I don't mind the smell of #9 at all. For a while though, I was sick of it. I had managed, while cleaning the guns one evening, to dump about 1/2 a bottle across the coffee table in my living room. I wiped up the mess right away, and removed the cleaning mat that I was using, but my living room smelled very strongly of #9 for about a month... Every time the girlfriend came over, a candle was lit to offset the smell.