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I hate the smell of Hoppes and threw away all I had of it.
REALLY??!?!?!?
Dude... that smell is like the smell of American Firearm's history in a bottle!!!
Originally it was the Nitrobenzene that imparted its unique sweet smell... NOW... it has been NEUTERED... the Nitrobenzene has been removed and they replaced the smell with a fake "often imitated never duplicated" one... Nitrobenzene helped make hoppes #9 work the way it did... not too long ago, I found a bottle at my dads... OLD... dusty... Original... I opened it up took a sniff and about came in my pants... ooooh yeah... that was the real stuff, there...
I am not saying any cleaner is better than the other, nor am I really busting on ya for not liking the smell... I am really just tossing out some good firearm trivia for you to remember...