Well the smell of rain is actually petrichor, it just has a combination of geosmin and ozone and other chemicals that make that smell.
Geosmin on its own is just a part of it.
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Contramuffin@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Wording is funky. To clarify:
The rain smell is due to a compound called geosmin. The bacteria that produces it is Streptomyces.
When I taught microbiology lab, I would grow a petri dish of Streptomyces during one particular class and have the students smell it
Krauerking@lemy.lol 4 weeks ago
Shellbeach@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You mean… You can … Bottle up petrichore ??? How come is there no wide range of perfume/candle/lotion and whatnot?
Can I make it at home, if so, how would I go about it with everyday items? Can stretomyces cause health issues?
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
There absolutely are petrichor scented things
Dasus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
There’s like an indian family/company that’s been making some hiqh quality petrichor perfume for idk at least 100 years, probably several hundreds, if not a thousand or more idk.
I forget what it’s called you can probably look it up with perfume pertrichor india
Comment105@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
They might’ve been making it for 10,000 years for all I know. I don’t know shit.
dance_ninja@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yup. I have a shaving soap like that called “Summer Storm.”
maggardrazors.com/…/chiseled-face-summer-storm-ar…
drre@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
I’ve never smelled the stuff but apparently the smell of rain is something people try to bottle.
atlasobscura.com/…/smell-of-rain-kannauj-perfume-…
Comment105@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
That’s the romanticized, traditional Indian cowshit mix trying to approximate it. (Not doing a disparaging stereotype here, that’s just literally how the article says they make it.)
I’d be surprised if it actually contains the compound we’re talking about.
drre@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
i Kind of doubt it. in a video i saw if the process they were using hardfired bricks. i don’t believe any organic compounds would survive the heat.
(dung might be a better term for what you were referring to. i seem to remember that because of the way they feed their cattle the dung has a very high fibre content which makes it a good source for building material. it’s nowhere as gross as the diarrhea like consistency we get from cows in Europe)
Edge004@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I have some of this. It smells pretty good
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Yup youtu.be/bl7K3lRPLYo
three@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I’m nothing close to a chemist but I love watching chemistry videos.