PSA: rotten oranges smell like nail polish remover

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For anyone who didn’t know….because I wish I had!

Had been trying to figure out the source of this awful acetone/nail polish remover stench all weekend (in our garage/mud room area) and was worried it was some type of chemical leak or similar- particularly with the garage involvement. Ended up being a rotten orange in a kid’s sports bag - hasn’t used in awhile- hanging right by the garage door. Nasty!

I always had oranges that just dry out.

[Anonymous]

Flowering Bradford Pear Trees smell like…ejaculate and then later in bloom cycle, rotting fish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For anyone who didn’t know….because I wish I had!

Had been trying to figure out the source of this awful acetone/nail polish remover stench all weekend (in our garage/mud room area) and was worried it was some type of chemical leak or similar- particularly with the garage involvement. Ended up being a rotten orange in a kid’s sports bag - hasn’t used in awhile- hanging right by the garage door. Nasty!

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Please Google the meaning of PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT. It is not about the smell of rotten oranges!

+1, this PSA this and PSA that every day has gotten out of hand.

Here’s a PSA: all y’all need to STFU with the constant PSA’s for mundane crap

And yet you read it anyway. Maybe you should take a break from online forums.

[Anonymous]

Thank you for this! I just took out my dorm fridge thinking it was Freon, while I left the bowl of cuties on the counter. Now I know it was the cuties. And after just an hour of them removed the smell has decreased so much!

[Anonymous]

Who has bags of rotten oranges hanging around? Weird.

[Anonymous]

The smell of bad citrus is horrendous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you for this! I just took out my dorm fridge thinking it was Freon, while I left the bowl of cuties on the counter. Now I know it was the cuties. And after just an hour of them removed the smell has decreased so much!

Freon is odorless. The oil in the refrigerant is likely to have a smell.

Freon is fairly inert due to strength of the covalent F-C bonds.