I recently bought a pair of Fieldsheer leather motorcycle pants off of eBay.  It was a great deal and the pants still had the tags on so all seemed good.  I paid, and the seller was great, providing shipping information and getting them to me in only 4 days.  I opened the box and the pants were just as described except…. they reeked of smoke.  Obviously they were stored in a smokers home for several years and the smell had permeated the pants.  I hit the with some lysol and left them hang in my garage for about 48 hours but it didn’t help at all.  I went online and found that this wasn’t that uncommon of a problem and several home remedies were suggested.

What I ended up doing was putting the pants into the dyer along with 4 tennis balls and 7 dryer sheets for an hour.  This helped a bit, but didn’t eliminate the smell completely.  When I ran they cycle I had it on no heat, just tumble.  I decided to pull out the 1st set of dryer sheets, put in 7 new ones and run it for an hour and a half on low heat thinking that maybe the heat would release both the smoke odor and the scent from the dryer sheets.  It worked!!! Smell busted….