For those of you who don't know, I study chemistry, synthetic organic chemistry to be exact, which means I get my hands on all sort of fun, dangerous and fun and dangerous chemicals.
I am, however, not very used to working with very smelly chemicals.
So today I had an idea for an reaction (this should have been a warning sign, but I ignored it). It would involve a sulfur containing compound which are very known for being quite smelly, even in extremely small dosages and by that I mean you can smell it even though the amounts in the air is ppb. I decided to look it up on wikipedia (
Bensyl mercaptan for those interesed) and I noticed these pieces of information
...[bensyl mercaptan] is known to contribute to the smoky aroma of certain wines. It also occurs naturally in coffee.
Huh... It can't be that bad then.
It can.
It was.
And the smell is stuck on my fingers and possibly my clothes too. And I didn't even spill anything, this is just from me opening the bottle and taking less than 0.1 ml out of it with a syringe.
On some level I really hope the reaction doesn't work so I don't have to do it again :/.
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