To ask what's the worst thing you've sniffed by accident?

[CheeseAndSprinkleys]

I have sniffed sanitary towels, unsed, and not by accident, it said scented on the pack in the supermarket so I had to have a sniff, but that's not the worst

C Diff is distinctive but I wouldn't say the worst smell ever. I used to be able to spot it from the doorway but I've been off the wards a while now.

The dog beats all my work related pongs. Honestly.

The bag of fresh cod fillets that I left in a shop over a hot weekend. It was a Saturday job and the owner was abroad for the weekend so it couldn't be retrieved. The smell was unspeakably awful - up there with fox shit

Deep water trawls that have been sitting rolled up for a couple of months. When they're stretched out they're full of rotting fish and sludge and maggots cover the floor like 6 square feet of spilt flour. Moving flour, though.

Retained tampon. (Not mine)

Cat piss. On my clothes. That I was wearing.

My parents fucking evil pet cat disliked me, one night over Christmas break from uni, she decided to make it known exactly how much. By urinating on me as I slept and then sitting in a corner, growling malevolently waiting for me to wake up.

Did it three times in the same week

Just remembered another one, back in the late 80's I was working in Crete as a holiday rep and journeyed to and from Heraklion to our office several times a week by moped. We used to take a short cut through the back streets (it was much quicker). But it meant driving along a small road where they skinned the local goats and hung them out to dry in the sun.
It literally stank, you could smell it a mile away.

Not me (thank god), but a particularly tight-arsed housemate of mine once walked into the living room, spotted a small bottle and squealed "Ooh! I love essential oils!", took off the cap and had a big sniff.

They were poppers.

I bet they weren't as tight arsed after having a good old sniff of the poppers.

My jeans after I was stood in the wrong place at the vets when the dog had its anal glands emptied. My mum made e walk home the smell was so bad.

Poppers

Nanunanu how did you sniff someone else's retained tampon by accident?

Ketchup is the best for removing fox shit stink off dogs.

Poppers. FML I was off my tits for ages! I genuinely had no idea what they were when a 'friend' shoved them under my nose.

I'm still laughing over the minge bike seat cover comment

The seat of my car after my exDH told me he'd shit himself and I thought he was joking.

He wasn't...

The fluid they took from my prem baby's stomach. It was vile. And a really nasty colour. He was diagnosed with NEC

One of the fridges in our staffroon stopped working, which was fine because we all knew and didn't touch it.

Got a covering staff member in and she put her milk in their after she's opened it and then forgot it until she covered again a month later. Opened the fridge and WOW! The whole top floor drank like rotten milky fishy gross for a week.
I was pregnant at the time and had to eat my lunch in the office because I kept gagging haha

*stank, not drank lol...that would be effing awful

A dead rotting fox in my barn

Dog poop thinking it was chocolate

A Chinese curry that got left in the oven for three days and forgotten about. That was worse than the fox

I accidentally spilled some stagnant vase water on myself. I had to buy some new clothes to wear before I took the bus home.

About 10 years ago I worked for a marine wildlife centre for a month while I was travelling. The two worst jobs were...

1. Rotting down the carcasses from whale and dolphin standings so we could sew their bones back together for museums. Scrubbing rotting flesh, guts and brains from these poor dead animals was horrific, and will stay with me forever. Had to throw away all my clothing at the end of the month!

1. Collecting seal scats. Seal poop reeks, especially when you sift through it to determine what they last ate! 💩

Ammonia. Chemistry lab at school. Right after teacher said "You don't want to smell that substance!"

I never really got over it.

Pooey pants

A pair of my daughters rotten underwear. They'd been over worn and left in her room. I assumed they had just fallen out of the basket of clean washing I'd brought in and absent-mindedly did a sniff test. I heaved. A lot.

A rat somehow managed to get into the space behind the bath panel and died. This happened while we were on holiday for a week during the summer,about 15 years ago. The moment we entered our flat on our return,the smell hit us. It can only be described as smelling like a bagful of poo-filled nappies had been left sitting in a warm room for a week. We could not work out exactly where in the bathroom the stench was coming from. Anyway,it was late and we were exhausted from our journey so we sprayed some air-freshener,opened the windows and went to bed,saying we would investigate properly the next day. The next morning,I went to the bathroom and found dozens of maggots wriggling their way out from behind the bath panel. . We removed the panel and discovered a largely decomposed rat,absolutely crawling with The smell was something I will never forget. I was actually physically sick.Despite our best efforts to get rid of all the maggots,we missed some which subsequently turned into flies. So we spent the next week ridding the flat of them. A welcome home I won't forget in a hurry.

crawling with maggots.