Why blood? Because hemoglobin in our blood has a lot of iron and thus has a metallic scent, similar to the coppery smell of a bunch of pennies collected together.
People who do things like floor an entire room in pennies counsel that you really need to seal/varnish the finished surface otherwise the smell can be pervasive.
what if i want to smell like blood?
You want vampires? Because that’s how you get vampires.
Ralf, that’s the kind of reply you can post everywhere but Tumblr.
Of course they want vampires.
I actually learned this while considering making scented candles based on the various magic scents in the October Daye series, but copper doesn’t actually smell like blood! Copper alone doesn’t smell like much of anything.
Copper is just slightly corrosive to skin, so the blood you smell comes from handling the copper and is, in fact, just blood. You are just smelling blood. Your blood, and the blood of everyone who has ever touched the copper.
Which is why it is difficult to make a copper and grass scented candle.
1. We can’t actually smell metals. Metals don’t release enough molecules to hit our nose at room temperature for us to smell them. 2. Iron and copper actually react with oils on our skins and create molecules (aldehydes and ketones) which the human nose is highly sensitive to. 3. The researchers think that our ability to detect iron and copper is related to a vestigial capability to detect blood. Probably from our mammalian predator ancestors.
Item: fourteen-pound cocktail dress made of copper coins; discussion is ongoing about whether or not it attracts vampires.
I love opening up this website first thing like the morning paper and immediately seeing multiple posts like “how to get rid of the evil clown on the dashboard”. like oh is this what we’re doing today
I’m gonna start adding this to every post I see about this advertising bs that tumblr are pulling
not only is it annoying, and in some countries probably illegal for not declaring a paid partnership
TUMBLR IS CROSSING THE PICKET LINE
They are taking money from Netflix to promote a show.
Actors and writers are unable to promote work because of the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
Netflix is under the AMPTP, so it is a struck company, making One Piece a struck work.
So they are using alternate ways of promoting their products, including paying companies like tumblr.
Both the WGA and SAG-AFTRA have made statements saying that they consider anyone or company taking payment to promote struck work as crossing the picket line.
Tumblr is spitting in the face of struggling actors and writers to make a quick buck from Netflix
