Dear Neil,
I hope that cologne will overpower the oily/gasoline smell my wife is always complaining about (it would be a lot faster than showers before dinner).
My guess is that Virgil will smell mostly like mold. But you're right, mass spectrometry (probably gas chromatography/mass spectrometry or GC/MS) would be the way to determine what makes that "new car smell". How many points out of 100 will that smell be worth?
It must come from interior fabrics, fabric treatments, insulation materials, and plastics, and I imagine it could be fairly easily synthesized by finding out what exactly the original materials were and mixing the most likely volatile components. By the way, it's volatilization of compounds in modern construction materials that leads to the nastiest kinds of "indoor air pollutants" that concern OSHA and EPA. The standard method for their determination would probably be the method of choice for "eau de olde car" or "Chrysler #5". It probably involves bubbling the air thru a liquid to extract and preconcentrate the odorants, followed by GC/MS.
Heck, this sound too much like work. I think I'll go out and try to remove a rear hub.
Best,
Ed
----- Original Message -----
From: esierraadj@xxxxxxxxx (eastern sierra Adj Services)
Date: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 9:56 pm
Subject: (PLYMMIE) Prowlin & Growlin & SNIFFIN the AIR!!!!!
> Doc Ed; yer the nuclear chemist , I was looking-for, last week!!
>
> Seriously, sorta, on 6/15/07, when we get to see Virgil, after he's
> unearthed, in Tulsa, is there any practical way to
> "gather/sample" his
> NOS Factory-new-car-smell, & provide it to any
> "lab" so that they might mass-spectrometerize
> it, or whatever, so that that DeLovely(?) odor might be
> reproduced, as
> either an "air Freshener", or for the harder-corer of us, a cologne?
>
> Eaux de EXNER,
>
> Neil Vedder
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