Smelly Stuff In The Caches

[+Miragee]

I'm new at this wonderful hobby/game/pastime and I'm definitely hooked.

 

However . . . I've already run into a few caches with heavily-scented items inside them.

 

I'm very sensitive to perfumes and it is disturbing to be out hiking in clean fresh air and finally succeed in finding the cache only to open it and have the strong scent of perfume emerge from the container.

 

I don't know what the offending item was in the last cache, but the item I took in trade is still outside my house "airing out" because the scent lingered.

 

Have others run into this? In my area the scent won't attract the bears that aren't here, but in the Sierras, the scent would be a lure and the cache would certainly go missing . . .

[+jeff35080]

Have others run into this?

 

Yes.

[+treasure_hunter]

Just be glad that your scent smelled GOOD, most caches smell like @#$%!

[Black Mage]

Just be glad that your scent smelled GOOD, most caches smell like @#$%!

Aw, you mean you don't like that musky whiff aged ammo can?

[+Miragee]

Just be glad that your scent smelled GOOD, most caches smell like @#$%!

 

Oh, but to me the smell of perfume is AWFUL!!

 

Although, the smell of mildew, which I've also found, is equally bad.

 

 

Edited to include quote of post I was answering . . .

Edited February 10, 2005 by idiosyncratic

[+KolarBear]

I love the sweet smell of an aged ammo box!

[+Enspyer]

I've opened some caches with either scented candles or potpourri and then started sneezing. I didn't really appreciate that much and can sympathize.

[+Miragee]

Thanks for that vote of sympathy.

 

(O.T. You joined on my birthdate . . . )

[Voncachstein]

opened a cache, found a cucumber scented candle, and thus a relationship has formed between man and wax.......I wouldn't mind any perfumes or anything and as i said, i even found a scented candle i like.

[+Naturesprite]

I love the smell of cache in the morning.....smells like VICTORY! (edit sp)

Edited February 10, 2005 by Naturesprite

[+Team Shibby]

We found a cache recently that had two pouches of some super pungent potpouri and both of different varieties so the two smells combined was pretty putrid. I wouldn't say I am offended, but they don't belong in caches. It makes everything inside the cache smell like that and you'll be lucky if simply airing it out rids the smell off any trade items.

 

Kar

[+WRITE SHOP ROBERT]

count me in, I'm not a big fan of scented items either, although one time I did put a "stick up" into a cache, that had gotten moldy. (and I mean that black, sludgy water kind of moldy) and about three weeks later a cacher took it as trade, but the cache still smells like lemon now.

[+briansnat]

Smelly things don't belong in caches simply because they may attract animals.

 

Personally I'm not crazy about opening a cache and catching a whiff of perfume, air freshener or other strong scents, but its only for a moment so it isn't that big a deal to me, but if you want the cache to last keep the smelly stuff out of it.

[+bigredmed]

I love the sweet smell of an aged ammo box!

It smells like VICTORY!

 

lThe tag line from the famed movie, The Deercacher...

[+Honest John & Suzies Jule]

Found a bottle of Tabasco that had leaked out onto the the items inside. No smell but everything was wet and got onto my hands.

Good thing I had some hand wipes to clean up with before the 10-100.

 

[+Cool Librarian]

I have never noticed a bad smelling ammo box, until I got one yesterday at the army navy store. Opened it up WOW, what funk! May need and airing out before it become a cache.

 

Smelly things don't belong in caches simply because they may attract animals.

 

This is absolutely correct. Someone left a blueberry scented candle in one of my caches, and was completely destroyed by animals. And, talk about scent, the musk on that container afterward was unbelievable - though I did sorta like it

[+wimseyguy]

I love the sweet smell of an aged ammo box!

It smells like VICTORY!

The tag line from the famed movie, The Deercacher...

Sorry BRM, that line is from Apocalypse Caching Now!

 

You smell that? Do you smell that?... Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory.

 

I'm not too fond of finding smelly things, un/pleasent or not in caches. I'm not quite as sensitive as the OP seems to be, but there are certain stores I will not go near on the rare occasion I'm shopping with Shadowgal because of the odor/aromas.

Good thing none of them sell good containers or swag.

[+briansnat]

On the opposite end of perfume, I usually glue a laminated cache letter into the lid of my ammo boxes. I put out a cache last year and glued the letter to the lid just before I left the house. It didn't have time to dry. Everybody who has found the cache since has remarked about the powerful glue smell when the open the cache .

[+Miragee]

EEEWWWWWUUUU! Glue . . . that would be another one I would want to know about so I could avoid it . . . Nothing worse than having to hike back to the car with a splitting headache.

 

Maybe that could be added to the description . . .

[+BadAndy]

Scented candles and potpourri you say? Consider yourself lucky!

[+winkydink]

It certainly adds new context to the term "cache log".

[+BadAndy]

eeewwww