Let’s Talk Leather………..Couches

Years ago when my husband and I first got married we had just moved to Belgium. We were being paid an extraordinary amount of housing allowance and we didn’t have much furniture between us, so we started shopping. We found this Italian company that was making and selling furniture in the area so we bought a couch set. It was beautiful. It consisted of a triple seat couch, a double seat couch and a single seat chair. Fast forward 12 years later. They have been moved at least 4 times and I would consider them still nice, but after 3 boys have done just about everything imaginable to this couch set They are starting to show age. I do wipe them down pretty often so there is minimal visible dirt but my biggest hurdle with these couches is to keep them smelling nice. By nice, I mean actually smell pleasant. Usually I settle for “I can’t smell them across the room“ level of clean. Recently I have been able to smell them upstairs which is just bad. The final straw was when my sweet youngest boy “couldn’t make it” to the bathroom again so there was this impressive poo odor on my big couch that did not want to come out. Then the next day the single seat chair was the victim of the same circumstance. Holy wow, they just didn’t smell good at all. This the chair.

I was not interested in having them professionally cleaned because there wasn’t a visible stain that needed to be removed. I figured to get the smell out of these something had to exist that was effective. So I started searching for a something to clean leather.

I found this leather cleaner and conditioner by the Chemical Guys. It had a lot of really good reviews on Amazon and I am the person who sits down and reads dozens of them. There were a lot of great reviews so i went for it. It came, I cleaned, and let me tell you I was blown away! This stuff got poo smell out of my beautiful leather couches and it smelled really good! It’s like a refreshing breeze kind of smell. Not fruity at all but like ocean or park.

Here is a pic of the three seat. I know, they look the same but they smell so good! We live on these couches. They get used every single day. I would consider them to be older leather now and it just needed something more than what I was doing and this stuff did it! I am impressed AND I don’t smell poo. What a day!