Google needs to devlop an online database of odd scents and then create a user interface for that. There is a very odd smell in my kitchen right now. I’m pretty sure its something that has rotted. But not only can I not find the source, I really can’t identify the smell. Though it think I can safely say its vegetable and not animal so that’s encouraging. But a data base of smells would be so helpful right now in identifying what the smell is .

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