Maple Sugar Smell Mystery!
Something strange is going on-- last night the whole city smelled like maple syrup! Gothamist has gotten reports from all over Manhattan-- and we smelled the strange, sweet odor as far south as Chambers Street. Gothamist Contribute also has some reports:
The whole city smells like maple syrup and everyone knows it! Tell us why. October 28, 2005 02:38 AM
Same smell is pervading the Greenwich Village / NYU area -- both outdoors and in, I smelled it in my apt earlier and thought a neighbor was making french toast or something but it's clearly something bigger. Maple syrup dirty bomb???
October 28, 2005 02:09 AM
I'm on W. 96th St. and I can smell it, too. I thought there was some food hidden in my room somewhere.
October 28, 2005 01:04 AM
The air smells of maple syrup in the Upper West Side. Anonymous individual sources questioned at street corners around Harlem agree that for some reason it smells very sweet and syrupy. Everyone speculates that a pancake truck or maple syrup factory has caught on fire. Perhaps Gothamist can investigate? (around Columbia Uni area + Harlem area)
October 28, 2005 12:50 AM
Maple syrup dirty bomb? Commence panic! [Related: You Can't Make It Up also noticed the smell!.]
Update: The New York Times doesn't know what it is, either!
Posted by Jake Dobkin
http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php
More tests?
There was another town reported 'strange smells' this week.
On the Las Vegas bomb, when I read the french missile report in #4371, it crossed my mind that it also is carried under the airplane, as the caller said the bomb was.
On the Las Vegas 'white powder', it did close the courthouse for 3 hours yesterday.
It came in an envelope that had "unfriendly language" on the front of it, so was taken to the manager, who then noticed a white powder coming from it.
Of course the powder turned out to be nothing.
per KDWN radio, Hart & Ken - Snoozebusters show on now.
Well, to the experts here, what do we know of that can possess this 'sweet' 'perfumy' odor?