Ether Perfume - Fact or Fiction?
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed
I’ve had a few readers ask me if I’ve heard anything about some magical knock out perfume. I did some digging and here is what I’ve come up with.
It comes back to an email thats been going around, it seems like these things will never die. The overall message of the email is that women should be weary in parking lots because men are coming up to them and spraying them in the face with a special perfume made from ether. Once sprayed in the face the women black out and wake up a while later having just been robbed.
First off I would like to just get it out of the way and say that this is false. It just doesn’t work like that.
The problem is that for ether to knock you out, it takes more, much more than you would get from a sprits to the face. We’re talking about pouring it on a rag and holding it to your face. if that we’re to happen then yea, you would end up knocked out. The small amount that would be sprayed in your face would have absolutely zero effect on you. It would be no worse than being sprayed in the face with a normal perfume.
After some more research it looks like the story of the magical ether perfume goes back to 1999. A woman in Mobile, Alabama told police that she was leaving a store and a man approached her and offered to sell her a $45 bottle of perfume for $8. Right here is your clue that this is a bad idea. So what does she do? She lets the man mist her face with it. She then wakes up later and realizes shes’ been robbed. Police did a tox screen on her and found nothing out of the ordinary in her blood.
If I had to guess I would say she was mugged and maybe even sprayed in the face perfume but that in no way did this magical non existent ether based perfume cause her to pass out.
