[perfume] The boything on the topic of Red-Spotted Purple:

[kaberett]

"... that is quite the loveliest lemon-flavoured cleaning product I have ever met."

WELL YES I DID SAY IT WAS YOUR OVERENTHUSIASTIC CITRUS-SCENTED CLEANING-PRODUCT FRIEND. :D

(... of which I continue unfortunately fond...)

Today has been a good day.

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Something of the Nitre about him...

[hairyears]

Oh dear... Citrus or 'Lemon Zesty!' is used to conceal the smell of ammonia in cleaning products*. Ammonia isn't a mere irritant: it's more toxic than hydrogen cyanide and our sensitivity to the smell is a matter of survival.




*Pinene is preferrred for Chlorine; neither are pleasant and it's *safer* not to conceal the smell at all, as either gas in an unventilated space can knock out your sense of smell at sublethal concentrations and cause very serious harm.