Very Strange Smells

I wonder if it could be ghostly occurrences?

When I worked in a plastic melting factory, made telephone wire and cable and plastic palettes had to be melted into insulation for wires. That was done via many 500 degree machines to do so.

I smelled plastic at times everywhere I went, but I knew what was causing it and what the smell was from at the time. Only thing that helped was a steam room regularly as it would open all the pores in my body and it would shock you to see what would form on my face and arms during that time.

Might try a "google search" and see if you can come up with anything.

???Call the Ghost Busters.... or that lady that speaks to dead people perhaps?

It sounds like a neurological based occurrence. If this continues, you should see your doctor. Years ago, I started smelling cherry pipe tobacco in our home. No one that we knew smoked a pipe...no one had been in our home with one. I told my doctor what I was experiencing, and he ordered an EEG. It showed that I was having non convulsive seizures. Once I was treated with medication, the odor disappeared.

I imagine most of us have had things like this happen, where we suddenly catch a whiff of a fragrance and don't know where it's coming from. I don't know if you want to entertain the "ghostly occurrence" theory some have mentioned, but I suppose it could be a neurological or mental thing, where your mind and memory are for some reason bringing smells from the past to your consciousness. It might also be less mysterious. The heating or A/C system or a draught through a window is bringing odors from another area or from within the ventwork. Or a person who was wearing perfume was in the room earlier and leaned against your desk or perhaps brushed against your clothes in an elevator or on the bus earlier in the day, and you pick up the fragrance later at your desk.

Interesting phenomenon. You may figure it out with more thought.

On 7/8/2014 NanciJ said:

It sounds like a neurological based occurrence. If this continues, you should see your doctor. Years ago, I started smelling cherry pipe tobacco in our home. No one that we knew smoked a pipe...no one had been in our home with one. I told my doctor what I was experiencing, and he ordered an EEG. It showed that I was having non convulsive seizures. Once I was treated with medication, the odor disappeared.

That was my thought, NanciJ. I've know of neurological changes during migraine attacks (even without pain) causing this phenomenon. Also, some medications can create olfactory hallucinations (phantosmia).

Take good care of yourself, nantucket ­shore.

It has happened to me, the first time after my Mother suddenly passed away. After the funeral, that night I lit a candle, for her, and all of a sudden that room smelled like a garden in full bloom, it was a regular white candle, nothing to do with fragranced candles. The second time was shortly after my daughter in law passed away, all of a sudden a very strong fragrance hit my nose, I recognized her perfume immediately, we were very close, best friends I'd say, I believe it was her way of letting me know, that she knew why I wasn't at her bedside when she passed away, and that we remained best friends.