Paint fumes and smoking.
Gordon Holland
This question is directed primarily at smokers and ex-smokers. Of which
I am one of the former.
When lighting up a cig and smoking it while painting, or being in a room
with freshly applied paint. I've noticed countless times that the taste
of the cigarette smoke combines with the fumes of the wet paint to give
an extraordinary strong combo taste of something like the taste/smell
of tobacco, strong adhesive and thinners... and well paint.
I find it difficult to find the words to describe the taste/smell.
Slightly acrid, but not entirely unpleasant to me, although it can
become cloying after a while.
I know of nothing else that does this to me.
What causes this bizarre mixup of taste and olfactory senses, and does
this happen in comjunction with any other substance eaten/drunk or
inhaled?
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Bob Kaufman
"Gordon Holland" <TheFlyin...@dial.pipex.com**NO_SPAM**> wrote in
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> > When lighting up a cig and smoking it while painting, or being in a room
to describe
> the taste/smell. [snip] it can become cloying after a while.
> What causes this bizarre mixup of taste and olfactory senses, and does
> this happen in comjunction with any other substance eaten/drunk or
> inhaled?
FWIW, there is a particular shade of pale, chalky blue that, under the right
circumstances, nauseates me almost to the point of vomiting. (It has to be
the dominant color of a room for it to "work".) I seem to encounter it about
once every five or six years. I suspect that in my case, it's some
long-since repressed childhood experience.
Rick Howard
Gordon Holland <TheFlyin...@dial.pipex.com**NO_SPAM**> wrote in
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> What causes this bizarre mixup of taste and olfactory senses, and does
> this happen in comjunction with any other substance eaten/drunk or
> inhaled?
When my wife walks barefoot over a floor that has been cleaned
with PineSol or a similar product, she claims that she can *taste*
the PineSol. Is this just her acute olfactory sense smelling the
cleaning solution and putting a taste in her mouth or is there
some way that certain chemicals applied to the skin can give
one a taste sensation?
ctc...@my-deja.com
"Rick Howard" <ri...@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> When my wife walks barefoot over a floor that has been cleaned
> with PineSol or a similar product, she claims that she can *taste*
> the PineSol. Is this just her acute olfactory sense smelling the
> cleaning solution and putting a taste in her mouth or is there
> some way that certain chemicals applied to the skin can give
> one a taste sensation?
DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide) can do this. It is very rapidly abosrbed
through the skin, then travels the blood stream to the mouth, where
it (or perhaps a impurity it carries) causes a bitter/sweet taste.
How this relates to PineSol is left as an exercise to the student.
Xho
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GrapeApe
>When my wife walks barefoot over a floor that has been cleaned
>with PineSol or a similar product, she claims that she can *taste*
>the PineSol. Is this just her acute olfactory sense smelling the
>cleaning solution and putting a taste in her mouth or is there
>some way that certain chemicals applied to the skin can give
>one a taste sensation?
DMSO for instance, is fairly famous for this. The same effect could easily
apply to other solvents, such as those in a odiferous Pine scented cleaner.
Of course, the smell of the PineSol on its own may have a similar effect, even
if she is wearing hip waders.
Dana Carpender
Rick Howard wrote:
> Gordon Holland <TheFlyin...@dial.pipex.com**NO_SPAM**> wrote in
> message news:8o54va$jan$1...@lure.pipex.net...
>
> > What causes this bizarre mixup of taste and olfactory senses, and does
> > this happen in comjunction with any other substance eaten/drunk or
> > inhaled?
>
> When my wife walks barefoot over a floor that has been cleaned
> with PineSol or a similar product, she claims that she can *taste*
> the PineSol. Is this just her acute olfactory sense smelling the
> cleaning solution and putting a taste in her mouth or is there
> some way that certain chemicals applied to the skin can give
> one a taste sensation?
Certainly DMSO can. Has someone been mixing DMSO with your Pine Sol?
Although, come to think of it, that would give a pine-garlic flavor. Icky.
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GrapeApe
>Even as we speak, someone, somewhere, on the WWW, has put up pictures of
>people wearing hip waders and not a stitch besides.
But are they walking through puddles of Pinesol?
RM Mentock
Altavista has two hits for +"pine sol"+"waders"
but I'm afraid to look
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