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?

My boyfriend told me that onions don't agree with him. I made pickled onions last Christmas and he had a couple and stayed over.
In the morning I went downstairs and when I came back up and walked in my room I swear I melted into a puddle my eyes watered so much.

He was telling the truth

I have smelled alot of horrendous things in my time but the one we measure all smells against now is my dgs farts when he had chicken pox. I dont know what it was about having chicken pox but one day his farts were so awful he would clear a room and we'd have to open all the windows etc. Not as exciting as alot of posts here but it's how we gauge smells now, even dgs does 🤣

There is (or was) a maggot farm in Colwick, Nottingham. Now that really did smell of death as did those who worked there!

Expressed anal glands

Homemade Nettle fertiliser. I would bathe in manure before having a bottle of the stuff in my house with the lid off.

Laughed so hard at this that I woke toddler DC up.

@Discovereads I didn't buy them.....DH always does the washing up!

A dead fox in the bushes near DS's school. Poor caretaker had to sort it out. It was like the worst stinkiest gone off cheese x 1000.

That is a much better solution!

Tripe being cooked for a dog to eat. It smelled like boiling shit, absolutely knock you off your feet stench of hot, boiling shit.

Professional tramp or part time tramp? 🙄

Stomach lining, yes?

Microwaved mince for the dog 🤮🤮

a tampon that’s been left ‘in’ for 24+ hours! 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

Yes, cow's stomach, not sure which variety of tripe it was. I had to sit in the garden, I was almost crying.

The bit of pepperoni the child left in the back of the car for weeks.
also a dead dolphin, that was rank.

Had to fit a new waste trap on the downstairs WC sink today because it had started leaking.

It was filled with very stinky black sludge.

My brothers teenage bedroom, fetid rancid trainers mixed with mouldy pot noodle, but by far the worse thing I have ever smelt (I grew up on farm and worked in a vets too so I have smelt some smells) but my dog likes to eat poo, and he had eaten a disgusting amount of fox poo which he held in. for an hour or two before throwing it up violently on my kitchen floor, the smell was eye watering and the memory of it can still make me gip to this day, shudder 🤢

In Bangkok, we came across a market stall where a lady was enthusiasticly cutting up durian fruit. Her stall was beside a lovely stall that sold fried insects on sticks. An open sewer ran along the side of the stalls. That was 2004 and I still remember the smell.

(Durian fruit smells like rotting bodies, rancid bins and smelly socks for those that haven't had the pleasure!) 🤢

A beggar at Victoria Station in 96 Celsius heat who was wearing a hat, gloves and a massive shiny orange puffa jacket. Weird but not noticeably different to any other homeless person, other than being very overdressed for a heatwave - so I started to take the usual evasive action until he deliberately moved towards me (for the 'Scuze me, love' routine) and the jacket gaped open a little.

Shit, piss, flyblown flesh, burst cat abscesses, old blood, bad eggs, vomit, fermenting fruit, the week's work experience I did in a mortuary with clients who were sometimes in bags that sloshed on collection by the undertakers, vinegar and rotting cooked rice thats been in a saucepan for a fortnight all at once in a blast of hot air straight from inside his puffa, right towards my face.

I cannot imagine that he lived for long after that, as I can only describe what hit me as a blast of air from Hell itself.

Trenchfoot

Nettle fertiliser.. smells like Satan's arse.

Uncooked chicken fillets in the bottom of a wheelie bin hidden under other rubbish. They had welded themselves to the bin (it was hot) and had to be scraped off and the bin bleached several times to get rid of the stench. Almost didn't forgive DH for not bagging and binning them

I have 2 which were equally horrendous:

• Hakarl in Iceland served on a luncheon platter. Its shark that is fermented for 5mths and smells and tastes like rotten, stale, urine
• Smelling a flesh eating wound from a spider bite. I worked elsewhere in the hospital- but when the lift opened on the ward where this patient was- it hit me. It must have been absolutely awful for the actual man and staff helping him

Pressure sores, leg ulcers, C DIF, clotted blood.

Guess what I do for a living?

I always thought one of the worst smells was fox poo .. which my dog loves rolling in. That was until we were on holiday in Bamburgh and there was a dead and decomposing seal on the beach … and yes, the bloody dog rolled in it. Couldn’t get rid of the smell for ages 🤢