Q: How to make a fine Wine Smell like dirty socks?
A: Keep your wine glasses in a 100 year-old stinky cabinet.
About a month ago we were thrilled to find a beautiful mahogany cabinet in Charmaine's consignment shop. We'd been looking for something classy to replace the Ikea make-do shelving unit in our dining room, and when I saw this, I was in love.
We bit the bullet (for it was a budget-buster), brought it home, loaded it up with our glasses, bottles of Scotch, martini paraphernalia and cookbooks. We marvelled at how grown-up our dining room looked now.
The inside of the cabinet had a musty smell, but nothing alarming. I assumed it had just been in storage a long time.
Two weeks later, we had one of Rajeev's work colleagues over for dinner. We'd just been out to Everything Wine in Langford and stocked up on wine, where I'd had the chance to taste a nice Vinho Verde that would complement our main course.
I poured three glasses, we toasted, we sniffed ....
"It's got quite the nose on it," our guest remarked.
I wasn't so charitable. "This smells like dirty socks!"
How could this be? I had tasted (and smelled) the wine in the shop. Obviously the wine wasn't the culprit.
We turned around and looked at the new cabinet housing every glass we own.
I walked over and put my face inside the cabinet for a whiff. Sure enough, the old musty smell that I had noticed when we bought the cabinet was still there, in full effect. Somehow it had permeated all our glasses, giving the dirty sock pong to any liquid therein.
Over the past couple of weeks, I've done everything I can to get rid of the smell. I washed it with a vinegar/water solution, I tried Murphy's Oil Soap, I bought an odour deodorizing thing called "Bad Air" and left it inside for a week, I put a bowl of baking soda inside.
Nothing gets rid of the smell.
I went back to Charmaine's and asked for their advice. They let me smell the furniture polish they use on most items, but it didn't smell like my cabinet. They suggested I look online for advice (which of course I had already done).
Alas, I am turning to y'all for help. Do you have any suggestions (short of refinishing the whole thing)? I've washed all the glasses and our kitchen/dining room looks like a pub with our booze bottles and glasses all over the counter. I'd rather not have to wash them again. I'm waiting for the miracle cure.
How do you get rid of a strong smell in a cabinet?
Hop on over to my Facebook page and let me know. Thanks!
A: Keep your wine glasses in a 100 year-old stinky cabinet.
About a month ago we were thrilled to find a beautiful mahogany cabinet in Charmaine's consignment shop. We'd been looking for something classy to replace the Ikea make-do shelving unit in our dining room, and when I saw this, I was in love.
We bit the bullet (for it was a budget-buster), brought it home, loaded it up with our glasses, bottles of Scotch, martini paraphernalia and cookbooks. We marvelled at how grown-up our dining room looked now.
The inside of the cabinet had a musty smell, but nothing alarming. I assumed it had just been in storage a long time.
Two weeks later, we had one of Rajeev's work colleagues over for dinner. We'd just been out to Everything Wine in Langford and stocked up on wine, where I'd had the chance to taste a nice Vinho Verde that would complement our main course.
I poured three glasses, we toasted, we sniffed ....
"It's got quite the nose on it," our guest remarked.
I wasn't so charitable. "This smells like dirty socks!"
How could this be? I had tasted (and smelled) the wine in the shop. Obviously the wine wasn't the culprit.
We turned around and looked at the new cabinet housing every glass we own.
I walked over and put my face inside the cabinet for a whiff. Sure enough, the old musty smell that I had noticed when we bought the cabinet was still there, in full effect. Somehow it had permeated all our glasses, giving the dirty sock pong to any liquid therein.
Over the past couple of weeks, I've done everything I can to get rid of the smell. I washed it with a vinegar/water solution, I tried Murphy's Oil Soap, I bought an odour deodorizing thing called "Bad Air" and left it inside for a week, I put a bowl of baking soda inside.
Nothing gets rid of the smell.
I went back to Charmaine's and asked for their advice. They let me smell the furniture polish they use on most items, but it didn't smell like my cabinet. They suggested I look online for advice (which of course I had already done).
Alas, I am turning to y'all for help. Do you have any suggestions (short of refinishing the whole thing)? I've washed all the glasses and our kitchen/dining room looks like a pub with our booze bottles and glasses all over the counter. I'd rather not have to wash them again. I'm waiting for the miracle cure.
How do you get rid of a strong smell in a cabinet?
Hop on over to my Facebook page and let me know. Thanks!
