I haven't seen this discussed here, but I was wondering about an issue I have with pipe smoking.

My rack of pipes, well, it kind of stinks like stale pipes. For the most part, individual pipes don't smell, but for a day or two after smoking one, it emits the odor of stale smoke. And since I smoke a pipe about every other day, at any given time, the rack is odiferous. It kind of smells up the room it's in (spare bedroom), and wafts out into the hallway.

Regarding pipe hygiene, I lightly scrape out the bowl of each pipe after I'm done with it, and blow out any bits from the tube, after which I run a pipe cleaner thru it. Note - a part of the odor is the used pipe cleaners in the waste basket, but it's mostly from the pipes themselves.

So, I'm wondering, do you guys (don't want to exclude girls; just assuming there aren't any here) experience this? If so, is it normal, i.e., just live with it (it's really not wrecking my life or anything), or abnormal and there's something I could be doing to mitigate?

Tnx in advance, y'all!