Unpleasant smells which are capable to drive away cats meet very seldom. In this case it will create a problem for those who look for concrete substance which is disliked by these animals.
Oil
Unpleasant feelings at the majority of cats are caused by the oil received from leaves of the aromatic bush called a rue. If to put branches of this bush near some subject, any cat it is even close to it will not approach.
Properties of a rue were known to specialists in officinal herbs in ancient centuries. And, by the way, one of such experts recommended: "Put a large number of officinal and aromatic herbs to which it is necessary to add by all means a rue under a turf layer and to scatter it in different places that not only it can be useful, but also it is beautiful, the rue is fine and green and its bitterness will take away poisonous animals and importunate cats from your garden".
Now gardeners say that leaves of this plant can cause rash on skin even in the person. Therefore it is necessary to handle a rue accurately. However oil of its leaves renders medical miracle cure. For some unknown reasons the popular wisdom was for a long time forgotten, and, quite perhaps, it will be useful only when no other means help.
Onions and citrus fruit
There is one more thing which is not loved by cats, these are onions. For this purpose it is possible just to rub a crude bulb over the place which you would like to protect. It will help you to get rid once and for all of encroachments of a cat, and the aroma which will be published first will imperceptibly disappear. Though actually cats will continue to catch this smell while you will already forget that you once used this means. Many cats dislike a smell of citrus fruit, for example oranges or tangerines. The truth this action will have one minus. Crusts of citrus fruit which allocate an unpleasant smell for a cat quickly dry up. Therefore it is necessary to change them until your pet finally does not get used that he cannot be in a certain place.
Vinegar
Readily available substances which are in each house can also become for cats an unloved smell, for example, it is vinegar. Cats not really love it. Its sourish smell irritates them gentle nasal channels therefore they long bypass that place where its drop at least once fell. To be necessary to add that cats are very stubborn animals. And often perceive the beginning of such "chemical attack" as a call to their vanity. For a start they can replace the place of the activity. And in case it does not bring desirable result, then they will overcome the fastidiousness to this substance. In this case you will need only to replace tactics.