24 of the Worst Scents People Have Ever Smelled

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24 of the Worst Scents People Have Ever Smelled

Sight always seems to reign supreme in any survey of the senses we’d like to keep. It’s easy to understand why, but don’t let that distract you from the sheer power some of our other senses possess. Smell, for example. Sure, grisly sights might send you reeling, but outside of the most evil tableaus imaginable, they’re not going to send you literally crashing to your knees the way a particularly horrific smell can.

Obvious trigger warning ahead for those of a gentler digestive disposition, but if you’ve got iron guts, get a whiff of some of the worst, horribly specific smells posters on Reddit have ever experienced, including a truly abominable pizza order.

mshoneybadger . 1y ago | worked in reproductive healthcare for almost 2 decades: we removed an IUD with 10 yrs of head hair tangled up in a knot, in the IUD string. I was about the size of a pea. and it was potent.
1y ago I used to work on a potato farm. I've smelt dead bodies, I've smelt fresh diarrhea, buckets of blood, etc. The worst smell I've ever encountered is from field rot in potatoes. They rot from the inside out and you can't tell sometimes until you touch them. It's the consistency of snot and as soon as the potato pops you smell something like a mixture of a crushed tonsil stone, shit and vomit, only you can't run from it because it's just popped all over your gloves.
G 1y ago A dude was 2 weeks dead in the middle of his kitchen floor. The shit from his ass was liquid and harden his pants to the floor. Не was a chain smoking hoarder. It was 95 degree day in the south and he didn't have AC. All windows were closed. To add to the smell was the rotten open wounds that his cats were eating off him and the ammonia smell from the cats pissing everywhere. The body fluids seeped under the vinyl flooring in the kitchen to the subfloor. 3.8K ...
lokeilou . 1y ago My dog dug a 3 year old unbroken duck egg out of the compost heap, broke it, ate it and rolled in whatever was left-she vomited and pooped herself for a week. That smell does not wash off anything.
some_one_234 1y ago In college my roommate borrowed my car to go shopping. Several days later my car had a weird smell. Investigating the source of the smell I found a package of chicken breasts under one of the seats. Apparently they had fallen out of his shopping bag and slid under there and my roommate didn't notice. Raw chicken sitting in a hot car for several days is not something I recommend experiencing
bigmike2001-snake . 1y ago Not the worst, but.... Owned a pizza restaurant a few years back. Guy called up and asked for a VERY special pizza. Не wanted red sauce mixed with chocolate sauce (from our dessert pizza) as a base. Pepperoni, sausage and anchovies. Topped with sunflower seeds from the salad bar and Parmesan cheese. I told the guy that I wouldn't make that abomination until he showed up and actually paid first. So he did. Not sure what kind of satanic chemical reaction took place in my oven, but it literally cleared the place out. I had my
JTen87 . 1y ago Tonsil stones.
. 1y ago Some clearly hungover man in the shoe store let one rip while I was trying on shoes and I could taste it. I'll never forget the taste of that man's fart
ITeechYoKidsArt . 1y ago Blue tempera paint that had been forgotten under a sink for years. It smelled both dead and alive at the same time.
NonConformistFImingo . 1y ago A dog with giardia's poop... The stench is UNHOLY.
Sonnet34 O 1y ago Shadowed a doctor in a family medicine clinic. A patient came in complaining of foot pain, eventually it was revealed that he hadn't taken off his shoes or socks for several years and didn't know what was going on underneath. The doctor took off the man's shoes and socks and you could see/smell the particles flying into the air. | don't know how the doctor managed the whole rest of the visit, I almost passed out trying not to breathe. It was pungent and oddly sweet.
. 1y ago An entire lake of dead fish. The lake got struck multiple times by lightning. Killed everything in the lake. Thousand of fish floating everywhere.
graveybrains . 1y ago The smell of the stuff that comes out of a dog's anal glands. It smells like copper and pain. I've smelled plenty of stuff that was more disgusting, or nauseating, or repulsive. That's only thing I've smelled that fucking hurts.
One day in the middle of August, I get sent out to pick up a body. Arrive at the scene, fire and sheriff are there. They tell me the body is in this camper. The guy that died was morbidly obese. Не had been dead for at least 2 weeks. It had been in the 90s and 100s for that time and there was no AC in the camper. | spent 30 years as a paramedic and a firefighter. This was the nastiest smell I have ever dealt with. After dropping the body at the coroner's facility, I could get
Molest_Goat . 1y ago We were making a dump run one time and someone left a dead horse on the platform. They just dumped it and left. In the city. Like where the fuck did it even come from. The smell was so bad.
ElGatoGuerrero72 . 1y ago Was in hospital and was wheeled past another patient (elderly man) who I believe was dealing with С Diff cause there was a team of nurses cleaning him and holy fuck, that smell.... I had to ask for a new mask after that one...
Jef_Wheaton 1y ago Not necessarily the WORST, but the most persistent and damaging. Ground Zero, New York City, on September 13, 2001. It smelled like crushed drywall, mildew, smoke, kerosene, and rotting meat.
QuickLookBack . 1y ago When I was a kid my friend and I found a dead, bloated, and rotting deer in creek. Then the dirt gave out from under me and I fell six feet down into the creek, face-down right onto the deer. It smelled way worse after it burst.
mendenlol 1y ago I'm a veterinary technician so, boy, do I have plenty to choose from. The worst, and one I'll unfortunately never forget, was this dog who had gotten into his owner's weed stash a few hours prior. This dude got the munchies and scoured their whole yard for poop to eat for like half an hour before he started showing signs of toxicity. They rushed the dog in as soon as they figured out that the dog was stumbling because their stash was missing and so we had to induce vomiting to hopefully slow down/stop any more THC
Affectionate_Pass 48 . 1y ago Paper mill
ERankLuck 1y ago One summer, my dad loaned me out to his farmer friend for manual labor. One of the first tasks he had me do was scooping out compacted, rotten corn out of the bottom of a grain silo. I've been around child vomit and feces. I've been around pet messes. I've been around pig farmers who hadn't had a shower in decades. I've been around roadkill. Not a one of them comes close to the concentrated potency of what that silo smelled like in the lowa summer heat.
itscrazyaf . 1y ago Cleaned out a couple seafood restaurants that were destroyed in hurricane lan once they allowed us back on the island. It was two weeks after the storm, in 90 degree Florida weather. Not great.
venomous-harlot . 1y ago I had a friend in elementary school whose dad would eat McDonald's, smoke cigarettes, and travel with their dog in the car. I still remember the smell - a combo of old McDonald's fries, stale cigarette smoke, and wet dog
cancerouscarbuncle 1y ago We used to have a lake house where we would store extra fish in the freezer. We sometimes didn't visit it for a month or so depending on how busy we were. The freezer died for a month and we didn't know about it. We ended up having to throw away the entire freezer.

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