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?

Farmer behind you old house did this…while I had Hyperemesis pregnant with twins, in a boiling hot summer. The smell was indescribable, I had to keep all windows closed and couldn’t run to the car without being sick. It was miserable.

Years ago when I was a student nurse we used to sometimes have to collect a patients faeces in a glass jar to assess faecal fat, I think this was for 5 days. When you unscrewed the lid the smell was absolutely vile and it was a case of holding your breath and getting out of the sluice as quickly as possible.
Leg ulcers were another awful smell that would permeate the whole ward.

One Christmas I made a lamb joint. It was smothered in garlic - delicious.

DSS was with us that Christmas and loved that lamb - he ate bloody loads of it.

I'm sure you know what's coming!

He was always a bit of a sicky kid, and this Christmas, boy did he live up to that. Basically he managed to chunder all that lovely lamb up - he managed to get it on every wall AND THE CEILING in the bathroom. DH and I came upstairs to see what the ruckus was and I actually was sick in my mouth at the smell. It was disgusting. DH cleaned it up while I heaved by a window downstairs.

Leaving a half drunk bottle of protein shake in a car for a few weeks then proceeding to open it to see if the bottle could be saved.

it could not.

Gone off protein shake is like gone off milk x 1000 stronger. Horrendous

Rotten Eggs. I’ve a fairly strong stomach but the rotten eggs had me on my knees heaving. 🤮🤮🤮

Bradford in the summer of 1996. The worst smell ever.

I had just started my first job after uni, and it was a really hot summer. The smell in the city centre of Bradford was just awful: sort of meaty but with a side helping of rotting fruit. I used to go out for a sandwich at lunchtime and wrap a scarf around my mouth and nose. I genuinely thought twice about the job because the smell was so bad.

It was what people euphemistically called the glue factory on the outskirts of the city. Horse rendering, basically. The smell just rolled down into the valley floor into the centre of the city.

It was just that one summer - never happened again.

😂

"Bradford in the summer of 1996. The worst smell ever"

Widnes used to be like that all the time. Combination of an animal rendering plant and chemical works in the town. I remember driving over the bridge in the 90s with the car windows down, one friend said 'omg, what's that smell?' another friend replied 'Widnes'.

A bag of offal the neighbour dropped round for the dogs and I accidentally put it on the radiator next to the chest freezer which was it's intended destination

Also Durian fruit, unbelievable stink from it and it has been banned from being eaten in many public places in Asia as soo stinky

Agree re: rotten potatoes. So much worse than expectation.

Other UNEXPECTED bad smells

1. The inside of empty plastic tablet bottles

1. Some people's washing powder/ clothes. Don't know which one bit makes me nearly barf.

1. Parmesan. Smells like rancid sick.

You should do an AMA post!!

(Sorry for the unbridled enthusiasm about human misery...)

Not unexpected but at university I left some meat in my fridge whilst I had to go home for some emergency medical appointments. I came home and it stunk as soon as I entered the building

Rotting potatoes here too. Ex and I opened a bread bin that hadn't been used for a while and we'd forgotten about the potatoes in it. It literally made us heave, we had to take turns cleaning it out while the other stuck their head out of the window (first floor flat).

Also - fox poo 🤢

The fridge part of my fridge freezer is broken but I have to keep it on until the new one arrives to save all the stuff in the freezer (which still works)
The trouble is that the broken fridge now smells like I'm storing dead bodies in it!!

Another horrid smell was when my mum had cellulite and other infections in her legs and they stunk so bad even when we were able to get an appointment for the doctor he needed the door open to get some fresh air

I once walked under a road bridge at the same time as a slurry lorry went through. It was a hot day and the smell made me gasp. So horrible.

I know what you mean - some paper smells like sick too. I've never heard anyone else say that - I thought I was weird!

I was about to say the same. My dearly departed dog once managed to express himself all over the sofa.

We had to throw it away.

A bat flew into my car, I didn’t realise at the time. I didn’t use it again until three days later…during this summers heatwave. It’s a smell I’ll never forget.

Rotting badger.

I used to work in a nursery thaf was basically a raised hut. In the height of summer there was a god awful smell in the baby room. A badger had crawled under and died. By the time we realised what it was, it was partial soup. We had someone try to drag it out and it literally came apart. We had to shut down for a week.

A very successful slug trap I forgot about.

This really tickled me. The same happened with fish behind the fridge to me. A vague waft to start, then a nagging what is that and eventually realising that this is the smell of doom 😀 I'm borrowing the brie in dad's car for future use if that's OK x

Milk bottle from Tesco leaked all over the spare wheel area under the boot floor god knows how.

The smell was hideous for the first 5 mins of being in the car.

Eventually found it and it was like cheese 🤮🤢

I used to work in a hospital so came across a wide variety of gross smells.

Outside of that environment, one smell that is unexpectedly rank is old Sellotape. Also, another vote for rotten potatoes.

When I was a teen, I went out with a lad who farted so bad, I actually threw up.