Hoping a science guru can help me here.
I am highly allergic, and have had severe respiratory reactions to many perfumes/chemicals (this came on all of a sudden after an illness, I had never had these allergies before and had made me housebound). There is a specific smell that I can detect in fragrances when I have these reactions. I’ve been trying to work out for the longest time what I could possibly be allergic to and it seems to be with any product that has ‘ethyl’ then a bunch of other words following that in the ingredients. Is it likely I’m allergic to ethane? I don’t think it could be anything else.
Before I had realised this I had wanted to make my own perfume; so I bought Vanillin, ethyl vanillin and also ethyl maltol….. I opened up the package and that same intense smell is overpowering both the ethyl products - but the vanillin smells normal.
Can anyone help with this, does this mean I’m allergic to ethane? I don’t even know what ethane really is. I have also included a picture of a perfume that I react to.