Fresh Wave Odor Removing Vacuum Beads, 5.25 oz. (Pack of 2)

Amazing and sure makes room smell fresh!

I would say these function pretty well over all and as advertised. They last a long time. a capful of beads goes a long way. I'd say 2-3 weeks or more vacuuming the full house once a week with some spot vacuuming here and there in between. The big reason for only giving this 3 stars is that they really don't smell very good. The name tells you nothing about what the odor might be like (who knows what "Fresh Wave" means). I like the idea that these beads are supposed to be made from natural ingredients, but the smell actually leans pretty heavy toward the chemical side in my opinion. It reminds me of something menthol based like vapo-rub or old Noxzema products. My wife doesn't like it much at all. It's tolerable to me. I don't hate it, but I also don't think it's very good. It does smell better than the plain air out of an older vacuum cleaner though in my opinion. We were motivated to try something like this because we vacuumed up a dead centipede that must have used odor as a defense because it made our vacuum smell awful. No amount of bag changes, cleaning what we could reach, or running it seemed to help, even weeks later. Adding these has helped over time, though it took about 2-3 times of adding them over a couple weeks to finally overtake the odor. So I can say if you have a similar issue they do seem to work for that eventually. At the rate we use them it will take a long time to go through both bottles. Once we do we'll definitely be looking for something with a better smell. I wish they made these with a clean lemon or citrus odor instead. Out of what I could find so far they seem to be the easiest and most effective all purpose option out there.

Works well

They seem to leave clean smelling air rather than the scent of the dog hair I vacuumed up (which is what happens when I don't use this) BUT not overly perfume-y like some products.

They are natural scent and not over powering perfume. However, they dont do much. I left in carpet for several hours and it doesnt seem to have done anything. I wanted to try their room gel too but now worried it won't eliminate adors like advertised. Also the beads needed 2 passes to vacuum even with my good Shark vacuum.