TL;DR: Spilled a 15ml bottle of TFA Sweet Cream on my floor, apartment smells like synthetic semen and earwax, landlord is coming to check on the apartment tomorrow, help.
So I'm moving to a new apartment this weekend and I've had to do some cleaning. I stumbled upon my "flavor graveyard" where I've put all of the flavorings I found hideous. I thought I'd get rid of them and threw them in the garbage bag with other trash, no biggie.
I finished cleaning and left the garbage bag leaning on my front door, thought I'd take it out once I leave to run some errands. While I was doing other stuff, one of the bottles, TFA sweet cream, had somehow spilled all of it's contents through the garbage bag, right in front of my front door.
Once I noticed my fuckup, I located the spill and dipped some paper towels in pine soap and a bit of water and cleaned the mess right up. But apparently I didn't.
The apartment still reeks of what I only can describe as synthetic semen infused with the nastiest, sweatiest earwax known to man, and I'm certain thst I didn't miss any spots. Also left all the windows open in case the smell was just in the air, it isn't. The landlord is coming tomorrow to check up on the apartment and I'm starting to slightly panic.
Has anyone been in a similar situation? How did you get rid of the stench?
EDIT: White vinegar saved my sad ass!
I mixed a 50/50 concoction of water and vinegar, and rubbed the general area of the leak with the fury of two regular hands.
MY APARTMENT NO LONGER SMELLS LIKE A TERMINATOR'S NEGLECTED CUM SOCK COLLECTION, HOORAY!
Thank you to all you amazing people for your support and suggestions! If it weren't for you magnificent bastards, I'd probably never get my safety deposit back!
You will have to burn down the apartment. I'm sorry.
But really, what material was the spill on?
That's what I was afraid of. Better start softening up my landlord for committing an insurance fraud.
The floor is some type of laminate that tries to mimic wood, some pretty cheap lookin stuff. Im not sure if it can suck up the juices, and i certainly hopeit can't.
Try white vinegar.
Vinegar is awesome and one of the best odor neutralisers out there. Pour or spray some of vinegar over the spill and leave it there for an hour and clean it with some paper towel. Then for added safety sprinkle some baking soda on there and leave it there for 90 minutes. After that the smell should be gone.
That is not exactly a rousing description of that flavoring LOL
Have you ever smelled it? That bottle was in the flavor graveyard for a reason haha
No I have not... and now I reeeeeally don't want to 😊
It smells pretty weird by itself, but it can definitely work in small amounts in complex blends. 5+ years ago, it was actually very common in recipes (there were really only a handful of milk cream options back then. It's crazy how many more flavors are available these days). I don't use many that style of flavor much anymore, I haven't really paid attention to how popular it is these days, but I assume it's still being used to some degree.
Blow with a Hair Dryer on it. It will degrade the Aroma.
Dish soap is extremely effective at breaking down oils. Maybe try dousing the area with dish soap and giving it a good scrubbing whilst you're at it?
Being that you spilled it on a laminate floor I'd go with dish soap to break down any glycol/pg base the flavor was suspended in.
After that, maybe give it a go over with bleach or isopropyl alcohol. Don't do bleach and isopropyl together though.
If you do mix rubbing alcohol with bleach, the resulting chloroform cloud might knock out your landlord. You can leave his passed out form just outside the door to your apartment and he'll never know.
Seriously though, don't mix isopropyl and bleach. That Chloroform breaks down into Phosgene which is deadly.
Arm and hammer makes this carpet powder, you sprinkle in on the carpet, under the couches, and the whole apartment will smell like that instead. I use the pet fresh one before I have guests, because i have dogs, and they...you know, smell like dogs. Makes everything smell "clean and fresh" opposed to dog or....crusty semen apparently. Comes in a big orange box for like a buck.