Bad Air Sponge Air Odor Absorbent, 14 ounce, 2-Pack

I'm sad to report that I'm a repeat purchaser of this product. Let me be clear, NOT sad about the product itself (it's a lifesaver, or at least a NOSE saver!) but sad that I NEEDED to buy this product more than one time.I'm a live and let live kind of person with animals. As long as they stay OUT of my house. Want to traipse and frolic out in the yard, trees or bushes? Have at it. However my hospitality ends when they try to invade my home. That's just not very neighborly.About a year ago, right about the same time of year, as the temperatures started getting chilly outside, we noticed a, for lack of better words, a PUTRIDLY RANCID smell coming from the general vicinity of one corner of our basement. We followed our sniffers and scoured the entire area but could find no evidence of any physical issue. But the smell got worse by the day. We suspected something had gone to eternal rest within our walls but was just in such a location that we could not find it without ripping apart walls."Experts" told us that it would take a bit of time but that the smell would eventually go away as the, um, at rest "carcass" dried up. But let me tell you, that smell was, um NOT pleasant. I let my fingers do the walking, across the keyboard, and I came upon this very item. Read a few reviews and literally just ordered it on the spot. It came quickly, I unscrewed the top of the jar and unceremoniously place the jar right there in the corner of the smelly basement.I kid you not, by the next morning, the gaggingly putrid smell was ...better. Not completely eliminated but obviously better. Could be a combination of the critter going through it's "normal process" but I don't care. There was hope that we would hopefully be able to go down there again without having to hold our breath and plug our noses. Sure enough, over the next days and week, the smell quickly seemed to dissipate. Hurray. Giant HURRAY!!! The whole stinky episode faded in our memory .... until this week.Yup. After a brief cool down of temperatures outside, the outdoor rodent community must have decided "Oh hey there seems to be an abode worthy of wintering within. Let's send frail and sickly Grandpa Mouse in to scope it out!" (mind you we have searched for possible holes on the exterior of our house but can find nothing...but obviously we are not rodent sized with keen senses of direction & bodies which can apparently squeeze through minute cracks unseen to the human eye). And Grandpa Mouse obviously lost his will to live and laid down somewhere deep within our walls to join his ancestor of last year. That's my story and I'm sticking to it as I do not even want to entertain the concept that there are actual living critters roaming ALIVE in our walls!But ah yes, that undeniable stench! It's back. And building. So without hesitation & at warp speed, I flew to my computer to look up my purchase history and bought, not one, but TWO of this magic jar of stench ridder! One to place out immediately and one to have at the ready in case more of the mouse family decide to come look for Grandpa Mouse.Bottom line. Buy this stuff. It makes stenches go away.

A coworker told me about these and they are amazing for removing smells. There was a room in our house smelling like urine due to some bed wedding and hiding of clothes. Even after those things were washed, the smell stuck around. We out one of these in there (it's been a few years since we did so) and the smell was gone rather quickly. It hasn't come back. I've also used them more recently in the basement since basements just have funny smells and it worked well there too.It's very easy to use because you just open the lid and let it sit there.

One of the most disturbing smells for me is the dead mouse in the wall smell. It's only happened one other time here and I remember the relief I felt when I finally noticed it had gone away. This newest ex-visitor got under the cabinet because that awful smell would "explode" on you when you opened the door.The good part of having it in an enclosed area is that Products like the Bad Air Sponge have a better chance of winning the battle of absorbing the smell when enclosed in a small area. I bought two of them. The directions recommend that we release the inner sponge onto the lid for intense smells but I thought that would just make it evaporate too quickly so I tried just one with the lid off and it helped but not enough; the resulting smell was a mix of dead mouse and the initial sweet smell of the bad air sponge and ugh. The sweet smell goes away in a day and, unless I've become acclimated to it, it no longer smells.I took the second sponge (I bought 2) and did the same thing. Lid off, kept it in the container, under the cabinet and SUCCESS! it's been two weeks and wafting mouse is not to be found. For extra measure I'm putting a bag of natural odor removing rocks. Gonzo Odor Eliminating Rocks, 32 oz We have to get through about 2 more weeks and now I am confident that we can.Btw, that awful label peels off to reveal a field of Lavender.