Weeks of freshness but toxic to aquatic organisms... (Glade Electric)

Member Name: bkecky

Product:	Glade Electric
Date:	26/06/09 (20 review reads)
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Advantages: Great scent, covers tabacco, does exactly what it says, dial allows you to adjust strength

Disadvantages: Price

This little beauty has been a life-saver for my university life! The rules of my accommodation were that it was forbidden to smoke anywhere except your bedroom and then only two at once. But of course this never happened as groups of friends came down and the windows were opened. But when I would return from my night out the smell would be awful and to settle down and sleep in that room was thoroughly unpleasant even as a smoker myself. Normal Febreeze or Oust just wouldn't do it so i decided to bring out the big guns. After seeing countless adverts I thought I would give the electrics a try as surely they would have a little more power to them and be more consistent.

I was not disappointed in the slightest. I went for the Clean Linen option, as pictured here, as I loved the smell in the Yankee Candle Range. Last year I would always have this candle burning in my room (until yet another rule was implemented). The scent was so similar that when my friend moved in upstairs and came in my room she said "mmmm it's Becky smell!". So I can guarantee they work. My room was obviously quite small but every time I went out I left one window open and plugged one of these in and even thought the window was open, when I came back i could still smell it.

I have to say I often get bewildered in supermarkets will all the choices, especially when it comes to such things as air freshners and cleaning products and the packaging of this product is not really any more outstanding than anything else. You do have to first by the plug in but afterwards you can buy only the refills. It is really easy to assemble, just take of the refill cap and pop it into the plug in, connect the plug socket and you are on your way to a beautifully fragranced room.

The price is a little steep but I believe that if you don't use it constantly and once a day it is worth the money. It is a little expensive to be buying them every week. There is also a little dial that you can use to indicate the strength of smell you require. I used mine on the maximum and it was on a lot of the time and still it lasted over 2 weeks. For larger rooms though you may need two. I can't vouch for this having only had my tiny little study room.

They come in various scents: Soothing Lavender and Sweet Violet (anti-tabacco), Refreshing Bamboo and White Freesia, Soothing Lavender and Sweet Violet (anti-tabacco), Refreshing Bamboo and White Freesia, With Love, Glistening Snow, Clean Linen, Enchanting Night, Vanilla & White Blossom and Soft petals. (Courtesy of the SCJohnson website). As you may have noted there are a couple of anti-tabacco scents but actually I found that the Clean Linen worked well anyway and it was not necessary to purchase these specific scents.

The only downside to these I found was that if i took them out I had to be really careful not to let them spill because then there would be nothing left. The product claims a "week sof freshness" and it has lived up to its slogan, except those times when they stood up and then decided to fall when I wasn't looking! Also a little warning from the box: Toxic to aquatic organisms. So if you were planning on feeding your goldfish with it....

Summary: A great product that actually lives up to the expectations that it puts to the customer