Rank the most terrible smells

[RishiRich]

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.

I don't really mind the smell of rotting potatoes. When I was little my grandpa grew potatoes for market and they were stored in giant heaps in a barn, so there were always a few that rotted. It was an earthy, musty smell. Maybe getting used to it at a young age helped.

Smells that truly offend me are perfumes, marzipan and what ever came out of my tooth when the dentist fixed an abscess I had. Rank.

Green bile on baby when I was a student nurse, we were changing her bag both staff nurse and I were pregnant so was a bit eye watering baby was grinning up at us too bless her.

diathermy in theatre the smell makes me heave, urgh.

cat shit/pee just so foul

rotten anything yurk

Its hideous! And the look!

Rotten seafood or fish, the smell seems to linger for hours.

I wish I hadn't opened this thread!

1. DD's abdominal absess post appendectomy. Revealed when the Doctor removed her dressing and unleased a 300ml river of it down her front.
2. DH infected elbow graze.
3. Putrid potatoes, so grim.
4. The farts of my lactose intolerant DD after accidently eating dairy.

Oh yes! This happened to my parents when I was a teen and we went on a three week holiday. The smell as soon as we walked in the door was out of this world. The freezer had to be thrown away and it took weeks for the smell in the house to go.

When you have to do 24 hour urine collection at home, they give you a massive container to store it in, and there is some kind of preservative acid in the bottom (usually boric or hydrochloric) and chuff me, the smell that comes from that container when it's got a few wees in it is indescribable. How on earth the lab folk deal with it is beyond me.
Another vote for dog anal glands, such an overpowering rotting fish smell.

the smell when Ddog ate the contents of the cats litter tray and then was sick everywhere-it smelled like death.

Prawns that have gone off-what a lingerer that one is!

A dead frog that had been in the back of the car for goodness knows how many weeks.

Tripe.

pffft
I had a long list but MN server zapped it
Offal at top & Coffee is at the bottom (least of the awful but still awful)
Disinfectants & perfumes in the middle.

Sour milk, it’s the one thing that does make
me physically sick when I smell it 🤮

This!!

Or 2 gangrenous legs with maggots in!

Nearly fainted at that one. 🤮

Worst smell I've ever experienced was when the dog came back with a dead animal that has clearly been dead some time and was rotten. It made us all gag and the bloody dog wouldn't drop it 🤮

One of the Avon perfumes , Rare Rubies or Rare Gold, can't remember which. Smelt quite nice at first but once it permeated the air I ended up with an awful headache and wanted to be sick

The worst smell I've ever come across was in operating theatres when some poor soul was having surgery for faecal impaction.
The smell permeated across the entire hospital floor and made your eyes water.

Only small, but still overwhelmingly powerful, is the stench of coriander left in a sealed plastic bag in the fridge... it won't stay sealed for long, and it won't smell of fresh herbs either! Truly gag inducing....

Better than cooking a live one?

1. Dead bowel ( in a living patient)
2. pelvic abscess in a child post appendicectomy . It was like custard , I was pregnancy, and the smell even with two masks made me wretch . I was unable to complete the operation….
3. a whole leg with wet gangrene in a homeless man when the boots were removed and trousers cut off.

A fungating tumour that hasn't been regularly cleaned. There's not much that turns my stomach but that 🤢🤢🤢

I agree, but in my case it was a dead mouse inside a settee that was slowly decomposing. Took us ages to hunt down the smell

It was the mouse that was decomposing - not the settee! It had burrowed its way in from underneath

Bin juice on pavements in big cities..

The organs left after my cat has caught and eaten rest of a rabbit 🤢

Yup. I'm actually hiding my own thread. I'm supposed to be cooking tea and really don't fancy out.

A large dead rat. Under the floorboards. Smell was indescribable , accompanied by a swarm of huge bluebottles.

A dead, rotting mouse