Strange question but serious

Mostly the smell comes from the burr or base of the antler it seems to me. I have found sheds from wild deer that just reeked terrible as they were more than a year old. I washed them and rinsed them in bleach water and applied straight bleach to the contact part of the burr and let it soak in.....most of the smell left in a short time. Jim

taxidermists use formaldehyde and soak the antlers in it this dries the antlers out and dry = no smell. this even works with velvet.