Sweet Smelling Humidor

[Francis Macomber]

Figured I'd keep this updated with my progress.
I ordered the heartfelt beads, and I'm in the process of transferring cigars to old humidors, but gluttony is the bane of mine existence and I don't have enough room in old humidors, so for my remaining 20 sticks I'll have to make a tupperdor, something I've never before attempted.
I'm happy to say that as far as I can tell the smell has not really transfered to the cigars in the humi, neither in taste or smell, but as I take sticks out, the smell seems to grow stronger. Some kind of evil Stephen King type smell demon sensing its demise maybe.
Anyway, thats the scoop so far, hopefully by the end of the day I'll have all the sticks removed so I can start to air it out. My plan is air out for a few days, re-wet the inside with distilled water and instead of closing, just let that air out too. If the smell is gone I'll start the seasoning process right as I get the beads.
Any better ideas?
Thanks for the help.

[Bassfever]

I may have missed it somewhere along the thread but where did you buy the humidor? You need to make sure you have spanish ceder in there and not another type. Welcome to the board and good luck.

[Monk]

Sounds good. Just see if you can identify the location of the smell if it is the humidifier or possibly as people mentioned the liquid then ditch the humidifier/foam if you haven't already.

-W.

[Francis Macomber]

Alright, I got the heartfelt beads a little while ago, seasoned my humi, and threw in the sticks. 24 hours later the smell (which was not present in the other storage setups) returned. It seems to not be transfering to the cigars, as far as I can tell, but is still incredibly annoying. It must be the cedar or something itself as far as I can tell, which means I have to get rid of the humidor basically. I guess I'll thin out my number of smokes until I can be back down to one humi, or buy another cheap little small capacity one.
Bah.
Any ideas for temperature control. My both boxes are in the shade away from heaters and direct light and all that jazz, but the temperature is still approaching that nasty 75 mark. How could I cool them out a little?
Thanks

[Shelby07]

Don't know what to do about the odor. If the odor isn't transferring to the cigars, you might want to see if the cedar will absorb the cigar odor after a while. But that's your decision.

As for temperature you can

1. Get creative with an old NON-DEFROSTING (to keep the air from drying out too much) refrigerator or freezer and one of these

http://ceisites.com/9025.html or

2. Turn your heat down.

[nhcigarfan]

You might be better off taking the cigars out moving them back to the tupperdor and leaving the desk top open for a couple of weeks, then re-season without wiping the wood down. There could be something funky growing between the cedar and the outer casing of the humi.

[mauied1101]

Get a cooler - search "coolidor" - will be cheaper than a replacement humi, fit more, and you wont' have to worry about the heat as much.

[Bkcloud114]

The smell you have could be from two sources....

First... the wood itself. Do you see any sap weeping from the wood ?... That could be the sweet smell you are getting.

My bet would be #2.... that crap, PG solution. All that shit is, is anti-freeze. You are on the right track. Empty the humidor, let it air out for a week or 2. and then close it overnight. See if the smell is still there. If it is I would see if you could send it back. If not.... throw that crap PG solution away and use the beads....


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