Odd leather smell

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#331
Nico_79 said:
:hugs: Thanks for the kind words.

Having serious anxiety about tomorrow. Bringing my travel hairdryer to do an in-store smell test. Yes, I am that paranoid. :laugh:
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Hmmm.....
In all seriousness, if Hermes has a way to "test" for the smell in Paris when we ship it to them making our "claims", then surely they "tested" your replacement bag, right? Hmmm...Caveat emptor...once bitten, twice shy... all these things come to mind. GL my dear!! We want the play-by-play :hugs:
 
#333
Am watching this thread with interest
So far my Q bags have been fine, concerned with some SOs coming.
Good luck to all who are working this through
You're blazing a trail for any with issues going forward
Thank you.
 
#335
Israeli_Flava said:
No. Here's why. I bought my bag in April 2013. It never smelled like anything but new Birkin until June or July... whenever the stink bugs started to appear here in the DC area. I remember that the bag sat in the front seat of my car for about 30 minutes with the direct sunlight on it. My windows were up bc I like it warm in my car. My son said, "mommy, please roll down the windows... something stinks..." I swear I thought a stink bug did it's thing... having NO IDEA it was actually MY BIRKIN. Anyway, we got to the mall and walked around Nordstrom and it was HOT in the mall. The bag began to REEEEEEEK like skunk. It was sooooo embarrassing. We went home. I put the bag on my dresser. It cooled down.. and DIDN'T SMELL ANYMORE. I would walk passed the bag... sniff sniff... no smell. WTF??? The next day, I put the bag in the window sill of my office to see what would happen. SKUNK. It took about 15 minutes... pew!!!! I was devastated. Took the bag out of the window... let it cool down... no smell. Back to leather smell. Some other ladies may have a slightly diff experience, but my bag is Epsom so maybe it has something to do with it being stiffer leather so the pores don't open up as easily as togo?? I have NO CLUE. I tried reaching out to Docride. She suggested Smelleze pouches that remove paint smell from rooms. It worked to a point.... it will remove the smell that your bag emits from the air, but doesn't remove the smell from the bag itself. The bag never stops stinking or lessens the stink over time by airing it out. KWIM? The smell was as strong on day 1 as the day I dropped it off at the boutique. I TRIED TO AIR IT OUT. I was stuck with this freakin stink bomb of a TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR BAG! I literally carried a smelleze pouch inside my birkin until the day I just couldn't take it anymore and took the bag back to the boutique. Sorry I just went off but this is just terrible and you need to put your bags IN THE SUN. I don't want u to have to endure what I and the other ladies are going through but YOU NEED TO DO IT. You will know after 30 minutes IN THE DIRECT SUN...and u wont need to put your head in the bag. The smell will hit you in the face.
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oh my God, i was going to ask you....my sister and i dont know how to bring this up to our SAS because when you smell directly inside the bag you CANT smell the skunk or the stink bugs...wait until the bag is heated....gosh then it will spread a smell of dead skunk to the whole room or in my case even worse the whole car....how to prove this to my sa? its like our words against the sweet bag that doesnt smell inside the boutique.

i can imagine the pain you must been thru tho...:graucho:
 
#336
loveaddict said:
oh my God, i was going to ask you....my sister and i dont know how to bring this up to our SAS because when you smell directly inside the bag you CANT smell the skunk or the stink bugs...wait until the bag is heated....gosh then it will spread a smell of dead skunk to the whole room or in my case even worse the whole car....how to prove this to my sa? its like our words against the sweet bag that doesnt smell inside the boutique.

i can imagine the pain you must been thru tho...:graucho:
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My technique was simple... wait for a sunny day, call the bouitique and explain that I will be in with my Skunk at noon... heat the bag up on the window sill... heat my car up til it felt like Summer inside... put the skunk inside of the heated car and drive like a bat out of hell to the boutique... call her and request she come sit in the car (instead of inside the perfumey boutique)... at that point it's undeniable...it was just me, her and the SKUNK. Case closed.
 
#338
hrhsunshine said:
Sounds like you're safe. That test would definitely have made the room STINK. When mine was in my office, it was like I hit a wall of skunk funk at the door.
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Hrhsunshine, i'm a little relieved for now but i will test it once more time when it gets warmer outside.

Did you get your bag replaced with Hermes? And how did they take the problem?
 
#339
Israeli_Flava said:
My technique was simple... wait for a sunny day, call the bouitique and explain that I will be in with my Skunk at noon... heat the bag up on the window sill... heat my car up til it felt like Summer inside... put the skunk inside of the heated car and drive like a bat out of hell to the boutique... call her and request she come sit in the car (instead of inside the perfumey boutique)... at that point it's undeniable...it was just me, her and the SKUNK. Case closed.
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Did they offer you an exchange ?
 
#340
texasgirliegirl said:
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Did they offer you an exchange ?
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No, she followed their protocol....She sent the bag to Paris for an assessment. That is why we are all waiting.... The bags get sent to Paris... Paris makes the determination from that point. She gave me a list of possible solutions once the bag is deemed "defective"....
 
#341
luckyc said:
Hrhsunshine, i'm a little relieved for now but i will test it once more time when it gets warmer outside.

Did you get your bag replaced with Hermes? And how did they take the problem?
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I actually got my bag from a highly reputable reseller. She confirmed the smell and gave me a full refund. I am so thankful that I didn't have to deal with H.
 
#344
Israeli_Flava said:
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No, she followed their protocol....She sent the bag to Paris for an assessment. That is why we are all waiting.... The bags get sent to Paris... Paris makes the determination from that point. She gave me a list of possible solutions once the bag is deemed "defective"....
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Crazy!
Thankfully none of my bags are skunks but I'm very interested to know of this is an issue unique to a particular dye, glue or year of manufacturing.
Can't you just imagine the French Hermes employees conducting a smell test?
Should they discover a skunk, do they Febreeze the bag? Destroy it?

Tragic but funny!
 
#345
Perhaps the skunks are coming from a particular leather supplier.
Has anybody been able to determine a common denominator other than leather?
It could be the dye, glue, even the paper/ stuffing in the box, perhaps ?
 
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