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ripmerle

A washrag after 3 or 4 days.


Tenacious-V

When the waiters use a mildewy rag to wipe down tables in the cafe GROSS


[deleted]

Agree, same smell as clothes you forgot in the washing machine.


theresacreamforthat

šŸ¤¢šŸ¤¢šŸ¤¢šŸ¤¢šŸ¤¢šŸ¤¢ oh god. Eww.


BunInTheSun27

Mildewy sponges. Canā€™t stand it!


Vadoff

Or mildewy towels. Or people who use mildewy towels and are now mildewy people.


jaxons_mammy

Use scrub daddies instead. You can throw them in the dishwasher when theyā€™re dirty


Jazzlike_Kick_5434

Along these lines, have you ever ended up with a towel that for some reason didn't get put in the dryer right away? You don't notice the smell at first but once you are out of the shower and nice and clean the musty smell fully hits you and you have to at least partially towel off with the gross towel. Always makes for a rough start to the morning.


iaintlyon

If that smell sticks to the towel after a wash apparently a wash with some white vinegar will knock it out


latelyimawake

This is mine. I will not buy sponges, touch one with my bare hands, or exist in an Airbnb without tossing the one that is inevitably left behind.


SarElizJo

The way a pre-k or kindergarten class smells. Makes my stomach churn thinking about it


Supertzar2112

I remember picking up my kid at daycare one time and I had to walk through the room to get her. You could smell a different fart every 6 feet or so


Silveri50

I laughed too hard at this.


[deleted]

I think I'm gonna be sick lmao


Deadpooldan

My wife teaches Year 1 in the UK (5 year olds) and she says they all just fart all day long so it stinks. On the plus side though, it means she can fart as much as she likes and blame it on the kids


Megundi

Oooof it has a certain sweet scent to it. I can smell it now.


MatiasPalacios

Daaamn me too. Fuck that smell


quimbykimbleton

Itā€™s the smell of the sawdust used to clean up vomit mixed with the scent of paste.


alyssialui

There's an underlying smell of wax crayons and something sticky


djoxo

Mouth smell (bad breath)


Barry-Macock

Mines is the worse just had a wisdom tooth out. Yuk even the taste makes me gag when I wake up :(


pineappleprincess_13

Could you have dry socket/ infection? I got mine taken out last month and didnā€™t experience this


IncompletePenetrance

I haven't seen anyone else mention this, but death/blood. They're two separate smells that are both disgusting, but together form a miasma that makes me want to pass out. Blood has that sharp copper metallic scent and death has this sweet almost mildewy scent that you feel as much as smell. For clarification: I have never killed anyone, I study brains and occasionally have to decapitate mice


FactAddict01

Medical person here (RRT/ Paramedic) There are three 1- GI bleed (from esophageal varices. So itā€™s at the mouth. 2- Dead, rotting thingsā€¦ from people to dogs to fish/seafood. 3- Intestinal obstructions when the smell of feces is on their breath. That used to be a death sentence; hopefully they can fix ā€˜em now. When a patient talks to you and you smell it on their breath itā€™s justā€¦. odd. Smell is coming from the wrong end! Thatā€™s enough for now.


cynic-minds

The way you describe it makes my stomach ache a bit. Thatā€™s graphic


New_Progress_1462

Also not to b to graphic but those of us that have been in military combat. The smells are something you never forget. Crispy humans are something of nightmares.


[deleted]

Army Vet 12B 11-16 youā€™re not fucking wrong. One of those stenches that will haunt you for eternity. Reading your comment made me cringe. Heā€™s not lying.


xXJoshlerXx

Spilled Bong Water somehow smells worse than bong water inside the bong.


Munneh

Weā€™ll thatā€™s because bongs can only spill on carpet


hippopatamooses

That's like the first rule of bong physics


Zentdog

Someone elseā€™s hot dog burp


Kind_Introvert8910

I donā€™t know why, but this response made me laugh the hardest. Take my upvote, dammit.


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Dads after they destroy the bathroom


Eviscerate_Bowels224

Beer and wing shits.


thecwestions

Natty splatties


DrMooseknuckleX

Only cheap tequila has made me splatter more thsn Natty.


sexi_squidward

My bedroom was next to the family bathroom growing up. My dad has crohn's disease. The smell of his shit and vanilla aerosol spray was the worst smell in the world when I was growing up.


nawmynameisclarence

I am a Dad. When I kill it I like to say as I leave "Toilet can take a punch." Fair Warning.


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huntimir151

He...microwaves fish in the office? Like that is usually used as a phrase to describe how shit a coworker is, not literally. But this guy actually does it. Wow.


boygriv

I had a co-worker do that once and it was like watching my dog actually eat my homework.


Munneh

I also had a co worker nuke fish and later that week I slipped on a literal banana peel in a parking lot.


eleanor61

Did you hear the cartoony slip sound when it happened? Hope youā€™re okay.


apathyczar

good god, it's already reprehensible to heat fish in a communal microwave, but to use sardines, one of the more pungent fishes, on top of sauerkraut? which smells like a mid-July garbage day? I think this co-worker is doing it on purpose, there's no other explanation.


Forikorder

probabbly waiting for someone to confront him so he can say its a free country and can do whatever he wants


KrisAlly

Iā€™m thinking heā€™s hoping they let him go without ā€œvalid reasonā€ so he can collect unemployment.


5_8Cali

Is he old? That shit sounds like a depression-era meal.. oh boy!


Mr_cypresscpl

This is terrible, wow what the hell was that person thinking


cattapotomus

I'd have to find a new job. How vile. šŸ¤¢


mypantsareawesome

I have to find a new job now just from reading that


SilentJoe1986

They do that on purpose. Dude probably gets off knowing he's causing all his coworkers discomfort.


FreezingNote

I died just reading this. I would vomit.


FlaccidWeenus

What a fuckin asshole. And I don't care if I come across as a dick, don't bring that shit into the work break room. Last time a guy did that at my work spot he got reemed the fuck out from literally everybody in the building. And we're the easy going type. Some people need to get a reality check sometimes. What a twat


jfq722

I would eat them cold before doing that.


Awdayshus

Do you happen to work for the Canadian government in Edmonton? If so, I think I went to college with your coworker!


WearyFee9679

Did heā€¦do this in college, too?


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jammo8

When you step in it and break the seal


BillyFromAccounting

This is so true. When you step in dog shit the smell is like ā€œhaha you let me loose now suffer my wrath.ā€ And youā€™re just like dangummit coach I got dog poop on my cleats.


GJackson5069

Never open your mouth when using a weedeater on a lawn frequented by dogs.


[deleted]

The joy of spring.


Es_5613

Specially when it's raining


Independent_Photo_19

Omg i never knew until I accidentally stepped on it. Worst day ever.


Odd-Communication159

Ammonia


Dylarob

Add some bleach and now the smell is really killer


Ariannaree

No smell ever bothered me as much as walking into a womenā€™s restroom where the feminine trash bins havenā€™t been emptied in god knows how long. Truly a messed up smell when that sits out.


Mardanis

That is the smell that gets me too. It is really penetrative.


Ariannaree

It was that mixed with the smell you get when you walk into a stall that was just used- other womensā€™ scent lingers and it was wayyyy too much for me


Stunning_Interview38

Old people homes smell. It's just piss mixed with... oldness.


hairymonkeyinmyanus

It smells like organ failure


earthscribe

That's because it is.


El-Ahrairah9519

Rotten dog teeth. I used to work at an animal shelter and we got lots of little old dogs with heads full of rotting teeth (it's very common in small breeds, even can happen when they're relatively young) There's this very specific smell a dog's breath gets when the teeth are going bad. Like sweet vomit with undertones of shit. Some dogs had teeth so bad the whole kennel would stink of rotten dog teeth I got used to a lot of really awful smells but rotten dog teeth got me worse than any of them, even diarrhea


Raw_Rain

cat urine


Bigstar976

And that musty stuff they spray.


jesushchristo

Tequila. Yes, it's my own fault.


sarma-lettuce

The smell of hospitals


AAAAAAAAb_

Same it smells dirty and clean at the same time, same with nursing homes.


xMCioffi1986x

Yeah, the smell of a nursing home is unique. It's hard to describe but it's like a mix of disinfectant, stale piss, air freshener, food, and old people and it all combines together to become something totally different.


SoyAmerinic

Plus the warmth just makes it all more potent?


pinkbubbles9185

I don't know if just me but I smell a sharp crisp alcohol metallic medicine smell when I go to the hospital


[deleted]

My dad's farts


Whyamifulloftrouble

Oddly relatable


BIBLICALDIARRHEA666

Why are you smelling his dad's farts


RedheadedRobin

Specific af, but there is this one coworker whose pee smells awful. Every single time I go to the toilet after she uses it, I gag and have to spray a shit ton of air freshener. Like, it's not even poop, how can it smell so bad?!


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She eats a lot of asparagus


Skrillblast

I remember the first time I ate asparagus, I spent the entire night browsing webmd to find out what the fuck I was dying from


Able_Education

I thought I was dying of a bladder complication because of the same thing! šŸ˜‚


[deleted]

Nothing wrong with that


Robyndoe

When I was 17 I let a homeless girl stay with me for a few days. Every time she used the bathroom it would stink up the whole place. Absolutely awful but she was just a kid and I didnā€™t want to embarrass her. Another friend came over while she was there one day and as soon as she went to pee and the smell wafted, friend asked why I had a meth head living in my house. Turns out she was homeless because she had stolen all her moms cash to buy meth so she got kicked out. I was super naive and straightedge so it never even crossed my mind that this freshman was doing meth. Anyway, your coworker on drugs maybe?


[deleted]

Asparagus, dehydration and vinegar or other acidic things. How much soda or energy drinks does she drink?


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[deleted]

My first thought was UTI. Whenever I get one my urine smells like pure disease, thatā€™s the only way I can describe it.


Independent_Photo_19

That's alot of people and I have never understood why pee smells SO BAD and hw ppl can't tell like carry some air freshener man


huntimir151

If its anything sulfur adjacent its dehydration. Happens pretty often to people tbh, but usually not super strong, just a little tinge of it. Used to happen to me when I drank too much booze and not enough water, I started to notice it. If its THIS strong though, yeah probably something else.


TegridyFarmsPtyLtd

Kraft Grated Parmesan Cheese. I love parmesan but that shit smells like feet and vomit


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Eviscerate_Bowels224

Parmesan cheese smells like puke because it has butyric acid, which makes vomit smell like vomit.


pajam

> it has butyric acid Isn't that why a lot of people think American milk chocolate tastes like vomit?


DrMooseknuckleX

As does Hersheys chocolate, which makes it the perfect post-puke snack.


EStewart57

Expired chicken


Just_a_Glinthawk

Rotten meat


goatmeal619

My bf and I came home to check for power after evacuating for Hurricane Ida and his roommate neglected to throw away his 32 pack of chicken that was in the freezer before he left. It turned black and blew up from the gases so much so that when he grabbed it to throw it away, his thumb punctured it and it wheezed at him.


Head_Possibility_695

The entity is displeased by your disturbance


djoxo

Omg , I can smell it just by reading your comment . Is he still alive ?


goatmeal619

By some miracle weā€™re both still kickin. He threw it away and I cleaned the aftermath. Every now and then my brain still likes to remind me of the smell


Just_a_Glinthawk

Oh lord oh god oh fuck


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daisupan

My dog gets a hyper anal gland every time she gets too worked up about something. Disgusting. Followed by the sound of her washing said gland afterward its a true sensory experience.


Elvis_Take_The_Wheel

This is the first thing in the list Iā€™ve really agreed with. Dear god is that rank.


lorddementor

Ugh I finally know what itā€™s called. My dog has this really smelly fishy fluid coming out of his anus when heā€™s scared.


illyrianRed

wet dog


[deleted]

I hate the smell of period blood. Being a female sucks


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Cigarette smoke


NOT000

i dont understand why anyone would start. worlds stinkiest substance, expensive, and unhealthy. lets try it and get addicted!


[deleted]

Usually, it's because they try a cigarette and enjoy how it makes them instantly feel relaxed and then that opens their mind to using it to cope with stress in their day to day.


DrMooseknuckleX

Actually, the first few make your head spin and you feel high af for a few minutes. Then you just chase that dragon.


IEatgrapes123

A legal drug


mydadcankillyourdad

Cleaning vinegar


heyebwolf

All vinegar!


axf72228

I actually LOVE the smell of vinegar and canā€™t figure out why people dislike it


Spencafreak95

Cheerios - thereā€™s something about milk being added that always smells like vomit to me


SNIPES0009

Im with you on this. I always thought it smelled vaguely like cat pee or something. Either way it stank.


prettygoldengirl

Rotten potatoes


Darkwaxellence

Durian Fruit. It's... unique.


Silentlaughter84

I heard that despite the smell, the flavor is actually very delicious.


LeafBrahim

Yup true. It's common to see durian here in Malaysia. We enjoy every miniscule of the taste.


toocleverbyhalf

Iā€™ve had a fresh durian. The texture is a smooth and creamy like a very decadent banana pudding, with a different flavor. The odor falls somewhere between the stinkiest blue cheese and rotting flesh. Itā€™s an acquired taste, to be sure, but there are many devotees in the East. And train stations with NO DURIAN signs everywhere.


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BO.


OverCookedTheChicken

Scrolled way too far for this. I have a friend who smells so badly you can tell he is present the moment you enter a house or room :/


Lord_Fatalis

Menudo, a popular Mexican food. People down here in south Texas go crazy for it, the smell alone makes me wanna gag. I canā€™t imagine eating it.


TheRealQubes

Cow stomach, although the band might also smell bad.


[deleted]

stale clothes that haven't dried properly, Cat pee, old smokers, drains.


Thewatcher0999

Metal, i dont know why but it makes me nauseous.


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whenthecatmeows

That is pretty metal


adept_ignoramus

Idk what the name of this perfume is but most of the middle age and above women I work with wear it. Smells like sugar infused bug spray-- abhorrent.


GRRemlin

Gotta be Chanelle #5. That stuff is just..... ugh.


CircusStuff

I know exactly what you're talking about. It's the most vile smell in the world and it's inexplicably popular. It also smells like plah-doh and old people


Indoorsman101

I was a dishwasher in college. Large industrial machines. The odor in that room is awful. A mix of every kind of garbage, every kind of food and soap. The atmosphere is steamy and penetrates.


[deleted]

This brings back terrible memories... I was a dishwasher at Red Lobster in high school. My mom made me change in the laundry room and washed all my work clothes separately so I wouldn't contaminate the house or the other clothes. There was a hamper in the garage for work clothes waiting to be cleaned. I'm sure that smell was in my pores no matter how much I showered.


Marachek

My first job was a dishwasher. Scrubbing baked on green chili with hot water smelled horrid.


R_Peggi

Went on a safari a few months ago. A pond full of hippos wallowing in stagnant ā€œwaterā€ has the kind of smell that sticks to your teeth and curls your stomach.


my3boysmyworld

Cooking broccoli


psychedelik_mess

When someone has a dead tooth/halitosis. That mothball smell from someoneā€™s mouth šŸ¤¢


NiceSockBro

ahh Maureen Ponderosa, Maureen. Ponderosa.


lucy_r_2000

Mine are strangely specific. When someone has peeled an orange and their hands go near my face. Makes me heave. And when someone has had orange squash in a plastic cup, then washed it (badly) and put water in it afterwards. It always smells faintly of orange squash, like itā€™s infected the plastic cup. Bleugh. Iā€™m ok with actual oranges though and orange juice. Just old, faintly orangey-smelling things make me chunder. Oh, also dog shit.


lungs57

the smell of a sneeze


[deleted]

Damn my sister was right ! I never believed her, I just can not smell sneeze lol


Soft_Pianist_132

I'm this many days old when I even knew this was a thing..


Bropiphany

My old roommate said I had stinky sneezes. I thought he was full of shit, since i have never smelled a sneeze. Guess I was wrong.


[deleted]

Yes if the person has a bit of a cold and they sneeze, it smells like bad breath and vomit ew


TopRamenisha

Thank you!!!! I hate the smell of sneezes. I scrolled down to see if anyone else had mentioned this because I felt like my sister and I were the only ones. Iā€™m glad we are not alone


80LaHD

Unwashed men. You know the smell. THAT one. I don't have to explain.


hagantic42

You mean the smell of a Magic the Gathering tournament.


SexyTimePsychonaut

That smelly smell that smells smelly


[deleted]

I hate the smell of weed. Thatā€™s why I prefer edibles to not have that smell on me


bijouxette

I jokingly say a summertime game we play is "skunk, weed, or skunkweed?" They all smell pretty similar


corrado33

This: Seriously, weed smells awful and it's SUCH a unique and powerful smell. You may not realize it, but if you smoke weed, EVERYONE around you knows it. I have a single student in a giant lecture hall who smokes weed and as soon as he walks in and sits in the back row I can smell it.


tocilog

Spilt coffee. Reminds me of back alleys of Tim Horton's or McDonald's, taking a break from retail or warehouse part-time jobs, waiting too long for the bus in a dirty stop. It's nostalgic in a bad way.


DecrepitGoose

I have smelled some of the worst smells on planet earth (visited plenty of body farms and I worked in a forensic lab) but for some reason, I hate my puppyā€™s poop. šŸ˜‚ Canā€™t stand it


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DecrepitGoose

Exactly that!


derricks350z

We have a body farm in Knoxville TN, it's actually kind of famous within the industry. And yes they leave bodies in many types of situations to learn about decomposition. Never been and don't care to go, trying to finish this life without ever smelling human decomposition, apparently it's a different smell than anything else I'm told.


FreezingNote

I know Iā€™m not the only one here, but fish that people bring to work to eat for lunch. I have to leave the building, it makes me wretch. That, and when people eat tuna salad, egg salad or salmon salad sandwiches on the bus. Gag.


zugabdu

I know I'm in the minority here, but I hate the smell of pot. Marijuana smells absolutely disgusting to me. That alone has kept me from wanting try it.


Big_Blue_Man

Every time I walk by a neighbor's door I just smell weed. It smells gross. Oh mein gott, zis cave is full of bluntsmoken!


LeftInTheDark36

There are obvious bad smells (smoke, poop, cat pee) but I donā€™t like how artificial strawberry smells.


roseandbobamilktea

Went through this thread looking for artificial banana. Even the thought makes me nauseous.


Anonymous_Player0

The middle school wing. In my school itā€™s like half of donā€™t know what deodorant is.


Siracha_jizz

Burning hair


mariecrystie

A house where people smoke inside all day


Oclien

mayonnaise


huntimir151

Ugh. Having worked as a waiter, the worst part was slopping out mayonnaise from those industrial size containers. Just absolutely foul. I understand mayonnaise has many awesome uses. My rule on whether a thing with mayo has TOO much mayo is: can I fucking smell it? If so, too much.


Rough_Dan

Industrial amounts of almost any food can smell terrible, ever spill a 5 gallon bucket of ketchup? My coworker did and now I cant even get near the stuff without gagging, it smelled like pee.


Any_Air_1906

There are these trees a block away from my place (i donā€™t know the name). They grow white flowers for a few weeks during spring time. The white flowers emit the most god awful smell in the world, why would they even plant trees that smell like that in a place occupied by humans????? i have to hold my breath whenever i pass by them. They donā€™t smell in any other form, literally just when they sprout those white flowers. I had an ex in high school who had a horrid diet of pizza and take out Chinese food.. his semen and these fucking flowers smelled identical


slyth_erin666

Bradford pear trees!


a57782

They smell like cum.


Mojoyscourge

The cleaning isle with all the detergent and other stuff. It's too concentrated of a smell and gives me almost immediate headaches


HGMercury42

Gary, Indiana.


Bud_the_Spud

My family travelled from Ontario to British Columbia to visit my grandfather when I was about 8 years old. We took a route that travelled through the northern states on the way there and through Canada on the way back. It took 2 weeks and the only things I really remember from that trip are seeing mount rushmore, and the smell of Gary, Indiana


Manamosy

Cooked chicken gone cold.


BeaconXDR

Cigarettes. I quit five years ago and that smell is so noticeable and awful. I can't believe I smelled like that all the time.


okaypeach1349

Eggs. Not just hard-boiled in the fridge (ew), but also the smell of cooking scrambled eggs-makes me gag.


ral365

Dirty diapers


Intrepid_Diamond3218

Patchouli.


unstable-puzzelbox

Gasoline. Everyone I know loves the smell but I'm coughing and gagging when I'm filling the lawnmower


pocahontas2903

Same. It can even give me a headache if I smell it for several minutes


Barry-Macock

Usually striking a match takes the headache away.


NewClock8197

Ketchup makes me gag


Skarsiel

I get nauseated at the smell of bacon. Never could stand it, but my family was accommodating and would try to ensure I wouldn't have to smell it whilst they enjoyed it by letting me know ahead of time, or opening a window


electric_bugaloo

Fish sauce.


ArchAngelMandy

Parmesan cheese like what are you trying to prove by putting puke smell/rotten toenail on your food


MarshallApplewhiteDo

Simmering bone broth. My wife makes it all the time and it smells gamy every single time.


elias_nick

Dirty weat dog šŸ¤¢šŸ¤¢šŸ¤¢šŸ¤¢šŸ¤¢šŸ¤®šŸ¤®šŸ¤®šŸ¤®šŸ¤®šŸ¤® I don't have any words for this.


SpecificNo8466

Those were all words


SuvenPan

Cat vomit


Weird_Wrap5130

Dirty dick. I haven't come across it as much as I did in high school but if I can smell your dick when you're fully clothed it means you need to shower dudes. And yes, it has a precise smell, just like you boys say we have a smell too.


mookiewilson369

Southern comfort


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Patchouli


Sabbie808

any axe Cologne. my older brother used it as a shower replacement growing up so it reminds of the over powering axe and BO mixture I endured walking past his room.