Ozone
Originally Posted by
yyznomad
I'm trying to figure out what that smells like.
If you ever did any photocopying on the old machines, ozone is part of that smell profile.
Problem for me is that I went to the large Science Museum in Paris at an impressionable age and there was an Odor-torium, or similarly named, exhibit which matched images on a small cinema screen with puffs of scents and aromas, perhaps from canisters. The most disagreeable example - the one that would clear out the room - was a nature show where you wound up visiting a fox’s den. Bleaurgh!!! One of the constituent component smells of that noxious lair must be released during photocopying, I couldn’t be near a photocopier in action for years without feeling nauseous.