(James sniffing)
(James coughing)
- The smell, whoa! (all crew laughing)
I guess these smells are getting to me, huh?
- A good smelling car is important,
but there are a ton of options for air fresheners.
Some might say too many.
We went to our local auto parts store
and bought every single air freshener
to find out which one smells the best
and which one smells the worst.
Today I'm joined by pro skater man, car enthusiast,
and smell expert Ishod Wair.
I'm James, and this is the-
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- Last time I smelled every single Little Tree flavor,
this time we're tackling four different categories.
We got our classic hangy boys,
we got vent mounted, cup holder air fresheners,
that's wasted real estate.
- Yes. (both laughing)
- Right off the bat, and then sprays.
We're gonna start out with the classic,
we've all heard about it, it's a cool name, black ice.
- You don't like it though.
You slide on that.
- Oh (gags and laughs), all right.
- Oh did I tell you guys I can't smell?
- Oh no. (all crew laughing)
Oh really, that's the whole thing (laughs).
- I'm joking, I'm joking, I'm joking, let's...
- It's definitely strong.
- Smells like chemicals.
- [Max] I can actually tell you what Little Tree says
black ice smells like.
Black ice air fresher is described as
a mysteriously enticing masculine scent of woods and citrus.
- Yeah, I'm not a fan but I don't know
I haven't smelt any of the other ones
so I'm gonna put it right in the middle.
Next scent.
Thank you Jimmy, ooh.
- That one actually looks like it smells bad.
Isn't there like-
- Yeah there's no way this one smells good?
Waikiki wild hibiscus.
Ooh, it's strong.
- Oh wow, you can wear it around your neck.
(James laughing)
Wow, I like this one, let's see how it smells.
That one's actually not bad.
- Yeah. - It's not bad.
- Over here.
- [Ishod] Yeah, it's on the gooder side.
- [James] Yes.
Ooh, Yankee Candle, midsummer's night.
(suspenseful electronic tone)
You like it?
- It's not bad. - Yeah, it's not bad.
- It's not bad.
- Let me get a little closer whiff (sniffs).
Smells like soap. - Yeah, it does.
- And soap is like one of the freshest things.
- Yeah, you got a good nose on you.
I'd say it's here, 'cause that isn't really my scent,
but it's not bad, better than I thought.
- This next one is another Yankee candle, pink sands.
This is the top selling air freshener on Amazon.
- Oh wow. - I can't tell if I like that.
- You can't tell?
- This is the top selling air freshener on Amazon.
- Smells like (beeping). (all crew laughing)
- Next up we got a new one, it's an auto stick.
Our products contain pure fragrance and paper
with a little all natural starch and silica to make it last.
(both sniffing)
- I'd say this is on the better side, though.
We're just sniffing (laughs).
And we're like what is that?
- Everything else we were like, we were like (groans).
It's not that bad.
- I'd say this is...
- I'd put it above the hibiscus even.
- Yeah, hibiscus.
- [James] Like I might put this in my car.
Next up we got cool mint by Mentos, air freshener,
it's the fresh maker.
Definitely minty. - Ooh.
- (laughs) Is that a good ooh or a bad ooh?
(Ishod groaning) Not good?
- Too much.
- This one's not offensive, but it did make my stomach hurt.
A little bit, but I've been sniffing a lot of chemicals
for the past, you know, 15 minutes,
so I'll put that one right there.
This one is religious, dude.
We got the blessed moonlit grove.
Inspired by the guiding light
of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.
He enlightens our path, the cross symbolizes his guidance,
vision and light, great smelling, long-lasting
and delightful fragrance.
And I heard Jesus smelled great.
- You just wear it while you're driving, so it's just like.
Smell of Christ smells pretty good.
- Is that a, between hibiscus and these boys?
- I feel like it, you think it's best?
- I don't know, I feel like if we don't put it best,
we might go to hell.
- (beeping).
Damn, we chose hell. (James laughing)
Guys, we're going...
- Oh, damn dude, speaking of cool looking.
- Fricking bullets, we love that,
driving cars and shooting (beeping) guns.
- Lock, load, stay on target as you fall into darkness.
- It doesn't smell bad.
- No, it doesn't smell like a lot.
- Sends a message. - For sure.
I don't think it's as good as the Yankee,
but it is tough looking, so I put it there.
Oh, this is a Hot Wheels branded one,
it's not the same without the flame.
The scent is called burnout.
- They just have to like burn out,
like amateur edition and it just smells like a burnt clutch.
- Yeah. (all crew laughing)
(suspenseful orchestral tones)
- It has a burnout-y, you know it's like a sweet burnout.
Yeah, we should put that back down here.
- Yeah. - Sorry Hot Wheels.
- [James] Sorry Hot Wheels. - Not so hot today.
- When I smelled all of the Little Trees air fresheners,
this was my favorite.
- Really?
- Yeah, this was number one, this is Moroccan mint.
From what I remember, it's a very pleasant scent.
Oh yeah, it's still good.
- Oh yeah, smooth. - [James] Yeah, it's nice.
It's like sipping like a nice warm cup of milk, in Morocco.
(all crew laughing)
- Little Trees, nice job.
- So you think, it's definitely above Jesus.
- Damn. (James laughing)
- Above the sticks?
- I was kind of smelling on those sticks.
- Yeah, these sticks are pretty good.
- The sticks are good
'cause they're like almost not scented.
They're just like charcoal-y sticks
that'll like suck up odor.
All right, I'm gonna say sticks.
I'm sorry Moroccan mint, number two baby.
- The smell, whoa! (all crew laughing)
I guess these smells are getting to me, huh?
- The best is the sticks and the worst is Hot Wheels.
We're just getting started.
Before we get into our next category,
let's cleanse our pallet with a little bit of coffee beans.
- [Max] I have a fun fragrance fact
while you cleanse your pallets.
- Hit me with it, Max.
- [Max] So Little Trees patented the first ever
car air freshener, but the first modern spray air freshener
came out a few years earlier
and was actually based on insecticide dispensers
used by the U.S. military.
- Hmm, sounds sketchy.
- [James] Moving on to vent-mounted air fresheners.
Gonna start moving a little bit quicker,
'cause we got a lot of these to smell.
- I kind of like the little action figure, little figurine.
- Dude, I like him, he's cool.
Oh, he's a little rubbery.
You're not gonna like that.
You're not gonna like that, man.
- You know what?
He's not that bad, he's not that bad.
He sucks, but he's subtle.
- [James] He sucks subtly.
Also, he sucks more 'cause he doesn't stand up.
Next up we got Oahu island splash, by Bahama and Co.
These are little pineapples.
Yeah, and I think they assume that we're gonna be
really into him 'cause they gave us four.
- It smells like pineapples, and I love pineapples.
- Dude have you ever been to Hawaii?
It smells like that. (all crew laughing)
- [Ishod] I'm gonna put these up here, I like pineapples.
- Yeah, you're fancy and you smell great.
- Yeah.
- These look scientific, this is Refresh Your Car!,
exclamation point, auto vent sticks.
- Ooh, these aren't bad.
- No, these are good.
Super subtle both visually and smell wise.
Better than pineapples?
- I'm a big pineapple guy, below?
- The last round was pretty gross,
but a lot of the hanging ones just make you sick,
but so far the vent ones are pretty nice.
- Yeah, they're pretty nice.
- Like nothing's been super offensive.
Oh (beeping), I spoke too soon.
Lethal Threat! (all crew laughing)
So this looks like a skull painted like an American flag.
- I can see that in the South.
- Again, pretty surprisingly subtle.
- I think that these scent companies
might have watched your last...
- Yeah, let's just pull it back a little bit you guys.
That guy almost puked on YouTube.
- This one, yeah, it's like, it's literally like chemicals.
This smells like chemicals, but it doesn't smell bad.
- [James] Yeah, okay, so we don't like the skull
as much as we like the pink one
so we're gonna put it in the last place for right now.
Next up we got Driven mini diffuser.
- You barely smell it. (James sniffing)
- I don't know, this one smells kind of musty.
- It's musty, but just subtle, subtlety musty,
let's put it in the middle.
- Yeah.
So this one is, like you said, it's big,
but it's not bad looking.
Woody black pepper and cedar, which is a very like
fancy kind of scent compared to all the other stuff.
- It smells like lemon?
It's like lemony.
- You getting any black pepper in there?
- No black pepper.
- Any cedar?
- Getting a little hint of cedar.
I put it, I put it, I'll put it just in above this,
in the middle there. - [James] It looks cool.
This one is made by Little Trees,
but it's not a little tree.
This is the classic new car scent?
I guess Little Trees has gotten into the vent game.
Does it smell like in a new car?
- I guess?
- Classic new car smell.
- [Ishod] I'd say here, it's not terrible.
- [James] Not terrible.
Fun fact about new car smell.
- [Max] It is a byproduct of a chemical process
known as off-gassing, which is attributable
to many plastics and adhesives used in the car.
- Smells like glue.
This is the last one in the vent category,
and it's a good one.
Berry blue Jelly Belly branded-
(all crew laughing)
- Jelly bean smell?
I think I'm good.
(fake crunching sound) (James laughing)
I don't know dude.
Kind of smells like the sticks.
- I kind of like it, dude.
- Yeah. (all crew laughing)
- It smells like some, a smell that a caregiver
I had in my life gave off at some point.
- What is it?
What is that smell?
- Yeah, knock knock, who's there?
Jelly Belly!
Yum!
That's all the vents.
We've decided that the best vent one is the pineapples
and the worst one is the skull.
All right another coffee break, another fun fact.
- [Max] Many air fresheners contain
potentially hazardous chemicals,
and 20% of the U.S. population
has reported adverse effects from air fresheners.
- The (beeping)? (all crew laughing)
- You know what?
I could have called that one.
- Yeah man, I can feel it.
Next up we have the cup holder category.
- I don't like it, I just plain old don't like it.
It's taking up, I could put soda there or juice.
(container popping)
It's like kind of blown out, you know what I mean?
- [Max] Oh no!
(drill buzzing) (all crew laughing)
- I hate it. - Really?
- [James] It is bad.
I don't think I'm gonna like a lot of these cup holder ones.
These, I think these are gonna be pretty chemically.
Next up we got another product
from Refresh Your Car!
Fresh strawberries, which you like, and cool lemonade.
- Oh, I actually love lemonade,
lemonade is my favorite drink.
They actually had a pretty good wrap on the last...
- Yeah, Refresh is doing pretty good.
- Until now.
- Until now when they betrayed us.
- Oh damn you.
- I don't like it.
- [Ishod] Yeah, I'm putting this one back here.
- Yeah, get your (beeping) together guys.
- Bad job.
- That doesn't smell like strawberries.
- Or my favorite drink lemonade.
- Or his favorite drink lemonade,
so how about you get your heads out of your asses.
Get to the farmer's marker, smell some strawberries, okay?
Go to the county fair,
get yourself a big old lemonade, okay?
Then pull your head outta your ass and smell them,
and then maybe you try and make something good!
(crew laughing) For once!
You're better than this, Jimmy!
You got a chance to redeem yourself Refresh Your Car!
with an exclamation point, 'cause we got summer breeze.
Hmm, not bad.
Smells like laundry, which I like.
- You got a good nose on you. - [James] Thank you.
I think it's the best one in this category by far.
- So far, yeah.
- Good freaking job!
This one's called titanium rain,
which sounds like a terrible idea,
sounds like an awful thing to deal with.
- Titanium rain, I like that name, I don't know know why,
I just think it's funny.
- [James] All right, I don't like that.
- Just flat. - Yeah.
- It's just flat.
- [James] There's just nothing there.
- [Ishod] Yeah, I feel like it's like here.
- This category definitely makes me feel the worst.
- Yeah, I'm starting to get a little bit of this.
- This is another Refresh Your Car!,
this is a classic new car smell.
(James coughing)
Just chemicals.
- They kind of are starting to kind of
smell the same I guess?
- Yeah, it's just, they all just kind of burn a little bit.
All right, last in the cup holder,
again Refresh Your Car!, this is a fogger.
Apparently you're supposed to turn your AC
all the way on, crack this bad boy, toss it in it,
it fogs up for 10 minutes,
then you open your doors, let it air out for 15 minutes.
(suspenseful orchestral stinger)
- [Ishod] I actually like that one.
- [James] Yeah, me too, so this one wins.
That is cup holders.
Although this one turned out to maybe be
a little bit more of a spray.
We got the best one is the fogger,
and the worst one, Refresh Your Car!,
the lemonade, not very good! (crew laughing)
Moving on to our final category, I can't wait to go outside.
If your car is really, really stinky
this next category is, it's the military,
this is military grade level stuff, man,
this is the most heavy duty scent correction
that you can do on your car.
I'm talking about spray bottles.
Just Febreze fabric flavor.
Get yourself a little.
- Honestly?
Pretty good, smells like laundry.
- Yeah, it's not bad.
- If your car's smelling pretty bad
and you got cloth seats,
this could be a little bit of a quick fix.
- So we got a cerise noire, this is black cherry flavored,
you hate black cherry, this is a concentrated freshener.
I don't like that, not one bit.
- Me either.
- [James] Smells like medicine.
California scent, so this is the first one
that made like the cat food looking one
that I had to drill out.
But this one is Cannabis Out!,
designed to make your car not smell like weed.
- It seems like the way it's branded,
if it didn't say out it would just like smells like weed.
(crew laughing) - It's not bad.
It's a lot more subtle than the other cherries.
- I think the smells are starting to get to me.
- Yeah (laughs), I'll put this one in the middle.
We're almost at the end,
this is a sprint to the finish line, these is the last four,
and then we will know the best and worst air fresheners.
So far I don't like a lot of them.
Great, another cherry one from Refresh Your Car!,
this one is very cherry, thanks Refresh Your Car!
- It looks like it would be nice to drink.
(James laughing)
I'm not a cherry guy, just not a cherry guy.
- It's better than the other cherry, but...
- Yeah, it's better than the black ice smell, too.
- Cool, this is from the Chemical Guys,
this is apparently the smell of success.
That doesn't smell like anything, and I like that.
- [Ishod] Better than an overpowering.
- Black frost, this is frost fueled fragrance.
- Still black ice. - Yeah.
- Black ice-y.
- Too black ice for me. - [Ishod] Black ice-y.
- Finally we have reached the final air freshener
in our test.
Before we get into it, Ishod, you got anything coming up?
Anything you want to tell the beautiful Donut people about?
- Actually, if anybody was ever wondering
about my E30, there's a whole story about it
coming out in March, BMW's doing a piece on it.
And other than that I got a new color waves coming out
of my Nike's shoe,
I got a video part dropping pretty soon too, so boom.
- Last one, this has been a really tough road,
I wouldn't want to share it with anybody but you.
- Thank you man.
- I feel like you're my freaking brother now.
- Boom.
- So this is Chemical Guys new car smell,
this is the fifth best selling air freshener on Amazon.
I love the color.
- Yeah, I do.
- A lot of new car smells go with the blue,
I like that they went with the green.
- The spray though is kind of crazy.
- I know (laughs), I think you-
- You're just wetting your seat.
(crew laughing)
- I think that's my fault, you can also do that.
- Oh word.
- Smells like a new car.
- It almost has like kind of like a
forest-y, pine-y scent to it too.
- I think this is the best spray, what do you think?
- Yeah, fifth best on Amazon, but number one here.
- [James] (laughs) Yeah, number one in our hearts.
Right here in front of us,
we have the best ranked air freshers from each category.
Which one is the ultimate!
Let's find out.
(playful synth music)
The best one is Chemical Guys new car smell.
And I think we can all agree
that the worst smelling one, Refresh Your Car!
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