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[Uncle Rupee]

Yeah, immediately you think "shit" but from the way cops / detectives talk about the smell of death (rotting human corpse) I'm guessing nothing comes close to it

 

[Frost_Ace]

The smell of rotting poultry is one of the few things that makes me puke.

 

[fluffydelusions]

Yeah, immediately you think "shit" but from the way cops / detectives talk about the smell of death (rotting human corpse) I'm guessing nothing comes close to it

I was stationed in Japan for 6 months and there was a smell once a week that everyone said was the burning of bodies from a nearby crematorium. No idea if it was that smell to this day but it was rather...unusual.

 

[livestOne]

Burning cheese in a restaurant serving fajitas on those hot cast iron pans. Nasty.

you're crazy burnt cheese is one of the best smells, especially compared to rotting food and cat piss and 2 week old tampons that I'm not even sure I want to know the story too

 

[LAUGHTREY]

public restrooms

 

[bud]

i will never forget the smell of her vagina. i've smelled some awful shit, but that takes the cake.

 

[Wilsongt]

Paper mills.

Oh God.

 

[IGotBillySoSpooked]

Used to have to create our own reagents in chemistry class and the concentrated sulfur based reagents would always kill me.

 

[Anustart]

You've seen em. Those round the way girls...with their big booties. They need to wash they ass.

 

[Mammoth Jones]

Tonsil stones.

 

[xenist]

Rotting carcass. No contest. It's literally unbearable.

 

[Chuckie]

A 2 week old Tampon being removed from a vagina. Don't ask.

 

[Mupod]

I was a night janitor at a college for a while, years ago. There was this one women's bathroom that would smell of used tampons so badly at times you could smell it from all the way down the hall. But that didn't make me literally throw up like dirty water that'd been in an intermittently used floor washer machine and left to sit for months because the guy had been too lazy to empty it afterwards.

Or old coffee that's been sitting at the bottom of a garbage can for god knows how long. I really, really hate that, there's a Tim Hortons right inside the college so the amount of half full double doubles that end up dumped in garbage cans is staggering. I knew guys that never ever cleaned their cans and when I had to take over their runs because of sick days etc I dreaded having to change those garbage bags.

 

[soepje]

A 2 week old Tampon being removed from a vagina. Don't ask.

The smell isn´t to great after a few hours, weeks? I would ask if you worked in the medical field, but i´m sure you will get even worse smells there on a regular basis.. How is it possible to leave a tampon for that long??

 

[MrToughPants]

I had to change the drains underneath a sink in a home. The trap had gone mostly dry and in the trap and abs pipe there was this left over rotting mush of vomit and/or food. It's the worst smell I've ever encountered, I vomited instantly when I took the pipes apart and the substance was exposed. Just a few drops touched my skin and I fucking smelled like a rotting corpse for the rest of the day.

 

[Trike]

MY ASS

 

[HeySeuss]

Rotting human remains are only topped by a person killed by being burned to death. That's a smell you can never forget.

 

[Sorian]

MY ASS

 

[Lotto]

Behind your ears.

 

[Tesseract]

bile

 

[Courage]

Belly button wax.

 

[BigDes]

PAX

 

[Mammoth Jones]

Haven't had the pleasure of smelling one myself, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say a dead body/rotting corpse.

Yea, I think I forgot about this one. Absolutely overpowering and disgusting. The one odor that made me puke on contact. Horrific.

 

[dorn.]

Something that I assumed was half blood/diarrhea, a good litre of it. I thought it was just blood and poured it down the drain, the smell that hit me was so powerful I was physically incapacitated, people came running to close the doors on me.

 

[FlyFaster]

if the milk is spoiled enough I will gag on reaction to the smell. disgusting.

 

[Avixph]

Weed.

 

[Sutton Dagger]

When I was on holiday in Florence we were catching a train out of the city and there was this (I assume) homeless guy making his way through the carriage. We could see him walking through and moving towards our carriage, and the people around him had contorted faces as he passed. When he entered our area the smell was unbelievable...his leg must have been infected, or he had gangrene...

You could see his pants were absolutely soaked with puss and weaping, as they were stuck to his leg as he hobbled around. It wasn't just a smell that hit the nose, it somehow made the air thick and heavy. I can only assume that it was the closest I've ever come to smelling a rotting corpse. I made the comment to my wife that in the moment (we were stuck in there for about 3min with him) that I would have preferred to have shit smeared on my upper lip to drown out the smell.

 

[FoxSpirit]

Yea, I think I forgot about this one. Absolutely overpowering and disgusting. The one odor that made me puke on contact. Horrific.

I really wanna smell that... I'm a horrible person. But no smell has really, really disgusted me though sitting next to a person who smells of 2 months worth of not washing, having pissed himself and living in the street is pretty damn powerful. Really can be smelt froma great distance and in the subway... yeah.

But I heard things like this about rotting corpses being found after 2 weeks in an apartment and supposedly the smell is off the wall. And that used ground coffee cans are set up because the smell of ground coffee is the only thing that drowns it out.

God, I am SO curious >.<

 

[Izuna]

Your mother's period.

Edit: I haven't actually smelt that, but it would probably, by context, be the worst of all.

Just going by smell without context, I would say HCl(g) because it hurts and smells bad.

 

[OnettHansen]

As a Northamptoner, I have to say Billing Aquadrome.

 

[ComputerMKII]

Sweat

 

[Codeblue]

Butyric Acid. Not very many people will have the misfortune of having to deal with it.

Imagine having a volatile and concentrated form of rancid butter and Limburger cheese.

Your mother's period.

Edit: I haven't actually smelt that, but it would probably, by context, be the worst of all.

Just going by smell without context, I would say HCl(g) because it hurts and smells bad.

Will never pour HCl outside a fume hood again. That's the sort of mistake you only make once.

 

[Izuna]

Will never pour HCl outside a fume hood again. That's the sort of mistake you only make once.

I hope so... =(

 

[Batigol]

Cow shit in the country. It's rancid

 

[Buddha Beam]

Take a nice, hot, steamy shower.


Now cut a fart.

It will linger and stink and you are wet and naked. It's about the most horrible thing you can do to yourself.

 

[Goldenhen]

Serving a customer who hasn't been in a shower for a week.

 

[richiek]

Rotting flesh.

 

[3N16MA]

Walked into a mall washroom which smelled like stale as fuck stank ass crack. It was like a pile of shit met a bucket of week old ass sweat and they just hung out together until they became one glob of stank. Sometime you expect to get a whiff of the fresh stuff since it is a public restroom but this was putrid. It's like there was no ventilation and a thick mask of stank just covered my face.

 

[PseudoKirby]

 

[Rhomega Beta]

EDIT: Actually, after Googling it, I'm not sure what it's called.

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

I really wanna smell that... I'm a horrible person. But no smell has really, really disgusted me though sitting next to a person who smells of 2 months worth of not washing, having pissed himself and living in the street is pretty damn powerful. Really can be smelt froma great distance and in the subway... yeah.

But I heard things like this about rotting corpses being found after 2 weeks in an apartment and supposedly the smell is off the wall. And that used ground coffee cans are set up because the smell of ground coffee is the only thing that drowns it out.

God, I am SO curious >.<

I was in a medical school around here where there were some problems with the corpses they use to teach students, and the smell was really goddamn awful.

Makes your eyes teary, you feel like throwing out, it is absolutely overpowering. It is just awful.

 

[livestOne]

I really wanna smell that... I'm a horrible person. But no smell has really, really disgusted me though sitting next to a person who smells of 2 months worth of not washing, having pissed himself and living in the street is pretty damn powerful. Really can be smelt froma great distance and in the subway... yeah.

But I heard things like this about rotting corpses being found after 2 weeks in an apartment and supposedly the smell is off the wall. And that used ground coffee cans are set up because the smell of ground coffee is the only thing that drowns it out.

God, I am SO curious >.<

It really is it's own unique smell even if you've never smelled death before you instantly know what it is when it hits you

If you're really that curious drive down your local two lane street and find some roadkill, get a good wiff of that

 

[UFRA]

Haven't had the pleasure of smelling one myself, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say a dead body/rotting corpse.

Yup, this is definitely it. I can't stand it. (and I'm referring to humans, not animals...human corpses are totally unique and in a whole different league of gross than animals)

 

[Face it Tiger..]

stale period blood.

 

[freenudemacusers]

a dog having diarrhea

said dog eats diarrhea

said dog vomits diarrhea about 10 minutes later

dog then eats vomit-diarrhea

dog burps in your face

 

[Royal_Flush]

Vomit.

And that one time when I threw a bunch of putrid nectarines in my trash bin, forgot about them, left the house for two weeks and when I opened the bin again... holy crap, I stumbled a few steps back.

 

[SolidusDave]

- open bodies, specifically their belly and if their intestine is ruptured.
Add decomposing.

- cut open some tonsil stones

- homeless guys smelling unbelievable strong like urine (more specifically, ammonium), traveling in your train compartment.

 

[MisterLuffy]

Cow shit in the country. It's rancid

This.

 

[caesar]

The correct answer.

 

[SolidusDave]

And a little info bit, because this thread just reminded me of it:


We don't all smell stuff the same way.

A rather cool demonstration for this is the pheromone androstenone.


- Most people simply can't smell it at all.

- Some people have a certain genotype (you need receptors specifically for all those compounds swirling around in the air) that makes this stuff smell quite unpleasant, like urine.

- A third group of people have their receptor signaling behave differently and the same stuff smells pleasant to them (flowery/vanilla like)



I tested it and I'm in the can't-smell-it group.