About a year ago I was hiking in the woods in Florida when all of a sudden I smelled a very strong spice smell. It smelled a lot like you’re walking in the spiced tchotchkes aisle of a craft store but stronger. Or like potpourri that is being released but without any burning smell.
Other things it did not smell like:
– It was not sweet like I hear a corpse sometimes is
– It was not sharp or metallic like blood
– It was not even particularly flowery
– I clicked on the “Your topic is similar to” suggestions from Discourse and one of them mentioned the eucalyptus at Michael’s, but I don’t think that it was “sharp” or “minty” per the description, although I do think it was “woody” and “camphorous”. It was just really really heavy.
Upon smelling it, I looked around and couldn’t see anything unusual. I then started forward again and it became overpoweringly strong. If you’ve ever been in the Mint Room at Celestial Seasonings in Boulder, that’s how strong it was. But it wasn’t sharp like mint, more “heavy” like cinnamon.
So I turned around because my senses were screaming “unusual” even though there wasn’t any specific danger I had identified.
Any ideas as to what it was? I guess it’s possible it was a eucalyptus after all but I’ve never smelled it before in Florida.