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Alexandra, please don't take my rough humor re/"arteestes" as an affront. I tend to wax a bit radical over: a. how the state of art instruction through the last 100 years or so has short-changed the physical, craftsman-oriented aspects of the art of painting, and b. those who see the dearth of painters knowledgeable about their materials as an opportunity to tout otherwise cheaply available common items as something "uniquely special" . . . at ten times the price.
Any sensitivity to even "good" turps you have experienced only proves that a definite qualitative difference between pure gum turpentine and mineral spirits exists. My father, who was an active painter all of his adult life developed a contact dermatitis from turpentine when he was in his late 60's. As mysteriously and sudden as it came on, it left him in the same manner within a few months. There are people who are allergic to roses, common house plants, pets and foods . . . of course you have to maintain your personal comfort level. That's only sensible.
The vapor pressures and hence the emissions from either odorless MS or good turpentine are so close as to be a negligible difference.
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