New leather furniture stinks

[Anonymous]

Very overpowering smell. Any clues for getting rid of the smell or will it eventually stop?

[Anonymous]

It’s the skin of a dead animal. Yeah, it stinks.

But all smells, even dead bodies, eventually dissipate. Open the windows and let it “off gas”.

[Anonymous]

Probably cured and tanned in China. God only knows what kind of awful chemicals they use over there. Probably full of lead, arsenic and formaldehyde.

Properly tanned leather should have a sweet smell.


Is there ANYTHING the damn Chinese can’t f#ck up?

[Anonymous]

Faux leather or rat urine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Very overpowering smell. Any clues for getting rid of the smell or will it eventually stop?

Is it leather or is it fake leather? One thing is the surface material. Leather usually stop smelling after some time,
the fake leather is fake through and since it is made from petroleum then it is slowly of gassing the entire life of the furniture.

What is inside? Is it natural materials or plastic foam? Some foams are made from horrible stuff. I once bought an IKEA matrass that had something inside that would smell like worse chemicals for some two months in an empty room with an open window and not getting any better. Back it went.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Very overpowering smell. Any clues for getting rid of the smell or will it eventually stop?

Is it leather or is it fake leather? One thing is the surface material. Leather usually stop smelling after some time,
the fake leather is fake through and since it is made from petroleum then it is slowly of gassing the entire life of the furniture.

What is inside? Is it natural materials or plastic foam? Some foams are made from horrible stuff. I once bought an IKEA matrass that had something inside that would smell like worse chemicals for some two months in an empty room with an open window and not getting any better. Back it went.

You can buy some air quality analyzer I think on amazon and check if it is safe level to breath.

[Anonymous]

Move it to an area where you don't need to breath it and open windows. Heat from outside heats the source, and turn some fans on and point them on the piece so that would speed up the process of off gassing if it is just the surface.You might also want to buy air purifier. Do not breath it. If it is bad ask to take it back whoever sold it to you. Nothing should smell that bad. Smell is a warning sign that something is not right.

[Anonymous]

Op here, I purchased the sectional from Macy’s. It’s supposed to be Italian leather

[Anonymous]

Send it back.

[Anonymous]

Return it. Be careful with leather products (including handbags and purses) made in China (or fancier term, PRC). The chemicals they use are toxic and allergic.

[Anonymous]

Op here, so hidden within the fine print, the leather was imported from Italy, however, the sofa was made in China.

This bugs me. I have my windows up to air out the place and a call into Macy's. The sectional is beautiful and I am hopeful that the off-gassing is short-term.

I've had many furniture sets over the years, but I have never experienced any that emitted a smell. I didn't even know of the term "off-gassing" until yesterday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Probably cured and tanned in China. God only knows what kind of awful chemicals they use over there. Probably full of lead, arsenic and formaldehyde.

Properly tanned leather should have a sweet smell.


Is there ANYTHING the damn Chinese can’t f#ck up?

ALL leather tanning uses terrible chemicals. I work with hazardous waste and most companies aren’t even able to take the fleshings, etc.

Unless you’re buying vegetable tanned leather (which is a very small percentage of US leather), you’re getting all the chemicals you listed above. The chemicals from vegetable tanners still include things like sodium hydroxide and ammonia.

As I know DCUM loves a reference:

https://www3.epa.gov/ttn/chief/ap42/ch09/final/c9s15.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Probably cured and tanned in China. God only knows what kind of awful chemicals they use over there. Probably full of lead, arsenic and formaldehyde.

Properly tanned leather should have a sweet smell.


Is there ANYTHING the damn Chinese can’t f#ck up?

ALL leather tanning uses terrible chemicals. I work with hazardous waste and most companies aren’t even able to take the fleshings, etc.

Unless you’re buying vegetable tanned leather (which is a very small percentage of US leather), you’re getting all the chemicals you listed above. The chemicals from vegetable tanners still include things like sodium hydroxide and ammonia.

As I know DCUM loves a reference:

https://www3.epa.gov/ttn/chief/ap42/ch09/final/c9s15.pdf

The attachment was helpful. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

The foam used in the cushions is another potential odor source. And I would probably consider that a more likely source. The leather has had plenty of time to outgas while shipped and stored around China.

[Anonymous]

Has Poppie visited recently?

https://youtu.be/Y0wmropwYCc