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Humidor problem

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JimD

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This is true. This customer comes in on Saturday. I sold him a Davidoff humidor last March. He put a half smoked cigar (yuck) in the humidor to keep it fresh. Now he wants to know how to get the smell out of it. Thats a first for me and I've been around a long time, just ask garteful1. Suggested he try a bowl of Arm and Hammer baking soda. I didn't know what else to suggest.
Suppose I could have told him to throw it out and buy a new one.

What a shame.
 
Hi Jim!

I don't know the exact construction of the humidor, but I suppose he might try having a competent woodworker try taking out and replacing whatever spanish cedar lining the box has.

Or keep a few Lars in it for awhile. :p

People are amazing...
 
I cringed reading that Jim. I would suggest in addition to baking soda, maybe buying a cheap bundle of cigars never to be consumed to store in the humi for awhile. I would think they would take on some of the bad smell and release some of theirs in to the wood. I don't think there is a quick fix to this. He might want to get a new humi and this one may be usable in a few months or maybe even a couple of years.

How long did the used cigar spend in his humi?
 
What a shame. I would put in an apple sliced in half to take the ordor out. I would do this over several days changing the apple out daily.
 
JimD said:
About a week.
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OMG! a week? I know how room can stink in the morning when You leave full ashtray there, but a cigar in a sealed humi? Oh crap! He'll be very lucky guy if can banish this smell :/
 
worst comes to worst, you can always lightly sand the cedar inside the humi, and then put some odor absorbing substance (like and apple) to soak up the stank. sounds like this guy is short on brains to do that to a humi of any cost.
 
I know this is a long shot but what about wiping the interior with the Pure Ayre product that I have? I am against wiping down the inside of a humidor with a liquid but if you were to do it in several light layers, it shouldn't be a problem

The Pure Ayre utilizes an enzyme to eliminate odors. It's internationally labeled "food safe" so you could drink it if you wanted to.

I cigar smoking friend used several bottles in his car prior to selling it. You couldn't tell he ever smoked in it.

I would give this a shot.

Hope this helps!
~Mark
 
I would just buy a new one and just learn from that dumb ass mistake. The other alternatives mentioned sound like a pain in the ass.
 
LOL! Oh my god! It hurts to read that but then, I have to ask: Why did this said person purchase a Davidoff humidor in the first place if he didn't even know that you are not supposed to put your half smoked Backwoods in it to save for later? Actually this is an instance where I feel worse for the humidor than I do the purchaser! Don't get me wrong, I feel bad for him too but wow!!. IMHO I think his humidor is toast because as we all know, cedar is a very pourous wood, which is what makes it so great for humidors. It accepts things very well. Once you have something like that in the cedar, it isnt coming back out without serious manipulation.
I guess thats a mistake he wont be making again-ever!

He might as well scour it with citrus cleaner, rinse and scrub with distilled water and baking soda, then, let it air out, get a staple gun and install some felt over the cedar and give it to his wife as some kind of jewelry box.
 
While there are some good answers I would suggest the best deoderizer out there. SUNLIGHT. Open it up in the sun for a month or two and that will take care of the problem. Beats the hell out of trying to sand the inside.
 
While there are some good answers I would suggest the best deoderizer out there. SUNLIGHT. Open it up in the sun for a month or two and that will take care of the problem. Beats the hell out of trying to sand the inside.
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I would be worried about stress on the joints from too much time drying/contracting in direct sunlight...guess it would be worth a try though, since the humidor is wrecked anyway.
 
Okay, I'll come clean... I did that same dumbass thing when I first started out smoking. :0

I figured, why waste a 10 dollar cigar that I only got a chance to smoke about a 1/4 of so I put it back in the humi without considering the stank it was going to emit throughout the humi. Although I no longer have that humidor, the smell did eventually subside and didn't really take that long to do so. I just let it air out for a while during the week and wiped it down with distilled water several times. There really wasn't much else I did and as I stated before, the smell did eventually go away. Ahhhhhhh, the boneheaded things we do when we're new. I have another gem but I'm not going to share that one, at least not quite yet. :laugh:
 
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