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

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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?

Yes, cardboard smells like vomit to me sometimes too. How weird!

In work it would be a ruptured appendix in theatre or a pilonidal sinus as it absolutely stinks.

Gotta use peppermint oil or Vicks for those ones. It's always been when you're scrubbed in, in a hot theatre when it absolutely stinks and the surgeon is loving it.

X by a 10000 if the student nurse next to
Me also faints 🤦‍♀️ the last time I had a student faint she took out all my equipment

Melena (blood and stool) smells foul

Is also include my dogs farts / diarrhoea when he had pancreatitis f me that could kill someone

This. Honestly worst smell imaginable. I can still bring it to mind and have heave-o-vision over it 🤢

Poor little thing- hope she gets better soon.

That must be pseudomonas type bacteria?

Once on Work experience at a vets years ago, I as sure a cat had pooed somewhere - but couldn’t find a rogue turd anywhere- and the dog’s kennels were clean, too-.

The vet when I mentioned it said it was caused by a pseudomonas ear infection in a Spaniel-
that absolutely reeked.
Smelled him from rooms away.

My lovely old dog found a very old egg in a garden that had had laying chickens in it about 2 years previously. He brought his find into a shed where we were to show us! As he bit into it and ate it with great gusto there was an indescribable smell. The whole garden stank and the shed was a no go zone for days after. We battened down the hatches as we thought our dog would be ill, he never even farted in the following days. He was absolutely fine. The person whose shed it was had to go into it during the aftermath and he actually sniffed petrol fumes from a Jerry can as he said it was better than the evil old egg smell.

A lot of bad smells are often dog related. My parents had a dog who would get car sick, so if there was a car journey planned, they would not give her breakfast that day. One time, we walked her before the journey, and she ate a load of fox shit. Then we saw the same fox shit again... in the car and all over the seat after she vommed it back up. Not her finest hour.

I can think of a few

A dead rat/animal
rotten egg
rotten potatoes
a dung beetle when it's crushed (absolutely hate hate that smell)

oh and a closed lunch box that I forgot to take out of my school bag for the whole summer holidays. Rank doesn't come close to that. We had to bin it.

Young lad (no more than mid 20’s) got on the Docklands Light Railway in London asking for change, obviously had an ulcer or some flesh eating bug on his leg as evident from pus soaked bandage. Took my brain a while to figure it out. Absolutely horrific smell that clung to you and got inside your nose. He was only on there for a few minutes in between stations and I could still smell it when I got off 30 minutes later and it was in my nose all day. Never smelt anything like it.

Poor, poor soul. Gutted for him being in that state in the UK.

I'm accustomed to biological and agricultural smells and the only one I found surprisingly pungent was the smell from a retained tampon that had been in place for several weeks.

One of my children had pitted keratolysis of her feet. The skin looked just a little dimpled and smelt like rotten cheese. She liked to take her socks and shoes off in the car and put her feet up on the shoulders of the person in the front passenger seat.

Completely unexpected, though, was when we cleared out the house of a relative who was a hoarder. The house was grubby and cluttered but there were no dead creatures, rotten food or poo. However, as we cleaned we started to smell a nasty chemical smell that caught in our throats. It got so strong that I could smell the house from the next street. It turned out to be from a stash of old photo developing equipment that we'd disturbed in a cupboard. I sometimes wonder if the new owners of the house ever managed to get rid of it.

Years ago went to the cinema with DH to see Gothika. Few jumpy bits in the film. Anyway, the poor old dear next to DH

Posted too soon.....the poor old dear next to DH clearly had a stomach condition and every time a jumpy bit happened she farted. The smell was awful, but his reaction to it had me in fits so I pretty much ended up inhaling her toxic arse fumes every time I laughed.

Skunk that has sprayed my long haired dog late at night. I went out got the biggest tubs of tomato juice and tried to wash him in that (not exactly fun in the middle of the night outside). Poor thing had to stay all night in the enclosed porch then emergency trip to groomers in the morning.
It was awful.

We had a phantom crapper at work, the first person coming in on a morning would find a perfectly laid turd on the office floor. It couldn't have been an accident, the size of it looked like it must have taken some hard graft to lay it. If one was found on a Monday morning it had been there all weekend & left to fester. We had no onsite cleaners so someone had to volunteer to move it. It got so bad everyone started coming in later it the morning so they wouldn't be first in.

Two young girls who walked into the supermarket wearing grubby looking onsies. They had a basket and were buying junk. I smelt them before I saw them. They clearly hadn’t washed or changed for days. Buying snacks and chatting the two of them seemed oblivious to the reaction of those around them. An aisle away you could smell this ghastly aroma. Dressed like an overgrown fluffy bunny and puppy but smelling like the devils armpit.
Awful.

Worst ever for me was when we lived in the Middle East, not far from a beach, and Ddog found a dead turtle to have a good roll in. Please imagine the worst of rotten meat and rotten fish combined. We had to make him run after the car on the way home - luckily just a track and not too far.

He was very short-haired but it still took forever to get the stink out. I bathed him in everything I could think of - including super-smelly Brut shampoo, available in the nearest little shop at the time.
Nothing worked completely - it just had to wear off.

He was a lovely boy, though - RIP.

I let DD1 borrow the car to go bowling with a few friends one evening in early summer many years ago. A week or so later I noticed the car was a bit whiffy so rolled down the windows. It really stunk after a few days so I decided to take a good look. Nothing...

The car continued to stink until we couldn't stand it any longer. So we opened all the doors and searched thoroughly. Under the back seat, stuffed far in, was what remained of a burger in a small Styrofoam container.

Also, Hammond, Indiana and its neighbour Gary, Indiana. If you're ever driving in northwest Indiana, roll up your windows.

Same goes for eastern Colorado. You can smell the beef feedlots for miles.

What paint is it as I’m buying some next week

TK Maxx are currently selling a 'Mac and Cheese' scented candle.

Think about how bad it could smell and times it by 10000000 🤢

I used to keep stick insects and every few days I would go round and cut trimmings of local privet bushes for their tank, usually carrying them home in a carrier bag. One day I must have accidentally screwed the bag back up and put it away with rainwater trapped inside because when I opened it up again in the queue at Morrisons the stench of stale water was so horrendous it made me gag, even with a face mask on.

This! We had a disgusting smell in our kitchen. It was like poo. I was looking everywhere for what it was then found some potatoes in a random cupboard. Oh it was horrendous. Also a burnt out switch smells like rotten fish.

Definitely a professional tramp.

This was many years back, so he wasn’t a woke fuckwit, for example.

Rotting seaweed