text: These shoes look nice and are comfortable enough. Unfortunately they smell like smoke. It's as if they were stored in a factory that burned down. The acidic aroma of woodsmoke permeates a five foot radius around these shoes at all times.  The burning scent is strong enough that my wife asked me to store the shoes somewhere other than our clothes closet. This was a good call, because If I started a campfire in my closet my clothes would be less likely to smell like smoke than they would be if I left them in the presence of these shoes. So the first night after I opened the box I set them on the front porch overnight hoping they'd air out.  But the next day I took a whiff and was inundated with the stench of black pitch. I wore them to a theater on night two and my wife said it kept smelling like the place was burning down, like a smoldering pile of black coal under our theater seats that was also attached to my feet.  I had to stop a concerned usher from pulling a fire alarm, and say, &#34;sorry, what you're smelling is my shoes. They smell like smoke.&#34;  He asked my why, so I made up a story about them being the shoes I wore while saving a child from a burning building.  I've had them about a week and I'm currently leaving them in the hallway outside our room at night with the hope that sooner or later the acrid odor will die away and the shoes will be allowed back into our closet. I considered returning them for the non-smoking version, but I scuffed them the first time I wore them and didn't feel right about sending them back with a toe abrasion. So I'm living with them and my feet smell like they're on fire all the time.  But hey, they were cheap!