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GrayGhost
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When i was teenage burn sulfur, I sniff the smoke and was like screwdriver nailed in my brain , what stupid  .
The best, syntetized by me, apparently was phenylacetaldehyde, have floral smell.
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kecskesajt
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Worst:Ethanediol
Best:Burned black powder
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Loptr
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Until just recently, I had never had the pleasure of working with pyridine. I followed Magpie's route from niacin to pyridine, and ended up with a
small quantity of pyridine.
Holy hell! Why does this still smell so badly? WTF!?
My garage still reeks of pyridine. I do not yet have a fume hood, and most of the time one was available in college, so I avoided getting close and
personal with a lot of things. Pyridine just hangs in the air around you just after transferring it into a bottle for storage.
Luckily, I already have kids, and am not worried on that front!
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DraconicAcid
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The reason amines reek so badly is that they are formed when proteins decompose, so we've evolved to recognize them as the scent of rotting
meat/fish/crap/bodies.
Please remember: "Filtrate" is not a verb.
Write up your lab reports the way your instructor wants them, not the way your ex-instructor wants them.
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mr.crow
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I recently went to a Chinatown street festival. There was a vendor selling HK style stinky tofu. Stinky indeed, I am still having olfactory flashbacks
over a day later.
Imagine a peculiar sour barnyard scent. The tofu bacteria in question must be producing both short-chain carboxylic acids as well as fecal indole
derivatives.
A much more simple odor would be my bottle of triethylamine. There is always a faint waft of dead fish in the background.
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble
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kecskesajt
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I meant Ethanethiol.
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I recentely smelled some Chloroform but I have to say that I had expected something diferent.
Didn't really like the smell of it.
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ave369
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The best smelling chemical is, I think, ozone. And dimanganese heptoxide, which liberates ozone, too.
The worst smell, though... I don't know. From what routinely stinks in my lab, I think the worst is ammonia. Today I had a big leak of chlorine, it's
bad too, but somehow nobler than ammonia.
Smells like ammonia....
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Tdep
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You like the smell of ozone? There's a thing I don't think I could agree on. It's just too sharp for me, weirdly metallic. Reminds me of tasting
blood, like when I split my lip open or something.
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NedsHead
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Ammonia is pretty bad when you can't escape from it and the fumes burn your eyes but I find a quick smell from the bottle pleasant, kind of sharp and
refreshing
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ave369
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Well, I can escape from ammonia, by opening the window and immediately leaving the room where my lab is, then opening the porch door and hiding in
another wing of the house.That's standard procedure when a gas emergency occurs. And they usually occur because I forget to empty the waste jar and
forget what's in it, and pour in some new waste which reacts with old waste, releasing a gas.
[Edited on 5-9-2015 by ave369]
Smells like ammonia....
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papaya
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I've heard this repeatedly from different people, still I think this is some kind of a myth rather than a fact, anyone knows the truth?
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100PercentChemistry
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How about Thiol-Acetone,? I heard it's pretty strong.
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aga
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Quote: Originally posted by papaya  |
I've heard this repeatedly from different people, still I think this is some kind of a myth rather than a fact, anyone knows the truth?
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There is some truth in it.
Once a Male has fathered children and has raised them all to the age of around 20, then the Male is kind of redundant, apart from making money to keep
the Offspring's sanctuary open.
So, in my case, that means that i can do WTF i want !
(currently experimenting with growing tomatoes)
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The Volatile Chemist
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Darnit....
Ammonia is ok, as long as you can leave it when you need to.
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aga
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This seems to have devolved into Worst Smells after page 1, and the OP specifically said Best and Worse smells.
Worst i have smelt and produced was a fart the day after eating Quorn and drinking copious volumes of Argus brand beer.
To this day i have not smelt anthing quite so noxious, repulsive or downright Evil.
It was a fart so rank that even i, the producer, had to leave the sports stadium (at speed) along with the the 50,000 spectators, 60 officials and
both football teams.
It took 4 days to clear the air enough to make it fit for human consumption.
One of the Best scents i have encountered is that of the flowers of 'Dame de la Noche' which releases the odour at night. Truly enchanting odour.
All Subjective of course (apart from the quorn farts - they can stun even Lizard Aliens).
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Cou
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The smell of butanoic acid is hard to describe for me. Never thought of it as smelling like vomit, but then again if your vomit smells like butanoic
acid, you probably need to cut down on how much fat you eat. I have a low-fat diet, so my vomit doesn't smell like rotten cheese.
To me it's that weird rancid cheese smell that comes out of certain dumpsters, sorta like stinky feet. It's one of those invigorating smells that
smells bad so good, you know it stinks but you just can't resist sniffing it again, can't get enough of it. Like the scent on your fingers after
touching your balls.
If I ever can make pure butanoic acid, one day I will make a spray perfume out of it.
[Edited on 13-9-2015 by Cou]
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The Volatile Chemist
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That's terrible  Though it's sell great on ebay and craigslist
Best smell, probably Pizza or calzone. Kidding, those are my favorite tastes.
i can't think of any smells I particularly like, but a lot I don't like. Perhaps the smell of sweat. I sweat a lot, to the point of embarrassment. But
If I'm working harder than someone else nearby, I'm proud to be sweating. But not on a test, or when talking to a girl...
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Rhodanide
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Hmm. I do like NO2, HN3, NH3, Chlorobutanol. Piperine is really one of my favorites, along with piperonal and vanillin. The nitrotoluenes and benzenes
are quite smooth and nutty, which is nice. Phenol is up there, too. Smoky- like whisky
Least favorites: SO2 For sure, got a big whiff of almost pure SO2 and nearly vomited. HF sucks as well, chlorine too. Hydrogen Telluride is a bitch,
too. Unbelievable stench.
Nothing beats dryer exhaust tho. Stuff is fuckin awesome.
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Sulaiman
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Worst:
swollen dead kitten that burst into a maggot volcano when prodded with a stick
dishwasher drain pipe
a lovely looking orange that was rotten inside
my cute baby daughter's first green poo
Best:
Roasting lamb
Roasting beef
Tsar aftershave, even though I don't shave
Channel No.5
patchouli
For simple chemicals;
I remember A-level organic chem. cadaverine-type synthesis
Imagine a teacher asking us to use small quantities due to the smell ...  
I like the 'fruity' esters
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Velzee
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Best smelling:
Acetone
Oddly enough, I kind of enjoy chloroform..
Nitrous oxide.
Worst smelling:
Hydrogen sulfide
NH3
Acetic acid
HCl
Alcohols
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RocksInHead
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I love the smell of Methyl Salicylate, Chloroform, and most of the alcohols.
However, Hydrogen Chloride, Nitrogen Dioxide, and Ethanethiol (MOST thiols for a matter of fact.) I do not like at all.
SO2 I hate with a burning passion  , it is just really choking and extreamly
unpleasant.
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The Volatile Chemist
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I don't mind the low alcohols, and acetone, chloroform, and DCM are nice enough.
The mineral acids, the smell of finger grease on copper, and ammonia are terrible...
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ave369
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Mineral acids? I like the smell of nitric acid. Hydrochloric somewhat less, but still not in the terrible territory. Sulfuric and phosphoric have no
smell.
Smells like ammonia....
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I discovered a new least favorite: 1-bromo 3,5 dimethoxy benzene.
It has a unique and lingering odor of something burned, bitter and resinous, with some light notes of antiseptic. Lovely stuff.
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