The Best Car Air Fresheners: Keep Your Car Smelling Clean And New | Autance

The Moso Natural Air Purifying Bag is just that — a natural and chemical-free way to remove odors from your car by using activated charcoal to scrub the air of excess moisture that can be a breeding ground for nasties like mold, mildew, bacteria — the things that really cause bad odors. Unlike most car air fresheners, this product doesn’t use heavy perfumes to cover up nasty smells, but actually absorbs the things that cause them.

One small bag is able to cover up to 90 square feet, making this a great option not just for your car, but also for your RV, too. Aftercare couldn’t be easier either as all you’ll have to do is just take it out of your car every month and leave it in the sun to dry and re-activate. After two years of use, instead of tossing it in the trash, you open the bag and sprinkle the charcoal on your favorite plant as healthy, nutritious plant food. You can’t get much more environmentally friendly and health-conscious than that.

Yankee Candle Company knows pretty much all there is to know about fragrances and the Yankee Candle Gel Car Jar Ultimate Hanging Air Freshener is an ideal example of that. This compact and miniature version of one of the brand’s scents can hang from your rearview mirror, or easily hide under your seat for a more discreet option. This particular scent is a blend of patchouli, sage, musk, and mahogany cologne.

The scented gel lasts up to four weeks and is 100 percent recyclable when you’re done with it. It’s an affordable choice, too, and given that there are so many scent options to choose from, you can work through all your favorite smells each month. This car air freshener doesn’t last as long as some others on the market, but it’s a great choice if you like to change things up frequently. These scents also work more to mask odors than to actually remove them.

If you’re not a fan of big air fresheners dangling from your rearview mirror, you may like the understated Little Trees Car Air Freshener Vent Wrap. It’s a slim design that simply slides onto one of your air vents to allow air to still flow freely, yet also provide a fragrance masking any scents. It’s also made in the USA.

Being so compact, however, this air freshener only lasts about two weeks before needing to be replaced. It’s available in several different fragrances and comes sold in packages of two, so each package will last you a month or so.

The Febreze Car Air Freshener takes what the Febreze brand is good at and brings it into your ride, as it was specifically designed for a car’s vent system. In the package, you get a set of five air freshener clips that attach right onto your car’s air vents that allow the “pleasantly-scented” air to flow throughout your vehicle. And this specific air freshener uses the company’s proprietary OdorClear Technology to eliminate odors and replace them with a light, fresh scent.

A single clip can last for up to 30 days inside your car, giving you long-lasting results. The one drawback is that these little clip-ons can almost be too strong sometimes, so if you’re sensitive to fragrances, you may want to go with something a little less noticeable.

The Little Trees U6P-60155 Black Ice Air Freshener is the iconic car air freshener, having been around for decades. It provides simple and straightforward odor masking capabilities and this particular option comes in a set of 24 trees, giving you months of fresh scents in your vehicle.

A far cry from just the original pine-scented version, the company now offers a wide variety of scents to suit any taste. It is, however, one of the more understated air fresheners on our list and won’t provide any absorption of odor-causing particles, as it’s meant more as an odor-masking solution. These trees last about a month each but get noticeably less potent day by day, especially if your car is quite smelly.

The Bliss Essential Oil Natural Car Air Freshener is a unique take on a car air freshener, giving more thought in its outward design than most standard air fresheners. The rectangular pot holds enough essential oil to deodorize your car for up to six months, and could also be used in your bathroom, bedroom, office, or closet.

You can choose from several essential oil blends or come up with your own personalized scent from the company, and all oils are cruelty-free, paraben-free, and environmentally friendly. This air freshener is a great option for anyone who might be overly sensitive to fragrances and other standard car air fresheners. It is, however, quite pricey and you’ll need to refill it once the oils have dried up.