# New Car Smell

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-car-smell/94204>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [November 19, 2001, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-car-smell/94204 "2001-11-19T14:53:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![onigame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9fc29f/32.png) [@onigame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/onigame)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2001, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-car-smell/94204/1 "2001-11-19T14:53:59Z")

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Cecil tried to answer the question on  
where that “new car smell” comes from:

[http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a990528.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a990528.html)

I believe this question is answered in one of Dave Feldman’s “Imponderables” books. (Right or wrong, I don’t know.) He may not have anything past Cecil’s first paragraph, though.

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**Author:** ![k.os](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@k.os](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k.os)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2001, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-car-smell/94204/2 "2001-11-20T05:20:07Z")

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New car smell can be bought.

A friend of mine sells used cars. He has a spray he puts in them once he has cleaned them entirely that makes them smell ‘new’.

I couldn’t find the product on the internet, but I found [this](http://www.raymondandco.com/raymond/newcarsmelai.html) site for a similar product, from a different manufacturer.