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I love this smell. I've been fighting with the wife, who claimed it was from asphalt, and I knew it wasn't, since I've smelled it in the middle of nowhere. Tu
by robotrout 17y ago
I love this smell. I've been fighting with the wife, who claimed it was from asphalt, and I knew it wasn't, since I've smelled it in the middle of nowhere. Turns out, she was actually pretty close, since it's hydrocarbon based.
Somebody should make a perfume based on this. It should be possible to extract the specific oils responsible.
- scorxn 17y agohttp://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2007/5384.html http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2007/5384.html made the rounds a while back.
- gruseom 17y agoI love this smell too. Smells are emotionally charged to begin with, and this is one of the more powerful ones in my experience. The fact that it's so intermittent and fleeting (small correction to the title: it's the smell after it's just begun to rain) adds to its mystery. Because of that, I kind of hope it doesn't get extracted into a product. Perhaps I'm being too nostalgic, though, sitting in just about the darkest day of winter when it's been -20 for most of the past month...
- sker 17y agoAccording to the wikipedia spanish article for Petrichor, they haven't been able to synthesize the smell due to its complex composition of more than 50 substances.