<p>I have a wool blanket that smells a little musty. I am airing it outside but am also thinking that I might try the Febreze spray. Has anyone used it with good results?</p>
<p>I think it covers them up, sometimes quite effectively, but you have to be willing to live with the smell of the Febreeze. I really hate having a lot of competing aromas in my home, and try to buy the unscented everything, but Febreeze is quite scented. Perhaps if you used Febreeze first and then aired out the blanket, you’d get the best result.</p>
<p>If you don’t care about possible fading, try hanging that blanket outdoors on a bright sunny day.</p>
<p>I think Febreze smells, a lot, and it’s just a cover up smell. I have bad allergies and that stuff really affects me.</p>
<p>Febreze is just a cover spray. I can’t recall the name of it, but there is a neutralizer spray on the market and it is sold around the febreze aisle…seems like it has neutralizer in the title, sorry I can’t be more help to remember.</p>
<p>Febreze is an allergy trigger for me, too. I’ve had good luck sprinkling fabric with baking soda, letting it sit overnight, and then shaking/beating the baking soda out.</p>
<p>We had to use it when son was carsick… He puked all over his seat. We cleaned up the mess, then febreezed the entire inside of the car, came out the next day and didn’t smell any “pukiness”. I have a very sensitive nose and if there was any of that horrid smell still in the car, I would have smelled it. We used the extra strength febreeze and it was great.</p>
<p>Musty smell means traces of mold. I doubt Febreze will take care of it. Better yet try Lysol spray, sun/air exposure, vacuuming with baking soda, Nature Miracle…</p>
<p>(I too gag after a few molecules of Febreze bouquet get stuck to my smell receptors.)</p>
<p>They do have an unscented Febreze.</p>
<p>I just bought some “Fresh Wave” at Bed Bath Beyond. It was recommended for tough odors by women in my book club. It comes in spray, deodorizing crystals, & carpet powder. So far it seems to have removed bad pet odors from my carpet. It’s more expensive than Febreze but has a lighter, more natural scent.</p>
<p>I’m so sick of things with scent. Hand lotions, soap, shampoo, deodorant, and so forth and so on. Everything I buy, I buy unscented, or I don’t buy it.</p>
<p>VH-- me too!! It is difficult at times to buy unscented though. The unscented Febreze still smells. So do the unscented dryer sheets. It is difficult to live in a world where perfumes are added to almost everything. For those with severe allergies triggered by smell, asthma, etc., it really is a burden. Products don’t need to smell to work!!</p>
<p>I don’t use dryer sheets and, in spite of this failure, my life is still a good one.</p>
<p>I don’t use dryer sheets, but I do like lavender- I use lavender soap on my evergreens in the yard & also use nag champa incense ( that I bought when D was in India & it made me feel closer to her)- it also brings back memories of when incense was very popular in the 70’s for another reason.</p>
<p>I like some of the Mrs Meyers scents- but I think airing out your blanket should help a lot if you don’t mind a little fading.</p>
<p>I’m also bothered by scents. Febreze has never been a problem, but Lysol … argh.</p>
<p>I don’t like lysoi but my H loves it- i suspect his mom just sprayed it around a lot.
I told him after you clean up you don’t * need to * spray it around- but he is also bothered by things I like- like pine sol or orange oil.
He doesn’t mind the Murphys soap, but it takes a lot more scrubbing ( & guess who does 99.9% of it?)</p>
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<p>You need to find something which will ‘eat up’ the odor causing enzymes and maybe put a shot of that in the rinse cycle or what have you. </p>
<p>Someone up-thread already mentioned Nature’s Miracle. You can also use Borax to launder the blanket but please do not use that if you have cats or dogs. Vinegar might work as well.</p>
<p>Well, I don’t use dryer sheets either. Ever. They ALL smell. It was a gift from my sister, who thought she had hit the jackpot by finding “unscented” ones.</p>
<p>I do agree w/ some of the above posts about trying Nature’s Mirace or vinegar and then, if possible, air drying in the sunshine.</p>
<p>A million years ago I had a fire in my apartment building. The smoke smell was on everything. My mom jumped in to help and she found that washing things in Woolite and putting white vinegar in the rinse really killed the odor.</p>