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Spilled perfume on wood floor, left mark

6 years ago
last modified: 6 years ago

Hi, any experts in spot treating a wood floor? I spilled perfume on the floor and the alcohol in


it left a round spot in the finish. I tried mayonnaise, didn't work. Murphy Oil soap didn't work. Alcohol seems to burnish into the finish but in the past when I have touched up with finish it never matches. Any ideas? The floor is red oak with a satin stain.


Comments (6)

  • 6 years ago

    That's toast, not coming off. Live with it as is and NEVER use Murphy's Oil Soap as that will do as much harm as the perfume in regards to ever touching up or refinishing the floor...........................

  • PRO
    6 years ago

    You need to touch it up with a water base poly.

  • 6 years ago

    It wasn't the alcohol. It was the OIL in the perfume. Alcohol usually doesn't upset a floor. But OIL upsets almost every finish we have!


    The finish on your floor is water RESISTANT not water proof. That means if moisture (water or oil) is allowed to sit on a floor, it will EVENTUALLY penetrate the finish and effect the wood itself. That is what you are seeing.


    Alcohol will simply evaporate. It hasn't done that. Water will eventually evaporate (especially such a small amount. It hasn't done that. Oil will not move nor will it 'go away'. That's what I'm seeing. The oil has penetrated past the finish (just like cooking oil) and is now sitting IN THE WOOD waiting for a full sand/refinish.


    Which means, all you can REALLY do is accept it and move on. Do NOT use Murphy's Oil Soap. it is IN THE NAME = OIL! Bad Murphy's Bad! No biscuit for you!


    Murphy's oil is a KNOWN contaminant. That is to say it is KNOWN to PREVENT a sand and refinish (nothing grabs onto the wood once it has been contaminated with Murphy's oil). Which is to say the life span of the wood floor has gone from 80 years down to 20 years.


    So PLEASE DO NOT use any more "oil" anything on this floor. Leave the stain. It will be dealt with in a 20 years when you have the floor sanded and refinished.

  • 6 years ago

    If perfume removes a finish, that finish is shellac....very common finish for older floors. You can touch it up with some thinned down shellac and a small artist's paint brush....if there isn't too much oil imbedded in the wood from other things.

    Unless your "perfume is $100 a dram real perfume, ti will have only a very tiny amount of any sort of oil in it. The mark is from the solvent in the perfume.
    And agree on murphy's oil soap....it's really simply a soap solution containing a soap made from oil rather than a solid fat. It's just soap and water with a high price tag.

  • 5 years ago
    last modified: 5 years ago

    I am trying to solve the same problem. i had a bottle of perfume spill. Does this look like it just wore down the shellac? can i apply some thinned down shellac to it? Idk why this picture looks so lifht on here.




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