Heading over to Iceland for 6 nights using a 4x4 to get around but wild camping as well as camp sites, but clothing will be limited as will space.
If it can't fit in the bike box or shoulder bag it isn't going, so clothing options will be limited.

So how would you keep your clothes smelling fresh to ensure we are allowed back on the plane to come home.

Do they sell fabreeze in Iceland?

Any other ideas welcome please?

They definitely have washing machines.....
I usually travel in the same clothes out and back, pack 'em away while in country, shorts, tshirt and some jandles should do it.

Agree with Gari about travel kit kept separate for return journey (don't often hear the word jandles over here Gari, people look blankly at me when I call them that!). Obviously merino and bamboo are your friend for staying odour free longer. Regular body wash if showers not available, wash kit whenever possible if weather conducive to drying it.

Bamboo ... same T shirt for over a week on the T-N last year. Washed it in a stream once but otherwise never really took it off. It was around 30 degrees most days, I had one shower during the week and yet amazingly, I didn't offend anyone on the plane home ... 'tis like material magic.

Gari wrote:I usually travel in the same clothes out and back, pack 'em away while in country,

Now I like that idea, I could leave them in the bike box

I'll probably be wearing most if my clothes to and from to save room!
Tbh I think we'd be fine washing stinky clothes in a gesyer and drying them over some larva!!

Only if you want them to stink of sulphur...

JohnClimber wrote:

Gari wrote:I usually travel in the same clothes out and back, pack 'em away while in country,

Now I like that idea, I could leave them in the bike box

Same here.

Clothes don't smell by them self. If you make sure to visit hot pots every now and then it shouldn't be that bad...

Besides such luxuries like hot pots, I just go with the smell. If it's really bad and I eg hitch hike or get on a bus with many others, I wear my rain gear over the smelly. Keeps the worst in.

Odlo synthetic gear stinks soon. Montbell synthetic takes ages 'till it smells. But this may be very individual

Oi minger.....

A few baby wipes in a ziploc - they were getting sh1t of my kids for a good few years and some 'dry shower' https://muc-off.com/products/dry-shower ... 3272433159

Should have you in good shape for the Reykjavik night out (if you can pony up for the beer prices!)

As Stu. 'If ya don't wanna smell like poo, wear bamboo'. Er, other 'jingles' are available.

R

Went to Iceland last year wild camping, heading back again shortly.

For two weeks I had two t-shirts and three pairs of socks.

Wet wipes work a treat.

+ 1 on leaving travel clothes with the bike box. Even if you've worn them on the way to Iceland, when you put them back on at the end of the trip, they'll feel so fresh. Bring some big zip loc's to put any clothes that seem a bit "ripe" into for the return trip home.

This won't help much but - I read an account some years ago by a chap who'd crossed the Antarctic on foot. He use what he called the "Antactic washing machine" it worked like this:-
1) Wear the undies until they start to pong a bit then change into a underwear from his pack. The smelly ones go into the pack. 2) Wear the fresh(er) ones until they start to smell then repeat step 1)

Where's my coat

Following on from the above.
One can use a dry bag for washing.
Clothes, water, liquid soap.
Empty.
Rinse.