The thing is, I’ve not bought anything which could have rotted yet. So whatever the source is, it was left by the previous tenant. I did find an onion skin in the bottom of one of the floor cabinets and those cabinets are open on one end right next to the dishwasher so I’m wondering if an onion was not thrown/rolled over to the open space and has now begun to rot. I know what rotting garlic smells like. I had a clove roll underneath the seat of my truck last year. It took me 2 months to hunt it down and meanwhile my truck smelled like an open pack of Ramen Noodles.
But the smell in my kitchen is a bit more unpleasant and worrisome and as of this morning, capable of overcoming several squirts of Febreze. A new adventure for tonight I guess.
*Edit – I found the source of the smell. I was both right and wrong. It was both vegetable and animal. A mouse had gorged itself on a rotten clove of garlic and then crawled behind the compressor on the refrigerator and died. It had been warmed by the compressor and bloated enough to start to stink. I was smelling both the rotten garlic and the dead bloated mouse. A trash bag, a box of Arm and Hammer Baking Soda and a scented candle later and all is right with the world again. Plus I’ve set traps for the mice and found where they are getting in and denied access.
Peace,
Wander
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Wander
(I think either Zelda or Peter finally caught and ate the mouse that's been bothering us. Probably Zelda because I haven't seen any mouse parts lying around and she's had horrible "I just ate a mole" gas lately.)
Wander
I'm bringing the tin cat up this weekend.
W
;) If you suggest to LJ to add a 'scent finder' where we can post smells and ask our friends to try to figure out what it is, I swear I will defriend you and come find you...wherever you are =) Just kidding, you know. There's not many more 'improvements-not' that LJ can make...until I read your post.
I can't imagine how sickening that had to be when you found it. Use the Febreeze liberally. I think it's going to take several applications where the mouse was. Sorry you had to go through that.
I'm sure Google has the "mouse who gorged himself on garlic and died" smell.
I'm glad you found it, your edit made me laugh.
Good times.