Dakota Non-Smoke Smoke Odor Eliminator-Non-Smoke

brief: awesome stuff. it actually works and can actually get out deep cigarette smells that have been baked into the cloth upholstery of a car for years. but... your car will smell like chemically baby powder for at least a week. after that, you'll have good, normal clean air/smell in your car.advice: "what you get out (the result), depends on what you put in (labor and care invested)." this life saying is so true. i bought a 4 year old used car. days after i settle on the price with the dealer, i went to pick up the car.details: when i got to the lot, the car windows were all rolled down, and the sunroof wide open. but, being this was only the 1st time i ever really bought a car solo, i suspected nothing. drove the car home for an hour, no problem.days later, i finally figured out why the dealer rolled down all the windows... horrible smoke smell.so, i talked to some car friends and mechanics. i was told that you can't get the smell out, have to spend hundreds and go for ozone cleaning, or a deep cleaning.bs, or they didn't know what they were talking about.i bought this 10 dollar can, took all mats out of car. vacuumed EVERYthing and everywhere in my car. wiped down everything with scented baby wipes; i used baby wipes because i was sure that was safer to use than chemicals like bleach or chlorox wipes. then, i sprayed or "fired" this odor bomb everywhere: under the front seats, aimed at the head liner, into seat backs. i raised, lowered, tilted, reclined front seats and still aimed everywhere that was exposed. even pushed this stuff into the air vents (months later, no problems).then, i shut the doors, windows. stepped out, sprayed the bomb stuff one more time as i was outside the car with one door open. then, just threw the can in the car, left it alone overnight.when i got up, the cigarette smell was gone... but there was an even worse smell. my best description really is that it smelled like very strong chemicals... but like "metallic baby powder". i know this makes little sense... but that's what i really smelled like.yes, it did smell worse than the original cigarette smell. might have been worse that even more potent cigars.so, for the next week, when i turned on the car, i put the ac on and turned off recirculate mode. i wanted to get rid of the odor bomb smell so badly and quickly - so i wanted to draw in air from the outside.whenever i drove, i tried to drive with the windows open, sunroof open. even when i parked overnight or for a days work fro 9 to 5, i left the rear windows a little open, and my sunroof tilted up.secret might be to get a lot of air flow post bomb spraying.when i could i would even roll down all the windows and open all the doors. wanted maximum wind and air flow to enter the car.about 1 week later, odor bomb and cigarette smell gone.... and i couldn't be happier with my neutral, clean, natural air clothe upholstery car. would definitly buy again... and wouldn't have done much of anything differently.summary: I THINK THE TRICK is to vacuum and or wipe everything down with baby wipes, spray this odor bomb everywhere, close all windows, let the car sit overnight.... then air out as much as possible.

After hearing that from my kids* one too many times, I read an article on DIY car detailing, and they recommended this spray heard as the best product for getting smoke odor out of the car. After reading the reviews about the strong odor, I was a little nervous buying it but since the article spoke so highly of it, I figured I'd go for it. It works GREAT!!! Took the smell of cigarettes right out of my car! I can see where the initial smell could be a little overwhelming in close quarters (I sprayed it while I was in the car, and had to open the window so I didn't choke), but let's face it - once the interior of a car gets that smoke odor, it is almost impossible to get rid of it. Even a good "Febreezing" will only mask it. This stuff actually did get RID of the odor. This is a new "staple" in my car!!*Disclaimer: My kids are adults, with their own cars - the only lungs I am polluting are my own.

Bought an old car stored for many years as a project. Interior was very musty smelling. Once the vents and fans were working I sprayed a light coat of this inside the car and turned the fans on high with recirculation turned on. Then sprayed a little more through the intake for the cabin air. I left it running for about 10 minutes then turned it off and opened the car up fully.Mild baby powder smell left over but not too strong.

No doubt this product stinks to high heaven when first applied. As people described, it smells like industrial strength baby powder and is not pleasant after application. However, neither is musty smoke odors in fabrics. So what I do is spray it on in the evening and then run a fan all night long on where I sprayed. The smell will dramatically improve in the morning and become tolerable. It will still be strong so it takes 2-3 more nights of running a fan to air it out before it reaches a point where it becomes a faint odor. At this point the odor will then gradually fade until it's only noticeable up close and then smells fine - no smoke smell. After the treatment period this stuff really seems to stick. Yes, other products are more pleasant smelling but they also don't last very long, i.e, febreze and fabric/carpet cleaners. This stuff has lasted a month so far and it stands up to ozone treatments also. 4 stars because it's so overbearing at first and it costs way too much.

Previous owner of my 4runner was a smoker and couldn’t get the frigin smell out of my car. I cleaned every little part of this rig and used an ozone machine which didn’t work, but THIS STUFF WORKS! It doesn’t just mask the odor and after a couple of days or week the smell comes back. It’s super strong stuff, sprayed it all over, carpets and headliner, ran the AC on circulate For about 30 min and blamo smell is gone. The smell at first kind of reminds me of a faint WD-40 a little but then the smell urns into the new car smell. After a week the car is starting to smell like nothing. Very happy something frigin finally worked.

This product is highly effective. It is worth every penny. The scent is pleasant but very strong, so you may want to use it just before you leave home, or go outside for 30 minutes are so.A little spray goes a long way. I live in a small one bedroom apartment so I just quick spritz each room then go outside for a few minutes until the scent dies down a bit. When I walk back in, there is no indication a smoker lives here.