I just squashed a mosquito on my right arm and bizarrely, it smelled raspberry pleasant. It brought to mind this old piece.
I just squashed a mosquito on my right arm and bizarrely, it smelled raspberry pleasant. It brought to mind this old piece.
Ooh, I could relate to her anguish and anger dealing with that mosquito! I’m also extremely sensitive to mosquito bites and they take ages to heal. Raspberry smell though? I’ll have to pay attention to that next time I squash one (hopefully before it bites me).
Honestly, I hate them – but when I splattered a blood engorged one I couldn’t help sniffing the remains and was startled that the smell was not unpleasant. Maybe I am a vampire, but that can’t be true as I usually find the metallic taste of blood utterly repellent (I hate metallic anything, especially in perfume; even when you have touched coins and you get that smell I have to run to wash it off). This smelled FRUITY.
Hmm. I wonder if the person had high blood sugar? (…pure speculation)
Isn’t it kind of ironic that metal only really smells when it reacts with oils from human skin?
I didn’t know that. It has no smell in and of itself?
At least in the case of iron, that’s true (and there were no shortage of news articles with “ironic” puns when I checked, AFTER I used the word myself).