I cooked with masala (curry & spices) last night..

[compnovice]

For you clothes, keep them in the sun or wash them...

As for your house, you have to wait for the smell to go away. Just keep it ventillated and it should be gone in a day..

I have a small apartment and the smell never stays for long, because I have all the windows open and a window fan working as an exhaust...

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: Aflac
If [she] smelled, I have a feeling [she] would habituate to the smell.

When I personally am around a smell, my nose receptors go through this path:
1) They smell the smell.
2) The receptors run out of ability to smell that smell (the chemicals are used up). I no longer smell it. This is what you were talking about.
3) Over time, the chemicals become ready to smell it again. I get another big dose of that smell.
4) Repeat steps 2-4.

Thus, to me smells come in batches. A couple minutes of smelling it followed by an hour or two of not smelling it. Then it repeats. This is true for any smell, even smells from my own body.

 

[habib89]

yeah, good luck.. i did that once.. i cook big pots of curry outdoors now..