My recent move to a new state landed me in a rental that had been sitting vacant for several months. When we walked in the door for the initial viewing we were hit in the face with that musty odor that really old houses sometimes have. We immediately threw the windows and doors open to air out the place while we looked around. A good cleaning and some serious airing out took care of the odor but without ceiling fans, there is not much air circulation taking place so the place gets a little stuffy sometimes. So far we have remedied this issue by leaving the doors and windows open as much as possible, but with the weather getting colder that is quickly becoming less of an option.
Scentsy by Bonnie
My solution to this problem arrived in the mail last week in the form of a Scentsy Plug-in from Bonnie, who is an independent Scentsy Consultant.
I immediately opened the box and found a beautifully wrapped Taro model plug-in, along with Scentsy bars, Scent Circles to hang in my car and Grab Tabs to help me remove the hardened wax from my plug-in once the scent is gone.
One of the Scentsy bars Bonnie sent is called Welcome Home, and since we are still trying to get our footing here in our new place, I thought it would be fitting to try that scent first. It took just a few minutes after plugging the Scentsy warmer in for the lovely cinammon based odor to start wafting through the house. Both boys and my husband commented on how nice the house smelled when they walked in the door and I have to agree that the cinammom/vanilla scent gives the house a more personal feel.
The Pumkin Roll was a really yummy aroma that made me think about Thanksgiving and the upcoming holidays and now I am totally craving Pumpkin Pie!
I love that if I forget to turn off the plug-in that I don’t have to worry about the house burning down. Since there is no flame, Scentsy is safer than candles as an aromatic.
You can check out Bonnie’s Scentsy products at her website. Be sure to read about her adoption story. Bonnie became a Scentsy consultant as a means of funding a second adoption, so her daughter can have a brother or sister. I was touched by her story and her efforts to give another child a safe and happy home environment in which to grow and learn.
Giveaway time!
Bonnie is offering one of our readers a Scentsy Holiday Kit of their own! To enter, leave a comment telling us which scent YOU would choose.
This giveaway is a part of the 5 Minutes for Mom Christmas Giveaway 2011. Please follow the link for more information, as well as for a complete list of all giveaways as they post throughout the month of November. Entries for all giveaways will close Saturday, December 3rd at 7pm CST. Winners will be drawn randomly and we will announce the winners Monday, December 5th. We will email winners at the address accompanying the winning comments.
Written by 5 Minutes for Mom contributing reviewer, Geri. You can find me blogging at I Am Boymom.
Disclosure: Bonnie sent me a Scentsy Plug-in Kit to review, but the honest thoughts and opinions included in this post are my own.
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The Sentimental Cider sounds good!
I’d choose the Sticky Cinnamon Bun scent!
mattschmunk at gmail dot com
I’d like the Cinnamon Vanilla
I like the welcome home scent (cinammom/vanilla)
Thanks, Geri!
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I would choose the Cinnamon Bear scent.
The pumpkin roll sounds great to me!
I want to try the midnight fig – it sounds so interesting and usually I like the “interesting” scents the best!
Cinnamon Vanilla sounds good!
I would love the cinnamon /vanilla scent!! LOVE THIS!!!
The Pumpkin Roll smells delicious. I love all the baking scents actually & the way my house smells is fabulous.
I have cinnamon bear and it smells so good.
I would love the cinnamon vanilla scent!!
Sentimental cider or pumpkin roll
Definitely cinnamon-vanilla, unless it pumpkin roll. fun give away.
I’d choose pumpkin roll!
littlegray88 at yahoo dot com
Christmas or cinnamon vanilla
I’d pick cinnamon vanilla
Baked apple pie. Yummy!
I would choose Christmas Cottage.
Ooo, I’d like the Cinnamon Vanilla…it would make the house smell like I’m baking all the time.
i would love mocha doodle
I love the spiced apple pie bars…
I would like Cinnamon Vanilla
I love Satin Sheets and anything Vanilla!
Cinnamon vanilla. Something not too strong.
I love these !! Anything apple and Cinnamon would be so nice to smell during the holidays.Thank you for the chance to win this.
The Pumpkin Roll
Ummmm not sure kinda wondering what the mocha doodle smells like
I’d choose christmas cottage
I would choose their Christmas Cotage scent
tamben7996(at)aol(dot)com
I think I might like the Black raspberry vanilla bars! They sound yummy!
Baked apple pie sounds great
I would love to try the central park pralines!
Midnight fig sounds interesting!
Christmas Cottage for me.
I would choose cinnamon vanilla
Christmas Cottage Scentsy Bar seems appropriate, although I had to drag myself away from Baked Apple Pie.
The Cinnamon Vanilla sounds wonderful!
I just love cinnamon, so anything along that line would be great.
The cinnamon vanilla would be my choice!
I’ve been wanting to try the Snowberry.
I have never tried Scentsy but this would be a great time to start
I would love to try the Hazelnut Latte! Sounds yummy smelling!
Thanks so much!
I would love to try the black raspberry vanilla!
I would choose the amber road scent
bluebelle0367(at)hotmail(dot)com
Black Raspberry Vanilla would be amazing!
Love the pumpkin roll scent! Pick me!
Black Ruby
I would love to try the cinnamon vanilla! Yum!
I’d love the Blueberry Cheesecake Scentsy
Pumpkin Roll sounds perfect for this time of year! My all time favorite scent is Sugar Cookies
I would like the cinnamom/vanilla scent
I would love to try the vanilla/cinnamon scent.
baked apple pie.
Twitter: CO_MtnMom
November 22, 2011 at 3:22 pm
I pick pumpkin anything this time of year! YUM.
I’d like to try the Snowberry Scentsy
I like the one that smells like fresh bread
I love scented candles and diffusers. Haven’t tried Scentsy yet but my niece just became a rep in Indiana. Would love to try them!
Believe it or not, I have never used one of these before. I have heard about them and have wanted to try them. So, anything with Lilac or Lavender or Pumpkin Pie is perfect for me! Or like a linen scent.
I would love to choose the Vanilla Cream bar.
The smell of Pumpkin Pie always takes me back to the holidays as a little girl. Pumpkin Roll scent would be my top choice!
I like the blueberry cheesecake scent.
Thank you for signing me up..
I’d choose Cinnamon Vanilla
I would pick Luna
That one smells so yummy. Thanks for such a great giveaway!!~
I love anything that smells like pumpkin for the holidays, or pine is nice also.
Sweet pea and vanilla or camucamu!
Yummy~the CInnamon Vanilla sounds divine~
my dear watson
I would love the cinnamon vanilla scent!
I would choose Cinnamon Vanilla.
I would like the vanilla cinnamon
I would choose apple pie!
I’d choose Central Park Pralines. Thanks.
Eskimo kiss for me
cinnamon vanilla
I would choose Happy Birthday!
I’d choose cinnamon vanilla or hazelnut latte.
the Just Breathe scent!
My friend Brenda has purchased scentsy and talks about how mucy she likes them constantly. I would like to try the vanilla (anything). You can really smell the fragrant scent thru out the house.
Snowberry. Mmmmm
Thanks for the chance.
mogrill12@gmail.com
whiteout looks good. or blueberry chzcake
I would choose red candy apple!
Pumpkin sounds like it would smell delicious!
blueberry cheesecake
i would love cinnamon vanilla
I’d love to try Baked Apple Pie! I absolutely love baking and cooking scents! =)
Thanks!
I would pick the Cozy Fireside!
Scentsyis the best! I love Snowberry and Pumpkin Marshmallow, I need to win or host a party!
I’d like to try Love Story scent
my fav scent is ocean- i’d use it this time of year to make me think so summer fun-and warm weather as we are int eh midst of all the snow
I would choose “Just Breathe”, because hopefully it would remind me to do just that.
I would like to try Clean Breeze
I’d choose Central Park Pralines!
magickalblessings26{at}yahoo.com
Sounds wonderful! Thank you.
I’d choose the Cucumber Lime
I would LOVE to win this prize! Thanks so much for the opportunity! I would choose the Welcome Home scent.
I like their Lilacs & Violets Scent!
I would choose the Festival of Trees scent.
I would love the Snowberry.
Oh how hard to choose….eeny meeny miney moe…..Christmas Cottage for Christmas!
I would chose the Christmas Cottage scent!
ksceviour at hotmail dot com
Ooh, the welcome home scent sounds incredible!
christmas cottage
I love the sound of the “welcome home” scent… there are so many other scents I’dlove to try, too!
odebt at yahoo dot com
So many to chose from I think I would pick either Sweetpea Vanilla or the Welcome Home
I keep getting an error on the website when I try to view all of the scents but I would love to try Welcome Home!
I’ve wanted to try the snowberry scent or Welcome home.
I love Pumpkin Roll
I would like to try Cucumber Lime
I would like cinnamon~vanilla
I would love to try the Eskimo Kiss scent!
cinnamon vanilla
I think I would like the cinnamon/vanilla
I would choose Welcome Home…sounds awesome!
I’D LIKE BAKED APPLE PIE
nannypanpan at gmail.com
pumpkin roll
I’m craving some Evergreen Forest! I want my home to smell like trees!
i would love to try snowberry wow this time of year that smell would be grate
Christmas cottage , belensmama at gmail do tcom
French Kiss is my favorite scent.
smchester at gmail dot com
There are so many I would like to try, but I think Pumpkin roll would be awesome!
I would choose the cinnamon vanilla scent
I think I would love to try the Just Breathe scent… it sounds amazing!
mmm pumpkin roll sounds yummy, i love baking scents
I would choose welcom home. It is one of my very favorites. kfgcrtire at yahoo dot com
I’d like to try either the Welcome Home or the Snowberry
cincinnamon vanilla i would love to try
I think the Welcome Home scent would be nice!
All the autumn scents would be amazing- I love cinnamon!
Honestly, just from your review, I think I’d like Welcome Home best!
Sounds just lovely.
Pumpkin Roll sounds so yummmy!!!
Baked Apple Pie is the one I would love to smell!
jill.watkins (at) gmail.com
Baked Apple pie is always one of my favorites!!
I would choose SnowBerry
I’d like to try Welcome Home.
2dogs5catscrew@att.net
I would love Autuum Sunset scent
there are so many good ones – happy bday or havana cubana
Home Sweet Home
I like Newborn Nursery. I have my first grandchild on the way and I love that sweet smell. I also like Pima Cotton because I like the clean smell.
i would love the pumpkin roll scent!
I would like to try Eskimo Kisses.
Eskimo Kisses
I’d like to try snowberry
I love Scentsy smells especially the baking ones like Pumpkin Roll, which is what I would choose, I think, as there are so many that I love. Thank you for the great giveaway!
Cinnamon Bear
Hazelnut Latte sounds like a winner
Hazlenut Latte sounds like heaven.
OCEAN (I smelled it at a friend’s house recently an LOVE IT!!) and of course the Birthday Cake..I love the smell of Birthday Cake
Baked Apple Pie sounds delicious!
I just love candles and how it makes the house smell so wonderful!
I would pick baked apple pie n cinnamon bear
I love candles and plug ins have really wanted to try scentsy
Love the cinammon/vanilla smell. Sometimes I just cook cinammon to get that smell. This would be super.
I love the Baked Apple Pie Scent, can you tell I am in a holiday mood.
cinnamon vanilla
Cinnamon/Vanilla is my choice as usual
yourstrulee(at)sasktel(dot)net
I would love Baked Apple Pie!
Ooooh, make mine Gingerbread
LOVE it, all year round. And thanks for sharing their story – so familiar with the “press” on the heart to adopt again without debt. Wishing them well as they journey to their next child 
I like the Snowberry Scent Pak and the newborn nursery scent….they all sound great
Oh, picking one scent is hard, but I think I’d get either Cocoa Clementine or Christmas Cottage.
Hazelnut Latte
These are new to me but I am sure they smell wonderful!
I’d choose the Christmas Cottage scent
I would get Cinnamon Vanilla. Mmmm!
I like the white tea and cactus scent
I would choose the sunkissed citrus!!
This would be perfect for my best friend. She would LOVE this!
I would love to win something that makes my house smell delicious instead of suspicious.
welcome home is one of my favorite Scentsy scents!
Christmas Cottage
I would choose Pumpkin Roll.
Snowberry just sounds soo delicious! Makes me feel cozy inside!
I think I would like Festival of Trees
The baked apple sounds like a good one to me.
Eskimo kisses or cinnamon apple would be great!
eskimo kisses!
I would pick pumpkin roll.
I’d choose either Festival of Trees or Cinnamon/Vanilla!
I love trying new ones but do love the more fruity and citrus smells.
Newborn Nursery
Smells divine, Just like my 6 week old daughter 
Christmas Cottage, ’tis the season!
I would choose Pumpkin Roll Scentsy Bar
cinnamon vanilla
The Cinnamon/Vanilla sounds perfect and yummy!
Twitter: makeetis
November 30, 2011 at 1:05 pm
I would love to try the Havana Cabana
Vanilla Suede!
coriwestphal at msn dot com
Blueberry Cheesecake sounds yummy
Honey Pear Cider
i like the Christmas Cottage and Autumn Sunset – (emscout9 at Hotmail dot com)
I would love and adore the Autumn Sunset : )
I would pick the Cinnamon Bear Scent.
rsgrandinetti@yahoo(DOT)com
ooohhh! I love all the Scentsy stuff!!! I am going with Snowberry Scent for now
Good luck everyone
Pumpkin roll sounds good.
Happy Birthday or Cinnamon Vanilla
paradise punch
spottedjagiwar at yahoo dot com
The baked apple pie scent
It’s so hard to choose, there are many lovely scents — I think I’d go with Autumn Sunset, and I must admit the Hendrix and Hemmingway have me intrigued.
creedamy[at] yahoo[dot] com
I love scentsy scents! I would choose the cinnamon vanilla scent. Yum!!
I would choose the Silver Bells scent.
Baked apple pie
vmkids3 at msn dot com
I’d pick Baked Apple Pie! Yum!
I would like to try the Cinnamon Vanilla
I think I’d pick Hazelnut Latte.
Baked Apple Pie!! Yum!
I would choose baked apple pie scent
I would choose the Havana Cabana scent. SweepsGirl@aol.com
i would pick christmas cottage i think!
i’d pick pumpkin roll i love smelling pumpkin!!!
I would like eskimo kiss
I would love to try the Home Sweet Home scent.
Perfectly Pomegranate sounds fab
I think I would go with Christmas Cottage
jason(at)allworldautomotive(dot)com
I’d choose
Christmas Cottage
I would choose Enchanted Mist scent.
lazybones344 at gmail dot com
I like the
christmas cottage scent
xxbeccaannxx@gmail.com
would love the nursery scent!
x-mas cottage scent sounds good to me.
How about that silver bells for the holiday’s.
I would choose the Groovy Black Plug-in Scentsy Warmer or Charlemagne Plug-In Scentsy Warmer!
Thanks!
Jenn from How to Make Hair Bows
learnquilling@gmail.com
I’d like to try whiteout
I would like to try the pumpkin roll! I bet it smells delicious!
I would definitely choose the Baked Apple Pie scent!
pkbw28(at)gmail(dot)com
I would choose Luna scent!
i would pick the skinny dippin
Newborn Nursery
Christmas Cottage
I would love to try Christmas Cottage for the Holidays.
baked apple thanks
I’d choose the Baked Apple one.
I would love to try their new scent, Spice Bazaar!
I would choose Central Park Pralines.
I’d pick the Central Park Pralines scent. Yum!
I love a good smelling house. Makes everything more delightful
I adore Sugar Cookie. Can’t wait until plug ins arrive in the UK!!!!
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