I've used ammonia to get rid of the perfumes. I've had to soak couple of shirts and cotton dresses from estate sales. It helped a lot and then one day I soaked some others in a bucket/plastic container with Dawn dish soap and water as hot as I could stand it. Agitated it, doused up and down and let it set for an hour or so. Transferred the bucket to my washer and ran through a cycle did a double rinse. Took out the odor better than anything else I've used. ANother reason these closthes don't get past the door.