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starone | 09:35 Sun 29th Jul 2012 | Interiors
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Don't know if this is the right category for this but I am sure someone will help. I have been using a perfume by Paul Smith called 'Rose'. For some reason the bottle has leaked and now there is a round mark burned into the top of my dressing table. When I think, that is what I am spraying on my body, it makes me wonder what they put in it to burn a mark like this, but my real question is does anyone know what I can do to cure it. I think the whole of the top of the dressing table will have to be treated but realistically I wonder whether it might be just as well to scrap it and buy a new one. Which will make it the most expensive perfume I have ever bought! I now have the perfume standing on a saucer. I tried standing it on thick tissues but it burned through that as well. So I am left with one very bad mark and a series of small ones. Not good! Can anyone tell me what to do?
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What is the dressing table made of?
It was probably alcohol in the perfume that has marked your dressing table, Star.
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Don't know ummmm, as far as I am concerned it is made of wood. Don't know what kind. Tony - I didn't know alcohol was that powerful!! No wonder it has the effect it has on some people's brains.
Well it sounds like it as attacked the varnish.
If you can clean stains off coins, and clean your loo, with Coca-Cola, sometimes it's just as well we don't know what's in things!

I left a ripe melon on top of a wooden chest of drawers a few years back - it was overripe and the alcoholic juice seeped out and down the front of a drawer, it took the varnish off!

Could you get some Fablon or similar stick-on surface, and recover the top of the dressing-table with that?
All I can suggest is to sand down the dressing table, or cover the mark with a pretty cloth
It wouldn't be too difficult a job to sand the whole top down....... maybe with a belt sander, or a random orbital sander.
The only problem is the varnish clogging up the sanding sheets. An alternative would be to use a cabinet scraper .........
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http://www.axminster....t-scrapers-prod21776/
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Very easy to use, and very effective. The finish needs only a light sanding afterwards.
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Thanks everyone. Cheaper than buying a new one! I have a couple of pretty cloths I can use for the time being and my son-in-law will have a sander so I shall see him and twist his arm a bit see what I can get him to do. I can then do a bit of varnishing and polishing myself.
It was probably alcohol in the perfume that has marked your dressing table, Star.
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