I do miss the smells of O-chem lab. It is like hearing a crips clear note played when you have only ever heard chords. I think my favorite was thymol, a thyme extract. Something I've smelled a thousand times but never in isolation.
Sweet? I'd rather liken it to period blood, but more metallic and kind of... vicious. Its smell is hardly comparable to its relatives xylene, toluene, ethyl benzene.
I liked xylene most, followed by toluene. Maybe it's bias because you know it is carcinogenic... but indeed benzene isn't as nice as the others. Vicious undertones, that's very apt.
I do miss the smells of O-chem lab. It is like hearing a crips clear note played when you have only ever heard chords. I think my favorite was thymol, a thyme extract. Something I've smelled a thousand times but never in isolation.
I'll never forget bromine, fuming brown off whatever high school reaction we were doing that day.
IMO benzene smells like gasoline (and AFAIK is mostly responsible for its smell), but somewhat sweeter and more concentrated.
It's a different, "aggressive" sweetness than that of chlorocarbons, which to me are far more pleasant.
Too bad they're all quite harmful otherwise.
Sweet? I'd rather liken it to period blood, but more metallic and kind of... vicious. Its smell is hardly comparable to its relatives xylene, toluene, ethyl benzene.
I liked xylene most, followed by toluene. Maybe it's bias because you know it is carcinogenic... but indeed benzene isn't as nice as the others. Vicious undertones, that's very apt.
Xylene, yes, very dangerous, used some for cleanup after painting swimming pools, threw up in traffic an hour latet.
I kinda like phenol most. And it's actually completely safe, it's even used in throat sprays.
That was the smell of cell damage /s