Badger/Boar/Horse smell

Hey Gents, I've read a lot about removal of scent from new badger, boar, or horse but this farm kid is here to admit........I like it! Don't get me wrong, every brush needs cleaned up before using including synthetics but after those first several cleaning lathers I look forward to the scent these animal brushes retain. Yes, the scent dissipates but even badgers I've been using for years will still give a whiff of Eu de Badger if left dry for several days before next use. I've heard tell of super funky boars but have not had one yet and I've broken in well over 2 dozen over the years. Sadly, once a piggy is cleaned up though, no scent. Anyone else like that piquant porcine or bold badger funk? Perhaps you all need to mail me your new brushes to be defunkified. My poor wife lives with a weirdo.

There's a first for everything, and this is the first time I’ve seen such a comment…

Scents appeal to us all in different ways. That’s why some products have castoreum or skatole as a scent component. In due time, someone will surely come up with an Eau de Badger product.

Thats funny - while its probably not a scent I would seek out, the animal smell in new brushes doesn't bother me at all. Its a reminder that we're not that far removed from our ancestors and the land.

I'll also admit to liking a whiff of skunk. Not the full strength south end of a north bound skunk but that lingering sharpness that is present after a skunk passes through. Also like the sulphur scent of Idaho hot springs. In fact I love that scent! Might be because of all the fond memories that scent evokes. The scent of a cow barn? awesomeness. Best scent in the world? Horses breath fresh from the nostrils.

This is great, horse breathe? Who knew? I don't mind cow barns and horse barns but I'd rather not go near another pig barn. The smell of branding is another scent I'm not crazy about - its been a while since I've been near any of that but that smell stays with you. I got into a running battle with an animal that had taken up residence under my front step a couple of years ago. It turned out to be a skunk. I stuck my face in the hole to sniff for just that reason at the outset and I couldn't smell any skunk. Apparently young ones don't smell much. Until they want to. Yeah, that was unpleasant for everyone concerned. There's always problems when two territorial species want the same territory. I won.

Glad you bested that skunk Marko. They are cute animals with too much fire power.

Okay. I admit that there is something wrong with my scent sensing department.
I have a horsehair brush that smells like all its hair came from its tail end. I have tried all kinds of removal methods even a tomato juice bath. Total dismal failure.
Lipripper660, I wish I could send you the aroma to enjoy but I fear I am forever stuck with it.
I can tolerate most other smells but one and it can induce me to vomit. It is becoming more and more prevalent in this pungent, putrid, polluted, world. I can smell and taste even the slightest trace of it. It is undoubtedly humanity's very worst invention It is ---- yukkkk ! --- GARLIC --- AAACCCKK! Ptewy!

By the way, Lipripper660, skunk, at a reasonable distance, is not too bad. It smells a little like freshly baked rye bread with caraway seeds.

...I can tolerate most other smells but one and it can induce me to vomit. It is becoming more and more prevalent in this pungent,  putrid, polluted, world. I can smell and taste even the slightest trace of it. It is undoubtedly humanity's very worst invention It is ---- yukkkk ! --- GARLIC --- AAACCCKK!  Ptewy!...

Delicious!!


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Horse breath? Really? If it smells anything like the horse hair brush I used to have, I'm out. That thing was nasty! Besides being a pokey scritch machine, it had an unbearable funk. Boar and badger I can deal with, but this horse brush was on a whole 'nother level. I swapped the knot out with a synthetic and it's a much happier brush now. I'm with you on the skunk though. It can smell good from a distance. I just wish the suckers would stay out of my backyard!

BPman,

If the chef would cut out the garlic and its close allium relative, the onion, I would try to find a way to break into that luxurious prison.

Mickey