I’m wondering if this is a cause for concern – I’ve just rearranged some furniture from one room to another, and (perhaps coincidentally) now that I’m finished, I notice a distinct ozone-like smell right at the doorway.
(I assume it’s ozone I’m thinking of – it’s the same smell I notice when an an electrical appliance is getting hot, or after we’ve run a dehumidifier in a room for a while.)
I’ve sniffed the light switch and the electrical outlet and it doesn’t seem to be coming from there, nor does the wall feel warm around those locations. The overhead flourescent lamp is off when I walk in the room and notice the smell.
I’m not sure if ozone has a specific complex odor, in the manner of rose petals, as much as it is an irritant. So anything that irritates the sensory organs in a similar way may be detected as ozone, like dust. Also, did you clean up afterwards using a product containing bleach, ammonia, or similar irritants?
Another possibility is you have exposed the portal to an alternate universe and ozone is being produced from the interaction of charged particles in the inter-dimensional transition zone common in that type of anomalous overlap zone.
I’m not a statistician, so I’d just have to assume that both possibilities are equally probable.
This is just a layperson’s opinion, but I think ozone requires high voltage. I think that’s why some photocopiers used to produce ozone - something to do with the corona wire (???) that’s used to fuse the toner to the paper I think.
Since ozone is what you smell after a thunderstorm, I think the odor is pretty distinctive. I wouldn’t associate it with either dry air or hot appliances. In fact, for the dry air comparison, I don’t have any idea what to imagine. I can see a dehumidifier getting rid of odors, but not creating any. IDK.
Maybe a second opinion would be useful. We’re not all wired the same so it may be something that most people perceive differently.