My camper has been smelling really nice the past few days, but it’s gotten overwhelming. And I just figured out why.
As I was driving the Klondike Highway the other day, I saw this empty box on the road. I picked it up, both to remove litter and because, well, it’s kind of a good box. Plus I had already stopped. You can’t stop to investigate debris in the road, realize it’s litter, and just toss it onto the shoulder. Anyway, I was gonna use it as a garbage can but decided instead to stack souvenir rocks in it. I set it in the car at first and then the camper, and then noticed this intense kind of forest aroma. A really nice smell, kind of like deep pine forest, perhaps a distant wildfire oddly enough. I noticed it in the car first and thought it was from outside. But just now I thought to look in the box for something, or to move it, and caught a whiff. So I googled the label. It says “Dustbane disappear.” And that turns out to be a cleaning fragrance. This box would’ve been four one-gallon bottles of industrial toilet deodorizer. It’s strong enough that even the small residue on the box was enough to overpower my camper within a few days of sitting. It’s outside now. It’s a pretty good fragrance, actually, but just too intense for this space especially when I do want to smell the outside.