Harlandale Independent School District Superintendent Rey Madrigal addresses the crowd during a ribbon cutting ceremony held for Bexar County's first school-based health center at Collier Elementary School, ...
Charcoal is known to effectively absorb and trap odors, but you will want to control the potential mess it can make. Place charcoal in a container with several holes poked in it, and leave it in an area that smells bad. Throw the entire assembly away when the scent is gone.
As Matt Soniak reports for MentalFloss, some smells are better picked up by fast moving air through your nose, while others take more time and are detected better with slow-moving air. If one side of your nose is wide open and the other is slightly closed, you get all of the smells. The process also gives each side of your nose a break, since a constant stream of heavily flowing air can dry it out and kill off the small hairs that protect you from foreign contaminants.