Less Smell and Getting Warmer

It could also be the herb fenugreek. Fenugreek is used sparingly in cooking sometimes, but we use it to treat our diabetic pet, but in dry form. The only "powdered" form I know if is as a tea. I suppose a diabetic human could use it to treat diabetes also. I cannot explain why this would be a citywide smell, unless hundreds of people simultaneously decided to make fenugreek tea at the same time!

I know this may sound ridiculous, but that's why I have to share. I live in Tempe, Arizona and around 5:50 (8:50 Eastern time) yesterday, I commented to two of my friends that I got a really strong wiff of maple syrup. Sympathetic olfactory sense? Strong cross wind? Or is this pleasant, though strangely unnerving, smell an American institution?

There's a plant in Jersey City that turns citrus and other fruits into a concentrate additive used to make household cleaners. When the plant is running, it emits an aerosol of citrus, which makes southern J.C. and Bayonne smell like Lemon Pledge. My guess is that they're experimenting with apples or kiwis or something, and it carried across the Hudson.

They won't own up because someone is sure to sue them over it, for one crazy reason or another.

thought it smelled like maple syrup with a touch of floride.

I am on 113th Street, I smelled the smell last night, now I am smelling it again....or maybe I am imagining it.....maybe it has lingered in my apartment ? Maybe some Maple Syrup company has launched a subliminal advertising campaign? Maybe this is an obsure art project? All I know is I want to smell the sweet of rotting trash again.....Or maybe God purchased one of those Glade scent discs and is hooked on the Maple syrup track??

When you smell something strange all over the city, it usually comes from across the Hudson. I can't tell you the number of times I smelled something strange when I drove on the turnpike near Newark.

All smells lead to New Jersey.

I live on 113th st on the west side and I too could smell maple syrup last night. I thought it was this sweet tea I had been drinking all day due to the flu. I guess not..

I live in Philadelphia. On some nights, this same syrupy smell can be experienced for miles around.

I believe it has something to do with the Campbells soup plant, or the Dole canned fruit plant across the Delaware River in Camden, NJ.

The smell New York is experiencing is likely from a similar source.

Sitting up late at night with my girlfriend I wondered, has she started using a new perfume. I knew I had gained a couple of pounds recently, but I began to feel dismayed that she felt she could only allure me by pouring syrup on her pulse points. It's nice to know that rather than a maple parfume I was part of some collective phenomenon. Now I'll just wait for the toxicity reports to start filing in.

I smelled the maple syrup last night around 9pm when I left my apartment in the west village. I thought it was a restaurant but when I walked all the way to union square and still smelled it just as strong, I thought it was a bit odd. I wonder what the hell it was???

zomg! I smelled it all last night on the UES (80th & 2nd) and thought there were just a lot of people eating pancakes... at 2am... in the rear of the building... using lots and lots and lots of freshly drawn and processed maple syrup. Holy freaking god, too too weird.

That is so strange! I live in Hoboken and was sitting around last night and started smelling wiffs of what I thought was maple syrup, but just thought I was imagining it! Thanks for saving my sanity! Love the site, Ed

dear gothamist, when we were puzzling over the smell last night, we knew that gothamist would tell us what was going on. when did you become the #1 new york information location?

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