Anyone else's daffodils stink?

[Kedgeree]

I'm going to have to throw them away. They stink and they're making me sneeze . I've never noticed this before and the ones I got last week were fine. These are the bog standard trumpet ones from the supermarket.

Yes. Lovely but they do reek,don’t they?

Daff’s are a bit stinky. I don’t like them in the house for this reason. I do have lots in my garden though

Never had this with store bought but my home grown ones completely ponged out the kithen. Had to bin them.

the sort with orange middles if thats relevant i wonder?

Yes, never noticed before this year but they were very wiffy. We’ve just got a new dog and I kept checking to see if she’d done a wee somewhere before I worked out it was the daffodils. 🤢

I'm a cleaner and last week when I went to a clients house I thought the cat had peed somewhere. Then I realised it was the daffodils, I find Sunflowers smell too after a while.

I like the smell of daffs .
DD says they smell like nappies

They do smell a bit. I dont mind but DP hates it when i buy them.

Yes - wee / nappies. I kept thinking yesterday that I'd trodden in something grim. They look nice, they've all opened and they're very jolly, but no, they'll have to go, they're making my eyes water! Might have to get some tulips instead.

They give me horrible headaches - hyacinths are just as bad.

Tulips ftw

Yes! I thought the dog had pissed on something until I twigged it was my nice bunch of daffs...

Yes! Never happened before either. I've had a few bunches this year so far and they all smelt sweet and nice. Yesterday I realised the horrible drain like smell, that was lurking around, was coming from my new daffs. Had to throw them away. No more sniffing the plug holes with a puzzled face.

Were yours from M&S by any chance?

... so thats why my kitchen smells funny XD

Mine were from Tesco I think. I binned them and sneezing has stopped! I'm going to get tulips tomorrow.

Yep, daffs are for outside unfortunately.

Hyacinths are a nicer scent but are often overpowering.

I stick to roses for inside the house.

Thank you for this thread! I thought it was just my pregnant brain being in overdrive but they bloody stink!

Some varieties smell, and some don't. Also, if you bear with them, the smell usually only lasts a day or so. I don't mind it once I've identified the source.

I'd been sniffing the drain holes for three days before I realised the source. I think I just got a 'bad' batch. Usually they're nice. Hyacinths are nice at first but then it gets way too much for me and there's a definite wee undertone to them. Nice outside though.

Tulips are sinister with their downy-uppy ways

Gypsophila smells of cat piss...

Lol reminds me of the time my mum brought me down a bunch and a bad smell crept into the house about a week later. For a couple of days I couldn't figure out what it was and then I realised I still had them and they had most definitely started to go off. Boggin. I thought they smelled ok at first though, but when they start to turn they are rank.

I'm pregnant and extremely sensitive to smells, I had daffodils in my bathroom and although my loo is spotless I kept scrubbing the loo and floor around it thinking I was losing my marbles!

It was the bloody flowers..

I can’t tell you how many times in the past I’ve come downstairs in the morning to be confronted with the smell of piss, only to later remember it’s the bloody daffodils

Yes why would you have pissy smelling flowers in your house? They’re only nice outside.

They used to put them in our office once a year everywhere, after a couple of days it stunk.