Smoke in leather

Looking for info.

Does anyone know how to get the smell of cigarette smoke out of leather? I bought a pair of shoes on ebay and they came from a heavy smoke filled place. They reek of smoke, the newspaper reeked of smoke. Ick. Gotta love living in a almost completely smoke free land, when you encounter smoke, it really hits you hard.

I love the shoes. I have left them outside for almost a week. I have sprayed them with Ferbreeze. I wouldn’t mind it so much if they smelled of clove cigarette smoke. Anyone care to smoke a clove and fill a bag full of shoes?

11 thoughts on “Smoke in leather

    1. Yeah, but I can’t stand the smell of incense. Clove cigarettes and fireplace smoke is the only kinds that I have found to actualy like. OK meat smoking is good too but I don’t want to get hungry putting on my shoes. :)

  1. We got one of the miniature Sharper Image “Ionic Breeze” air freshener thingies a while ago to hang in our closet, and it’s amazing what it does for smoke odor.

    The one that hangs on the closet bar was discontinued, but I think they make a bathroom plug-in-to-an-outlet version. Put ‘em in a box with a cutout at the right height for an outlet, plug in the Ionic Breeze, slide the cutout over same and leave ‘em there for a few days.

    http://www.sharperimage.com/us/en/catalog/product/sku__SI627/pcatid__3/catid__307

    Check their outlet site, because the

      1. Sorry. The outlet site is accessible from a link in the top right corner of the Sharper image homepage… and I was checking it and hit Post by mistake

        But I checked and they don’t have any of the Ionic Breeze stuff listed there.

  2. If the shoes are real leather, you might want to rub them with an oil with citrus in it, like orange oil. That would be good for the shoes (oil conditions the leather) and the smell (citrus cuts through a lot of lingering, icky odors).

  3. Baking soda is good, but an air purifier is better

    If you have one that is. The way to make it more efficient is to put the shoes and air purifier in a small closed room . . . a bathroom works well. But again, baking soda also works wonders.
    Another trick is to use a dryer sheet to “polish” teh shoes and leave one sheet in each shoe for a day or so.

  4. Give the shoes a good cleaning or two with Saddle Soap. Kiwi makes a decent one; comes in the same small and large tins their polish does. Give em a thorough cleaning, let em dry, then repeat.

    Always works on my boots, no matter what I’ve been wallowing in, either in my former line of work, or in SAR…

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