DallasSoxFan

Earlier this week I came back to my office from lunch and noticed the faintest smell of BO. Still in the ascent part of my career i dont want to be that guy.

I went to Target and for $15 got a "Febreze TrueAir odor Eliminator" It works awesome in my 8x8 office. This is NOT a scented cover-up. It is a small fan-based charcoal filter that actually scrubs the smells from the air. You plug it into an outlet on the wall. I actually have mine put on an extension cord and placed on my desk for lack of real outlets, however.

Here's a link on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Hamilton-Proct...2115120&sr=8-1

However, it is available in Target for cheaper. It is NOT by the air freshener sprays. It is with air purifiers and space heaters over by the sporting goods section (at my store).

InfiniteRegress

I may have to let my coworker know about this. His office always smells of BO and it drives me bonkers. He doesn't bike to work and it's freezing out right now, so I don't know what his deal is. Maybe I will give him this gift anonymously.

bergerandfries

Put the thing in your cube, that way you won't have to live with the smell wafting over....

CliftonGK1

Air freshener is a symptomatic cure. Soap and deodorant are root cause solutions.

DiabloScott

As we get older we'll lose a lot of our sensitivity to smells so it's a good idea to be aware of this even if you don't smell anything.

There's no way that little thing is actually scrubbing a significant portion of your room volume though, the HVAC system is dumping probably 100 times that much air into your office. Carbon filtration of organic vapors in the air certainly works but that thing can't possibly be effective beyond a very small influence.

Better to isolate the source of the BO and handle it directly.

DallasSoxFan

Definitely so. The day in question I forgot to hang my clothes and left them in my bag.

The instructions in the box say to place within 4 -6 feet of the odor source.

kylejack

While you're not that guy who smells bad, you're now that guy that runs extension cords to his desk.

DallasSoxFan

Nope. We have very nice setups. Cord channels in the back, cut out ports below the desk. You can't see any wires. I'm very particular about that.

Djlarocca

Does it work with farts?

DallasSoxFan

Don't do that in my office, but they sell a "diaper" filter, so presumably yes.

rnorris

This can be a pretty serious issue. I was in charge of our project group at work a number of years ago and one of them had a persistent 'presence'. I was asked to break the news to him, partly because he was a good friend of mine- but that made it all the more difficult. He took it pretty well, and as I suspect is true of most of these situations, he wasn't aware of it at all. Still, it had started him off on the wrong foot within the group, and perhaps in feeling some resentment, he never put in much effort to improve his relations with the others. He took another job not long afterward. Fortunately our friendship held up.

People have such differing sensitivities to smells I err on the side of caution, and keep all my cycling kit closed away in an old storage cabinet in my office.