Tatuaje Black P.L Box smell

neoflex · 11-06-2011, 06:05 PM

The smell you are smelling is the MDF used for the construction of the box. It was made out of MDF with a Cedar sleeve. If you were to pull the sticks out of the foil and let them rest in there unwrapped oddly enough that smell does go away. At a recent event when no one else was around I pointed it out to Pete. He quickly grabbed a box off the shelf to check it out but the box on the shelf was used as a display and the sticks were unwrapped and that is where I found out that the MDF smell does go away as it seems to absorb the smell of the tobacco pretty well as I couldn't even get the smell of MDF from that box until I smelled the lid which was kept off the box.
I told him that my box and others smelled like fresh cut wood and that is when he told me about the construction of the box and informed me that I was most likely smelling the MDF. Needless to say after seeing or should I say smelling the display box at the shop where the event was held I no longer worried about any ill effects from storing the sticks in the box.

688sonarmen · 11-06-2011, 06:22 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium-density_fibreboard

You can't always believe what you read on the internet but the last paragraph is interesting. I don't know what the hell the smell is (other than MDF) but the box is staying on display.

11-06-2011, 06:05 PM	#1
neoflex I'm nuts for the place Join Date: Nov 2008 First Name: John Location: Monroe, NC Posts: 2,765 Trading: (32)	Re: Tatuaje Black P.L Box smell The smell you are smelling is the MDF used for the construction of the box. It was made out of MDF with a Cedar sleeve. If you were to pull the sticks out of the foil and let them rest in there unwrapped oddly enough that smell does go away. At a recent event when no one else was around I pointed it out to Pete. He quickly grabbed a box off the shelf to check it out but the box on the shelf was used as a display and the sticks were unwrapped and that is where I found out that the MDF smell does go away as it seems to absorb the smell of the tobacco pretty well as I couldn't even get the smell of MDF from that box until I smelled the lid which was kept off the box. I told him that my box and others smelled like fresh cut wood and that is when he told me about the construction of the box and informed me that I was most likely smelling the MDF. Needless to say after seeing or should I say smelling the display box at the shop where the event was held I no longer worried about any ill effects from storing the sticks in the box. __________________

11-06-2011, 06:22 PM	#2
688sonarmen Shipmate! Join Date: Mar 2009 First Name: Jake Location: Norwich, Ct Posts: 2,698 Trading: (17)	Re: Tatuaje Black P.L Box smell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium-density_fibreboard You can't always believe what you read on the internet but the last paragraph is interesting. I don't know what the hell the smell is (other than MDF) but the box is staying on display.