Does anyone else hate the smell of lillies?

[ThoseWhoFindThemselvesRidiculousSitDownNextToMe]

They're beautiful flowers, but the smell makes me feel sick, my sinuses close up and gives me a headache. I got some as a present last week and they've just flowered and dear god, the smell hit me as soon as I walked through the front door. I've put the vase in the garden so I can bin deal with them in the morning but I have the windows open and I can still smell them. Is it just me?

@AinmEile I really wouldn't describe them as smelling sweet!

That's really interesting!

I love them and DH does nothing but moan about the smell. I don't notice.

I get it! I hate them. I can tell when I walk in someone house if they have Lillies out as I hate the smell, headache, eyes sting etc. I have a friend who loves them and she puts them in the garden when I go round 😂

Severe allergy here too. Simply cannot go near them indoors. I like them in the garden but away from the windows. I used to be obsessed with cross-stitching them as my DDS name has Lily in it!

Smell of cat piss.

I hate the smell, not cat pee to me, but an incredibly strong and overwhelming cloying sweet smell. I don't think they're beautiful, either! I just bin them if I get one in a bouquet.

I hate them too. To me they have an overwhelming, sickly sweet smell that makes me feel sick.

Hate them. My MIL keeps gifting them to me (in bunches of other flowers) and I just throw them all in the bin as soon as she's left. I don't have the heart to keep reminding her I don't like them

Totally reminds me of funerals and sadness . Have them in the garden but not in the house.

Cat pee here too!! No one else I know thinks this though, so I thought it was just me!! Yay to finding people who agree with me 🤣

I don’t like lilies, they hurt my eyes, get into my throat and nose and just annoy me. The smell when they start to bloom is awful too. I do not understand why anyone likes them!

I’m allergic to them, but even more than that in my culture they mean death so I’d never have them in the house.

I feel the same about purple and yellow chrysanthemums.

Guess I just wasn't going to the right sort of funerals.

Yes, disgusting smell.

Yes me too. If I receive flowers with lilies in I have to remove the lilies. I find even if you remove the pollen covered anthers, they still pong. It's also to protect my cat as they're toxic for felines.

I associate the smell with the dentist, as the dentist I visited as a child always had lillies in the reception.

I don't like them.

I was brought up that the smell of lillies is associated with death, and have never liked them or their smell because of that.

Oh yes I remember the smell...DBro got me lillies when I was pregnant as a gift. I was already struggling with smells anyway so that made it even worse!

I don't mind them outdoors when I can get a quick blast of the scent mixed with everything else, but indoors - ugh. A couple of weeks back there were some in church in an arrangement left over from someone's wedding - huge high-ceilinged space and I was at least 20 feet away from them, but grooooo.

I knew some people didn't like them because of the funeral thing but fascinating to know some people smell cats piss. I don't, I love the smell of lilies, but I can see how some would interpret the thiols in the scent as cats piss.

There's a few things that smell of cats piss, tomato plants and good quality French sauvignon blanc wine spring to mind. Same family of chemicals present. And asparagus makes your pee smell like cats piss as well but only some of us can smell it.

I get sinusitis and they really affect me. I associate them with death as well.

I can't stand the smell of lilies and they give me a headache. Also the pollen is poisonous for cats so I remove them if they're any fresh flowers I'm given.

I like them.
I don't get the cat pee smell.
DH hates them, not because of the smell but the yellow pollen he invariably gets on his shirt.
You'd think he'd learn to keep away from them, as they are my flower of choice on the hall table.

I'd not heard that before.
I know they are associated with funerals.
Would you mind saying what culture it is please
@ThomasPatrickKeatingsDegas