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Rank the most terrible smells

145 replies

RishiRich · 04/05/2022 13:00

See what I did there? ;)

  1. Accidentally cracking a rotten egg. Actually gagged at this one.

  2. The bag of duck weed I got through the post this morning. I can still smell it.

  3. Removing a forgotten mooncup.

OP posts:
MissyCooperismyShero · 04/05/2022 14:58

ruby1234 · 04/05/2022 13:20

The dead seal my dog rolled in on the beach.
My car after the seal rolling dog had been in it.

Niche but yes this! We had the misfortune to come across a poor dead seal on the beach and it was horrific. And how the smell traveled! We had been smelling the putrid odour downwind from honestly about a mile away.

Alwayscheerful · 04/05/2022 15:05

Rotten courgettes

LetsGoCrazyPurpleBanana · 04/05/2022 15:05

Getting on a bus once and thought it strange how everyone had pushed to the back of the bus. Soon realised why when I was sat near a man at the front🤢The smell was rancid...I can't describe it...hair grease,bad breath,skin sores or unwashed arse? It was making me heave :( Never smt anything like it,poor guy :(

SpeckledlyHen · 04/05/2022 15:05

ThisSeemsSilly · 04/05/2022 13:16

Anal glands on dogs

Absolutely the worst smell in the world..

MrOllivander · 04/05/2022 15:12

Spreading chicken shit
Local farm did this and the smell... you couldn't escape it. I was at work and we were sat with vicks up our nose, it clung to your clothes, car, everything
The complaints were insane and he never ever did it again

Mariposista · 04/05/2022 15:15

CounsellorTroi · 04/05/2022 13:08

DB’s Lab’s farts. Indescribably vile.

I get you! I swear our dear lab's farts could kill a small child! Especially when my gran has been feeding him apples hahahaha

drinkingwineoutofamug · 04/05/2022 15:18

FIZZYTEDDY · 04/05/2022 14:21

@drinkingwineoutofamug I can relate to most of these and I'm presuming you also work in healthcare 😂😂

Fungating Tumor very nasty

Once emptied an abdominal surgical drain...wasn't expecting this funky smell that had been lingering all day to be coming from there....so took a massive whiff of it....nearly fell over with the smell

Can you tell 😂😂

The upgradable pressure ulcer was funky as well.
Lots of infected wounds from community in the clinic . Iv users especially.
Totally forgot though. Partner came home from work, took his boots off. Even the dog left the room

Lightning020 · 04/05/2022 15:18

Public toilets. Especially their disinfectant.

bjjgirl · 04/05/2022 15:25

Dead bodies after 2+ days

Forgotten protein shakers

Gangreen

Babdoc · 04/05/2022 15:26

Decomposing mouse that Dcat had concealed under my armchair next to a radiator.
Opening a perianal abscess in a hot operating theatre with no air con.
Intubating a dental phobic who hadn’t used a toothbrush in 30 years, and had halitosis that could kill at twenty feet.
The local farmers muckspreading the fields upwind, while simultaneously cleaning out the chicken sheds.
Opening the manhole cover on my main sewer, to find the cherry tree roots had blocked it completely then burst it.

afrikat · 04/05/2022 15:28

I once watched an autopsy. Nothing tops that

AlasEarwacs · 04/05/2022 15:32

Faecal vomiting where the patient has a blockage and vomits up poo

Goldfishmountainclimber · 04/05/2022 15:35

Area of scrubby land by an Indian slum where people do their business.

AlasEarwacs · 04/05/2022 15:35

I once had the misfortune of smelling a fungating tongue tumour that had erupted out of the tongue and the poor guy had bitten it off because he didn't know what else to do. (He had learning difficulties and had transferred from a different care team to ours, god knows how they didn't notice. I made a safeguarding referral and reported to the cqc)

WhenDovesFly · 04/05/2022 15:39

Decomposing bodies, especially when you open the coffin after a couple of days and the smell has built up (I'm a funeral arranger and have to check deceased in my care).

Rotting mice under your floorboards is also pretty grim.

My dog after she'd rolled around in rotting dead fox and I had to take her home in the car.

Cakemumma33 · 04/05/2022 15:40

I found a 9oz mam bottle half full of milk under my dresser that must have rolled under there at some point last summer .I opened it to wash it up and ended up throwing my boots up from the smell! 8 month old breastmilk! I still feel sick now I can't describe the smell!

Cakemumma33 · 04/05/2022 15:42

Why didn't you just say the worst smell was dried sick 🤣🤣

SynchroSwimmer · 04/05/2022 15:44

The smell during laser eye surgery - when you are the patient.

BlackCatTabbyCat · 04/05/2022 15:48

Aldi's version of Lurpak 🤢. Used to love it but it smells awful now and puts me off buying it.

Bit boring compared to the other posts 😂

KylieCharlene · 04/05/2022 15:52

Cooking dead rabbit

SheAndHerAreWomen · 04/05/2022 15:59

My husband's arse Grin

GillyGumbo · 04/05/2022 16:01

Dead, decomposed fox removed on a hot summers day from the gallops at a riding school, so the clients wouldn't see it. I was the only member of staff deemed to have the stomach for it...it was, uh, not pleasant and broke apart when I moved it.

Bag of forgotten carrots at the back of a cupboard - liquified. Just smells like vomit.

Old dried vomit. At the bottom of a wardrobe. Not me, don't ask.

Hyperion100 · 04/05/2022 16:07

In no particular order:

  • A long forgotten protein shaker at the bottom of your gym bag
  • Rotten onions
  • Lynx Africa
AlternativelyWired · 04/05/2022 16:09

Now wondering what to have for dinner after reading of these delights.

2anddone · 04/05/2022 16:09

I am a childminder I currently have 6 children in my playroom, they got wet at playtime today at school they smell of foist, damp and fart!

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