Okay this is a weird one but I need to post it because it drives me insane trying to describe it!
This is so disgusting, but I describe it as ‘the tonsil smell’ 😂 I had a tonsillectomy in my early 20s due to recurrent infections and tonsil stones and those tonsil stones were the bane of my life. The smell once you’d managed to get them out was absolutely vile, sort of musty, bleurgh it makes me feel sick even typing it. I used to be so paranoid that I smelled like it, even to the point I would badger my friends and family to tell me if I smelled. I think I was lucky in that my tonsils were so huge that the tonsils stones were so deep and covered that you couldn’t smell them 😂
Sometimes when I’m out and about, I can smell that smell on people. It’s sort of musty, mouldy, stale and it’s absolutely revolting. I know they can’t help it and perhaps they might not even be aware of it, but it makes me heave.
I’ve tried to explain this smell to my husband and he doesn’t have a clue what I mean and it’s making me think I’m just imagining it?!?!