Most drugstore and gas station sprays solve the smell problem the same way: overwhelm it. Spray something strong enough, and whatever was there before gets buried under a wall of synthetic fragrance for a few minutes. It works, briefly, and it comes with a tradeoff almost nobody actually likes: that sharp, chemical edge that lingers after the fresh part fades.
That edge is not incidental. Cheap aerosol fresheners are typically built from synthetic fragrance compounds with minimal disclosure and no real formulation discipline, since the entire product lives for about ninety seconds before it needs reapplying. There is no reason to build depth into something designed to be sprayed and forgotten.
A cosmetic-grade fragrance starts from a different standard entirely, the same ingredient sourcing and formulation rigor you would expect from something meant to sit close to skin, not something meant to blast a room and disappear. That is a meaningfully different category, even though both end up getting called car scent in casual conversation.
The difference shows up immediately if you have ever compared them side by side. One smells like an actual fragrance, layered, considered, developing over time. The other smells like it is trying to win an argument with whatever was in the car before.
Your car does not need a chemical cloud fighting a smell into submission. It needs a fragrance that was never fighting anything to begin with, built with the same care as something you would actually want to wear.