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Scents that you bizarrely hate!

206 replies

BrookGreen54 · 10/08/2024 20:59

I’ll go first..

Newspapers and new books are my nemesis! Books are usually manageable but I have genuinely never been able to bring myself to willingly touch a newspaper, I don’t even like being in the same room as them due to the smell🤣 Wish I was joking..

Anyone else have a strange dislike to a smell that would be inoffensive to most other people?

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SnowFrogJelly · 11/08/2024 00:53

Any air freshener

expiredplants · 11/08/2024 00:53

SnowFrogJelly · 11/08/2024 00:52

Lillies

Same here, also narcissi and petunias.
Oh, also jasmine.

Noseybookworm · 11/08/2024 00:57

Cut grass
Joss sticks
Air fresheners
Egg sandwiches
Dog and cat smell in people's houses

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queenofthewild · 10/08/2024 23:56

Ladybirds.

They absolutely stink. No one else in my house can smell them, but I can smell the putrid little fuckers.

They smell like damp.

JamSandle · 11/08/2024 01:08

Tea. Makes me feel sick.

Shityshitybangbang · 11/08/2024 01:14

Anais anais perfume. It makes me feel sick

Mama2b99 · 11/08/2024 01:23

JackJarvisEsq · 10/08/2024 21:02

Lavender

why so many cleaning products and washing powders have this scent is beyond me it’s fucking awful

Finally someone said it!!

StirlingMallory · 11/08/2024 01:34

New carpets
New cars
Car air fresheners
I feel sick just writing the above.

mewkins · 11/08/2024 09:43

expiredplants · 11/08/2024 00:50

New carpets
Scented fabric conditioner
Dogs. To me they smell overpowering and absolutely vile, I can’t bear to be around them for long
Ladybirds too, but they’re a bit easier to avoid!

The smell of ladybirds?!!

readingismycardio · 11/08/2024 09:51

Lavender & roses Envy - not envy

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Frightenedbunny · 11/08/2024 10:09

Clinique Happy
Lavender based products
Buses (remind me of being travel sick)
Jo malone perfumes, don’t see the hype
Coriander

marshmallowfinder · 11/08/2024 10:11

Alcohol.
Periods.

HamSad · 11/08/2024 10:34

Chanel No 5. Just horrible.

LittleBoPeepHasLostHerShit · 11/08/2024 10:41

Febreeze.
The "scent" in sanitary towels.

WowIlikereallyhateyou · 11/08/2024 10:46

Estee Lauder Bronze Godess, 🤢🤮
Ditto Youth Dew & Angel
Anything Vanilla or cheap air freshener.

JamSandle · 11/08/2024 11:00

Brown sauce. 🤢

CatrionaBalfour · 11/08/2024 11:02

Tea
Bananas
Lilies

CatrionaBalfour · 11/08/2024 11:03

Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream -
I had to throw it away, such a disgusting smell.

HopeSpringsInfernal · 11/08/2024 11:13

Lavender
Tomatoes
Chrysanthemums

A bit niche, but the smell of rabbit cooking. My mum used to make rabbit pie - the pie was delicious but the cooking smell made me feel ill

JamSandle · 11/08/2024 11:17

I thought of one, you know that smell when you open the dishwasher and everything is clean but the glasses get this weird sort of smell. I dont know how to describe it. They're clean. But i hate it.

Cattery · 11/08/2024 11:17

Men’s Boss aftershave (not sure which one) smells like bad breath.

MrsMitford3 · 11/08/2024 11:20

Truffle oil on any food. I have an incredibly strong sense of smell and it makes me retch

CatrionaBalfour · 11/08/2024 11:20

JamSandle · 11/08/2024 11:17

I thought of one, you know that smell when you open the dishwasher and everything is clean but the glasses get this weird sort of smell. I dont know how to describe it. They're clean. But i hate it.

Yes, I hate that. If I'm upstairs and my husband has opened the dishwasher, I can always tell.

Mairzydotes · 11/08/2024 11:23

Petrichor. I consider it to be a dirty smell.