Odd leather smell

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#286
livethelake said:
OK, you guys are making me really nervous.

I have two togo bags and one epsom bag that have not been out in the summer yet.

What are the chances any of my bags are going to smell like skunk in a few months (still winter in the Northeast US)

Starting to flip out..................
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Are you able to put them near the window or warm them up in the car? I'm starting to worry now about my B35 too. I am trying to recall if I had a chance to use her when it was warm or not. Ugh.

MYH said:
Uh oh!! I just stuck my nose right up to my new gold kelly togo and smelled skunk. It's not stinking up a room or anything but if I get real close and inhale deeply, the smell is there. I also smelled my clemence picotin the same way and did not detect any odor.

I'm flying out to LA tmrw and will see how she does in a sunny hot car.

I'm freaking out...
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Oh no, I hope the H in LA will be able to help you out. The hot car should be able to tell you for sure or not if it's going to need to go to Paris.

luckyc said:
It's also the same case with me. I smelled the inside of my black togo K today and there's definitely some strange smell, not the regular leather smell. I tried to put it out on the sunny spot with the window open, but there wasn't much sunshine today, thus i haven't smell anything strong so far. I will try it again tomorrow, hopefully we'll have a sunny day.

I'll be so heart broken if it's ended up being a smelly one. And this is the first one that i got from the SA, we're very new so i don't want it to be affecting the building relationship with him :(
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I'm so sorry to hear this luckyc. As much as you are worried about the relationship with your SA, it's not fair to be stuck with a stinker of a bag either right? I don't believe you SA would want you to be unhappy, I know mine took the problem very seriously.

You know, the more I am thinking about this situation, I wonder how many bags out there are truly affected? Imagine if H sent out some sort of message to inform their customers of a potential QC issue with their bags? I am sure it would be chaos yet I feel this would not stop any of us from buying H. How sad is that? :laugh:
 
#287
luckyc said:
Thank you Israeli_Flava, i will try it again tomorrow, this time with the window closed. I'll let you know the result.

Yesterday the window was closed when it sat on the sofa, and i smelled it even after i put the bag away. I'm still praying inside that it's not the case :(
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Oh gosh I'm sorry. I know that smell... It's all too familiar and makes me so sick thinking about it. I was in denial also dear. I would walk by my bag and sniff it all the time like a lunatic, hoping it didn't smell... And it always did ��
 
#288
i know that over the years there have been issues (just like with any manufacturing). Glue, corroding, palladium and the paper they pad the boxes with. Sometimes even the boxes. I once purchased from Hermes (not a bag) and the box reeked of a chemical smell.
 
#290
livethelake said:
OK, you guys are making me really nervous.

I have two togo bags and one epsom bag that have not been out in the summer yet.

What are the chances any of my bags are going to smell like skunk in a few months (still winter in the Northeast US)

Starting to flip out..................
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I feel the same way....I think I have some bags that haven't been out in the summer sun yet (although they have been out in a car with the heater blasting, but I'm still a bit nervous). I'm in Texas so it won't be long before the extreme heat gets here and I'll know.
 
#291
livethelake said:
OK, you guys are making me really nervous.

I have two togo bags and one epsom bag that have not been out in the summer yet.

What are the chances any of my bags are going to smell like skunk in a few months (still winter in the Northeast US)

Starting to flip out..................
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BalLVLover said:
I feel the same way....I think I have some bags that haven't been out in the summer sun yet (although they have been out in a car with the heater blasting, but I'm still a bit nervous). I'm in Texas so it won't be long before the extreme heat gets here and I'll know.
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I am still in winter and I could smell the skunk without sunshine and a hot car. Just warming up to room temperature was enough to first release the stench. If you want to test, try a space heater somewhere close to the bag (NOT directly blowing on the bag)...just to warm the surrounding air to about 75-ish. My heater was on the floor and the bag was on top of my desk. That was enough to fill home office with skunk.
 
#292
hrhsunshine said:
I am still in winter and I could smell the skunk without sunshine and a hot car. Just warming up to room temperature was enough to first release the stench. If you want to test, try a space heater somewhere close to the bag (NOT directly blowing on the bag)...just to warm the surrounding air to about 75-ish. My heater was on the floor and the bag was on top of my desk. That was enough to fill home office with skunk.
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Ok, thank you. Sorry you guys are all having to put up with this. It's unbelievable that you pay 10k for a bag, have this awful issue and then have to wait months to get an answer about it. I feel like H should do something for you, but of course we all know customer service is just not their thing.
 
#293
hrhsunshine said:
I am still in winter and I could smell the skunk without sunshine and a hot car. Just warming up to room temperature was enough to first release the stench. If you want to test, try a space heater somewhere close to the bag (NOT directly blowing on the bag)...just to warm the surrounding air to about 75-ish. My heater was on the floor and the bag was on top of my desk. That was enough to fill home office with skunk.
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I would agree--the bag I almost got was in its dustbag in an air-conditioned, shaded space and the smell, while not overpowering, was still unmistakably present, especially inside the bag. I suspect that for most of you ladies, if you had a skunk-bag, you'd know it already!
 
#294
IF, hrsunshine and Mindi B - thanks for your thoughts. I have spent the last half hour with my head inside my bags and I think I'm safe :smile1:

So sorry you are all dealing with this situation. It really stinks!
 
#295
livethelake said:
IF, hrsunshine and Mindi B - thanks for your thoughts. I have spent the last half hour with my head inside my bags and I think I'm safe :smile1:

So sorry you are all dealing with this situation. It really stinks!
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LOL! I think you're safe, too, livethelake. You could NOT be in doubt after having been head-in-bag, even for a few minutes, had the problem been present. It is good to hear that not EVERY recent Togo bag has this issue. Sheesh!
 
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Mindi B said:
LOL! I think you're safe, too, livethelake. You could NOT be in doubt after having been head-in-bag, even for a few minutes, had the problem been present. It is good to hear that not EVERY recent Togo bag has this issue. Sheesh!
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It was a little challenging getting my head into the epsom evelyne......good thing it is a GM :laugh:
 
#298
Nico_79 said:
My etain Kelly emits a strong skunk smell too sometimes. I think I will ask my SA about this as it's quite embarrassing to carry around. I'm so happy there was a thread on this, I thought I was nuts.
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Skunk?!
Oh goodness!!! Not a good thing.
You wouldn't want for anybody to suspect that the foul smell is something other than your handbag.
This seems like a cruel joke :(
 
#299
livethelake said:
IF, hrsunshine and Mindi B - thanks for your thoughts. I have spent the last half hour with my head inside my bags and I think I'm safe :smile1:

So sorry you are all dealing with this situation. It really stinks!
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Don't worry. If there is anything wrong with the leather, you would have smell it at the store. My GP had a bad smell from the very beginning and it never went away. I thought it was the glue or the dye and it would go away after a while but it didn't. If it was the leather fragance like Clemence, those will fade over time with exposure and use unless you really stick your head in there.
 
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