Hey, chemists!

[swan_tower]

How would you describe the smell of acid? Does it have a smell? (Any kind of acid will do; I'm looking for commonalities here.)

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Sharp, is the word I would use.

Think of which cooking things are canonically acidic. Tomato, citrus, vinegar. If you have to use a word other than "acidic" for the smell of acid, I'd go with "sharp."

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

I don't want to say "acidic" right from the start, because it takes the pov character a moment to figure out what he's smelling (which is, in fact, an acid). But yeah, that was mostly what I was thinking.