What is this awful smell??

[narmada]

Have been weeding garden in our new house this afternoon as it's got a bit overgrown. When I came inside I noticed that I must have touched something with a really horrible smell - it's stuck to my hair, my clothes, ughhhh. It's not cat or fox pee as I know both of those smells.

It smells kind of chemically. Any idea what it could be?

ANyone? still can't get rid of the smell. What on earth can it be??!

We used to have a sorbus vilmorinii tree which smelt digusting when in bloom - a sort of wee/chemical smell. Like hawthorn only stronger...... (we moved house, but not because of the tree)

Thanks occasionalposter, will go and scour garden for that :)

Also Elder flowers smell a bit like cat pee - but too early for that?
Worst smell was digging up rotting garlic bulbs that weren't growing. Now I love the smell of garlic but this was vile.

Box? That smells of wee.

Hmmm, have got a lot of box in the garden but never noticed a particular odour coming from them. Will go and investigate them. I think it came from one of the borders around the lawn...

Thanks everyone.

The other plant I have come across with an unexpectedly vile smell is red or purple dead nettle. It is quite pretty in its way, but it really stinks when you pull it up! None of the descriptions I can find mention the smell, so perhaps I have the wrong identification, but it looks like a dead nettle and has small purple flowers.