Tobacco Smell

[wilson34]

Question friends, I am slowly building my cellar. I Notice my apartment (the area my cellar is stored. It's beginning to smell like tobacco). I'm fine with the smell, but my girlfriend isn't. She wants to put odor shields around the cellar. All my tobacco are stored in mason jars. The Pipes are empty.
I have to admit-I think it's the Latakia stored in jars that smell up the place. What do you guys do to mask the smell?
Thanks for your Input.

 

[mcitinner1]

No masking needed, just tell your girlfriend you like the smell and she should get used to it.

 

[prairiedruid]

Nothing a couple of dead fish strategically placed can't take care of.

 

[wilson34]

I agree, but I don't want the smell to leak over to other apartments too.

 

[Chasing Embers]

No masking here. I've amplified it by installing cedar panels into my closet. My wife says nothing about it.

 

[Chasing Embers]

No masking needed, just tell your girlfriend you like the smell and she should get used to it.

+1 :clap:

 

[jpmcwjr]

Tell her the odors helps keep La Cucaracha and the Meese away. Ratons, too.
Plus, mason jars with lids on properly do not emit odors.
Maybe hang some old jock straps in the closet??

 

[mrharris]

Looks like it's time to make a choice......

 

[deathmetal]

Check the seals on those jars, then I'd just get some potpourri and leave it out in a dish nearby.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I'm having difficulty imagining deathmetal buying some potpourri. I say just put some Errendale out in dishes.

 

[jon11]

Didn't you say your apartment....or hers?

 

[deathmetal]

I'm having difficulty imagining deathmetal buying some potpourri.

It happens. The last time was a prank, though. I hid some in a friend's truck just to enjoy him wondering where the Lakeland-like scent was coming from. He actually cleaned that truck, which seems like it hasn't had a good cleansing since he bought it back in the 90s. When he starts talking to me again I'll let you know what type of potpourri it was.
But, speaking in the abstract, the stuff is magical anytime someone starts complaining about smells. First, it can mask any scent, including human corpses up to the three week mark. Next, it's so annoying that people stop complaining about your tobacco, start hating on the potpourri, and then grumble resignedly when the tobacco smell comes back.
As far as girlfriends go, the dynamics are rather complicated. Is this just a shit test? Many members think so, at which point the correct remedy is denial. Or does she have a legitimate case, like a bucketload of Latakia stored next to her bed, knowing that women are not in fact equal to men in this area, but are more susceptible to Latakia irritation? Or is this the first sign that the relationship is in trouble and she is finding a pretext for disagreement which will eventually necessitate separation or warm blue container time?

 

[mawnansmiff]

If you are smelling tobacco then that tells me your jars aren't sealed properly.
Relating to Deathmetal's tale, my father told me many years ago he was leaving one newspaper to work at another one and before he left he nailed a kipper to the underside of his old editor's chair!
Regards,
Jay.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Almost forgot about Drew Peterson. And I guess it was a "warm blue" container, not a warm, blue container. Though the former would get warmer with a decomposing body in it.

 

[wilson34]

sorry guys noob fault, I have a few open cans of frog Morton and Balkan blue in their original cans open. That's where the smell is coming from.
FYI..girlfriend is cool with pipe smoking, she likes the cherry aromatics and she wants a pink pipe. I'm not kidding about her wanting a pink pipe lol.

 

[mso489]

I don't see sealed or lidded tins or jars imparting much smell. I have enough 'baccy around but no tobacco smell. So I'd sniff around and see what is not completely sealed. Even with a bowl that is sometimes used for drying tobacco, there's not much odor. Only when I smoke, and the smell is from the smoke. Though I am used to tobacco smell, I believe I'd smell it going from the room where the tobacco is to other rooms and other floors of the house. So I think this problem is solvable. Is your girlfriend uncommonly sensitive in the sense of smell? Some people have olfactory senses like a bomb-sniffing dog and can smell through walls and in car doors at the far end of parking garages. That's a different problem. In that case, she will always be smelling something if you quit tobacco tomorrow.
Opps, see you found the answer. Good job!

 

[sumusfumus]

Old timey (1905) song lyrics: ...."A woman's only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke".... In your case, a pipe.
Pick your poison. Eyes wide shut???? ....Perhaps a preview of what's to come....Good luck with that. : ))))
Frank

 

[deathmetal]

I'm not kidding about her wanting a pink pipe lol.

I don't think she's referring to something for smoking tobacco. Time for a dozen roses.

 

[wilson34]

wow...guess I made the wrong choice joining this forum. Enough with the girlfriend bashing.
Best of luck guys!

 

[jpmcwjr]

It's all friendly joshing. If that's really too much to bear, good luck to you.