Dear gods, that was the worst smell I’ve ever smelt.

[OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow]

Got some chalk paint. Shook it. Dd opened it, the lid popped off and the room was filled with the scent of death. Well, death if it rolled in slurry. (Apparently it can go off-what an understatement!)
Anything else you can think of that’s unexpectedly stinky?

A rotting potato.

I know all good smells when rotting but good god this is on another level.

A tiny clump of grass cuttings rotted in our garden waste bin over the winter one year. When we opened it up to use it the following spring the smell was horrific. Hard to describe - bit like a sweet rotting meat mixed with the foulest diarrhea smell you can imagine 😱

A dead rat under the floorboards.

A small, almost insignificant rodent corpse.

We couldn't use one area of the house at all due to the smell. Airing the place didn't work. You couldn't breathe as you passed it was so bad. After a week, we had to have the very expensive new wooden flooring taken up and the area underneath searched because the bloody thing wouldn't just rot away or mummify.

Coming back from holiday to discover our freezer had packed in, in the hottest room of the house.

Be thankful you have never been in our bathroom after teen ds..
Give me paint...

Kidney beans which I'd left in a plastic container in the fridge and forgot about....

The smell of DS’s trainers that got soaked on the first day of his residential then festered in a plastic bag in the heat for the rest of the week until I unpacked them when he got home.

DH did the shopping once and didn't notice that a wrapped piece of brie fell out of the bag into that dip between the back seats and the boot floor. The DC were complaining about the smell in Dad's car for a few weeks but I didn't understand until I had to move his car off the driveway. OMG, it was horrendous. Once he came home I sent him out to find the source of the smell and told him not to come back until he'd found it. It's still the benchmark by which we measure smells, if there's a bad smell someone will ask if it's as bad as the brie in the back of Dad's car. Very few smells have come close, although DS's boxing wraps were pretty bad after weeks of use without being washed.

Dead mouse under a very heavy divan bed. The water container at the back of a fridge in the utility room

Sorry to go there but when I was a kid the old lady in the flat above died.
Everyone thought she'd gone to her sister in Keighley.
Two months.
You never forget that smell.

Sage - it's horrendous!

I once took a whole chicken out to defrost,dd put a pile of clothes on top of it and I’d forgotten I’d taken it out

it was black by the time I found it

oh and this was in a heatwave

Another freezer one. It was in the utility room and we were young 20s in a house share and didn’t pay much attention to the smell until it got too bad.

There we’re bloodworm in there for the fish tank.

Christ, that smell will stay with me until the day I die…

Eugh! How long was it there for?

Cooking vegetables. Terrible smell of fart even a day later.

Leg ulcers!

Rotten egg. I boiled some eggs and one was rotten. The shell broke as it was boiling so it then all got circulated in the cooking water. I can stomach most smells but that one came close to making me
vom 🤢🤢

Got on a bus recently where it smelled strongly of rotting food. Bus quite full, so I moved down and managed to stand in the buggy/wheelchair space, where it was a bit better.
Two stops before mine, a woman gets off with her shopping bags full of, presumably, rotten food. The smell got so bad that I had to get off one stop early in order not to throw up on the bus.
Honestly, a refuse truck in the heat wave smelled "nicer" that her bags did.

There is no way that rotting grass caused a smell like that. I frequently leave garden waste 'composting' in my garden over Winter and it doesn't smell like that. It must have had something else mixed in with the grass? Maybe a carcass of a small animal?

The worst smell ever was a drowned rabbit that DDig rolled on - it kind of popped because it's abdomen had swelled with gases. Dear god it was so bad that we were all retching on the way home. We bathed him - shampooed several times. Still the smell persisted. I dumped perfume on him. Still the smell persisted. Weeks later whenever he got wet the smell reactivated. Death does not smell good.

DDog, not DDig!

An abscess my cat had on her cheek.

She jumped up for our usual morning cuddles and I saw this white looking thing on her face. Thought it was fluff and went to brush it off and this thing just erupted all over the bedding and my chest. She started shaking her head sending drips flying. I had to wrap her in a towel and clean it / let it drain in the sink whilst gagging.

I ended up binning the bedding, washed all walls and ceiling etc but swore I could still smell it for weeks after. I showered and washed my hair 5 times that day too. She had a giant hole on her cheek I had to put ointment into and it was gross but still better then that smell. It makes me queasy thinking of it!

My rotting molar as it was extracted
everyone in the room recoiled

Once used my slow cooker for beef stew (prior to my discovery of the genius that is slow cooker liners) and I decided it would be clever to pop some hot water, followed by a few generous drops of washing up liquid. The scent of Beef Stew & Morning Fresh intermingled....

Ye gods 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

Durian Fruit 🤮🤮