I ahve had pretty good luck with both Band-aid brand and the 3M brand and a number of people. I have only had two or three complaints of itching (and I have used this stuff on hundreds of patients).

Absloutly test this, and EVERYTHING you have in you FAK and Survival kits. It is a bad time to try and learn something new in the middle of no where, when things already aren't going quite right.

Not quite sure I'd describe the smell as "old banana's"... Acetone, more ketone-ish is more like it.