Fightin the Funk

October 25th, 2007 Wade

Sometimes I am asked to test products like backcountry water filters, backpacking stoves, and other rugged gadgets. Other times I get requests to test products which don’t quite seem so Outdoorzy… or are they? Febreeze to Go didn’t seem related to outdoor sports at all, until the light bulb went off…. THE FUNK! My SUV had this… and now my new outdoorzy mobile has it. It goes like this…

1. Wade goes running
2. Wade gets sweaty
3. Wade drives back from the trail or park
4. Wade forgets and leaves sweaty shoes in car
5. Wades car smells like booty

I sprayed 5 or 6 sweeping sprays of this stuff into the back seat of my ride like fairy dust (the kind from disney, not the kind Al Pacino loved in Scarface) and wowee-wow-wow, THE FUNK was gone. Alas after about 4 hours THE FUNK came back. But after a second application it was kept at bay.

I think this product has some real potential for us active lifestyle folks. Whether it be freshening the gym bag, car FUNK, that not-so-fresh feeling you emit after a hard mtb ride and you see your old high school prom queen in the mini-mart …you get the picture. And for those of you who don’t get around to washing clothes often… just pull that outdoorzy.com t-shirt from the hamper, spray, and head out in style.

The bottle says its safe to use around cats and dogs. I’m assuming that means they could lick it off your furniture and doesn’t insinuate that you can spray them with it or use it as a spice on their chow. I’m also assuming this stuff isn’t the greatest for the environment. Nothing smells this good naturally. But then again, its not something that you’d need to use every day, or that you’d need a big bottle of. Heck the bottle is only 2.8 oz. and is made of recyclable plastic. It should be in a store near you soon. Or you could swing by my house and I’ll hose you down with it.

Oh, and it makes for a nice cologne.

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