Why not get an air purifier that has a charcoal filter---it is really good for cleaning out any smells as long as you change the filter every three months or so. Make sure you get one for each room----even a room with reeky trash can smell just completely fresh as long as the air purifier is going.

i live next door to a coffee roaster too! the smell isn't that bad. it's pretty faint, and kind of pleasant actually.

I would get a bunch of those smell absorbing stones or activated charcoal and place them in every room. But really, I don't think there's a 100% solution to this problem.

There's this restaurant near my home that has smoke billowing out of it... It's super popular and the smell of their chicken/wood fire permeats the neighborhood. It's nice passing through, but I don't know how long i'd last smelling greek chicken and wood in my house, clothes, hair...

I feel your pain! Even though the smell may be a nice one, in large doses it can be unbearable. I live right next door to a Krispy Kreme dougnut shop and the smell is powerful, particularly when they have fresh, hot donuts. We keep our windows closed for the most part, and that does seem to help. I live in an old, drafty house though so there are plenty of other smells for the sugar and fat to compete with. I blame Krispy Kreme for my repeated failure at trying to grow any herbs on our porch; I think the air is too saturated with sugar or something. Unfortunately I don't have any suggestions to help you deal with the smell. Good luck!

I live right next to a fried-seafood-type restaurant and have the...er..heavenly...smell of fried clams in my apartment. I combat this, surprisingly, by leaving the windows -open-. The breeze helps keep the air from getting stale with it.

On top of it, dryer sheets make remarkable air fresheners. I tuck one or two behind various picture frames close-ish to the windows so that the breeze catches the scent.

Beyond that, keep your home clean. Smells like that like to sink into dust and dirt and hang on.

If you'd like a quick air pick-me-up, soak a cotton ball with vanilla extract and set it on a pretty dish on your windowsill. It'll help catch the smell before it enters.

I promise you, you'll get used to the smells in your apartment, and it won't seem so bad after a while. If you're worried about others smelling it after you've left the house, keep a small spray bottle (think mini-hairspray size) of your choice of fabric freshener in your car and give yourself a spritz after leaving your car. The mist will dry very quickly, but still give your natural scent a lift.

just be happy you don't live near a mushroom farm

Look at the bright side! You don't live next to a live poultry market. (That was a stinky year)

I had the good fortune to live near a chocolate company, and when they were conching the chocolate it was divine, the one time they burned the chocolate though... it lingered long in the memory. So I bought some air cleaners, and put them through the house, it really did do the trick on pulling the smell out of the air! Now that I'm living elsewhere, when I drive by that company and they're conching, it's a good memory again.

I second the air filter/purifier comment. You can get some great ones from Gaiam, or just on Amazon, and they do a great job of filtering smells. We use one in the office where we have the cat litter boxes.

I'd avoid trying to cover it up with other scents-- especially artificial ones. That might just make it worse (i.e. coffee wouldn't smell good with like Bounce laundry sheets, IMHO). You could try an aromatherapy oil diffuser. I like the pottery kind that takes a tea light. Something light like a drop of rosemary or lavender could take the edge off the smell for an evening at home!

I bet you don't get sinus headaches!? Smelling coffee is great for that.

I can see the tower of a Purina pet food factory from my front porch. It only smells when a cold front it moving in, but it's pretty nasty. Smells a lot like rotten grain. Makes me buy really fancy, expensive dog food.

I loathe the smell of coffee, so I'd just have to move. You have my DEEPEST sympathies :(

I just found out yesterday that the cookie factory down the street from me will be closing in three months. I'm actually sad about losing the once a week neighborhood-wide smells of faint anise, cinnamon and others.

I will say that your nose will adjust to the smell of coffee - like taring a balance - you will come to notice it less and less over time.

As a kid, I commuted to school by the Yankee Candle Company and grew to hate with a passion the smell of their candles. Every day was a new sickly sweet scent - strawberry particularly made me unhappy. I have a great deal of sympathy for your problem, and can only imagine what it must be like for the others who live next to fried seafood, mushroom farms, and so on.

I lived right on top of THREE Indian restaurants (two in the basement, one parlor level) 15 years ago and I still get a little gaggy when I smell curry. The smell was so intense it permeated everything I owned. I could've stuffed my pillows with potpourri and lit a thousand scented candles and still been overwhelmed. And the roaches! Oh my god, the roaches were EVERYWHERE. It was a very cheap apartment but put me off Indian food forever. I dealt with it by moving.

ah well, that explains why the last tenants overdid the home fragrances...

Definitely, the air purifiers -- but now you know that too much fragrance is a clue about a possible problem in a property you are considering...

I used to live next to a maxwell house plant. For some reason, the smell of their coffee always reminded me of turkey lunch meat. Really gross.
Luckily, the smell only came during certain hours of the day/year depending on wind patterns. Only thing to do was keep all the windows closed and tightly sealed.

Try living downwind of a cattle yard.
Living near a coffee plant would be divine in comparison.

ughhh! Next month my boyfriend & I are going to move above a chinese food restaurant. The smell is bad but there are worse things! ROACHES ARE MOVING AROUND THE ENTIRE BUILDING BECAUSE OF IT! But hopefully the chinese food store will go out of business once we call 311.

Gaiam sells charcoal house kits for pretty cheap on their website (I've been thinking about getting some to help cope with the neighbours smoking seeping into my apartment). You could always throw a packet in the car to help with ridding the car of the scent.

You could always try adding to the smell of coffee to make it more pleasant at home. Like alternating between vanilla, cinnamon, chocolate, etc. The "if you can't beat em, join em" tactic. You might find the coffee scent a bit easier to live with if you have combined it with a good balancer.

You could always find a pretty container to put the eggs on the counter in, that might help with that (even sprinkling baking soda on the bottom every now and then).

I lived upstairs from a family that cooked a lot of Indian food. Or maybe it was Pakistani food. Whatever it was, it was super strong, and it smelled like butt. I moved as soon as my lease was up. It was a lost cause.

I agree with Graceless. Make your home smell like a fancy latte instead of just a cup of joe. In your kitchen you can use a plug in air filter. I have one that I bought for cheap from Amazon because I had a roommate who insisted on cooking Indian food at 10 pm every night making it impossible to not have curry induced nightmares. I put one in the kitchen and one in my bedroom and it worked wonders. It is called the True Air by Hamilton Beach. Since it is a plug in for the wall, you don't lose any counter space.

I lived in the projects near a dog food factory as a kid. No AC so the windows were always open. I am now vegan. Go figure!

I used to live behind a Chipotle. Yummmmmmmmm. It never became so pervasive, but it was a nice smell.

Years back I lived in The Bronx , not far from the Stella D'oro plant....That was heaven....the air smelled like
the famous "breakfast treats" every morning ahhh...but..i have a friend that lived on 6th street in the East Village near the Indian restaurant row. He was actually sick from the permanent smell of curry outside and all his belongings smelled of curry as well. Eventually he had to move. I guess it depends what the smell is and if it is 24/7

GhostFish - that's where I live. Did you know that they're closing in two months?

Like jyw I also live above a family that cooks either Indian or Pakistani food and the smell is really bad due to the broken hole in the closet, thank goodness it's almost winter since the Minnesota cold weather would mitigate most nasty smells. Ugh, looking forward to when I have enough money to transfer out.