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Originally Posted by MonaLS
What doesn't smell to you may smell strongly to someone else. I am very sensitive to odors and I can smell many things others can't.
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Leather is a highly porous and absorbent organic product. A
real chamois "cloth" used for drying your Rolls Royce after a wash is actually a piece of chamois antelope leather.
My Kindle 2 cover wasn't exactly hermetically sealed in the simple cardboard box it was shipped in.
It doesn't take a piece of bad cow to make leather smell bad. Just simple environmental exposure can lead to all kinds of things happening. Get some mayonaise or coca cola on your leather and you can have quite a nasty bacteria culture going making all kinds of odors.
I recommend a good quality silicone based protectant for all leather products (I personally use Kenneth Cole's product). The silicone gets down in the pores and helps keep stuff you don't want from soaking into your leather.