Warning to new owners.

[Vasiliki]

When I used to breed Lovebirds, aerosols became a 'banned' thing in our house. Given that their respiratory systems were so delicate, certain off-gasing was actually instantly toxic to them. Such as leaving a hot pot on the stove that had a Teflon coating. If the Teflon coating reached a certain heat point with no food or water contact (just a hot pot left unattended), the teflon would off-gas and any birds that inhaled that gas would drop dead within just a few moments. This never happened to us, but it happened numerous times across the country, enough to cause it to be widely known amongst bird owners.

Same went for certain chemicals and sprays.

Why do I bring up birds? Well, snakes also have delicate respiratory systems as well. I'm not sure if spraying an obscene amount of deoderant would cause instant death, but I can imagine that it would be something that you wouldn't want to use directly around your snake. I can't say one way or another that this is definitely true or definitely false. However, having seen how sick animals with delicate systems can get from seemingly 'common' household items, I'll say it's Plausible. But, it is also Plausible that the snake was exposed to chemcials prior to pick-up, or indirectly exposed to another sickness, or had a RI at the time of being exposed to a chemical and was unable to remain stable.

There are a massive amount of variables here.

I appreciate you coming around and mentioning something on the topic. It's not 100% one way or another, but some people might not know better. Myself, I don't use any chemicals around my animals and never have. If I need to clean their room with something more than safe cleaning ingredients, they get temporarily moved to another room.

Also: If your friend is spraying himself with 20+ seconds with deoderant, just how smelly is he? Maybe the snake died of a different kind of 'smell'