Product: Air Freshener
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Forget masking odors. Package aerosol, containing olfactory de-sensitizing chemicals. If the product destroys your senses, you haven't a steady client base and possible legalities. If it wears off in a week, it may fool enough gold into the company pockets to re-invest into similar products; or perhaps a cure for over exposure.
-- reclaimbozeman, Nov 24 2010

science direct http://www.scienced...euroscience Letters
Volume 77, Issue 2, 15 June 1987, Pages 181-186 [reclaimbozeman, Nov 24 2010]

The Alchemical Marriage of Alistair Crompton http://sheckley.tripod.com/novels2.htm
Read it ... [8th of 7, Nov 24 2010]

No good link [reclaimbozeman].
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Nov 24 2010


flag it up, 2fries.
-- po, Nov 24 2010


Link repaired. I still don't understand the idea though.
-- hippo, Nov 24 2010


Link pertains to frogs only?
[hippo] I believe the idea is for a chemical to kill one's olfactory senses so no smelling will occur.
-- xandram, Nov 24 2010


Anosmia.

It would also severely impair the abilty to taste.

Might be useful in some circumstances as long as the effect was transient.

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-- 8th of 7, Nov 24 2010


//Asnomia//

Not quite. Asnomia is the ancient Greek custom of naming people's bottoms. You may, perhaps, mean "anosmia", which can refer either to a lack of smell, or to the termination of the musical career of an American brother-and-sister band popular in the 70's.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Nov 24 2010


Thanks, [MB], I always get confused by those three.
-- gnomethang, Nov 24 2010


SP. fixed.

// termination of ... American brother-and-sister band popular in the 70's //

Anosmia in that case means gaining a sense of taste ...
-- 8th of 7, Nov 24 2010


The poster describes himself as "happy-go-lucky". Are we meant to pick one?
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Nov 24 2010



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