Comment on How can you explain a smell you've never smelled before?

bert_brause@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  But I didn’t because it doesn’t actually smell like that. It’s like describing a circle as something that looks like a blob of Silly Putty before you squish it up. Only vaguely similar.

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  • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If its only vaguely similar to what you basically described as the breath of a cigarrette smoker, it could be that the bathroom was fairly regularly smoked in for a while, like multiple months or a year, and then the smoking stopped, and either a bit of time passed, a few weeks or months, and/or some kind of chemical was used to try to mask/remove the cigarrete odor baked into the walls.

    That would then be ‘like smoker breath, but a bit off’.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      A chemical used to mask it sounds like a very good possibility!

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