<p>My H has taken up the habit of cigar smoking. He and a friend smoked cigars in my favorite room last night and it still reeks of cigar smoke. Anyone know how to kill the lingering aroma? This is bad!!</p>
<p>YIKES!! I have no idea, but Febreeze seems to be a kind of cure-all for my college S when it’s been too long between loads of laundry! <em>lol</em> :rolleyes: And Yankee candles are pretty strong as well, but they would probaby just mingle with the cigar aroma. </p>
<p>Can you open a window and put a strong fan in for a few minutes first?? 
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<p>I think I’d limit my dh’s new habit to the garage! :eek: <em>lol</em></p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>Fresh Wave …use the spray version … works really really well. My <em>darling</em> son smoked a cigar in my car over Thanksgiving. The Fresh Wave spray cleared it right up. </p>
<p>I buy this at a pet store … but it should be available other places including organic groceries I think. The company is based outside Chicago, in Barrington, as I remember.</p>
<p>Thank you so much. It’s his only vice so I shouldn’t complain, but he has no sense of smell so he doesn’t believe me about how bad this is. In warmer weather, I’ll make them sit in our screened porch, but it’s too cold just now for that.</p>
<p>I bought a car from someone who had smoked a few cigars in it and he included a bottle of febreze with the sale :). It worked just fine.</p>
<p>It is a pity your son has no sense of smell as it is crucial to the proper enjoyment of a fine cigar. Perhaps he will give it up…at least he did the correct thing and smoked it indoors, where a cigar’s qualities can be fully appreciated.</p>
<h2>“I think I’d limit my dh’s new habit to the garage!”</h2>
<p>This is exactly how it works in our house. My hubby has quite a cigar collection from travels…but seems to only want to smoke when he’s working outdoors…in fact, it seems to be a prerequisite for outdoor work. Works out great for me; my house smells nice and there are all sorts of neat gifts for cigar smokers…humidors, cutters, subscription to Cigar Aficianado…</p>
<p>One foolproof way to get rid the smell…paint the baseboards in a flooded bathroom…yech will that enamel paint smell ever go away? Seriously, cigar smoke is tough; but when we had a dead possum in the attic, burning candles seemed to help. The secret is to burn them and extinguish them frequently. The extinguishing part is what kills the odor.</p>
<p>ld~</p>
<p>GIRL, you’ve got this down to a SCIENCE!!! Now, I’ve got a tougher challenge for you…a house full of teenage boys, which we always seem to have! 
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<p>~b.</p>
<p>I’ll put my one college age daughter up against those teenage boys…lol! How can a girl’s room get a funky smell is what I want to know. With all the perfume, lotions and beauty supplies in there, you’d think the place would smell like heaven! ;)</p>
<p>Proper form dictates that cigars must never be taken outdoors, and the band should always be removed before lighting. Cutting may be done either before or after the band is removed.</p>
<p>D-i-v-o-r-c-e !!! :D</p>
<p>I haven’t found Fresh Wave, looked at 3 different stores. Glade Neutralizer helped a fair amount. I’ll keep looking…and try candles a fabreeze.</p>
<p>It’s my H, not S who lacks the sense of smell (and apparently common sense as well).</p>
<p>leanid - I’m not telling my long-time cigar smoker than one (the outdoor thing). There is nothing he loves more than ‘fixing’ something at his workbench with a cigar chomped in the side of his mouth. And I’m very happy to have the cigar smoke confined to the garage thank you very much. ;)</p>
<p>btw…I think that little particular etiquette is out-dated. Most (over 70%) cigar smokers do smoke outdoors because the days of the ‘smoking room’ are long gone…and central air systems make it impossible to confine the smoke to one area.</p>
<p>A bowl of hot vinegar. Really.</p>
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I’ll trust that the bidet guy also knows his cigars…<em>lol</em></p>
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<strong><em>ROFLMAO</em></strong> weenie!!! 
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Hey, I have some of his relatives here!!! ;)</p>
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Yeppers!!! :)</p>
<p>bethie…do try the Febreeze…it pretty cures what ails ya in the aroma dept., at least around here!</p>
<p>~b.</p>
<p>berurah - re the houseful of boys…this is just a guess but add an attactive girl who is not a relative? ;)</p>
<p>Also have had great success with bowls of vinegar…just not on teenage boys! :)</p>
<p>BHappy~</p>
<p>I have 3 -n- 3, so we typically have BIG groups of boys <em>and</em> girls around here! ;)</p>
<p>~b.</p>
<p>Awwww. I thought this was a cigar appreciation thread. *shrugs</p>
<p>I’ll try everything except D-I V-O-R-C-E. I still do love him!!</p>
<p>I wanted to do an update on this. Fresh Wave time released gel was the product that worked best, but it still took a LOONG time before the cigars smell was gone. I had to find a local source by going to their website. Thanks for all the suggestions.</p>
<p>I have told DH, as tactfully as I could, that cigar smoking in the house is not working out for me. I thought spring was almost here and they could smoke on our screen porch, but we just got another foot of snow!!</p>