Blueberries.
Or maybe Fruity Pebbles.
Or maybe Fruity Pebbles.
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My AirPod Pro’s smell like....
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It doesn't smell like the Apple factory? Love new Apple boxes and products smell.
Wait so it's not just me? These things legit have a fruity smell, right?
They go in your ears, not your nose.
Mine smell like that too! When I first unboxed them they smelled like a strange cheese.
I thought they smell like fruit too!! I got funny looks while smelling them though 🙄
Holy hell I just smelled mine and they do smell like blueberries, a cheap blueberry type smell but still.
...and here I sit on Sunday morning sniffing my AirPod Pros.
sniff sniff... yep... blueberries!
sniff sniff... yep... blueberries!
There is a distinct smell when you take the AirPods off. Probably from the ear tips.
Can’t describe it properly but I never smelt that with the standard AirPods.
Definitely some sort of fruity smell. Or cheap plastic that’s reacting with the wax in your ear canal?
Can’t describe it properly but I never smelt that with the standard AirPods.
Definitely some sort of fruity smell. Or cheap plastic that’s reacting with the wax in your ear canal?
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If my incoming Pro’s tips don’t smell like fruit, I’m returning them.
These are the types of posts I have come to love on this forum!
Actually, it's the rubber attachable tips, and they smell like off-gassing plastic, and it really bothers me. I've tried cleaning them with rubbing alcohol and soap and water.
Off-gassing smells should be taken seriously and are indicative of airborne pollutants. They can be VERY toxic!!
"One of the main chemicals used to produce plastics is bisphenol A, or BPA, an endocrine disruptor that is prevalent in a vast number of widely used products, not least of which are plastic food and beverage bottles and the lining of metal cans. Heat, repeated washing, acidity, and alkalinity cause the BPA in plastics to leach into our food and beverages. Further, BPA leaches into our groundwater from all the plastic sitting in landfills. And of course we ingest BPA from all the fish we eat that has previously ingested all that plastic floating around in the ocean.
In one study, the Centers for Disease Control found 95 percent of urine samples contained some amount of BPA. It’s in our blood, our amniotic fluid, our breast milk. Small children are most at risk because they put everything in their mouths, they breathe and drink more, relative to their size, and they excrete waste more slowly."
Off-gassing smells should be taken seriously and are indicative of airborne pollutants. They can be VERY toxic!!
"One of the main chemicals used to produce plastics is bisphenol A, or BPA, an endocrine disruptor that is prevalent in a vast number of widely used products, not least of which are plastic food and beverage bottles and the lining of metal cans. Heat, repeated washing, acidity, and alkalinity cause the BPA in plastics to leach into our food and beverages. Further, BPA leaches into our groundwater from all the plastic sitting in landfills. And of course we ingest BPA from all the fish we eat that has previously ingested all that plastic floating around in the ocean.
In one study, the Centers for Disease Control found 95 percent of urine samples contained some amount of BPA. It’s in our blood, our amniotic fluid, our breast milk. Small children are most at risk because they put everything in their mouths, they breathe and drink more, relative to their size, and they excrete waste more slowly."
OMG. Launch day AirPods Pro here, and yeah - a faint blueberry smell! Very cool.
This thread is hilarious though. It even got @Weaselboy to weigh in. The stupid thing is, I'm probably going to go home from work equally curious and give my Airpods a sniff.