Are you wondering how you can preserve the scent of your clothes? Yes, it is true everyone likes nice smelling clothes that will make you comfortable as you visit your friends or when sleeping.
Scents on clothes tend to disappear with time or after washing your clothes. If you want your clothes to remain with that fresh scent you like, you can store them in the drawers or closet or in an airtight container like vacuum park airtight bags.
How to keep clothes smelling fresh in drawers
Between the time you wash your clothes and wear them, clothes in drawers can easily lose their fresh aroma. Here are a few points to keep your garments smelling fresh in storage for as long as possible:
1. Keep a little mesh bag with scent beads in your folded garments. This will assist in keeping stale and musty aromas away from your wardrobe drawers and give your clothes a nice scent.
2. Keep any unused bar soap in your drawers. This may appear weird to store soap at first glance, but it’s a great way to keep your garments smelling fresh in closet drawers. To preserve your clothes, keep the soap wrapped in tissue paper, and, of course, take it out of the drawer once you’ve used and lathered it up.
How to keep clothes smelling fresh in closet
Knowing how to keep the entire dresser fresh is one of the most important steps in ensuring that your clothing stays fresh when hanging in your wardrobe. Check for any wet-issue spots in your closet if your garments smell musty. If there aren’t any, the principles for keeping them fresh within drawers still apply, with a few additional suggestions for keeping items on hangers fresh. Here’s how to keep your clothes smelling fresh while they’re being stored in your closet:
1. In between your garments, hang a piece of tissue paper sprayed with your favorite eau de toilette or light cologne.
This will infuse the pleasant perfume into your garments and keep them smelling fresh.
2. Coffee grounds are excellent at absorbing odors.
Keeping them in a small basin at the bottom of your closet will help keep musty odors at bay.
3. Ensure that your closet is well-ventilated.
Keeping your clothing in a new, ventilated closet will help to avoid musty odors from building up.
I wrote an article on how to make a blanket smell like you that may interest you.
How Long Do People Smell Normally Last on Clothing?
How long your smell lasts on your clothes depends on how long you wore them and whether or not you sweated much. However, on average, the smell can last for 5 days. Again, these can be affected by the environment around.
How to Bottle Someone’s Smell
Smells evoke a wide range of emotions, bringing back memories of places and people from your past. Apart from memories, what remains once a loved one dies away or goes to a distant place are their possessions. According to the Guardian, a group of academics has devised a means to bottle the scent of those possessions and turn it into a perfume, simulating the human scent of persons who are far or have died.
It’s fantastic. “Just take the person’s clothing and extract the smell – about a hundred molecules – and reconstruct it into a perfume in four days.”
Although this is a genuine breakthrough concept for those struggling with grief, Apaltegui also sees the perfume as a wonderful gift for couples or those who live far from their loved ones.
Here is how to make a teddy smell like you, and how to make a blanket smell like you
How to Get Dead Body Smell Out of Clothes
It is suggested that full personal protection equipment (PPE) comprising gloves, blood-borne pathogen coveralls with boots, and goggles should be worn when removing odor generated by a dead body, such as animal and human carcasses.
*All porous items and surfaces that have come into contact with bodily fluids should be disposed of as bio-hazardous trash.
Method One: Very Heavy Odors
Mix two (2) ounces of Unsmoked Last Resort and eight (8) ounces of Unsmoked Liqui-Zone in a pump-up sprayer. To make a gallon of solution, fill halfway with water.
Spritz all of the impacted areas. Unsmoked Liqui-Zone is an oxidizing chemical that must be applied to all affected areas.
Remove all living things (plants, humans, and pets) from the area and use an ozone generator for 24-48 hours.
Surfaces that have come into direct contact with odor-causing organisms should be sealed with B-I-N shellac-based primer-sealer.
Method Two: Light or Moderate Odors
Pour 6.5 ounces of Unsmoked Liqui-Zone into a pump-up sprayer, and then fill with water to form a gallon of solution.
Spray all afflicted surfaces with a pump-up sprayer or a ULV fogger. When spraying Liqui-Zone on fabrics, use a fine mist. Unsmoked Liqui-Zone is an oxidizing chemical that must be applied to all affected areas.
Remove all living things (plants, humans, and dogs) from the area and utilize an ozone generator for 24-48 hours.
Surfaces that have come into direct contact with odor-causing organisms may need to be sealed with B-I-N shellac-based primer-sealer.
Final words
You now have all of the information you require to keep your clothes smelling fresh for a long time. You can be confident that your garment will smell great and be ready to wear when you take it out of the closet.
Next, you can find out what the best-smelling detergent is for you.
I’m an expert wardrobe organizer and a bit of a clean freak. I created this website and its YouTube channel to share practical guides about laundry and organizing. My teachings have been featured in multiple large news publications, and I’ve self-published two wardrobe organizing books and an entire course on the subject.