“Upon massaging the product into my face, a metallic scent overwhelmed my poor, unsuspecting nostrils. It almost smelled like pennies, but with a little more depth. It was more … meaty”
Photo: Jeffrey Coolidge/Getty Images Recently, I decided to rotate a vitamin C product into my skin-care routine. I wanted to spice things up, and ascorbic acid , I thought, would be just the thing: it supposedly has brightening abilities, boosts sun-protection, and combats free radicals from pollution. What could go wrong?
Even an Into the Gloss blogger noticed the scent — and that Sephora reviewers said Drunk Elephant’s serum smells like hot dog water or stale bacon — and Refinery29 also noted the products’ inescapable smell. I smelled my products again, and they were spot on — definitely hot doggy. It’s kind of like the lingering, acidic scent of slightly burnt breakfast sausage in the morning, or the metallic aroma of leftover water from boiled hot dogs your mom used to leave on the stove.
“Vitamin C is a great ingredient,” said Patricia Farris, an associate professor of dermatology at the Tulane University School of Medicine. “Enzymes that make collagen require vitamin C, so it’s a collagen booster. It also inhibits the enzyme that makes melanin in your skin, so you get a lightening effect.”
Farris said she didn’t know why vitamin C serums smell like hot dogs, but requested I let her know if I found out. Ugh. Back to square one. If ascorbic acid wasn’t causing the scent, what was? Grasping at straws, I contacted Johan Lundström, a biologist and psychologist at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden who studies odor — he looks at why we smell what we smell.
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