Sweet smell from homemade soda ash

[Thub]

Hi guys, I made soda ash by cooking arm and hammer baking soda, and it's got a sweet smell, reminiscent of Tide laundry detergent. The baking soda did not smell like this at all. I've noticed a similar smell from my Red Sea blue bucket salt, but much less potent than the saturated alk solution. Am I nuts?

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I’m not sure what the smell is or why it would smell now when it didn’t before.

 

[Gareth elliott]

What did you bake the baking soda on?
Recently wash the baking pan?
Parchment paper Or aluminum foil? Perhaps some type of wax or nonstick coating.

Oven cleaned recently?

 

[Thub]

Figured it out. The dry soda ash was put in a jar that was a scented candle in a past life. I'm an idiot, but not enough of one to put it in my tank.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Figured it out. The dry soda ash was put in a jar that was a scented candle in a past life. I'm an idiot, but not enough of one to put it in my tank.

lol