Thread: cigar boxes

Anyone have any idea how to get the smell out of used cigar boxes?

do you mean the glorious odor of fantastic tobacco or the even more glorious smell of Spanish cedar... not sure why on e would want to get rid of either.

I bought one on eBay, my wife sprayed a little bit of Fabreeze over it and left it opened in the garage for about a month, and the odor has disapeared.
Now I'm going to fix it to use it as a razor storage box.

Hi Doc

My wife found a quite spectacular way to get rid of - any - bad odour (she first used the trick to get rid of moistures smells in her car when it rained inside - she forgot to close the window after a drive with her dog): coffee.

Just put some coffee in the box (ground beans) on a towel, wait one or two days for the smell of the cigar to disappear and then let the box open, having removed the coffee (thanks to the towel - PT is good enough you will not put coffee everywhere) during one day and it must be ok. I have done this with a Cohiba box I am restoring to be used as a straight razor box.

P.S.
It is also a good trick to take coffee with oneself when going to try fragrance in a perfume shop. Usually, after two or three different fragrances, the smell is like overwhelmed by the different odours... to avoid mixing odours (and headache) just smell the coffee between every new fragrance you will smell... and enjoy

A little Baking Soda may be the answer as well.

Good Luck!

Lynn

The coffee is an old timer car lot trick to rid cars of odors...
Before the advent of the ionizers that they use today the old timers used a small plate of coffee, with an apple slice, that they would leave in the car for a day or so to rid the vehicle of smoke odors...

Originally Posted by gssixgun

The coffee is an old timer car lot trick to rid cars of odors...
Before the advent of the ionizers that they use today the old timers used a small plate of coffee, with an apple slice, that they would leave in the car for a day or so to rid the vehicle of smoke odors...

I am really curious. For what purpose is the apple slice?

Matt

It gets rid of that darned coffee smell.

Maybe to keep the beans moist? Works well with tobacco.