Can you restate question?
Your basement smells like moth balls because you either have the camphor smell throughout your basement or your wall contains the chemical agents in moth balls
I have an old chest that smells like moth balls. How can I get rid of the odor?
It will take ventilation and time.
Over time moth balls will lose their smell and eventually evaporate. To make moth balls last longer keep them in a tightly sealed plastic bag.
You are smelling the active ingredient-a pretty potent chemical.
Probably not. It is their smell in an enclosed space that keeps moths at bay. The smell from moth balls in the open would be quickly blown away.
Moth balls are POISONOUS to cats! Bad idea!
You would get ride of the taste and smell of moth balls in the same way that you would do it for anything else. Some people do different things, but usually eating anything else with a strong flavor should get rid of the taste, and just use your preferred scent to get rid of the smell.
They don't swell up, there balls you put in your clothes so that moths don't eat your clothes. The moth balls do smell a lot though.
you just put the moth balls in the closet and leave them there
Because when you fry moths and then freeze them they become little balls there for being frozen moth balls!
Moth balls do not control gophers. They do tend to repel them as they do not like the scent of the moth ball though.