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Never ever use conventional air fresheners - they just mask odors with fake flower scent which smells worse! Sometimes I'll put some lemon extract in a small saucepan of water and let it simmer.

I love when people come in and tell me that what I'm cooking smells wonderful, when all I've done so far is saute onions! This also works with basmati rice.

Having grown up in an Indian household (and subject to horrible peers in school) I have become very sensitive to food odors lingering. I can't stand having my hair smell like most foods, and I'm often tempted to cook in pjs (of which I have plenty) rather than to let my jeans smell like dinner.

Where is the "all of the above" option!?

I agree with Rosie! I love all of these smells filling up my house...it makes it seem, I don't know, more like a home.

I can tell you what I don't like. That would be mushroom smell, lingering bacon smell, and cooked cabbage smell.

Otherwise bread is my favorite. I made a focaccia with red grapes on top, and to my surprise the cooking grapes made the most amazing smell ever.

I like all of the above while they're cooking. Garlic, onions, and chicken (or any meat) tend to gross me out if they linger more than overnight.

I like all of the above, with sweet baked goods being my least favorite. I LOVE the smell of onions cooking.

Although I love fish, the smell of salmon gets old quickly for me, as does bacon.

i like most smells that happen during cooking, but get sick of them if i can still smell them hours later, especially if i wake up in the middle of the night smelling them. i live in a loft, so whatever smell is in the kitchen is also in the rest of the place.
the only thing we are diligent about getting rid of is seafood. we make sure we do the dishes and take out the trash the nights we have seafood for dinner.

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All the the above for me too. The only horrible smell for me is oil from deep frying. I close the bedroom doors and open all the windows. I suppose it's a nice deterrent or I'd be tempted to make donuts more often!

All of the above for me as well. As my bf put it, every home should smell like good cooking!

I like the smell of coffee...and it doesn't linger!

I've been doing a ton of indian cooking and the food odor thing is a bit of a challenge. I close the bedroom door and open a window...I wear a baseball cap to minimize the smells in my hair.

I've been using a candle-diffuser with some essential oils. It could be a placebo - but it seems to help with the lingering cooking smells.

all i ever want my apartment to smell like is onions cooking in butter. remember when those demeter fragrances were really popular? you could get perfume and room spray that smelled like dirt or fresh laundry or gin and tonic and all that mess? i want an onion and butter scent please. i will douse myself in it.

All of the above should have been an option!

Oh man, onions in butter, I'm drooling just thinking about it!

Generally I'm very happy to have our place smell like whatever we've been cooking. However, my fiancée hates fish, and gets really unhappy if she comes home and I've been frying salmon.

Most of those are nice, but the aroma of onions & garlic generally means something really tasty is being made. I do really like the smell of bread cooking, but not so much of a fan of the bread once its done.