How do I make my leather jacket smell "nice" again?
 

It seems as though my darling daughter, whose ass is going to be soundly thumped, when she comes home for Thanksgiving break, left her generous and loving father's favorite leather A-2 jacket lying on the bottom of a heap, in her closet floor. It has subsequently picked up an...odor. How do I get rid of the "musty"? (I hope) odor, and make it smell my like my beloved old jacket again? Is there anything that I can do at home, or am I going to have to resign myself to taking it to a professional cleaner? The cost of which will come out of my daughter's M&M and Ramen money.

can you hang it outside for a few hours?

Hi Bill,
I am a custom saddlemaker/ silversmith and make lots and lots of leather gear along with using it in horse training. I do not personally own or make leather jackets but I do build chinks or chaps out of the same weight leather. I would reccomend hanging it outside for a while or somewhere that it can air out or go down and purchase some fieblings products to clean it yourself. I hope that helps

I'm not quite sure about the cleaning part, but I do know that there is leather spray. Is that what you want it to smell like? Leather? I know there is special leather oil to keep that smell around. I would try walmart or the web.

After trying all the above nonsense, hang it next to a new leather jacket. :)

I have also heard the hang it outside theory and have tried it. The trick, as I hear it, is to hang it out in the cold. The colder, the better.

I did it and it got rid of the smoke smell (from a night out at the bar) after one night.

Nonsense - :lol:...........................................hey,...... :|

There is a cleaner that is designed to get the smell of smoke(cig's, cigars, etc) out of anything. I had a leather jacket that had sat in a smokey house for ~30 years. With a few treatments of this stuff, it cleaned it right out.

I'm sure it would take care of your smell too, only problem is, i forget what the stuff is called, but the label on the front had an old guy sitting in a rocker by a fireplace, smoking a pipe..and I got it at Wal-Mart..sorry I can't help more.

The cleaner guy told me to save myself the money, and pour a liberal amount of my after-shave onto an old sock, and throw it in the dryer, with the jacket, on the lowest heat setting possible, while still getting heat, for about 20 minutes.

Worked like charm. :thumbsup:

Nice to see that Hi-Karate put to good use.. :)

I was thinking along the lines of...

http://www.americanidolstore.com/ass...s/100048_b.JPG

Edit: ;) All in good humor, of course.

I have found that stale bong water will really alter the smell of your fine leathers. maybe not in the direction that you want, but definitely away from what it currently is...

Saddle Soap is great on all leathers. Clean it well with that using a cotten cloth and hang it outside for a few days on and off - but in a sunny dry spot. Much more natural smell and no damage to the leather "patina" (...for lack of a better word!)

I have to hang mine out, smells like stale beer and Partaugus. I got really messy the other night... so drunk I smoked my black lable backwards and burnt my tongue.

Yes indeed. Saddle soap or other leather cleaners than are simple work quite well. Or couese, the smell may be in the lining or other material. In that case, it's not the leather and you might try Febreeze and then hanging outside.