Eli5 Why is skunk spray so potent and stay in one area for so long?
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And what no one has mentioned here is how the ‘smell goes away after 5 minutes’. Only it doesn’t! Our dog got sprayed. While my wife tried cleaning him, the smell got better, and I then went off to the supermarket to get baking soda. When I came back, the smell in the house was overpowering again. It turns out that your olfactory bulbs get overwhelmed and you start to lose your sense of smell temporarily. Getting away from it allows them to recover. That means, you may think it’s not too bad, but everyone else knows it’s bad!
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