Fri 9 Feb 2007
In our lab we have water baths to warm stuff up or incubate tubes in. We also have one in our indirect heat climate-controlled incubator. Anyway, every now and then the water is replaced and we squirt this anti-microbial goop in so it doesn’t go all funky on us. Well, Shin, our trusty undergrad, cleaned out both water baths in the cell culture room and every time I open the cover or incubator door I just love the smell! I dunno if we got a different chemical to put in it or if he just put way too much in, but that stuff is like aromatherapy! I can’t even describe it… it’s sweet and kind of fruity, maybe like cherries, but not fresh cherries, more like cherries would smell if they were cooked in mom’s cherry cake and someone poured raspberry sauce all over the top of it while it was still warm so the cake would heat the raspberry sauce and make it smell stronger, and then that smell mixed with the smell of the hot cherry cake. It smells so good I just had to write about it, lol. I can see the perfume on the market now – “Eau de bain d’eau” LOL.