A Question about Chemical Odors

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Every morning the office park smells like Rogaine does. What could this be?!?!?!

― George W. ILX (ex machina), Monday, 26 July 2004 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

toupee glue? toner? residual denture cleaner? plastique?

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Monday, 26 July 2004 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

winos be wiggin'

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 26 July 2004 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Toner is more acrid and "heavy" smelling.

― George W. ILX (ex machina), Monday, 26 July 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Certainly not glue although it does bear a resemblance to some superglues.

― George W. ILX (ex machina), Monday, 26 July 2004 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

does rogaine have a really acrid, ethanol-y odor? I seem to associate it with cleaning products, and if the office park has an overnight janitorial staff it's possible they're the culprits.

― itsa me, mario! (x Jeremy), Monday, 26 July 2004 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

does Ethanol smell like running alcohol (isopropyl)

if so, not particularly.

I perceive smells as sound and this smell is like like a really thin tone at probably 3600-4500hz.

Isopropyl is around 3000 3200 hz

― George W. ILX (ex machina), Monday, 26 July 2004 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you losing your hair, Jon?

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 26 July 2004 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I was actually for a while, but its thickened up a lot (I have very fine hair to begin with) since I stopped being vegetarian and beat my drug addiction.

― George W. ILX (ex machina), Monday, 26 July 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Middle management is IN DA HOUSE!

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 26 July 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't even have vegetarianism or drug addiction to give up :(

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 26 July 2004 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.guitarworld.com/gearreviews/axology/art/2002/0302_mackaye.jpg

― George W. ILX (ex machina), Monday, 26 July 2004 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

you guys don't care about my synasthasia :(

― George W. ILX (ex machina), Monday, 26 July 2004 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got it really (badly / well) too ... in the latest Smithsonian magazine there's a big article on supertasters, and I'm one of them. My nose is incredibly finely attuned and I'm often reminded of literal scenes in which each element of a smell/taste is imaged as a singlular, seperate and discrete smell-giving component. Cheap wine might remind me of a stable, the overtones of shitty grapes might inspire a moldy saddle, and the foam cork residue could suggest, incongrously, a menstrual representative, e.g. a tampon in the middle of the floor.

― itsa me, mario! (x Jeremy), Monday, 26 July 2004 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish it was easier to quantify smell.

― George W. ILX (ex machina), Monday, 26 July 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a fantastic calvin and hobbes on that point. I remember being about 14 and trying to use that strip's smell-vocabulary in front of my parents, "Mom, that pasta smells awful snorky," before getting in trouble and chased from the kitchen.

― itsa me, mario! (x Jeremy), Monday, 26 July 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

♥

― George W. ILX (ex machina), Monday, 26 July 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

IT'S BACK AND STRONGER. Maybe it is worse on smoggy days?

― Holy Crap! Typhoon is Coming!!! :O (ex machina), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

If you're near Lake Ontario or a slow moving tributary its probably Algæ.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm in Rhode Island right now actually -- it doesn't smell like algae (or the Kodak plant especially)

― Holy Crap! Typhoon is Coming!!! :O (ex machina), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

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