Maple Sugar Smell Mystery!

Ok, folks, this smell is stron in Indianapolis, Indiana. What the hell is it??

I'm way down on the border of Texas/Mexico, and I went outside just now to let my dog go to the restroom when I smelled a strange sweet smell. Syrupy for sure...like maybe cotton candy. When I came in to research it online, I found this page. Wonder if it's the same?

Basically nothing noteworthy happening right now, but eh. Today was a complete loss. I haven't been up to much recently. I've pretty much been doing nothing worth mentioning.

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left around 2:00 and it still smelled. What the

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I cannot tell you how frustrated I am that this mystery of late 2005 has not yet been solved. I think about it a lot. I smelled it on West 137th street near Riverside that day, and so did everyone else outside. It was VERY, VERY strong, to the point that no one could really think about anything else. (Well, one person said it make him want fried chicken and waffles, so maybe what you thought about depended more on what you use syrup with.) Anyone with theories of localized sources, such as air filters or bakeries, and anyone who thinks that it could be a series of coincidences, obviously wasn't walking around the City that night. Even in the days after the World Trade Center attacks, when the massive smoke clouds covered much of the City, you could only really smell the smoke in certain areas depending on where the wind was blowing. But this smell seemed to blanket the entire City. It was so strong and pervasive, it defies explanation. If someone was 'testing' whether or not airborne substances could be spread easily throughout an entire metropolis, clearly they got their answer. Though I do still want waffles, I must admit that I'm also really concerned.

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I noticed an odor similar to maple syrup emanating from air cleaners/ air conditioners which had been heavily used for many months, then not used for a few months, then used again. This situation occurred both with a traditional hepa air cleaner and with a Living air Ionic air Cleaner. This smell might have something to do with renewed use of air filters or fans which have been dormant for some time.?

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I always smell it on 33rd street between 10th and 11th.

Sometimes less sometimes VERY strong. Maybe an underground smell factory hired by vermont maple syrup company ; - )

is it back again ?

seems to support URINE theory...

Posted: Oct 28, 2005 by rion

seriously, if it is benzoic acid (or something else serious), wouldn't that be a way to test powder dispersion within a large city?

i smelled it on and off all day, BUT IT WAS SPECIFICALLY STRONGER IN OUR BATHROOM last night. (we assumed the neighbors were cooking in their kitchen thru the wall.)

i hate to be a conspiracy theorist, but if the smell was coming through the water pipes, that's really not so good...

I KID YOU NOT.... MAPLE SYRUP URINE DISEASE

Quoting jay (posted: October 28, 2005)... this seemslike the most reasonable explanation. The sweetness made me suspect it was something like that. Ugh...

"I kid you not....Maple syrup urine disease

" Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) is caused by the inability to metabolize the branched-chain amino acids leucine, isoleucine, and valine. The disease is called MSUD because urine from affected people smells like maple syrup."

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000373.htm"

Smell it in Astoria. AGAIN. It's making me crazy. It feels like I am covered in it.

Yes, the syrupy smell is quite strong here on the UWS. Any theories?

The theory so far that I find most comforting is the ol' government checking the air currents for our safety thought. But I'm pretty sure the government doesn't really care about my safety.







It's interesting, too, the way the smell works. I notice it in sporadic whiffs... just slight, then gone. Then again. Enough to make me think I'm nuts. Burning some of the stinky hippie incense I normally hate helps me not notice it as bad.

ARGH! YES!! I'm at 107th between WEA/RSD and I totally just thought my heater was on the fritz . . . let's hear from some other people around here, please quell my nervousness??

The smell is back. 9pm on Jan. 26 - on the UWS. Anyone else smell it?

My friend and I smelled it 12/29 on 51st and Madison around 5pm. I reported it to 311. Defnitely freaks me out. But you know the saying "when you hear hoof beats, don't think zebras".... I think odds are it is not terror related. It just reduces one's sense of control to not know what it is.

Ok People, it was quite apparent what is going on... the US government does not rule out the threat of potential deployment of nuclear products by enemies of the United States.

As the duty of the US government to protect the people. The 2nd line of defense is to preserve; in case attack is inevitable.... So they study the NYC area for testing simulated cloud patterns of dispersal if something were to happen(Similar concept of chemical release...but they tested with some placebo). Don't worry, it's just an effort to better study the US terrain and potential pattern of effected by possible future actions...and thus know what population is at risk and how many to treat,etc...An attempt to gain Central Intelligence of ourselves!!!

So Get over it. The worst thing that will happen??? Maple syrup stock will go up on the NYSE and/or there will be a run on maple syrup in the NYC area for a while...

My suggestion(monroe doctrine!!!):

Eat some good pancakes next time you smell it!

PS- Mrs. butterworth sucks, try some grade A canadian maple syrup!!

Little Falls NJ, we smell it now... 11pm

We smell it at 5:27 p.m. on 12/12 in a building on East 60th Street.

I smelled maple syrup in the air thursday in Edgewater NJ.

The smell is caused by a component, (benzoic acid), of a new anti-freeze solution they spray on sidewalks and streets to keep ice from coating them.

I just heard about it.Weird.I hope we're not being invaded by some gigantic extraterrestial pancake lovers.lol.

I smelled something like maple syrup in the Bronx (Kingsbridge road area) at about 4:30pm that day. I didn't think much of it until I saw the news reports about it the next morning.

Yesterday at around 2:30pm i was coming out of school and i smelled pancakes. Everyone on school was like "oh they making pancakes". But then i saw the news and i saw something weird was going on

I smelled the maple syrup in manhattan on W 57th and again in brooklyn!

I do remember smelling this in the mid '70s when I lived near Columbia Univ. I'm glad we don't have this problem in Brooklyn. It used to drive me nuts.

It's baaaaack!

I was down at Harlem, on December 1st of this year. And I was going for my usual power walk from 145th Street, to my local Pathmark in Harlem. I smelled the syrup immediately, and I thought that maybe Mrs. Butterworth, or Aunt Jemimah had committed suicide by drowning themselves in the Harlem River.

The so-called News People don't seem to know what the smell is either.

It may seem harmless at first guys, but you never know. I've heard of dangerous chemicals that give off sweet smells, whether natural or added by man. Such as the Natural Gas smell. Try not to inhale too much. Someone out there knows what it is, and may or may not tell us sooner or later.

If they don't, we may have a new Urban Legend for this new Millennium.

I smelled it today as well. 3:00 PM on the Columbia campus.

upper west side too

it's definitely back. i smelled it the whole way on a walk from greene and grand to broadway and bond. soho is full of maple!

it seems that strange maple syrup smell that wafted through the city in late october is back. i'm in the 23rd and bdway area and it's pretty strong. did they ever figure out what it was???

Someone on a ufo web site Reported seeing several Unknown Objects above the skies before that maple night.Was there more people who seen anything that night? Was there a Burning Pancake Factory?Government Cover Up? A Religious Experience? Ends of Times? Who Knows! I Think we Can Handle the Truth after all New Yorkers and the world have gone Through.

Here's a possible explanation.

The chemical responsible for the maple syrup aroma in your Aunt Jemima's is called methyl cyclopentenolone, or MCP for short. When used in really small proportions (10 parts per million or so), it imparts a maple-like flavor and aroma to foods. It is approved by the FDA for use in food, so the danger of smelling it is up for debate.

It seems to be a volatile solid at room temperature. 'Volatile' just means that it evaporates readily (thus the smell), not that it is unstable or explosive.

By googling "methyl cyclopentenolone" and searching for manufacturers, you'll find that many of them are in China.

New Jersey has a large chemical industry, some of which serves the American food industry. A lot of chemicals come and go from the ports there.

Maybe a big container of MCP ruptured when being loaded off a ship from China. The stuff might just be powerful-smelling enough to set up a maple stink in the city, if the winds were right. A westerly wind would have taken the odor across Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens.

Incidentally, benzoic acid is also in a lot of food we eat. It is a common preservative, usually as a sodium salt called sodium benzoate. It doesn't smell or taste like maple, so far as I can tell. Most soft drinks contain lots of it.

i smelled it again on monday, and posted on craigslist to see if anyone else had the same experience, but no response. has anyone here smelled it again after the initial experience last thursday?

The weird thing was that on Sunday, 11:30 am I was fishing Plum Gut off of Orient Point on the north east fork of Long Island when I definitely caught a whiff of "the Smell". It freaked me out because it was so far from the city, and it was unmistakable. I haven't heard anyone compare the smell to sweet pipe tobacco. But that's what first came to mind at first whiff. I first smelled it Thursday evening in Astoria. Near Ditmars and Steinway. Is anyone using archived weather data like wind speed and direction to track down the source? I thought it might be some food additive chemical company in New Jersey.

Re "apparently" smelling it in Astoria - I just heard about this smell (I went out of town Friday morning, didn't watch news or come online until now), but you could DEFINITELY smell it in Astoria - I checked my Trillian logs just to be sure it happened to me on the same night. I said to a friend around midnight, "I just got the strongest whiff of syrup," and we then talked about other stuff for awhile. Every couple of minutes, I was all "Man! Syrup again!" I live near Steinway & 20th Ave., waaaaay up there.

Re "apparently" smelling it in Astoria - I just heard about this smell (I went out of town Friday morning, didn't watch news or come online until now), but you could DEFINITELY smell it in Astoria - I checked my Trillian logs just to be sure it happened to me on the same night. I said to a friend around midnight, "I just got the strongest whiff of syrup," and we then talked about other stuff for awhile. Every couple of minutes, I was all "Man! Syrup again!" I live near Steinway & 20th Ave., waaaaay up there.

We smelled it overnight on the UWS. Thing is, I recall smelling it on the commute home one night over a week before in the subway around the B/F/D at 42nd. Only one other poster has claimed smelling it earlier - and it also was in a subway. Anyone else?

I took a CPR/First aid certification... and the guys who taught it were these EMTs who have seen and know everything about safety... and I remember them saying that if you're going down to the train and you smell cinnamon rolls or cookies, turn around and get out... that "they" attach a pleasant smell to harmful substances to make you linger and inhale it further... I thought about all that when the maple syrup thing came up and thought holy crap... anything is possible... i still smell it here and there. does anyone else?

I could smell it all the way out here in DALLAS TX!!?!

(just kidding)

very strange.

I could smell it all the way out here in DALLAS TX!!?!

(just kidding)

very strange.

Still puzzling over this. I live in Des Moines Iowa and Friday evening upon returning home my wife told me she was craving waffles all day long after experiencing a smell on her way to work (Friday 6:30AM) to downtown Des Moines, Iowa. I showed her the story I seen on the Drudge web site and she exclaimed that was the same smell!! Folks, something is going on and it wasn't just in the NYC area........very strange.

I smelled it walking home from a friend's apt in Stuyvesant town to my place on 28th and 2nd.

The only thing I could think of at the time was that it must have been the combination of the SIX Dunkin Donuts that I pass on the way home all making something at the same time, and the smell, which smelled caramelly and sweet to me, almost made me go in and buy their carameled blended-coffee drink were it not for the 40 degree weather.

I'm glad I found that this was more than Dunkin Donuts because I smelled it all the way home and was actually rather lightheaded by the time I got back from taking in huge whiffs every breath to see if the smell was STILL there, which it always was!

I smelled it walking home from a friend's apt in Stuyvesant town to my place on 28th and 2nd.

The only thing I could think of at the time was that it must have been the combination of the SIX Dunkin Donuts that I pass on the way home all making something at the same time, and the smell, which smelled caramelly and sweet to me, almost made me go in and buy their carameled blended-coffee drink were it not for the 40 degree weather.

I'm glad I found that this was more than Dunking Donuts because I smelled it all the way home and was actually rather lightheaded by the time I got back from taking in huge breaths every time to see if the smell was STILL there, which it always was!

I smelled it walking home from a friend's apt in Stuyvesant town to my place on 28th and 2nd.

The only thing I could think of at the time was that it must have been the combination of the SIX Dunkin Donuts that I pass on the way home all making something at the same time, and the smell, which smelled caramelly and sweet to me, almost made me go in and buy theyre carameled blended-coffee drink were it not for the 40 degree weather.

I'm glad I found that this was more than Dunking Donuts because I smelled it all the way home and was actually rather lightheaded by the time I got back from taking in huge breaths every time to see if the smell was STILL there, which it always was!

I'm from Michigan, so I'm anxious to know if anyone still smells this, and where. My husband knows a great deal about cars, and told me that antifreeze, when heated (especially during combustion, the main reason antifreeze would ever be heated) smells just like pancakes. He said the most common cause is if the heater core malfunctions, you'll smell it when you're driving and get a craving for pancakes.

What you are smelling is a whale's vagina!

This smell has come down from God.

It is has to do with the holy month of Ramadan for mulsims

The last 10 days of the month of Ramadan are called the "Nights of Power" where god sits the first sky the closest to earth and look over his worshipers and answer their prayers.

At that God also sends angles for all of whose spend the night praying and asking forgiveness.

The angles spray the the sky with fruity smell -maple like kind of smell"

Hope that helps

Thank you

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I was on a subway car about a week before this incident where I and other passengers on the train smelled a strong odor of maple syrup. We were talking about how strange this was and actually started to look around for a "spill". I am not making this up.

I may be late in logging this message, but I only just now learned that what I smelled Thursday night was not just in my apartment and not my imagination! Holy Moly! I was sitting here in my living room, at 28th & 2nd Ave. in Manhattan and this Maple Syrup smell just kept wafting through the apartment. It disturbed me because it was intrusive I couldn't explain it. I wondered if I was imagining it. As for what might have caused the smell, I have a different take on it than the speculation I've read. I don't think it was a chemical spill or a terrorist test. My vote is that it was a secret government experiment to see how quickly and extensively a gaseous substance would spread under certain conditions. Perhaps the NYPD or Dept. of Homeland Defense conducted a test to study the possible effects of a terrorist release of toxins??? It would seem that an industrial accident would be easy enough to trace and I doubt that terrorist would risk being detected with a widespread test right in the most important city in world. However, clearly it was SOMETHING. Either nature farted or it was a government test.

Wow - I just found out about this story because the fake news on SNL made a joke about it. I'm FREAKING OUT because I was smelling that hardcore in my apartment in Hell's Kitchen the other night (seems like most of the Manhattan smell locations were on the west side). I just assumed it was my building's heat that was making the smell because I turned it on for the first time that night and it's my first winter in the building. I was wondering if my apartment was going to smell like that from now on. Guess not.

I am truly concerned that this may be terror related somehow. Perhaps it's something that will slowly kill or otherwise harm us. Then again it could have been non-terror related too - but either way WE SHOULD KNOW WHY. They are not taking this seriously at all as far as I can tell. I hope the election doesn't have anything to do with it. If anybody has any answers please post them here!!!

PS - anybody else feel like they are coming down with something. Maybe I'm just coming down with something - but if all of us feel like we're coming down with something that could mean trouble.

I don't get why the news media isn't more on top of it. I guess because it wasn't a BAD smell (I thought to myself, "I must go buy some maple and brown sugar flavored instant oatmeal tomorrow, for it is delicious").

I'm definitely freaked out about the possibility of terrorist baddies testing how far and fast an airborne toxin can spread, and more freaked out about how the story's dying and so few people seem at all alarmed!!!

Even if the city found something serious out about the smell, they probably wouldn't even tell us...they don't want the whole city freaked out going nuts

just suppposing the air is filled with a sweet smell and it's a good thing....if bad things can happen, good things can happen too...maybe the sweetness is hard to accept, but smell it, it's out there.....

smelt it on the street, in the LES last night. just assumed it was coming from a restaurant...

it would make sense if this was a test of some kind. the city & police run all kinds of crazy drills around the city all the time. it would also explain the reason why no one has claimed responsibility, as well as why cops & emergency workers were spotted by commenters at two major train stations.

didnt we also have a strange unexplained gas smell in queens & long island last summer??

I smelled it on the border of Ditmas Park and Midwood in BK. On one hand, it's sort of amusing, but on the other very scary that presumably one source can spread a smell over a huge area, that according to this thread seems to have stretched from Jersey to Connecticut to BK. Wonder if there's any relation to the fact that Halloween is coming up? Could be terrorist "testing" or could be U.S. government testing to see what terrorists could do. Who knows. I do hope the gov can get to the bottom of it.

i smelt it all afternoon and evening, thought i was going mad or had some sinus illness. i smelt it at work on 33rd st, then in the subway - then home in the financial district.

it's a smell i've caught whiff of before - someone suggested in the past that it was anti-freeze.

i smelt it all afternoon and evening, thought i was going mad or had some sinus illness. i smelt it at work on 33rd st, then in the subway - then home in the financial district.

it's a smell i've caught whiff of before - someone suggested in the past that it was anti-freeze.

i was on 34th and 8th outside a movie theater when I smelled it and i thought that instead of pumping the smell of popcorn onto the streets, as theaters will do to entice people to see a movie (it works btw) they substituted a really sweet candy, hmmmm I guess I was wrong.

Smelled it in Park Slope-

a friend at the OEM (Office for Emergency Management) says it's safe, though. But she/they don't know what it is

so, should I buy a gas mask?

I smelled it last night in Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill. I hope we find out what it was. Maybe it came from the chemical plants along the NJ turnpike.

i smelled it in williamsburg/brooklyn

it smelled like butterscotch, really faintly, like someone was baking

there is no doubt in my mind that this is something we should be concerned about as far as terorism is concerned. we need to get real - we live in new york city! the keebler factory did not explode, releasing sugary smells in the air! and since the OEM has still not been able to determine the cause is troubling. terrorists are not going to do anything obvious, especially in new york.....did anyone ever think a plane was going to fly into a building? i truly urge everyone to remain vigilant of any other suspicious activities.

has anything like this ever happened? And why dont we know what caused it by now?

You guys are all hilarious! I have been emailing this link to everyone and have gotten similar accounts. Someone even thought the smell was coming from their cell phone. I thought some candy factory had a fire or somebody was just baking their asses off. Someone does really need to get to the bottom of this. The fact that our worthless city officials still don't know what the source is disturbs me (but certainly does'nt suprise me considering they are preoccupied trying to hike up subway fares and playing politics down at ground zero) Just a thought.

He who smelt it, dealt it.

I smelled it in Morningside Heights and I thought I was going crazy! Thought I caught a wiff this morning too.

I bet it was a big test of Odor Screen

smelled it in Union Square, saw lots of fire trucks there too, around, 10 p.m. Someone needs to get to the bottom of this.

Smelled it in Park Slope last night around 10:30 but thought I was just tired and decided to go to bed.