removing smells from your car?

someone put some terrible cherry or strawberry car perfume on a friends' car and now it smells like horrible perfume, makes me gag.

is not a gross smell, it is hard to say, like really sweet old lady perfume.

what can we do

crows said:

someone put some terrible cherry or strawberry car perfume on a friends' car and now it smells like horrible perfume, makes me gag.

is not a gross smell, it is hard to say, like really sweet old lady perfume.

what can we do

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Maybe add an air freshener to displace the scent?

Burn it.

Put an equally offensive men's cologne like old spice to negate effects

Give the car to your grandmother for cash

Burn it.

AvidCollector said:

Maybe add an air freshener to displace the scent?

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the problem is that the smells will mix.

Put some tumble dryer freshener sheets in the car for a few days, should help absorb the smell

Leave a couple of pounds of ground beef in a grocery bag under the back seat for several days. It'll wipe out, with extreme prejudice, whatever weird strawberry scent remains.

SnakeDoc

Run the car with the windows up and the AC running and from outside spray Lysol into the air vents near the wipers. Kill the engine and let the car sit for a few hours with the windows up and repeat until it smells only like Lysol. Then leave the windows open and the Lysol smell will disappear.

SnakeDoctor said:

Leave a couple of pounds of ground beef in a grocery bag under the back seat for several days. It'll wipe out, with extreme prejudice, whatever weird strawberry scent remains.

SnakeDoc

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Can you substitute the ground beef with other meat products? Say, several pounds of shrimp?

SnakeDoctor said:

Leave a couple of pounds of ground beef in a grocery bag under the back seat for several days. It'll wipe out, with extreme prejudice, whatever weird strawberry scent remains.

SnakeDoc

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wet beef or dry?

You could also air it out. Anything perfumey I get gagged too. Roll the windows up and maybe spray Lysol or something?

Back in highschool there was a guy that stole my girlfriend. I dropped a dead goldfish in the sunroof of his stupid Pontiac Fiero.

AvidCollector said:

You could also air it out. Anything perfumey I get gagged too. Roll the windows up and maybe spray Lysol or something?

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we tried opening it for a couple of days and even drove around but it is still there. tried cleaning it with disinfectant but the perfume smell is too strong

crows said:

we tried opening it for a couple of days and even drove around but it is still there. tried cleaning it with disinfectant but the perfume smell is too strong

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Wow. I don't know what to tell you. That's awful. Can you find maybe some cologne strong enough to balance it out? Of course you wouldn't want the smells to mix but at this rate you probably a need a stronger scent.

ali032373 said:

Can you substitute the ground beef with other meat products? Say, several pounds of shrimp?

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Can't vouch for it, but I imagine so. I've only tried the ground beef. Ground beef is cheaper than shrimp or steaks ... so that's something.

crows said:

wet beef or dry?

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Raw. Still in the package. Preferably in the summer heat. Vultures will be circling ... and not for the lingering cherry or strawberry air freshener scent.

SnakeDoc

If the fragrance happens to be on the floor mats, 86 them.

Id try dousing the areas with a neutral less offensive Febreze scent or another odor eliminator.

-Can't vouch for it, but I imagine so. I've only tried the ground beef. Ground beef is cheaper than shrimp or steaks ... so that's something.



I only brought it up because I have immediate access to shrimp.

Leave some charcoal in the car and it should neutralize the odor, hope it helps!

Jameson Rook said:

Leave some charcoal in the car and it should neutralize the odor, hope it helps!

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I think we might try this before adding any other smells into it. I might try the febreeze after this