I don't know what your fabric smells like but have you ever heard of 'cotton rot'? I was in walmart years ago and a lady complained of the rotten smell in the fabric department . a man was in th fab dep and said it smelled just like the cotton that went bad during rainy weather and all of it was burned to get rid of the smell ... someone else joined in to say a whole shipload of jeans had to be pulled at another walmart because of 'cotton rot'.