal Air Purifying Bags (Set of 4)
These bamboo-charcoal air freshener bags are meant to help neutralize odors, especially in a smaller, enclosed space like a laundry room or a car. Even better? They're comprised of naturally derived materials that should maintain their odor-absorbing effectiveness for at least a whole year.
It's recommended that you rotate these bags regularly, letting them air out for a day or so before re-stashing them in the dank or smelly spots in your home, car, or gym bag.
6. Capri Blue Volcano Room Spray
Yep, Capri Blue's cult-favorite Volcano candle is also available as an air freshener! The clean formula uses fragrance oil to deliver its beloved scent, and fruits like lemons, oranges, and limes give this formula a pleasing, tropical-inspired scent.
It'll brighten up any room it's sprayed in, while the blue atomizer bottle is also just as soothing to the senses.
7. Febreze Unstopables Odor-Fighting Air Freshener
If you're a road tripper and eat meals on the go, then you know that those fast-food smells can get stale pretty quickly. With the Unstoppables from Febreeze, you can attach the pods right to your air vents for consistent flow.
The scent levels are adjustable, and the pods can last for up to 40 days on the lowest setting.
8. This Works Deep Sleep Pillow Spray
This utterly dreamy air freshener from This Works contains lavender, vetiver, and chamomile essential oils. It's the perfect scent to help lull me into a relaxed dream state before bed, but it can also be used pretty much any time I want to infuse a little extra calm into the atmosphere.
Because it's a chemical-free product, the scent will dissipate in just a minute or two, which gives me just enough time to truly enjoy it in the moment. Though it's a little bit of a splurge, I've used the same bottle for at least a year, and it's still going strong. It's worth it.
9. Neom Portable Essential Oil Diffuser
An electric diffuser is a more efficient and long-lasting alternative to a reed diffuser. The Neom Wellbeing Pod uses essential oils to create a warm, clean-smelling environment and intermittently disperses the scent rather than releasing it in one overpowering, fragrant cloud. There are three intensity levels, too, which can come in handy if you're trying to freshen small or larger spaces.
The base has 50 hours of battery life and is rechargeable, so you can easily move the Neom around the house, depending on the room, that needs a little extra attention. Its stylish and chic design won't stick out like a sore thumb amongst your home decor, either.
Plus, the diffuser doesn't require water or heat to run, so you can just plug in your essential oil pod and go.
10. Pura Smart Home Fragrance Device
The Pura Smart Device is the air freshener of the future. If you like the idea of getting into home fragrance but prefer to set your ambiance on autopilot, the Pura is perfect for you.
It combines the convenience of a room spray with the ease of using a plug-in oil diffuser. To use, just insert two different fragrance cartridges and then set a custom schedule via the device's app to have each one scent your space either continuously or at a certain time each day.
In our testing , we've found this device to be incredibly intuitive to use, and it's the ideal substitution for sparking a scented candle (especially if you really don't want that fire hazard in your life). Plus, Pura's enormous scent library features so many beloved fragrance brands like Apotheke, Brooklyn Candle Co., Caswell-Massey, and Homesick, so you won't be missing that messy wax stuff at all.
