From warmfuzzy@700:100/0 to All on Wed May 22 04:57:21 2019
Can you imagine going to the airport about to go off to one of your secret missions and ... you smell like fire? or lets say you were meeting up with
one of your contacts and the stuff around you smells really bad. Enter the "scent enhancer" where a cigarette smells like a bonfire and egg salad sandwiches smell like horrible bowel movements... this type of thing can be caused by trace scents, a technology that messes with the way smells are
smelt. It is basically the opposite to Febreeze. It selects certain scents and enhances (or makes more powerful) those scents. You're not going to get very far on your adventures if you smell like you just walked out of Hell. This can be diminished by having a shower every day, but once the source of
the trace is in your system it is hard to get out. As far as I understand it there are microbes put in the food or drink of the target and those microbes produce this trace scent through the sweat glands of a person. Because it is microbes that excrete this chemical the source of the chemical is without
limit in the amount of chemical produced. The microbes appear to be in
commom with the usual flora in a person's body, so there isn't a great targeting and destroying of the microbes once detected that they aren't normally inside a persons body. They appear common to a person's immune
system and are left alone. So long as a person washes regularly the effect
can be greatly diminished, however on a military mission where you're in the same clothes not having washed for a few days the effect is obvious and unpleasent. Good luck trying to convince your C.O. that you're a victim of a taggant trace scent---they will think you're bonkers.