From:
sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2005-01-14 21:19:53 UTC
Subject: RE: Ferret Smell
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <7161782.1105737593203.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Author wrote:
> Two smells I've noticed....
> Adrenal....a very, very strong ferret body smell
> Cancer (such as lymphoma)....the smell when someone brings a fast food burger into the office, kinda oniony
It is interesting how the PERCEPTION of smells or of components of those smells varies among individuals. I smell the musky almost-whole part of adrenal growth strongly and an undertone of urine less so during adrenal neoplasia. Some people smell the urine smell more for urinary tract problems (which also makes sense), some smell the urine part more or smell the musk part more with adrenal growths or may not personally perceive any note of the other smell at all.
For malignacies when I could smell them it was a very distinctive smell which for me was kind of sweet rot with a slight tang to it. I can understand your description; onuions smell sweet and there is a meat component to the smell and fast food burgers do have bit of tang to their odor, so while that isn't how I personal perceive it I think the same components are there.
I guess the moral is that even though people read how smells smell to others it may be that their own individual preceptions for some scents will vary so if they notice that smell "A" -- which might not be quite what others here have described though I'd expect it to be somewhat similar -- is what they personally smell repeatedly when there are adrenal growths or when there are malignancies then they should recognize it as a warning sign in the future.