My New Aroma
By katerina
@thea09 (18305)
Greece
December 3, 2015 4:34am CST
I have a delicious new aroma that clings to me where ever I go. Could it be the smell of fresh flowers or an exotic new perfume you ask. It is in fact the rather unmistakable odour of venzenie, otherwise known as petrello, or central heating oil.
Rather than order a tank full of oil to be delivered I decided instead to stock up my 20 liter petrol can every time I go into town, drive it home and pour it in the tank. It is almost two weeks since the last lot came home with me that way and the car still stinks where it leaked a drop or two. Less pleasant is the fact that the stench sticks to me to whenever I drive anywhere.
It could be the reason the queue at the post office waved me to the front today and couldn't wait to see the back of me. If they had been more patient they would have learnt the smell dissipates after five minutes.
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@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
3 Dec 15
Reminds me of a discussion recently about which sort of person someone would rather sit next to, a fat person or a smelly one. No one wants to be near the smelly person, but now I see that being the smelly one does have some advantages. Is it quite safe to transport your own heating fuel that way? Glad to hear you are keeping warm.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
3 Dec 15
That is what I would be concerned about too.
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@garymarsh6 (23404)
• United Kingdom
11 Dec 15
Dissipates as in five minutes after you have left the vicinity???
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@blitzfrick (2890)
• United States
6 Dec 15
Just don't light any matches. That is all.
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@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
6 Dec 15
I was about to say the same thing. Anything that causes people who hate standing in a queue to give way to someone at the back is worth treasuring.
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@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
10 Jan 16
I know I shouldn't laugh but that part about the post office was funny 
Happy New Year and how are you doing? 
Happy New Year and how are you doing? 
@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
27 Feb 16
Hope all is well with you there!
Is your car free of that odor yet!
@LadyDuck (471969)
• Switzerland
3 Dec 15
I know that smell very well, one of our neighbor still uses heating oil, we can smell when the delivery truck arrives. Try to pat backing soda where the couple of drops leaked, remove after a couple of hours and repeat. Good luck Katerina.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
3 Dec 15
I don't like the smell of gasoline and I don't like carting a can of it in the car. so not sure I'd care for that stuff you are carrying around.
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@gr8nana6 (6614)
• Conyers, Georgia
28 Dec 15
I would definitely be concern transporting the heating oil in the car. A piockup maybe, but not a closed up car. Stay safe katerina and have a happy new year
@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
6 Dec 15
I was given a lift in a car that had carried chicken food, here in Greece. Now that was a stink, no idea what he was feeding those birds on but it wasn't any kind of seed.
