• liv@lemmy.nz
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    7 months ago

    Thanks. That was not what I was expecting; for some reason I was basing my imaginary skunk smell on the smell of rotten fish.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      7 months ago

      Closer to rotten egg than fish but not quite. It’s caused by sulfur compounds similar to those in weed and bad beer as suggested (or beer that’s bottled in clear or green glass and left in the sun - brown and cobalt glass block the UV that causes the compounds to form) but there’s a wider “pallette” of odors in much higher concentration.

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      7 months ago

      This is so neat! Skunk smell is such an iconic, well known, horrendous animal smell in North America. I’ve never considered someone would not know what it smells like!

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        7 months ago

        Yeah it’s not really something you export, so I can’t sample it ha ha. Even now that everyone’s telling me it’s still just an imaginary smell to me.