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?

Muck spreading with human waste.

A rotten watermelon when it's exploded all over the kitchen .... it even got behind the dishwasher, and took weeks to clear up!

Cardboard always smells like vomit to me and i can smell it a room away

Belly button

I write no more!!!!😂

Gangrenous hedgehog leg. Sadly the poor thing had to be put to sleep.

Flystrike/maggots have their own certain smell too.

But I suppose neither of those are unexpectedly smelly.

Fridge's drip tray and a bag of rotting onions. Shudder.

I was tasked with scooping out the snail from out office fish tank to see if it was still alive as it had not moved for week. It wasn't. Enough said.

Cat I had many years ago had to go to the vet for his cat flu vaccination. Came out the vets, loaded him into the car, he didn't have cat carrier, he just sprawled on the back seat for the five minute journey home.

Noticed a sudden whiff and thought he'd farted, I said nearly home just a few minutes now, pulled up and as I went to open the car door there was a squelchy noise followed by an absolutely horrendous smell, he'd jettisoned diahorrea over the seat of my few months old new car.

I cleaned up as much as I could, gagging the whole time but in the end my brother got it steam cleaned at the garage he worked at to get rid of the smell and the stain.

My Dad was the poster boy for “What not to do as a type 2 diabetic”. Wet gangrene due to a foot lesion that had eaten to the bone & destroyed his toes after he’s lost the pulse in his foot. And that was in a rehab unit where he’d been learning to walk again after the other foot’s little piggies went to market 2 months before.

Seeing the full horror unveiled in Manchester’s RI for the med photographer to take pics was…interesting. On a hot ward, in August, it was eye wateringly pungent.

@BadNomad I have crohns and a stoma and I only have to be within whiffing distance and my nurse will say ' Milena' and help me change. It's rancid...

Ds bought a crab line, bait & bucket on holiday, when we came home his bucket was left in the car & we could smell an awful smell a couple of weeks later, he had left the bait in the bucket, it was rotten & rank.

I never have regained my sense of smell after covid during that delta wave 18 months ago.
Oh how I long to smell something, even rotten!
Don’t take it for granted is all I can say 😂

My dad’s necrotic pressure sore 😞

Fox or badger shit, or whatever shit my dog rolled in, but it actually made me puke it was so bad

DD currently has an ear infection. I can smell her from the other side of the house. Breastfeeding her is rank. (She’s on antibiotics!)

Once I went on holiday when I was on a prepayment meter for.has and electricity. You guessed it - the money has run out and power switched off when I got back. Rotting mince in freezer - ungodly smell that hung around for weeks despite disinfecting everything several times.

A box of something I found in the fridge at work.
It had been there for some time and I thought I would empty it and put the container in the dishwasher. Opened it a crack and the smell escaped. I closed it and put the whole thing in the bin. The smell permeated the whole floor and was so bad I left work early. It followed me down the stairs.
As I left I apologised to the receptionist before the smell hit the ground floor..

We always leave a bit of water in our watering can in case the wind picks up and blows it around the garden (normally sits by the water butt) I found a dead snail in it, one day and the stench lingered for about a week, where I'd poured the water out.

a tramp 60 feet upwind walking down Finchley Road on a hot summer day.

Slow cooker liners! Why did I not know of these? Straight off to purchase!

Please don’t, we really don’t need more single use plastics in our life because people can’t be arsed to do the washing up.

I went to visit a garden the other week, there was a very rank smell wafting around so I asked one of the gardeners what it was, apparently the local council had an arrangement whereby deer roadkill were collected and stored behind the garden wall until there were enough to be collected by a contractor. I walked around trying to forget that smells are particulate, but I couldn’t.

i complained to Asda they hadn’t sent me liver pate on my online shop. They had- but I’d ordered a tiny single serving pack. I had missed it at the bottom of a bag and scrunched the bag up and put in with the other empty shopping bags by the radiator. I found it a week or so later after bleaching the whole kitchen repeatedly to get rid of the unholy stench.

Mind you, not even deceased deer smelled as bad as the feet of a student I used to do dance with at college, yes you Gordon, your feet smelled as though they had died sometime during your adolescence.

I had an antique doll from the 1800s with a crack in the head that someone had previously glued. I dropped it and it opened up along the crack again and I found it was stuffed with newspaper dated 1943. I can't describe the smell, but it was rancid, sort of musty and chemically at the same time. I never knew newspaper could smell so bad but it was gross.