@DianeJ2Maybe let it air out for a few days and see how it does. My map tote has a strong leather smell but not chemical. However, I got a PN bag from HSN back around Christmas and it had a bad smell. It was beautiful so what I ended up doing, after sitting it in the garage for awhile was to stuff it with dryer sheets. So now it smells like the dryer sheets a bit but it got rid of the bad smell.