I was travelling in Scandinavia recently and spotted a car scent dangler in a shop that promised to give you a ‘new car' smell. Absolute yuck. For one thing, the smell of a new car is that of poisonous Volatile Organic Compounds, multiple and stinky curing-plastic effusions including benzene, formaldehyde and acetaldehyde, all of which give you cancer. It's the same dangerous VOC gases they warn you about on paint cans. The concentration of acetaldehyde gas in a new car can be 60% higher than the safety level. Added to that, ordering any
