These last few months almost everything has had the same smell on it. Whether it’s letters through the post, items bought in the supermarket, anything at all. It’s a very distinctive perfume smell. Doesn’t matter where it was bought or who delivered it, everything smells like this now.
Hm, that’s tricky. There’s some hand soaps and lotions that have a very distinct smell, but you’d smell those on people as well. Scented paper is another option, but that doesn’t make sense for packaging either
Hand sanitizers are scented, too.
I’m wondering if all delivery drivers now have the same air freshener hanging in their vehicles or something. Whatever it is, it’s horrible.
My guess: someone was shipping a huge quantity of something scented, and it wasn’t packed securely, and it broke open and got all over all the sorting equipment and now everything that touches that machine smells like that now.
I’ve seen similar things happen.
The only thing is this is happening from multiple different delivery companies and supermarkets that use their own couriers.
I’ve been wondering if it’s a chemical marker being used in shipping to designate that a parcel has been previously scanned/screened.
That’s a good call actually. It might just be an air freshener, and those things never smell nice. I’m not really sensitive to smells in general, but I can still smell the one a relative had hanging in his car when I was little, and my nose and eyes are still burning from the aggressive chemical stink.
The use of artificial scents is one of my least favourite things about modern life.