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[Joloke]

Stinky Doo's

[Junkman]

I'm allergic to anything perfumed/scented, which of course includes air "fresheners", which actually do sod all to freshen the air, they merely scent existing air.

As funny as this may sound, it makes life actually remarkably difficult, especially since scented stuff is still on the rise, not the decline.

[mercrocker]

This reminds me of a Mk1 Mini I bought, wasn't my first car by a long way but was in the first 18 months or so of driving.    It had a peculiar, rosy fragrance inside that drove me nuts.  Kind of mixture between old granny and middle-class downstairs toilet air freshener.   Yes it was  that precise. 

 

I drove the car for about a week before I made a concerted effort to find the bastard.   Eventually, right under the back seat I located a small plastic box with grilled lid.   In a "gotcha" moment of glee I crushed it disdainfully.   Upon which, the horrid little sliver of smelly shit inside slipped out and smeared my fingers.   I stank of it all day.    

 

Because many of my old cars where damp, leaky and used for KFC consumption as well as sexual purposes (sometimes almost concurrently) there was a need to dangle a Feu Orange on full pin-prickage most of the time.   I can still remember that smell as well as the revolting granny slab in that Mini.  

 

 

By and large I absolutely hate smelly things in cars, particularly anything "new age" or "foodie".  Indeed, I struggle to preserve the "damp BMC" aura in my current cars.

 

If we had something really, really horrible to cover up we usually tipped pachouli oil on it.

[dollywobbler]

I hate most scents. Other than bacon, and I'm not sure I'd really want my car smelling of that permanently. First thing we did with the ZX was ditch the air freshener. Sorry Brammy.

[oldcars]

Don't like buying a car that stinks of airfreshner as normally it is masking the general filth of the car. I do like autosmart berry blast airfreshner in my own clean cars tho.

[Jams]

I'm going against the grain unfortunately.

 

I have a stock of jelly belly air fresheners that get replaced every 3-4 weeks.

 

I don't like car smells unless it's a new smell. And after quiting smoking the stale fag smell is disgusting

[rml2345]

I like an air freshener in the car but it's not something I feel particularly strongly about.

Although Vanilla seems to work well.

[Stanky]

I'm with Mercrocker on this one, I dislike smelly things in cars and life in general. If something really needs to be masked then patchouli oil covers most things pretty well and I like the smell of it. Its also incredibly cheap and lasts forever.

[Asimo]

I like that London Underground brakes / cooked clutch smell. If there was an odoriser of that smell I'd dangle it from my mirror. But you can keep all those fruity, perfumey car pongs. Yuck.

[Mally]

Exactly the same for me, upsets me for days, burps and other end.

Find those plug in air fresheners are the worst.

Air is fresh enough on its own.

 

edit, MCS, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, they call it. Not a recognised illness, some say its all in the mind.

I'm allergic to anything perfumed/scented, which of course includes air "fresheners", which actually do sod all to freshen the air, they merely scent existing air.

As funny as this may sound, it makes life actually remarkably difficult, especially since scented stuff is still on the rise, not the decline.

Exactly the same for me, upsets me for days, burps and other end.

Find those plug in air fresheners are the worst.

Air is fresh enough on its own.

 

edit, MCS, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, they call it. Not a recognised illness, some say its all in the mind.

[Shep Shepherd]

I like that London Underground brakes / cooked clutch smell. If there was an odoriser of that smell I'd dangle it from my mirror. But you can keep all those fruity, perfumey car pongs. Yuck.

 

The Berlin U-Bahn smells even better 

 

I use Neutradol gel air fresheners in my cars, as they smell nice without being overpowering. The carpets and upholstery get a squirt of Febreze from time to time as well.

[gordonbennet]

Each parcel of oil or other stuff you buy from Opie they chuck a really nice air freshener in, other than those i never bother with them.

 

I have a really sensitive snout and that shit aptly named perfume Poison...why the fuck do women pour it on like the mockney twat cook 'drizzling' effin olive oil on by the pint...can reduce me to a coughing fit that has me choking if i can't get away, trapped in a lift with one such and i reckon i'd peg it.

[Zantimisfit]

Completely agree. Once, years ago, bought one of those smelly xmas tree things you hang on your mirror. It was like mustard gas (I imagine...I am making an analogy). Could only take 10 minutes and then it got jettisoned out of the window. Completely repelled by it.

 

It made me much more appreciative of the 'perfume of farts and wet dog'

[purplebargeken]

I have a shit sense of smell, so am quite lucky. If I have a cheeky curry I will spray some stuff I got in Halfords. This is mainly to stop being found out and for no other reason tbh.

[Brodders]

I actually quite like the smell of an air freshener in a car, not to cover up the smell of something bad, but to just make it smell a bit more pleasant (although I am sure that many of you would find the smell of my "Forest Pine" Magic Tree repulsive).

 

Surely I am not the only one who likes it?

[inconsistant]

Four or five bin bags of hedge clippings left in the boot with the back seats down for 48 hours because you misjudged the tip opening hours acts as a fantastic natural car air freshener.

[montytom]

I may be coming across a bit daft but I like the smells of different cars.

 

I'm not talking about smells gits inside or the air freshener but the proper smell.

 

I get in my 75s and they all smell the same ie nice leather smell.

The vitesse I have smells as I recollect the others smelling. The same with the p6 I used to own that had a distinctive smell.

Am I wrong?

[strangeangel]

Some years ago I had a Peugeot 405, the back of which had been stoved in, and had a padlock holding the mis-shapen boot shut. As you might imagine, the carpets constantly being wet gave the car a unique odour; something I got progressively more used to. Our Lass didn't though, and would often remark upon the smell on the odd occasion that she would deign to travel in it. I simply waved this away, attributing it to character.

 

Then one day I was forced to admit that the smell was worse than usual. Clearing away a load of college paperwork off the back seat and out of the footwell I discovered a rank and stinking trout, carefully wrapped in paper and plastic. Then I remembered that some weeks earlier Mother_SA had offered me this (then freshly-caught - Fatha_SA was a keen fisherman) delicacy, I'd lobbed it in the car and, in the 30 miles or so it took me to get home, promptly forgotten about it.

 

Still smelled better than a Magic Bastard Tree though.

[strangeangel]

Four or five bin bags of hedge clippings left in the boot with the back seats down for 48 hours because you misjudged the tip opening hours acts as a fantastic natural car air freshener.

 

I have done exactly this, and you're right. I could have done without retrieving the army of snails that had apparently had some sort of mad circuit race inside the BX during the night, though...

[Bren]

My mate used to buy the king sized feu orange for his cortina - the ones for minibuses and coaches.

 

26 years later I have breathing issues.

[cros]

I loathe air fresheners; I used to take a LWB landrover full of sheep to market every week; it had a full canvas roof so only an old door tied to the hood frame kept them out of the cab but there was no call for air freshener so I dread to think what people get up to to make them necessary. A mate took pigs in his ancient Bedford CA and a large white sow got between the seats and joined him in the front, shit and piss everywhere. It took more than a Magic Tree to deal with that.

[dave21478]

I love some hardcore chemical stench. I normally have a couple of magic trees in each car. Obviously I never read the instructions and pull it out the packet a few inches per week, I just bin the wrapper and bask in the vanilla glory.

Forest Fresh can FRO though - smells like toilet cleaner and most of the other ones smell like cheap teenagers deoderant.
I have also taken to having one of those household automatic aerosol diffusers in the pickup as it has always smelled like a tramps pants since I bought it. Now, every nine minutes I get a massive cloud of vanilla scented cancer wafted across the cabin.

[Louise2cv]

Most of them say "harmful to aquatic wildlife, avoid skin contact and do not inhale".

 

Case closed.

 

Why would you want to pump that stuff round your house/car? Most of the smells are artificial chemically smells rather than anything nice.

[GoGently]

Pore Oil of Youlay on the engine then both self & car smell feel & look Younger .

 

If you run your car on chip shop oil that iusually masks other smells .

Or run your petrol car on whisky & get home with that seasonal smell.

 

Lavender oil mob

[FakeConcern]

I have a Citroen C4 VTS and it is fitted with a built in air freshener dispenser in one of the vents. The first thing I did when I bought it was snap off the freshener and throw it away. I did the same with the previous VTS as well.

[overrun]

Because I'm hard hittin' always biten cool as hell

I got trees on my mirror so my car won't smell

[myglaren]

I'm allergic to anything perfumed/scented, which of course includes air "fresheners", which actually do sod all to freshen the air, they merely scent existing air.

As funny as this may sound, it makes life actually remarkably difficult, especially since scented stuff is still on the rise, not the decline.

Same here - it's a nightmare.

[FakeConcern]

Because I'm hard hittin' always biten cool as hell

I got trees on my mirror so my car won't smell

Whatever happened to the Beastie Boys?

[AMC Rebel]

The Berlin U-Bahn smells even better 

 

I use Neutradol gel air fresheners in my cars, as they smell nice without being overpowering. The carpets and upholstery get a squirt of Febreze from time to time as well.

 

Another vote for 

 

All "air fresheners" are shit and simply add the smell of a Bratislava Chemical works to whatever dog/shit/dogshit smell they were supposed to mask

 

Neutradol - which seems to actively soak up the bad whiff a bit without adding unpleasantness - and Febreeze for similar reasons.

[AMC Rebel]

Off Topic but why do they always get some shortarsed fucker to put up those autocancer "fresheners" in the Men's bogs?

 

I keep getting sprayed in the face with noxious chemicals when I only went in for a slash.