new car smell...

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call me strange - but I have always liked that new car smell you get in the first 1-3 months you get a brand new car from the manufacturer. I think it comes from the glues on the dash? or just the cleaning agent they use? what is it?



Is there any way to get it back after it is gone?
 
Buy a new Car??? Honestly, I am not sure you can get that 'exact' smell back. I know what you are talking about and I like it too. I am interested to see if there is an answer for this.
 
Its from the glues and all of that used. There are some "new car smell" air fresheners that you can find but they dont always work too well.



If you have leather seats, I have read thta Z-16(I think)... the leather conditioner really smells like leather and that is part of the new car smell.



Other than that, you could go for another smell and just use a dash protectant that you like the smell of.
 
I hate that smell. I can't wait for it to leave. :p



I think you can buy air "fresheners" that claim to have the "new car smell". I'm not sure if the smell really resembles the same smell of the new car.
 
The new car smell is great, but from a health standpoint, I don't know if you want to be constantly smelling these cancer promoting adhesions. However, if we can get a scent to give a new car smell, that would be great. The sonus leather conditioner revives the natural hive smell and Z10 leather in a bottle gives it a great leather aroma.
 
The scent of a new car is my favorite smell, especially one with leather interior. I wosh there was a way to bottle the scent. I tried a "new car smell" air freshener once and it didn't smell anything like a new car. Kinda reminded me of the fragrance car rental places use. It was nasty.
 
I have used four star leather smelling stuff. It works great and last about 3 weeks. Ozium has a new car smell, about the best I have come across. Some people like and some don't
 
"Brand-new, she was. She had the smell of a brand-new car. That's just about the finest smell in the world, 'cept maybe for *****. "





Roberts Blossom as George LeBay in "Christine"



IMHO one of the most memorable bits of movie dialogue ever written





Peter..going out to the garage to smell the MINI...in Denver
 
MaThGr82 >> Ha! I did not too long ago. I tried to make the smell last as long as I could! But alas, eventually the pickup pizzas and drive through fast food won out.



TnM6i >> I have tried some of the 'new car' smelling scents at my local specialised auto store as well! they are horrendeous! Somebody commented my car smelt like a bathroom!



superstring>> Have you tried the griotsgarage one?
 
superstring>> Have you tried the griotsgarage one?
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G'day Col. No, I haven't tried it. I've had pretty good luck with the Griot's products I have tried though. Their shipping charges tend to be on the high side. I just noticed you're in Melbourne. Hate to think what the shipping would be! :eek:



Good luck in your quest!
 
Google " WONDER WAFER " I bought some of these about 6 months ago and they are great. They are like one inch by one inch square that you put under the seat. Comes in about 50 scents and lasts a week. You get like 250 of them for 15 bucks or something. Try the new leather ones I think they are the most popular
 
eclipsegt05 said:
The new car smell is great, but from a health standpoint, I don't know if you want to be constantly smelling these cancer promoting adhesions.
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I had a co-worker who bought a brand new Honda last year and she had an allergic reaction apparently to all of the out-gassing that comes from the upholstery, carpet and in partuicular the plastic in the dash. She had to drive w/ the windows down and wear gloves for the first few months she owned the car.



I thought that it was bs at first but I did a search on the web and found out that this is not a completely unheard of occurence.
 
At one time I talked with a chemist that worked for a company that made different scents . He said that "the new car scent" is a fantasy scent, that there are so many different sents combined in new car smell that it couldnt be duplicated. At the same he let me smell popcorn scent . It did smell like popcorn. I asked him what it was used for and he said it made people hungry, so you can guess were it would be used.
 
lawrencea said:
At one time I talked with a chemist that worked for a company that made different scents . He said that "the new car scent" is a fantasy scent, that there are so many different sents combined in new car smell that it couldnt be duplicated. At the same he let me smell popcorn scent . It did smell like popcorn. I asked him what it was used for and he said it made people hungry, so you can guess were it would be used.
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Sears knew that in the early 60's ..the smell of Carmel Corn was the first thing that would hit you when you walked into their stores...and you had to buy some..or pester Dad till he did :~)



Peter..who can still smell the Carmel Corn..in Denver
 
As has been said, the smell traditionally comes from all the solvents, plasticizers, etc., and is not the healthiest (of course some of us like the smell of gasoline, too :o ).



But anyway, there was a recent article in one of the car magazines how, at least in luxury makes, the "new-car scent" is engineered by flavor and fragrance people to be esthetically pleasing ("my car smells better than yours! :p ). Ok, found it (hopefully this is legal) Car & Driver Article
 
Peter Crowl said:
Sears knew that in the early 60's ..the smell of Carmel Corn was the first thing that would hit you when you walked into their stores...and you had to buy some..or pester Dad till he did :~)



Peter..who can still smell the Carmel Corn..in Denver
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I remember that, or when they used to have that big bin of peanuts and jelly beans at the candy counter in JCPenny heated by a lamp and a fan running behind the counter . . .
 
REX-RACER said:
I remember that, or when they used to have that big bin of peanuts and jelly beans at the candy counter in JCPenny heated by a lamp and a fan running behind the counter . . .
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There used to be a mall cookie store near here...it might have even been Mrs. Fields, that had a vent blowing out into the mall that was labeled "cookie smell" or "baking smell" or something, to entice you over there.
 
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