I made a post a few weeks ago about this smell I keep smelling everywhere lately, like an unpleasant cross between nasty perfume and laundry detergent. This exact smell seems to be everywhere and on everything now, items in shops, letters that get delivered, people, everything. Some of you said you had also noticed it.
Today people on reddit were talking about it, someone said it’s some “petrochemical derived synthetic terpene” that has been sold to the masses via scent marketing - some petrochemical company pushing this onto companies.
So its in the diffused crap they disperse via HVAC in places like supermarkets, its in perfume, its in washing detergent, it’s in everything. And apparently it destroys human health, hormones, fertility, causes emotional dysregulation and various illnesses.
In other words, it’s not just a nasty, annoying smell - we’re being purposely poisoned.
Commercial scent marketing through HVAC systems is real: https://help.scentair.com/en-US/can-scent-marketing-integrate-with-existing-hvac-systems-5599357
Iso E Super is a globally proliferated substance and has produced degraded reproductive effects in high-dose mouse experiments: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6839564 and https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/publications/reports/tox/tox092
But that same study also found that inhalation of lower doses of that same aerosolized substance did not cause any similar reproductive problems in mice.
So, of course this results in epistemic hedging like, yeah, health risks from fragrance chemicals is possible and demonstrated, but widespread poisoning via diffused aerosolized fragrances, has not been proven, and not demonstrated to be physically possible.
Frankly, I am willing to give wildly powerful and unaccountable incorporated industrial actors in modern capitalist economies the presumption of guilt, given all the heinous shit that has been proven about the nefarious shit they’re constantly doing.