Sometimes you just need to get rid of an odor in a room, on clothes, on a rug, or other places.   Sometimes you want things to smell nice without putting little bowls of potpourri around.  Sometimes you need to kill some germs.  Mad Mike's Triple-Threat was created for these times.

Moths

After creating our six great scents for Anti-Bug Brew and Un-Stench, you might think that it would naturally occur to us to bottle the scents on their own, without the bug repellents or body odor killers.  But you'd be wrong.   The thing that started the whole Triple-Threat experimentation stage was the combination of moths and a wool suit.

I have two suits.  I try to break them out only for weddings, funerals, or special business meetings, and I've been pretty lucky so far.  They come out once every few months and then just sit in the closet for the rest of the year.  One day I took a suit out for a business trip and discovered some neat little holes in the back.  Ugh.   My collection of useful suits had just been reduced by fifty percent.

As soon as I got back from the trip, I mixed up some Woody Delight closet spray, a scent primarily based on cedar oil.  I started spraying it on clothes and in the closet and haven't had a moth attack since.  A side benefit is that my clothes and closet smell quite nice.  I've kept cedar blocks in closets and chests of drawers, but they never smelled anything like this.  Now I use the spray to keep all my clothes from getting that "been stored for a long time" smell.

The bathroom

With the closet taken care of and our wool clothes protected from the moth threat, the next room on the list was the bathroom.  I'm sure I don't have to go into too much detail on how this room can develop odors.  We had already been using a natural orange-based spray, but it was too expensive for our tastes, and having the technology and know how, we figured we could do better.  So we mixed up a batch of Citrus Explosion.   Now we had a spray which not only smells great, but also kills germs as well – the perfect combination for the bathroom.

The rest of the house

Kitchen odors.  Pet accidents.  Cat litter boxes.  Stale closets.   There are plenty of places in the house that can use a spray that smells good, deodorizes, and kills germs.  After success with the woody and citrus scents, we just broke down and created the whole line.  Now we have our standard six scents as with the Anti-Bug Brew and Un-Stench products, providing enough variety to mix fragrances up when we get bored.  Of course, we don't go around spraying the whole house every day, but it's nice to have the Triple-Threat arsenal at our disposal when we need it.  Especially because we're not about to put potpourri bowls around.

Finding a name

The toughest part was in naming the product.  Scented room spray?  Potpourri spray?  Nature's fragrance spray?  I think not.  Maybe these names would be okay if our company was called "Pretty Boy Mike's", but we're not about to change our name.  Deodorizer spray?  Sounds too boring.  No one really wants to use deodorizer spray.  Antibacterial spray?  Sounds kind of medicinal, and it certainly doesn't sound as if it smells nice.

We settled on Triple-Threat because it sounds good and doesn't imply that the spray is only good only for its scent, its deodorizing power, or its germ-killing properties, but all three.