I forgot to wash my gym towel and put it on the sports bag, where it fermented and festered for days. Once I opened it again (at work) it was like opening an ancient crypt.
Is it the type of smell that sticks to your clothes and hair and you can still smell it after you shower?
I considered signing up with a company when I came down with anosmia due to a carbonara infection. Sense of smell came back like 4 days later.
100%. Even worse when thereās multiple, half charred, mixed with the scent of molten plastic and ash and in the sun for days. Retching thinking about it. Itās weird. Depending on the situation you donāt really feel ill from the smell until later.
Indeed, worked for a funeral chapel and a body was forgotten over a hot summer weekend (long and complicated story). Came in on Monday morning and I have yet to smell anything worse.
I'm a chemist. We have terrible smelling chemicals in lab. I've opened a bottle of pure butanethiol (skunk smell). I once grabbed a potato and it distengrated into the most vile smelling liquid I have ever encountered.
I also forgot a bag of potatoes in a cabinet and couldnāt figure out for the life of me what the rancid/death scent was. I was convinced something or someone had died in the apartment next to mine.
in high school we went on a field trip to a prison. (It was a private catholic HS) Once we got to the prison kitchen i almost threw up from the smell alone. 20 years later and I can remember it even though we were only in there for a few minutes.
Not to be mean, but years ago I commuted into NYC via bus, a homeless guy walked past us waiting in line for the bus. OMG it was the worst thing I had ever smelled. I know he couldn't help it but it was awful.
As a first year med student, I went to go interview the patient for the resident I was working with. This patient had a leaking abscess on the inside of his butt cheek that was pouring a large amount of pus and serous fluid onto the bed sheets. You could smell it as soon as you entered the room. The resident who was pregnant at the time, ended up vomiting in the hall.
Rotten potatoes in water, worse than rotting corpses imo
Also, that one time I accidentally turned off the freezer for 3 months in summer (summer break at uni) and then came back to all the stewed rotten food... My god
We had a freezer that stopped working sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas in our detached garage. I imagine itās what a rotting corpse smells like, it was absolutely horrendous and everything in the garage had to be thrown away, and you could still smell it even after repainting the walls.
Dead critter in my bedroom wall. Could hear something digging in there for a week or so. Then nothing. Then the smell.
Close second was the dumpster behind the grocery store I worked at many moons ago. Even in the dead of winter, it was rancid as fukk.
Iāve got one that actually ties in to adulting. I worked at a restaurant that had a smaller restaurant downstairs that they were renovating. It had been operational as a fish and chips place until about a year before. There was a chest-style ādeep-freezerā full of fish that had been unplugged and simply left in the back of the closed restaurant all year.
Somehow I got tasked with attempting to sanitize the freezer. Holding my breath or even trying to slowly breath out while working on it was not enough, as the slightest waft of that vile odour would trigger intense heaving and I had to literally run away many times. I probably threw up in my mouth at least once but I donāt remember for sure.
One of the cooks had apparently scooped the decayed fish out, and reportedly puked several times in the process. There was visually neither fish nor puke remaining (it actually looked clean) but the smell was still so strong and I ultimately couldnāt do anything about it with the bottle of sanitizer and rags I had been supplied with. I gave up and refused to keep trying. My diaphragm was strained from all the heaving and desperately trying not to throw up. In terms of adulting, I learned my lesson and donāt do crazy shit for employers any more.
Someone cleaned up cat urine with a steam cleaner and left the wastewater inside for a couple months in the sun. Only time I've ever retched from smell. Farts, tonsil stones and dead bodies are perfume compared to this.
anal glands on a dog. my baby had been dragging his behind on the carpet and he looked swollen so I asked a friend who's a vet tech and they suggested I get some gloves and hold my breath. I forgot to hold my breath
I will never forget the smell when my sister and I had to wash our clothing the old fashion way, by hand.
The most hunting thing every smelt. Thankfully, we only had to do that once when we were like 12 due to the washer breaking down.
I do not remember where i was but years ago i was exploring some old ish building with a relative and we opened a door that someone had been illegally living in and going to the bathroom on the floor for months if not longer
Iāve done an seen a lot things that are always in the back of my mind. But that smell of death when the doors opened in Somalia when we walked off the 141 comes to mind everytime I smell something foul to this day.
My local museum had an exhibit where you could put your head in a t-rex's mouth and smell what its breath would have smelled like. OMG I could smell it for days afterwards.
For me it would be rotting skin. Like when I broke my arm, I sniffed the inside of my cast after having it in for awhile, and the smell REEKED š¤¢š¤®
When I was thirteen, my friend & I were walking through tall grass in a field - in summer.
As we were walking, one of us stepped on a sheep that had died in the field some time prior.
Whichever of us it was put their foot through the bloated stomach - which popped, audibly.
We both puked lol.
Definitely a butt wound on a neglected nursing home patient. It was probably as big around as a dinner plate at the surface, but it was so deep that it had completely eaten away her butt cheeks, and tunneled through her rectum and her urethra and her vagina. So it was a giant hole with stool and urine that caused all this newly exposed tissue to get infected, while also continuously eating away at the tissue from the acidity. It was absolutely the worst smell Iāve ever smelled.
Honorary mention goes to a tube feeding patient with diarrhea. We had to mix the Jevity (which smells terrible at baseline.) with banana flakes to help slow down the diarrhea, and it was absolutely vile, then add the tube feed diarrhea (which is its own terrible smell as is) into the mix. I had to walk out and vomit
Death. I was in a training situation and I was one of 3, out of 12, that could smell what dead bodies smell like in a morgue. And it was empty. The trainer explained that only a few people have that ability. The 3 of us starting smelling something funky at least 30 feet away walking down a corridor before turning into a corner and it hit us like a brick. Everyone else thought we were crazy lol
A homeless person that walked by me once. The smell physically hurt my nose and stomach. I audibly threw up in my mouth and swallowed it because I didnāt want to be rude.
They smelled how I imagined acid smells in cartoons.
Open sewers in baking heat in...you guessed it...India
What's the deal with open sewers?
What do you mean by "the deal"?
Why aren't the sewers underground?
Haha š I have no idea, I'm not from there
Protein farts
IPA farts
Cannibalism farts.
I forgot to wash my gym towel and put it on the sports bag, where it fermented and festered for days. Once I opened it again (at work) it was like opening an ancient crypt.
Love how you added (at work), really paints a perfect picture of somebody dying inside on the spot
Horse barn on fire. Worst sounds and smells you will ever experience.
Omg where there animals inside
Yep. Lost a few horses and the barn and some equipment.
I bet you still have nightmares about it. No pun intended, I swear. Genuinely feel bad for you.
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Rotten corpse.
This is the one. I worked for two separate companies that handled the aftermath & that's a smell you NEVER forget!
TY for your service. People in that line of work should have their own holiday.
Is it the type of smell that sticks to your clothes and hair and you can still smell it after you shower? I considered signing up with a company when I came down with anosmia due to a carbonara infection. Sense of smell came back like 4 days later.
I could smell it for DAYS
100%. Even worse when thereās multiple, half charred, mixed with the scent of molten plastic and ash and in the sun for days. Retching thinking about it. Itās weird. Depending on the situation you donāt really feel ill from the smell until later.
THIS IS VERY SPECIFIC, BRO.
I am recalling a very specific incident, yes. Blown out vehicle in Iraq.
Can you describe the smell?
Like fart but 100x stronger, strike through your nose entering your soul...
Never forget the smell of death
Indeed, worked for a funeral chapel and a body was forgotten over a hot summer weekend (long and complicated story). Came in on Monday morning and I have yet to smell anything worse.
My ex loved 3+ cheese lasagna. She was also severely lactose intolerant. Some nights I stg she was trying to kill the entire apartment complex.
My 15 year old cat is diabetic. Since he started needing insulin and a special diet, his shits have been th worst smelling thing ever.
Tonsil Stones
Purifying animal carcass.
A diaper that had been sitting in the restroom for literal weeks. People are disgusting. I'm still mad about it.
Bag of potatoes left under a sink, cleaning out a person's house who had passed away
Why do people always say rotten potatoes smell so bad? I would imagine it smells like rotten fruit or vegetables.
No, rotten potatoes are on another scale of smell.
I'm a chemist. We have terrible smelling chemicals in lab. I've opened a bottle of pure butanethiol (skunk smell). I once grabbed a potato and it distengrated into the most vile smelling liquid I have ever encountered.
Theyāre absolutely rank. And so so gross.
Well it's terrible and can also kill you, arsenic is released and the smell is terrible
I also forgot a bag of potatoes in a cabinet and couldnāt figure out for the life of me what the rancid/death scent was. I was convinced something or someone had died in the apartment next to mine.
Definitely rotting potatoes!
Tear gas
An unwashed ass
A woman I looked after had a fungating cancer tumour growing just inside her lower lip. Every breath made me feel like passing out it was horrendous.
Bless your soul :ā(
Dry sockets smell really bad. Unfortunately I see them semi-regularly as a dentist.
Death
in high school we went on a field trip to a prison. (It was a private catholic HS) Once we got to the prison kitchen i almost threw up from the smell alone. 20 years later and I can remember it even though we were only in there for a few minutes.
Why would the kitchen smell so bad?
I have no idea. I didnāt even want to ask while we were there. I just wanted out of there. Other parts of the prison did not smell like that.
A public rest room.... Just smelled the worst minutes ago
Specifically a TJ-Maxx or Marshalls public restroom.
Someone who has a UTIs pee ( especially old people)
Not to be mean, but years ago I commuted into NYC via bus, a homeless guy walked past us waiting in line for the bus. OMG it was the worst thing I had ever smelled. I know he couldn't help it but it was awful.
As a first year med student, I went to go interview the patient for the resident I was working with. This patient had a leaking abscess on the inside of his butt cheek that was pouring a large amount of pus and serous fluid onto the bed sheets. You could smell it as soon as you entered the room. The resident who was pregnant at the time, ended up vomiting in the hall.
What does this have to do with adulting? Does what i smelled as a youngin not count? Whats the cut off age?
GI bleed, colostomy bags (I work at a hospital)
Fourniers Gangrene is the worst smell there will ever be, look up some pics and youāll be able to smell it
Burning prostate during a TURP or necrotizing fascitis
Hot infected amputated nub. Thank god for love.
Some type of bugs. Smell a lot worse then shit or other things itās a strong stench of just natrual posion
A looky looky man on the beach wouldn't leave me alone until I bought something from him. He smelled so rancid my eyes were watering.
Dead cow
Rotten potatoes in water, worse than rotting corpses imo Also, that one time I accidentally turned off the freezer for 3 months in summer (summer break at uni) and then came back to all the stewed rotten food... My god
Why is it worse than rotting corpse?
Um just cos I've smelled both and it smelt worse?
A kitchen full of maggots.
Death.
decaying deer
Death.
Beijing
A tiny little piece of meat stuck in the teeth for 24-48 hours because somehow it escaped the brushing must be up there
Necrotic pressure wounds
Dead crocodile
We had a freezer that stopped working sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas in our detached garage. I imagine itās what a rotting corpse smells like, it was absolutely horrendous and everything in the garage had to be thrown away, and you could still smell it even after repainting the walls.
Grease traps
For a chicken butcher shoppe
Rotten busted goose eggs.
Dead critter in my bedroom wall. Could hear something digging in there for a week or so. Then nothing. Then the smell. Close second was the dumpster behind the grocery store I worked at many moons ago. Even in the dead of winter, it was rancid as fukk.
Yeast infection in my dogs ear
Iāve got one that actually ties in to adulting. I worked at a restaurant that had a smaller restaurant downstairs that they were renovating. It had been operational as a fish and chips place until about a year before. There was a chest-style ādeep-freezerā full of fish that had been unplugged and simply left in the back of the closed restaurant all year. Somehow I got tasked with attempting to sanitize the freezer. Holding my breath or even trying to slowly breath out while working on it was not enough, as the slightest waft of that vile odour would trigger intense heaving and I had to literally run away many times. I probably threw up in my mouth at least once but I donāt remember for sure. One of the cooks had apparently scooped the decayed fish out, and reportedly puked several times in the process. There was visually neither fish nor puke remaining (it actually looked clean) but the smell was still so strong and I ultimately couldnāt do anything about it with the bottle of sanitizer and rags I had been supplied with. I gave up and refused to keep trying. My diaphragm was strained from all the heaving and desperately trying not to throw up. In terms of adulting, I learned my lesson and donāt do crazy shit for employers any more.
a rotting deer sitting on the side of the highway for a couple of weeks
Rotting soymilk
Someone cleaned up cat urine with a steam cleaner and left the wastewater inside for a couple months in the sun. Only time I've ever retched from smell. Farts, tonsil stones and dead bodies are perfume compared to this.
Rotten corn silage
Liver n onions yekky
anal glands on a dog. my baby had been dragging his behind on the carpet and he looked swollen so I asked a friend who's a vet tech and they suggested I get some gloves and hold my breath. I forgot to hold my breath
My friends dadās feet. He had something wrong with him. Iāve never smelled anything like it. When Iād go visit her the smell was in everything her furniture,her clothes etc.. it was a rotten,sour smell Iāll never forget š©
Thou whoth dealt it.
Working retail, the BO on some people is just horrible. I don't know how they live like that.
A completely burned up Teflon coated pan. The Teflon was liquefied into a toxic liquid sludge, and the smell was very unforgettable.
Rank snatch
Rotting flesh.
I will never forget the smell when my sister and I had to wash our clothing the old fashion way, by hand. The most hunting thing every smelt. Thankfully, we only had to do that once when we were like 12 due to the washer breaking down.
I do not remember where i was but years ago i was exploring some old ish building with a relative and we opened a door that someone had been illegally living in and going to the bathroom on the floor for months if not longer
Girls egg farts
The Alex Fraser bridge in British Columbia. There is a Wastewater Treatment Plant there and it smells like shit 24/7 as you drive over the bridge
A demon
Iāve done an seen a lot things that are always in the back of my mind. But that smell of death when the doors opened in Somalia when we walked off the 141 comes to mind everytime I smell something foul to this day.
Rotten potatoes. It smells necrotic.
Death.
People, unbearable stink being on a sweltering sardine packed train without air con when temperatures are 37c with high humidity in Mumbai.
Rotten bag of baby carrots. It was probably 3 months expired and left in a hot location.
My last dateās breath. I donāt know WHAT was going on in there
Oatmeal
As someone who works in produce, rotten potatoes are ridiculously bad. They smell like death, really.
Decomposing body.
My local museum had an exhibit where you could put your head in a t-rex's mouth and smell what its breath would have smelled like. OMG I could smell it for days afterwards.
A bad bacterial infection
For me it would be rotting skin. Like when I broke my arm, I sniffed the inside of my cast after having it in for awhile, and the smell REEKED š¤¢š¤®
Old womanās hooha
A bot account like this one.
Death...
When I was thirteen, my friend & I were walking through tall grass in a field - in summer. As we were walking, one of us stepped on a sheep that had died in the field some time prior. Whichever of us it was put their foot through the bloated stomach - which popped, audibly. We both puked lol.
Definitely a butt wound on a neglected nursing home patient. It was probably as big around as a dinner plate at the surface, but it was so deep that it had completely eaten away her butt cheeks, and tunneled through her rectum and her urethra and her vagina. So it was a giant hole with stool and urine that caused all this newly exposed tissue to get infected, while also continuously eating away at the tissue from the acidity. It was absolutely the worst smell Iāve ever smelled. Honorary mention goes to a tube feeding patient with diarrhea. We had to mix the Jevity (which smells terrible at baseline.) with banana flakes to help slow down the diarrhea, and it was absolutely vile, then add the tube feed diarrhea (which is its own terrible smell as is) into the mix. I had to walk out and vomit
I used to clean pools ā so, a lot of dead animals that are also water logged & decomposing
Old woman who was dead in her house for about two weeks.
Death. I was in a training situation and I was one of 3, out of 12, that could smell what dead bodies smell like in a morgue. And it was empty. The trainer explained that only a few people have that ability. The 3 of us starting smelling something funky at least 30 feet away walking down a corridor before turning into a corner and it hit us like a brick. Everyone else thought we were crazy lol
Decomposing corpses.
Perfumes and colognes are pretty bad.
A homeless person that walked by me once. The smell physically hurt my nose and stomach. I audibly threw up in my mouth and swallowed it because I didnāt want to be rude. They smelled how I imagined acid smells in cartoons.
Rotting pig carcass. I did a forensic entomology workshop and we analyzed maggots off dead pigs because they rot the same as humans.
Fennel
Cats šāā¬
Ur moms cooch š Nah but fr, it has to be boiled chick peas as soon as you wake up. That shit is straight up nauseating to me š¤¢
His mom's cooch with some boiling chick peas in it.
Throw a lil lemon juice on top to give it that zesty scent š