Fresh Cab Rodent Repellent - Botanical Pest Control for Indoor Use - Safe for Kids & Pets When Used As Directed - Made with Plant Fibers, Balsam Fir Essential Oil & Fragrance - 4-Pack

They smell nice....like a fir tree but mostly importantly they work! I like the smell but the rat pack did not! Highly recommend as a safe way to deter those pest.

"Hope ya'll join me for this li'l tune I made up on me gui-tar in honor o’ Fresh Cab..."No, they ain't a-payin' me to write this stuff, I jist know a product deservin' o' me time when me finds it, that be all. This little ditty be about them rats that chew up everything...well, everything except Ethyl's rat poison...heh heh... In case you all was a-wonderin', Ethyl's a chem'cal comp'ny...I ain't a-pickin' on her...I mean, them..."Anyway...about 'em mice, and rats, and possums, and skunks, all them vermin that come 'round this this time a year and, how do they sez it, find lod-gin' -- heh heh -- yeah, ya'll gonna like this one. Finally one ain't about lovin' and leavin', it just be just about the leavin' I guess...heh heh...[Sung fast paced, like a shooed rat -- as in "shooed away," not shoed like a horse.] [Sustained holds on all lyric beats shown outside parentheses. Shouts in ALL CAPS.]I've..........tried.........(live) catch / (and) dead catch(and the) sometimes-you-get-'em- / -sometimes-(ya-don't)traps(But the) best traps / (I) e-ver --('til now) ne-ver --- / (did) see --(is the) RAT – TRAPS / I don't need no more -'cause the RATS don't come around ME!"Sing with me now!"(But the) best thing / (I) e-ver('til now) ne-ver / (did) see(be) them RAT TRAPS / I - don' - need - no - more('cause the) -- RATS -- don' -- come -- 'roun' -- MEEEEE....!!!"Yeeeeeh-haw!""Ya'll thinkin' it's over? Heh heh...you just 'bout gonna miss ma fav'rite part o' the story!"(But the) best -- thing -- / I-ever('til now) -- ne-ver -- / (did) s....e....e...be them RAT TRAPS / I -- don't -- need – no -- m...o...r...e...'cause the RATS don' come 'roun' me.Don't got to - - - move - - - to - - - BEV...ER...LY........!"......Uh....now what happened to my hi' Dee string gui-tar...them vermin done got into my gui-tar case befure I got me order of Fresh Cab in there for Spring...flea-bitten varmits...gotta order my Fresh Cab in March next year. Dad gummed global warmin', next year it'll prolly be Febr-ary 'en 'em rats all ready git on the run agin'....maybe I otter jist move out there to South'rn Cali this here fall, gits away from it ALL, what ya'll think!? Heh heh, yeah, RAT! I mean RIGHT!Thank ya'll!!!!! Love ya'll!!!! Ya'll go git ya'll yeselves some Fresh Cab, all rite'y? Them rats gonna be a-leavin' my garage 'cause I got me Fresh Cab, and I don' need but a bag er two of Fresh Cab to cov'r my hole ga-rage, and they a-comin' to ya'lls ga-rage, don' say I di'nt warn ya'll!Ain't no poisons or nuttin' in it, just the li'l CEDAR SMELL in Fresh Cab 'ill keep them varmints away! Smells good, ‘specially when the weather warm up and drive them pung’nt smells into the back country aire! An' Ethyl, too, it'll keep her away, too, heh heh! No need for 'er. Ya'll been GREAT, and I know I been GRATE -- HA HA HA, THANK YA'LL!!!

I usually get a few kitchen mice come winter, but this past year was especially bad. In the past I was able to deter the little guys with Bounce sheets and rigorous cleaning, but that method had stopped working: every morning from November 2013 until two weeks ago (beginning of April 2014) there were droppings in my pantry and/or on my counter tops regardless of how well I scrubbed them.In a fit of desperation I decided to give Fresh Cab a try, and since putting one pouch under my pantry cabinet and one behind my microwave two weeks ago, nary a mouse turd has been seen. I was honestly shocked at how well and how immediately this stuff seemed to work after the mice had been so persistent for so long, but there's no other explanation. Aside from the packets actually working, the woodsy Fresh Cab smell is also much less weird to have around food/in the kitchen than the heavy Bounce scent was.The smell is also VERY noticeable -- I think I'll be able to tell easily when it's time to replace them, though I still took another reviewer's tip and write the date I opened the pouch on the tag so I could remember when to replace it, which I plan to do regularly. I can only hope it keeps working this well!**UPDATE 1** I finally saw evidence of mice again about four weeks after I initially put down the Fresh Cab pouches. To be fair, I'd noticed that I could no longer smell the pouches by that time -- and as soon as I replaced them, the mice left again. Now I know for sure that each bag lasts just about four weeks before it needs to be replaced.**UPDATE 2** This stuff seriously stops working like it's on a timer: once four weeks have passed since I put down a new pouch, I start seeing droppings again. Still, when this stuff is fresh out of the box, nothing else can touch its efficacy (I had actually switched briefly to using peppermint oil to deter the mice, but it did nothing to keep them away -- if anything it seemed to attract them! They showed up the day I put it down). Fresh Cab remains my go-to, even if it does get a bit pricey to keep stocked.

I put some of these in my camper early in the spring and it nearly eliminated my mouse problem. My camper always wound up with mice when it would sit for very long since we live in the middle of a hay field. These worked wonders to keep them away.

I'm not completely sure if these are keeping mice away from my garage, but I have not seen any evidence of rodent activity since hanging them near the entrance. I bought the holder that is sold separately (which should have been included with this multi-pack. I give it 5 stars because I really like the scent. It remind me of Christmas. I will post back if I see mice again.