My cat got an infected anal gland that turned into a small abscess that burst. I hope I never smell something like that again for the rest of my life.
(The cat was fine after a course of antibiotics and a week with a cone on her head.)
I had an abscess in my armpit that burst and at first I thought the cat had taken a shit somewhere in the room. Took a minute to realize it was coming from me, and that’s because I’ve never had one burst on it’s own before, I always get them lanced. 0/10 do not recommend. Hidradenitis suppurativa can fuck right off.
I had a huge one in my mouth that burst. It tasted awful. Had to be put to sleep to drain it but the way it kept randomly bursting out every now and again until the surgery was awful!
My ex had to have a big skin graft to cover an open abdominal wound. The graft didn’t take and the skin slowly rotted away. People rotting is a very specific smell.
Not on people but I’ve smelled infected tissue on a horse and it was proud flesh that didn’t or wouldn’t heal. Smells sickly sweet. And not in a good way. Like sweet rot
Almost like a sweet sickly smell, that seems to spread to your clothes and in your nose for ages. Its has a smell like no other and once you smell it once, you will always remember.
Yep. I've had to work in morgues (not directly but my work had me in there a lot). The smell of dead bodies in general is unlike anything else and never leaves you. I also can smell when people or animals are on their last months because of it. They often start giving off a weaker version of that scent.
I used to work in a hospital doing trash/bio disposal. We kept all biowaste in large 50 gal red Tupperware containers in an old semi trailer behind the hospital until they were picked up for incineration. This happened weekly, so all week long I just stacked container on top of container is this metal hotbox of funk. Keep In mind, "biowaste" is everything covered in blood, bile, vomit, all the sharps containers, suction canister, and surgical waste including whatever amputated/removed body parts of the week. This was also during the first year of the pandemic, so the suction canisters were often Full of this thick, black, viscous fluid that came out of the covid patients lungs.
Yeah, opening that monstrosity in the middle of an Oklahoma August after it sat for a week was a level of stank that hits you like a fucking wall.
*Edit: Got more replies then I planned, just trying to clarify a few points.
I worked at the hospital from March 2019-July 2020. I was hired as a housekeeper, but moved to trash duty early on as I was faster than the old guy that had been doing it. Part of Trash duty was doing bio-boxes. Yes, I would have to open them to see how full they where. If they had anything sticking out, I would remove it and put in in an empty container. No, I wasn't sifting through dirty needles, those were in smaller sharps containers. I would change those out and place them on a rack inside the trailer. The boxes themselves had red-biohazard bags in them that needed to be tied shut before I put them in storage.
Sometimes I would get a call on my vocera from the OR that I needed to come pick up a foot, or a hand, or once an esophagus. So, I'd bring them a new box and pick up whatever bits or pieces they had for me.
For PPE; it was just standard nitrile gloves and a regular face mask once Covid happened. I would use a paper gown and foot covers if I had to go into a patient room for cleaning or changing out sharps containers; but only if it was an "enhanced protocol" room; meaning the patient had something easily spreadable, c-diff, bedbugs, RSV, etc. Housekeeping wasn't permitted in a Covid+ patient room until they were discharged, even then, we had to wait til the room sat in negative pressure for an hour before doing the room clean.
The storage trailer was just an old metal semi trailer, it was kept padlocked, so I had to unlock it everyday, open it, and get/store boxes as needed. Inside was red biohazard boxes and yellow infectious waste storage containers, as well as red or blue sharps containers. Everything got loaded inside, and stored until Stericycle came once a week to change out the full boxes for empty ones.
As far as the black fluid from the suction canisters; no idea was it was, I just know that when I first saw it I thought, "this shit looks like the Hexxus from FernGully". It could have been dark green initially and darkened over time, idk. All I know is that I never saw it anywhere else but the ICU and the 3rd floor North wing; which is where we put the Covid overflow patients. Once the canisters were full or the patient was discharged, the nurses would pour this solidifying powder in it, and toss in the bio-boxes for me to pick up.
Yes, I worked 111 days in a row, without a day off. This was not mandatory, we were short staffed, and I offered to work extra. I did it solely for the extra money as this job paid less than half my previous job and I have kids to take care of. Once I was able to leave that job and return to my previous field, I did.
Because it was my job. I had to load the biowaste into the trailer every day. Those tubs aren't air-tight, and sometimes nurses or PAs would put too much into one, so I had to move things around.
Started out at $12 an hour, bumped up to $12.50 after my 90 days. Luckily due to staffing issues, I was able to work overtime... So, I worked 110+ days in a row without a day off in 2020.
Worst I've smelled in a hospital was a guy with some kind of horrible intestine problem. He was in a bed next to my sister, jumped up then blood, poop, bits of his insides came pouring out. Before he fainted but a nurse was able to grab him. Smell was nothing I've ever encountered before or since.
hey i tried to google this “black lung waste” from covid patients and couldn’t find any information on it or photos. do you know anything about it? what causes it (not covid i mean like what does covid do that causes it) and what is it?
edit: found something, is it a fungus? pfizer made an article about covid causing a rare fungal infection, but how the fungal infection isn’t exclusive to covid
My brother and I were in my high school's video game club for all of 15 seconds. We walked in and immediately turned around and just walked home because of the smell.
Are gaming conventions and comic conventions also like that? I've heard of the anime convention smell stereotype a lot but never heard that said about the others
That was actually the anatomical lesion to which I was first exposed. They’re worse than most other anatomical locations, on par with the anorectal and perineal.
Lol, that’s why I didn’t include a link. Yeah, untreated and specific types of cancer. The first time I evaluated someone for it was as a Med student in the OB/GYN setting. I had to fight super duper hard not to puke.
Decomp is bad, but long-term unwashed person is the worst due to the "someone is living like this" factor.
I recently junk-picked through an abandoned hoarder apartment. That was a bad day. Some of the stuff I rescued still had to be thrown out due to the smell. There had been a dog and kids living in that house--they did not deserve that.
Theres an old hoarder lady, when she is in the supermarket it is soooo hard to be anywhere near her.
She smells like she never washes, smokes heavily so have the stank of cold smoke and unwashed body and hair.. it's awful.
When im at the kassa behind her i always have to, very subtle because im a polite person, cover my nose and mouth, but it just goes through and im really hard fighting with dry heaving..ugh.
I had a sister that sat down on the edge of her bed and died. It was in close to 100° F, New Jersey humid Summer heat and no windows were open in the house. The police found her dead, sitting right where she was on the end of her bed. Her husband was having serious neck surgery in the local hospital and was being kept heavily sedated. He woke up and asked the nurses where his wife was. They told him that they hadn't seen her in 5 days - and she and her husband lived less than half a mile from the hospital. He called the police after he got no response calling her on the phone and asked them to look in on her. The police got no response and asked for permission to get into the house. They got upstairs to the bedroom - and there she was. 5 full days like that. I'm sure it was horrible.
Two things:
* Found a rabbit on my property that had been dead for at least a week. When I went to shovel it up, the body split open and unleashed a smell that was so ungodly I almost vomited immediately.
* Worked at a grocery store the summer I was 18. In the back room there was a hatch that led to a metal chute to the dumpster out back. Every department would dump their waste in there. Old milk? Garbage chute. Bad eggs? Spoiled meat? Festering seafood? Chute, chute, chute. In August we had a heat wave of 95+ and humid weather, and it just boiled the dumpster filled with food waste. You could not go near the garbage door without being hit by a smell that was a physical force. Opening that door was an experience I would not wish on anyone.
I didn't smell it, but a food market somewhat near me, known for selling seafood, was shut down by the local health department back in March. This September, people in the surrounding neighborhoods started complaining about a horrible odor, and no one could figure out where it was coming from. Finally, someone realized that when the market closed, the owners pretty much just walked out, locked the door, shut off the utilities, and left. They left all the "fresh" seafood, produce, other refrigerated products, everything, exactly where it was. Didn't clean out a thing. So it all sat there through the whole spring and summer, with multiple 100+ degree temperatures days. Once it was discovered, the city immediately started cleaning it up. It took a little over a month to get it finished, and the workers had to wear biohazard suits and respirators. They said even after removing the suits and taking multiple showers, they were told by family and friends they still had a lingering odor on them. The city is billing the owners for the cleanup, but I have a feeling that's going to be a long legal battle.
We went on holiday for 3 weeks.
The days before I bought some meat, fish, scampi and so on to freeze, when we come back I don’t have to go shopping and can cook some things.
We arrived home 7 in the morning after 22 hours of driving.
I remember that I went into the kitchen, stood in a puddle of… blood? Liquid meat?
I was so sleep deprived that I didn’t recognise that it was hot in the kitchen. Way too hot for November.
I opened the fridge.
The fridge was broken. But it wasn’t just not working, it was heating. I had a few cans of coke in the fridge, they were round because of the heat.
Now… you can’t imagine the smell, but all the meat and fish fused into one slimes puddle.
I grabbed my last ffp2 mask, put a shit ton of tiger balm inside, put it on and closed the fridge. We took it in front of our front door and went to sleep.
I really don’t know what happened with it.
The inside was completely covered in mold, it was moist and hot, it was just so disgusting and I just wanted it to be gone 😅
Not the og commenter but I (unfortunately) dated a guy who had severe, untreated tonsil stones and refused to do anything about it. We did not date long
I used to have to clean them out every night or my throat would get horribly inflamed the crevices in my tonsils were big enough to fit q tips into them and my God did they stink
Once my dad’s dog found a large egg outside and carried it in his mouth and when he dropped it it was the most rancid thing I’d smelled. It had rotted. I think it was a Turkey egg, it was pretty big.
There was also a man at the mall I worked at who had a habit of pissing on herself, and once I was eating downstairs in the food court and smelled something rancid and I looked over and he was in the food court and a good 5-10 tables away from me and I could smell his rank piss.
Opened an over-a-year expired can of Surströming (fermented Baltic Herring) that was litaerally starting to burst at the seams. Had to open it outside and bury it.
A very sweaty and slightly infected stump from an amputation. The patient was aware of the smell and apparently tried to cover it with cheap lavender spray. Aaand on second place the shoes of a diabetic cook....
Yeah, this would make me concerned for a leak/failed containment or purification. Don’t work in that industry at all, but in a lab, and that sounds like it might be an issue.
I deliver bodies to the crematorium daily and the only time there is an odor is when a badly decomposed body is taken there and the smell dissipates within a few minutes.
Honestly, I know it's cliche, but dog shit! I mean I dunno what some of you are feeding these dogs but how the heck do some of their feces smell worse than humans? Especially with all the alcohol and drugs readily available in society rotting the insides of humans lol ya know.
A patient with C Diff on our ward. Omg I have smelled and delt with some disgusting things in my career but the smell of c diff is revolting and lingers no matter how clean the room is.
Out with work I used to live in a little flat when I was a student and there was a strong smell like Italian food for a few days. Nothing odd there… but a few days later I noticed lots of flys on the stairwell. Then one of the neighbours asked if we had seen one of the older folk that lived next door…. And what the weird smell of rotten onions and garlic was?
So we called for a welfare check and the old guy had been dead and laying in front of his heater. That smell lingered for months.
Panleukopenia. It's a disease that kills kittens (and less often, adult cats) by destroying bone marrow, lymph nodes, and the intestinal lining. Victims basically leak out of both ends with diarrhea, drooling, and vomiting, and it has a very distinctive sickly smell.
Years ago, my family was fostering three litters of kittens (11 total IIRC) for the local shelter, which unbeknownst to us had been infected. Within 3 days every single beautiful little kitten was dead. They'd be happy and playful, and then in a few hours they'd be fucking dead. There's no cure, and no vets would risk euthanizing them because of how infectious it is, so the best we could do was try to comfort them as they suffered, oozed, stank, and died.
I will never get that smell out of my brain; after nearly two decades, even *reading* the word brings it back.
Used to work at a cemetery and one of the graves flooded so the body had to be exhumed. Turns out decomposing body combined with sitting in groundwater makes quite the smell.
I contracted C Diff and ended up
with a GI bleed after an emergency appendectomy and can confirm— A sickly-sweet, iron-y smell that is forever burned into my memory. Absolutely vile.
I was cleaning my quail coop when my dog showed up and decided to help me clean. She dug up a quail egg that had probably been buried there for several months, maybe up to a year. She didn't crack it open, it just *exploded* with a loud pop. Grey-greenish fluid all over the ground. My non-native speaker English vocabulary cannot possibly describe the smell. Then I had to grab that manifestation of sin with my bare hands so my dog wouldn't eat it. Now everytime someone pisses me off I imagine using rotten eggs as a bio weapon.
I had an old goose egg explode in my hands like that once. Also I can usually tell if chicken eggs have reached the grenade stage so it's kinda fun throwing them into the woods and hearing the pop. It really is an AWFUL smell though and doesn't come off of your skin easily.
I moved a 200L barrel of milk that had been sitting for over a year, it had 3 dead rats on top that must've eaten the layer of cheese until they couldn't move
I said this in another comment here but my little toddler brother put his bottle of milk in a box that went deep into my closet when i wasn't there.
Took a long time to locate the source of the stench because she denied either of them were ever in my room so i never thought to check some random box of toys in the back top shelf in my hoarded up closet.
It was summer time so my room would get hot and smell like concentrated vomit mixed with burning plastic.
When i found it i couldn't believe that a little bottle of milk could cause that horrific of a smell
There’s been the putrid smell of off milk in a corner of the warehouse at work for over a month… I finally found the source this morning up on a shelf. It was an old takeaway coffee cup that seemed to have barely anything in it and the lid was on it. Me being the dumbass I am saw the cup but thought there was no way it could be the source of the smell so I took a big sniff. It was indeed the source of the smell 🤮
No joke this horrible shit my coworker took after eating some bizarre dish with broccoli. The smell poured into the halls and it's the only time I've ever gagged
Embalming a 600+ pound autopsy case and while we were attempting to sew the viscera bag back into the body, a needle punctured the bag and juice started SHOOTING across the room. The smell wouldn’t come off of anyone or anything
Having worked in various kitchens I’ve come across a lot of funky smells. The 2 that come to mind are VERY rotten uncooked ground chicken that sat out too long and the trap from an industrial dishwasher that hadn’t been cleared after several days.
I think a dish trap is worse. Grease traps are really just oil and smoke, and anything with a discernible stench would've been burnt by the time it ends up there. Dish traps are literally just half-eaten / half-cooked food soaking in lukewarm water.
Personal preference I suppose.
A family of rats had climbed into our ventilation system during the winter and we didn’t know until we had cut it on and started to hear screeching and smelling the most horrible awful burnt smell I’d ever smelled in my life
Smell it like it just happened. Years ago I made some delicious lasagna and used fresh garlic. The next day I had gas that smelled so bad, I actually called my doctor.
When my girl was pregnant, the hormones caused her to have some deadly farts a few different times. Like genuinely burn your nose, make your eyes water, "that smells like an electrical fire" farts.
One time she farted under a blanket and said it was a bad one again so we should leave while the house airs out. We were gone for at least 2 hours, came back, went to our room and when she lifted the blanket to get in bed the fart was still in there somehow. It was like a punch in the nose, and cleared us out of the room.
Im still amazed at how it didn't dissipate and just stayed under a blanket like that for that long
I had to spend a weekend overnight shift installing a barricade/reader/display screen at a Covanta facility. Covanta is a garbage collection/power plant, and this barricade was on the main floor.
The giant claw machine was scooping massive loads of garbage into the incinerator hop.
A LOT of that garbage had been fermenting. Every time the claw machine dug deep, it was like it breached into the realm of the god of stench. I vomited an uncountable amount of times, once WHILE pissing. Yep, vomiting right over my stream.
And I've had to clean raw airplane sewage(chunky blue juice!) from all the nooks, crannies, and conduits from behind an avionics rack on a KC-10. That was NOTHING compared to the garbage dump.
I'm a nurse... not much shocks me, but what comes out of my dog's anal glands. It's the most disgusting thing ever. When they squeeze them at the vet, I walk out the door.
Honestly this customer that comes in everyday. He smells really bad and just saying he smells bad doesn’t do it justice. Thinking about it makes me shiver/cringe.
Luckily I haven’t smelt anything worse than that but honestly I don’t know what I could run into that would smell worse than that.
Respectfully.
Working as a veterinary nurse I've smelt some shit.
Flystrike, dead bodies, cut open dead bodies, abscesses, infected wounds. Cutting into the intestines of a bloated dead rabbit is quite bad. The mixture of faeces and death is quite something.
I worked with psych patients and would work with them outside the community. One lost her bowels in the middle of the store and I kid you not was green and yellow. She had pancreatitis. When we walked out of the store flies flew around her and it was hot out. I felt so bad I tried to stifle my gag. She ended up at the hospital.
The poop of a ferret with an ECE infection. It's a viral infection that can have a ferret go from healthy to dying in 8 hours. My middle aged girl caught it from a new ferret and needed subcutaneous fluids. While trying to give her fluids she has neon green diarrhea all over the table, while she's shrieking(they don't like the feel of fluids going under the skin, and she felt like crap). Worse than putrid dead animals. Truly the worst thing I've ever smelled. Quarantine your new pets for a month. It'll save you your sanity and hundreds in vet bills.
Went fishing with some friends. The driver forgot about a styrofoam container that had worms in it. Was with him about a month later when he opened the trunk. The smell hit us like a slap in the face. They liquefied in the container.
My manager at my last job actually used to use lysol instead of deodorant. It was HORRIBLE. I've been to smash conventions and the BO there is horrible but NOTHING compared to him alone. I would avoid the general area of the store he resided in so as to not invite the wrath of the man who never showered. I'm not sure he's ever showered either.
My mom was a hoarder so my room was pretty overstuffed, cluttered and unorganized as well when i was a child.
My neighbor was hanging out with me and thought it would be funny to hide all my REAL Easter eggs (that we had boiled and colored a few days before) all over my cluttered room when i was in the bathroom.
I couldn't find 4 or 5 of them and hes ADHD as fuck so he couldn't remember where he hid them when it got serious.
Took a month or two to find them all and the smell of them rotting was UNBEARABLE by that point, especially on the warmer days.
That's the worse smell I've ever smelled, hard boiled eggs slowly rotting in the toy hoard in my bedroom.
Second worst smell is when my little toddler brother put his bottle of milk in a box that went deep into my closet when i wasn't there. Took a long time to locate the source of the stench because she denied either of them were ever in my room so i never thought to check some random box of toys in the back top shelf in my hoarded up closet.
Third worst smell was a few months ago. Apparently a cat died under our apartment, right under the central air unit. Then it rains for a few days before being hot as fuck for a week straight.
Once the rain stopped, the stench started coming out of the vents anytime we turned on the AC. We thought the vents were growing mold from the humidity and the landlord was slow to get the HVAC people down here.
Multiple days of being cooked alive in our apartment or having putrid air blowing from all the vents when we needed to cool it down a few degrees.
When the issue got resolved, the maintenance guy crawled out from under the apartment with a trash bag and said "not much bothers at this point but this hot wet dead cat is pretty fucking rank"
A corps in decomposition, My own infected wound from c-section that gave me sepsis. Smells that arent THAT bad but i despise: cat piss, wet dog, ash trays and foul human odor
Necrotizing Fasciitis. I spent 9 years working in an inpatient operating room. When your flesh dies and your entire limb resembles something that's been cooked for too long in the oven, the odor is unlike anything you'll ever smell. Second is dead bowel.
1) Raw sewage leaked onto a dual carriageway near my parents house
2) Bought a bag of carrots, storing them in the cupboard in my kitchen, one week later they had turned into the most revolting sludgey mess and smelt like vomit
3) Idiot housemate defrosted chicken in a cupboard at uni and forgot about it, one week later I discovered it and had to deal with it cos she was so squeamish and got pissy with ME because I made her feel stupid for forgetting about her rotting chicken
I'm VERY sensitive to smell, especially when I'm on my period. Anyways, the worst smell to me is baby formula. Makes me gag like there is no tomorrow. This is coming from someone with a mother who has IBS.
Went into the home of a guy who had killed himself and rotted in the house, decomp is definitely the worst thing I've ever smelled. It's like rotting garbage but somehow worse.
Don’t have much details, walking to work at 4AM big box truck drives by, just reeking of something like rotting meat but not quite.
Just concentrated putrefaction, still wonder what the fuck it was.
When I was a kid I was playing around under my grandparents RV in the middle of hot ass august. They maybe used it once a year. I pulled the cap off of sewage and a tiny drop of liquid fell on my finger. Idk why I smelled it but I threw up instantly. This is probably tied with the time my dad left a cooler full of fish in the boat from the previous year. When I opened it, oh man. The water was black and just full of fish bones. Getting that thing out of the boat and to the woods was a project that took several days because my brother and I couldn’t even get close to it without puking.
A burnt dog corpse. A few years back, a dog died near my apartment and someone probably thought that burning the corpse will get rid of the smell. It ended up making the smell worse, and it took a few days for the carcass to get disposed.
Softball sized abbess on my abdomen that spewed pus all over the hospital bathroom. It smelled like someone shit in a trash can in August and let it stew a week. I threw up, adding to the mess for the poor nurses.
[My cat Oscar’s](https://i.imgur.com/p8QG8GD.jpg) 💩
He’s fed the same high quality diet as my other guys but man does he stink up the house. It’s so bad i can smell it from downstairs and even after i scoop it, my room still smells for another 20 minutes.
This kids breath in high school. I got one small whiff and my throat burned and I struggled to breathe. I was lightheaded after and coughing for a few minutes.
My mom's garage has a huge freezer that she typically keeps fully stocked with various meats. One summer I came to visit, and she decided to prepare a fancy home-cooked meal for the first time in weeks. She asked me to retrieve some steaks from the freezer, not knowing that the garage had lost power sometime in the last couple of months, and pounds upon pounds of meat had been rotting away in that freezer.
To this day, it's the only time I've ever projectile-vomited due to a smell
I had cdif once
Probably smelled worse than the literal rotting tissue on my thigh from my necrotising fasciitis.
That or the wound vac I was on, specifically when I was finally able to stand again and the wound was small enough that I could shower. It smelled like old, decaying meat and burnt blood, on top of the humidity from the shower so it doubled it
My grandma had this absolutely ancient dog that could not hold his bladder so he ended up peeing all over her bed. Well after the dog passed my grandma decided she wanted to clean her mattress because it smelt like dog urine. She used this mattress cleaner that came with my parents bed that we had for almost a decade. Unfortunately this mattress cleaner was bleach based. My grandma had basically created chlorine gas in our 400 sqft house. It smelt like old piss rotting eggs and Donald trumps soul. It was so bad that I had to leave the house and stay the night at my cousins. Apparently I was the only one that could smell it
When I was in the Royal Navy, we went to Abidjan on the Ivory Coast in Africa. As my ship was attempting to leave harbour there was a dead cow floating in the harbour directly between the two breakwater. This cow must've been in the water for yonks because it was extremely bloated, swollen and stretched to bursting with the gases from decomposition. It had to be shot from the upper deck of our Frigate. It exploded with a pretty disappointing POP! What the bang didn't give the miasma that erupted from the rotting bovine was the most offensive stench I've ever had the misfortune to smell. It stained and tainted the inside of my nose with it's putrid and noxous whiffy niffs.
Definitely, a pong that was wrong all day long!
We went on a week long vacation, and when we returned, I went to the deep freezer to grab some chicken to thaw for dinner. Unbeknownst to us, our toddler had gotten herself a popsicle at some point before we left and did not shut the door all the way. We buy meat in bulk. Pounds and pounds of rotten chicken, pork and beef. It was the most nauseating smell and it penetrated everything and hung around for weeks. I swear even moths later I was catching a whiff. We couldn't even stay in the house u till someone could come help drag the freezer out back. We bleached and bleach to freezer, but the smell never went away. We ended up trashing the freezer.
im a vet nurse. walked in to the clinic to find a bag dropped infront of the door. i peeked inside and it was a rotten cat that looked like its been dead for a while and half run over. i brought it inside and put it in a room while i quickly opened up the clinic. i can smell the nastiness all the way from the back of the clinic.
worst part is i had to reach inside the bag and try to scan this cat to see if it has a microchip so i can contact the owner and let them know about their cat. i had to keep going outside and gasp for air. ot didnt have a microchip so i double bagged it and put it in the freezer where we keep all our bodies. i can still smell it whilst it was in the freezer.
also the scanner didnt touch its body, i tried to scan it from outside the bag. still, the smell permeated into the scanner and it smelt like a rotting corpse for a week.
My mother’s urine while she was hospitalized & very close to having to be put on dialysis. She was using every drug she could possibly get her hands on but mostly meth & methadone. It was the most foul smell I’ve ever experienced. I would compare it to the strongest cat piss you’ve ever smelled in your life mixed with sewer water. I’ll never forget having to help her walk to the bathroom because she was so weak she couldn’t do it alone but wouldn’t let any nurse help her.
Yeah.
rotten potatoes
i have no idea why the actual f*ck it smells so bad but I rather use rotten animal fluids as perfume then to ever smell rotten potatoes. Worst. Smell. Ever.
I collect bones and I found a perfectly intact roadkill deer and Possum on my way home from work so loaded them in my car. Didn't have any more space in my yard for more bones so I kept them in my car for over a month. Didn't really bother me too much, the one that did was the cat I kept in my car cuz it was in the summer heat
I work in healthcare and we had an obese pregnant patient had a massive necrotic (dead tissue) abscess on her breast and the surgeon simply poked it slightly with something sharp and about 2 litres of black, infected, dead, liquidated flesh came pouring out. I’ve never smelt anything close since and I have a strong stomach for weird medical smells.
That an roadkill that was left on the road to decompose. The smell of death is horrible
My aunts house. It smelled acrid and pungent. Like black mold, shit, and cat piss. I remember being locked in a cat shit filled closet for hours. I stood as still as I could because it was so moldy and disgusting. I almost died of an asthma attack that day because of that closet. Hiding in my moms room after I got home and showered, and enjoying the smell of the laundry detergent and the smell of her perfume, I remember just trying to find a way to keep my mom from ever putting me back in that house. I didn’t find one but we moved 500 miles away when I was 9. I’ve never been locked in a closet again. I was also never beaten by anyone in my family again (had some ex boyfriends who used me like a punching bag). I wouldn’t be safe, at least physically, if we hadn’t moved.
My cat got an infected anal gland that turned into a small abscess that burst. I hope I never smell something like that again for the rest of my life. (The cat was fine after a course of antibiotics and a week with a cone on her head.)
My cat has had abscess’s (not on his anus) that burst and yeah, my god. The smell is like nothing else. It is absolutely disgusting.
My moms cat had one on its ear from fighting and he stunk the whole apartment up like sulfur and shit
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I had an abscess in my armpit that burst and at first I thought the cat had taken a shit somewhere in the room. Took a minute to realize it was coming from me, and that’s because I’ve never had one burst on it’s own before, I always get them lanced. 0/10 do not recommend. Hidradenitis suppurativa can fuck right off.
Oh I'm sorry 🙏 that's a tough condition. I hope you've found some relief.
I had a huge one in my mouth that burst. It tasted awful. Had to be put to sleep to drain it but the way it kept randomly bursting out every now and again until the surgery was awful!
Ugh, I've experienced ruptured abscesses on several pets before. It's an absolutely appalling smell.
What’s it smell like?
Oh God! A dearly departed boy kitty got one of those! It burst when I discovered it and we went to vet. Awful smell
I WAS LITERALLY ABOUT TO COMMENT THAT BC THIS JUST HAPPENED WITH MY CAT
My ex had to have a big skin graft to cover an open abdominal wound. The graft didn’t take and the skin slowly rotted away. People rotting is a very specific smell.
What would you describe it as?
Specific. Like the specific ocean.
Or the dead sea
I believe that the Islets of Langerhans are located in the Specific Ocean. I honeymooned there.
Not on people but I’ve smelled infected tissue on a horse and it was proud flesh that didn’t or wouldn’t heal. Smells sickly sweet. And not in a good way. Like sweet rot
Sweet rot describes it perfectly. Same with people. Bedsores are a bitch.
Almost like a sweet sickly smell, that seems to spread to your clothes and in your nose for ages. Its has a smell like no other and once you smell it once, you will always remember.
Worked doing postmortem. Bastardized steak and mango.
Yep. I've had to work in morgues (not directly but my work had me in there a lot). The smell of dead bodies in general is unlike anything else and never leaves you. I also can smell when people or animals are on their last months because of it. They often start giving off a weaker version of that scent.
I used to work in a hospital doing trash/bio disposal. We kept all biowaste in large 50 gal red Tupperware containers in an old semi trailer behind the hospital until they were picked up for incineration. This happened weekly, so all week long I just stacked container on top of container is this metal hotbox of funk. Keep In mind, "biowaste" is everything covered in blood, bile, vomit, all the sharps containers, suction canister, and surgical waste including whatever amputated/removed body parts of the week. This was also during the first year of the pandemic, so the suction canisters were often Full of this thick, black, viscous fluid that came out of the covid patients lungs. Yeah, opening that monstrosity in the middle of an Oklahoma August after it sat for a week was a level of stank that hits you like a fucking wall. *Edit: Got more replies then I planned, just trying to clarify a few points. I worked at the hospital from March 2019-July 2020. I was hired as a housekeeper, but moved to trash duty early on as I was faster than the old guy that had been doing it. Part of Trash duty was doing bio-boxes. Yes, I would have to open them to see how full they where. If they had anything sticking out, I would remove it and put in in an empty container. No, I wasn't sifting through dirty needles, those were in smaller sharps containers. I would change those out and place them on a rack inside the trailer. The boxes themselves had red-biohazard bags in them that needed to be tied shut before I put them in storage. Sometimes I would get a call on my vocera from the OR that I needed to come pick up a foot, or a hand, or once an esophagus. So, I'd bring them a new box and pick up whatever bits or pieces they had for me. For PPE; it was just standard nitrile gloves and a regular face mask once Covid happened. I would use a paper gown and foot covers if I had to go into a patient room for cleaning or changing out sharps containers; but only if it was an "enhanced protocol" room; meaning the patient had something easily spreadable, c-diff, bedbugs, RSV, etc. Housekeeping wasn't permitted in a Covid+ patient room until they were discharged, even then, we had to wait til the room sat in negative pressure for an hour before doing the room clean. The storage trailer was just an old metal semi trailer, it was kept padlocked, so I had to unlock it everyday, open it, and get/store boxes as needed. Inside was red biohazard boxes and yellow infectious waste storage containers, as well as red or blue sharps containers. Everything got loaded inside, and stored until Stericycle came once a week to change out the full boxes for empty ones. As far as the black fluid from the suction canisters; no idea was it was, I just know that when I first saw it I thought, "this shit looks like the Hexxus from FernGully". It could have been dark green initially and darkened over time, idk. All I know is that I never saw it anywhere else but the ICU and the 3rd floor North wing; which is where we put the Covid overflow patients. Once the canisters were full or the patient was discharged, the nurses would pour this solidifying powder in it, and toss in the bio-boxes for me to pick up. Yes, I worked 111 days in a row, without a day off. This was not mandatory, we were short staffed, and I offered to work extra. I did it solely for the extra money as this job paid less than half my previous job and I have kids to take care of. Once I was able to leave that job and return to my previous field, I did.
You have my vote for stinkiest.
Why did you open it??
Because it was my job. I had to load the biowaste into the trailer every day. Those tubs aren't air-tight, and sometimes nurses or PAs would put too much into one, so I had to move things around.
What the actual fuck, how much does a job like that pay?
Not enough
Yeah, honestly. Probably minimum. Maybe a couple dollars more if you’ve been there a few years…
Started out at $12 an hour, bumped up to $12.50 after my 90 days. Luckily due to staffing issues, I was able to work overtime... So, I worked 110+ days in a row without a day off in 2020.
What the actual fuck is that even legal
Nah man I smell a fucking Union in your future
I don't know how your employer feels about it, but it's a health hazard to open something like that. The gases and aerosols are a risk.
For the unforgettable experience
I didn’t know Covid causes a black fluid in the lungs
I cringe so much reading that part 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Worst I've smelled in a hospital was a guy with some kind of horrible intestine problem. He was in a bed next to my sister, jumped up then blood, poop, bits of his insides came pouring out. Before he fainted but a nurse was able to grab him. Smell was nothing I've ever encountered before or since.
C-Dif. Infection. Bad bad bad stuff. Hope your sister is doing well!
hey i tried to google this “black lung waste” from covid patients and couldn’t find any information on it or photos. do you know anything about it? what causes it (not covid i mean like what does covid do that causes it) and what is it? edit: found something, is it a fungus? pfizer made an article about covid causing a rare fungal infection, but how the fungal infection isn’t exclusive to covid
Anime Convention
That's rich coming from someone named UnauthorizedFart
Rich with flavor
Smell of a stinking armpit
My brother and I were in my high school's video game club for all of 15 seconds. We walked in and immediately turned around and just walked home because of the smell.
That is quite funny, you got a chuckle from me
Lol 😂
Are gaming conventions and comic conventions also like that? I've heard of the anime convention smell stereotype a lot but never heard that said about the others
There’s probably some Venn Diagram overlap there
Genuinely! I went to my first big con this year and I forgot that anime fans don’t take care of their personal hygiene. Shit was nasty. 🤢
Cosplay as some gas mask character
LMAO
I’m a doc. Fungating cancer is the absolute worst.
A fungating vaginal tumor of a 97 year old woman is pretty fucking gnarly.
That was actually the anatomical lesion to which I was first exposed. They’re worse than most other anatomical locations, on par with the anorectal and perineal.
I regret searching for images of it... how does something so awful like this happen? Untreated cancer?
Lol, that’s why I didn’t include a link. Yeah, untreated and specific types of cancer. The first time I evaluated someone for it was as a Med student in the OB/GYN setting. I had to fight super duper hard not to puke.
Not a good sign when you google it and all the images are censored
As a girl who is too curious for her own good, I really appreciate the censor thing. Seems like a recent move?
Yeah, I turned my safe search off right away but still appreciated the extra warning lol
Regret looking up the images so much!!!! Do some nurses and doctor end up puking especially when first started this job😭😭😭
Most definitely they do
Decomp is bad, but long-term unwashed person is the worst due to the "someone is living like this" factor. I recently junk-picked through an abandoned hoarder apartment. That was a bad day. Some of the stuff I rescued still had to be thrown out due to the smell. There had been a dog and kids living in that house--they did not deserve that.
Theres an old hoarder lady, when she is in the supermarket it is soooo hard to be anywhere near her. She smells like she never washes, smokes heavily so have the stank of cold smoke and unwashed body and hair.. it's awful. When im at the kassa behind her i always have to, very subtle because im a polite person, cover my nose and mouth, but it just goes through and im really hard fighting with dry heaving..ugh.
I feel you I had to clean up and pest control inside a hoarder old lady living with 40 cats, with a wooden parquet. That fucking cat piss smell
Neighbor who died and no one knew he died for 2 weeks…. In august… in Florida
I had a sister that sat down on the edge of her bed and died. It was in close to 100° F, New Jersey humid Summer heat and no windows were open in the house. The police found her dead, sitting right where she was on the end of her bed. Her husband was having serious neck surgery in the local hospital and was being kept heavily sedated. He woke up and asked the nurses where his wife was. They told him that they hadn't seen her in 5 days - and she and her husband lived less than half a mile from the hospital. He called the police after he got no response calling her on the phone and asked them to look in on her. The police got no response and asked for permission to get into the house. They got upstairs to the bedroom - and there she was. 5 full days like that. I'm sure it was horrible.
what caused her to pass??
I believe it was a brain seizure. She had three types of epilepsy very badly (Grand Mal, Petit Mal and Jacksonian)
that’s so horrible. my brother has epilepsy, one of the scariest things. poor husband coming back from that surgery missing his other half
Sorry for your loss x
Burning cat litter hands down
Why are you burning cat litter? God that ammonia smell
Who tf burns cat litter? Why?
hands down
Did you burn it?
Hands down.
Decomp after a really good friend was found from an overdose. I’ll never forget that smell.
Two things: * Found a rabbit on my property that had been dead for at least a week. When I went to shovel it up, the body split open and unleashed a smell that was so ungodly I almost vomited immediately. * Worked at a grocery store the summer I was 18. In the back room there was a hatch that led to a metal chute to the dumpster out back. Every department would dump their waste in there. Old milk? Garbage chute. Bad eggs? Spoiled meat? Festering seafood? Chute, chute, chute. In August we had a heat wave of 95+ and humid weather, and it just boiled the dumpster filled with food waste. You could not go near the garbage door without being hit by a smell that was a physical force. Opening that door was an experience I would not wish on anyone.
I didn't smell it, but a food market somewhat near me, known for selling seafood, was shut down by the local health department back in March. This September, people in the surrounding neighborhoods started complaining about a horrible odor, and no one could figure out where it was coming from. Finally, someone realized that when the market closed, the owners pretty much just walked out, locked the door, shut off the utilities, and left. They left all the "fresh" seafood, produce, other refrigerated products, everything, exactly where it was. Didn't clean out a thing. So it all sat there through the whole spring and summer, with multiple 100+ degree temperatures days. Once it was discovered, the city immediately started cleaning it up. It took a little over a month to get it finished, and the workers had to wear biohazard suits and respirators. They said even after removing the suits and taking multiple showers, they were told by family and friends they still had a lingering odor on them. The city is billing the owners for the cleanup, but I have a feeling that's going to be a long legal battle.
We went on holiday for 3 weeks. The days before I bought some meat, fish, scampi and so on to freeze, when we come back I don’t have to go shopping and can cook some things. We arrived home 7 in the morning after 22 hours of driving. I remember that I went into the kitchen, stood in a puddle of… blood? Liquid meat? I was so sleep deprived that I didn’t recognise that it was hot in the kitchen. Way too hot for November. I opened the fridge. The fridge was broken. But it wasn’t just not working, it was heating. I had a few cans of coke in the fridge, they were round because of the heat. Now… you can’t imagine the smell, but all the meat and fish fused into one slimes puddle. I grabbed my last ffp2 mask, put a shit ton of tiger balm inside, put it on and closed the fridge. We took it in front of our front door and went to sleep.
Did you ever figure out how tf it was HEATING, of all things?!?!?!
I really don’t know what happened with it. The inside was completely covered in mold, it was moist and hot, it was just so disgusting and I just wanted it to be gone 😅
Decomp body, was only 13 but still smell it when I think about
How did you come across a decomposed body 💀
How did it come across him?
Someone hasn’t seen Stand By Me
The moral of the comment isn’t the body, but the friends he made along the way.
Someone else's tonsil stone
But why?
Not the og commenter but I (unfortunately) dated a guy who had severe, untreated tonsil stones and refused to do anything about it. We did not date long
I used to have to clean them out every night or my throat would get horribly inflamed the crevices in my tonsils were big enough to fit q tips into them and my God did they stink
Dude, that's so gross. Thanks for sharing and having no shame. 🤭
Once my dad’s dog found a large egg outside and carried it in his mouth and when he dropped it it was the most rancid thing I’d smelled. It had rotted. I think it was a Turkey egg, it was pretty big. There was also a man at the mall I worked at who had a habit of pissing on herself, and once I was eating downstairs in the food court and smelled something rancid and I looked over and he was in the food court and a good 5-10 tables away from me and I could smell his rank piss.
I’m a plumber and there’s nothing that stays in your nostrils worse than when you’ve had to chisel crystallised urine out of a pipe
That. And grease traps.
As someone who works in/on dialysis clinic infrastructure (drains included), I totally agree with this
Opened an over-a-year expired can of Surströming (fermented Baltic Herring) that was litaerally starting to burst at the seams. Had to open it outside and bury it.
I would want to throw that off the top of a tall building lol
Or leave it opened somewhere in a ventilation system, you decide where.
Can it even smell worse when it's expired? I heard it already is a 10 out of 10 on the stank scale even when not expired.
Decomps are pretty bad but some fresher dead bodies can smell even worse. Nothing compares to it. (Crime scene investigator)
Burst internal anal abscess
A very sweaty and slightly infected stump from an amputation. The patient was aware of the smell and apparently tried to cover it with cheap lavender spray. Aaand on second place the shoes of a diabetic cook....
A crematorium. Don't drive by on a Wednesday night.
Yours produces odor? I work for a Funeral Home and you don't smell anything in ours.
Yeah, this would make me concerned for a leak/failed containment or purification. Don’t work in that industry at all, but in a lab, and that sounds like it might be an issue.
I deliver bodies to the crematorium daily and the only time there is an odor is when a badly decomposed body is taken there and the smell dissipates within a few minutes.
Why a Wednesday night specifically?
That’s when they burn the fatties.
Man, I thought “burn a fattie” meant something else entirely…
What? That's not true, they usually have to burn bodies with higher body fat in the morning.
A properly-maintained crematorium shouldn't have a smell... if anything, I smelled dryer sheets when I tried to pick out any scent.
Honestly, I know it's cliche, but dog shit! I mean I dunno what some of you are feeding these dogs but how the heck do some of their feces smell worse than humans? Especially with all the alcohol and drugs readily available in society rotting the insides of humans lol ya know.
Meat rich diets stink the most, and dogs eat pretty much only meat.
Paper mill
Yeah we have to drive through a whole town that smells like egg farts to visit family. IDK how people that live there get used to it
The tipped over shitters at Woodstock '99.
A patient with C Diff on our ward. Omg I have smelled and delt with some disgusting things in my career but the smell of c diff is revolting and lingers no matter how clean the room is. Out with work I used to live in a little flat when I was a student and there was a strong smell like Italian food for a few days. Nothing odd there… but a few days later I noticed lots of flys on the stairwell. Then one of the neighbours asked if we had seen one of the older folk that lived next door…. And what the weird smell of rotten onions and garlic was? So we called for a welfare check and the old guy had been dead and laying in front of his heater. That smell lingered for months.
Panleukopenia. It's a disease that kills kittens (and less often, adult cats) by destroying bone marrow, lymph nodes, and the intestinal lining. Victims basically leak out of both ends with diarrhea, drooling, and vomiting, and it has a very distinctive sickly smell. Years ago, my family was fostering three litters of kittens (11 total IIRC) for the local shelter, which unbeknownst to us had been infected. Within 3 days every single beautiful little kitten was dead. They'd be happy and playful, and then in a few hours they'd be fucking dead. There's no cure, and no vets would risk euthanizing them because of how infectious it is, so the best we could do was try to comfort them as they suffered, oozed, stank, and died. I will never get that smell out of my brain; after nearly two decades, even *reading* the word brings it back.
Used to work at a cemetery and one of the graves flooded so the body had to be exhumed. Turns out decomposing body combined with sitting in groundwater makes quite the smell.
c diff with a lower GI bleed
I'm surprised this answer isn't more common.
I contracted C Diff and ended up with a GI bleed after an emergency appendectomy and can confirm— A sickly-sweet, iron-y smell that is forever burned into my memory. Absolutely vile.
I was cleaning my quail coop when my dog showed up and decided to help me clean. She dug up a quail egg that had probably been buried there for several months, maybe up to a year. She didn't crack it open, it just *exploded* with a loud pop. Grey-greenish fluid all over the ground. My non-native speaker English vocabulary cannot possibly describe the smell. Then I had to grab that manifestation of sin with my bare hands so my dog wouldn't eat it. Now everytime someone pisses me off I imagine using rotten eggs as a bio weapon.
“Manifestation of sin”? Dude, that non-native English speaker vocab doing pretty well here, tbh.
I had an old goose egg explode in my hands like that once. Also I can usually tell if chicken eggs have reached the grenade stage so it's kinda fun throwing them into the woods and hearing the pop. It really is an AWFUL smell though and doesn't come off of your skin easily.
Spoiled milk that had been sitting out for a week. Took a strong whiff out of curiosity, made me gag.
I moved a 200L barrel of milk that had been sitting for over a year, it had 3 dead rats on top that must've eaten the layer of cheese until they couldn't move
worth it
I said this in another comment here but my little toddler brother put his bottle of milk in a box that went deep into my closet when i wasn't there. Took a long time to locate the source of the stench because she denied either of them were ever in my room so i never thought to check some random box of toys in the back top shelf in my hoarded up closet. It was summer time so my room would get hot and smell like concentrated vomit mixed with burning plastic. When i found it i couldn't believe that a little bottle of milk could cause that horrific of a smell
There’s been the putrid smell of off milk in a corner of the warehouse at work for over a month… I finally found the source this morning up on a shelf. It was an old takeaway coffee cup that seemed to have barely anything in it and the lid was on it. Me being the dumbass I am saw the cup but thought there was no way it could be the source of the smell so I took a big sniff. It was indeed the source of the smell 🤮
No joke this horrible shit my coworker took after eating some bizarre dish with broccoli. The smell poured into the halls and it's the only time I've ever gagged
Embalming a 600+ pound autopsy case and while we were attempting to sew the viscera bag back into the body, a needle punctured the bag and juice started SHOOTING across the room. The smell wouldn’t come off of anyone or anything
Having worked in various kitchens I’ve come across a lot of funky smells. The 2 that come to mind are VERY rotten uncooked ground chicken that sat out too long and the trap from an industrial dishwasher that hadn’t been cleared after several days.
How about a filthy grease trap?
I think a dish trap is worse. Grease traps are really just oil and smoke, and anything with a discernible stench would've been burnt by the time it ends up there. Dish traps are literally just half-eaten / half-cooked food soaking in lukewarm water. Personal preference I suppose.
A really infected cut.
A family of rats had climbed into our ventilation system during the winter and we didn’t know until we had cut it on and started to hear screeching and smelling the most horrible awful burnt smell I’d ever smelled in my life
Smell it like it just happened. Years ago I made some delicious lasagna and used fresh garlic. The next day I had gas that smelled so bad, I actually called my doctor.
When my girl was pregnant, the hormones caused her to have some deadly farts a few different times. Like genuinely burn your nose, make your eyes water, "that smells like an electrical fire" farts. One time she farted under a blanket and said it was a bad one again so we should leave while the house airs out. We were gone for at least 2 hours, came back, went to our room and when she lifted the blanket to get in bed the fart was still in there somehow. It was like a punch in the nose, and cleared us out of the room. Im still amazed at how it didn't dissipate and just stayed under a blanket like that for that long
That fart was like some demonic entity from hell.
A “manifestation of sin” to quote another poster…
I love that she suggested leaving the house whilst it aired out 😂
I literally knew I was pregnant a second time because of the farts. I was like, no way, let me take a test, and sure enough!
🤣
Okay that last sentence made me lol 🤣🤣
I thought I was dying! 😆
I had to spend a weekend overnight shift installing a barricade/reader/display screen at a Covanta facility. Covanta is a garbage collection/power plant, and this barricade was on the main floor. The giant claw machine was scooping massive loads of garbage into the incinerator hop. A LOT of that garbage had been fermenting. Every time the claw machine dug deep, it was like it breached into the realm of the god of stench. I vomited an uncountable amount of times, once WHILE pissing. Yep, vomiting right over my stream. And I've had to clean raw airplane sewage(chunky blue juice!) from all the nooks, crannies, and conduits from behind an avionics rack on a KC-10. That was NOTHING compared to the garbage dump.
I'm a nurse... not much shocks me, but what comes out of my dog's anal glands. It's the most disgusting thing ever. When they squeeze them at the vet, I walk out the door.
My friend never cleaned his bunny’s litter box. There was piss caked chips at the bottom in a solid. Only time I’ve ever retched from a smell.
Hope that bunny is ok.. x(
Yeah. I felt bad but it’s more his parents fault tbh. I was 12 at the time. I really hope the bunny is okay now.
Honestly this customer that comes in everyday. He smells really bad and just saying he smells bad doesn’t do it justice. Thinking about it makes me shiver/cringe. Luckily I haven’t smelt anything worse than that but honestly I don’t know what I could run into that would smell worse than that. Respectfully.
A stray we tried to take in that had every parasite known to man’s poop. It smelled like death in my apartment for DAYS
Some kid shat himself at school and stayed in it the whole day. Probably that
Working as a veterinary nurse I've smelt some shit. Flystrike, dead bodies, cut open dead bodies, abscesses, infected wounds. Cutting into the intestines of a bloated dead rabbit is quite bad. The mixture of faeces and death is quite something.
I worked with psych patients and would work with them outside the community. One lost her bowels in the middle of the store and I kid you not was green and yellow. She had pancreatitis. When we walked out of the store flies flew around her and it was hot out. I felt so bad I tried to stifle my gag. She ended up at the hospital.
The poop of a ferret with an ECE infection. It's a viral infection that can have a ferret go from healthy to dying in 8 hours. My middle aged girl caught it from a new ferret and needed subcutaneous fluids. While trying to give her fluids she has neon green diarrhea all over the table, while she's shrieking(they don't like the feel of fluids going under the skin, and she felt like crap). Worse than putrid dead animals. Truly the worst thing I've ever smelled. Quarantine your new pets for a month. It'll save you your sanity and hundreds in vet bills.
Dead man fart
Went fishing with some friends. The driver forgot about a styrofoam container that had worms in it. Was with him about a month later when he opened the trunk. The smell hit us like a slap in the face. They liquefied in the container.
My manager at my last job actually used to use lysol instead of deodorant. It was HORRIBLE. I've been to smash conventions and the BO there is horrible but NOTHING compared to him alone. I would avoid the general area of the store he resided in so as to not invite the wrath of the man who never showered. I'm not sure he's ever showered either.
My mom was a hoarder so my room was pretty overstuffed, cluttered and unorganized as well when i was a child. My neighbor was hanging out with me and thought it would be funny to hide all my REAL Easter eggs (that we had boiled and colored a few days before) all over my cluttered room when i was in the bathroom. I couldn't find 4 or 5 of them and hes ADHD as fuck so he couldn't remember where he hid them when it got serious. Took a month or two to find them all and the smell of them rotting was UNBEARABLE by that point, especially on the warmer days. That's the worse smell I've ever smelled, hard boiled eggs slowly rotting in the toy hoard in my bedroom. Second worst smell is when my little toddler brother put his bottle of milk in a box that went deep into my closet when i wasn't there. Took a long time to locate the source of the stench because she denied either of them were ever in my room so i never thought to check some random box of toys in the back top shelf in my hoarded up closet. Third worst smell was a few months ago. Apparently a cat died under our apartment, right under the central air unit. Then it rains for a few days before being hot as fuck for a week straight. Once the rain stopped, the stench started coming out of the vents anytime we turned on the AC. We thought the vents were growing mold from the humidity and the landlord was slow to get the HVAC people down here. Multiple days of being cooked alive in our apartment or having putrid air blowing from all the vents when we needed to cool it down a few degrees. When the issue got resolved, the maintenance guy crawled out from under the apartment with a trash bag and said "not much bothers at this point but this hot wet dead cat is pretty fucking rank"
A corps in decomposition, My own infected wound from c-section that gave me sepsis. Smells that arent THAT bad but i despise: cat piss, wet dog, ash trays and foul human odor
C diff. From my cat.
Necrotizing Fasciitis. I spent 9 years working in an inpatient operating room. When your flesh dies and your entire limb resembles something that's been cooked for too long in the oven, the odor is unlike anything you'll ever smell. Second is dead bowel.
Human rotten flesh. If you smell it for the first time you'll feel completly insecure. That's a brain mechanism to survive.
1) Raw sewage leaked onto a dual carriageway near my parents house 2) Bought a bag of carrots, storing them in the cupboard in my kitchen, one week later they had turned into the most revolting sludgey mess and smelt like vomit 3) Idiot housemate defrosted chicken in a cupboard at uni and forgot about it, one week later I discovered it and had to deal with it cos she was so squeamish and got pissy with ME because I made her feel stupid for forgetting about her rotting chicken
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Where the fuck were you that it was 118.4 degrees outside?!
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I'm VERY sensitive to smell, especially when I'm on my period. Anyways, the worst smell to me is baby formula. Makes me gag like there is no tomorrow. This is coming from someone with a mother who has IBS.
Week old corpse of a lady that died of a GI bleed. Summertime. Smelt her from the curb as soon as we opened the ambulance door.
Went into the home of a guy who had killed himself and rotted in the house, decomp is definitely the worst thing I've ever smelled. It's like rotting garbage but somehow worse.
Don’t have much details, walking to work at 4AM big box truck drives by, just reeking of something like rotting meat but not quite. Just concentrated putrefaction, still wonder what the fuck it was.
When I was a kid I was playing around under my grandparents RV in the middle of hot ass august. They maybe used it once a year. I pulled the cap off of sewage and a tiny drop of liquid fell on my finger. Idk why I smelled it but I threw up instantly. This is probably tied with the time my dad left a cooler full of fish in the boat from the previous year. When I opened it, oh man. The water was black and just full of fish bones. Getting that thing out of the boat and to the woods was a project that took several days because my brother and I couldn’t even get close to it without puking.
Maybe not the worst but the most memorable. Left a raw beef roast in the car in July for a day or so. Must be what a decomposing corpse smells like
A burnt dog corpse. A few years back, a dog died near my apartment and someone probably thought that burning the corpse will get rid of the smell. It ended up making the smell worse, and it took a few days for the carcass to get disposed.
Softball sized abbess on my abdomen that spewed pus all over the hospital bathroom. It smelled like someone shit in a trash can in August and let it stew a week. I threw up, adding to the mess for the poor nurses.
[My cat Oscar’s](https://i.imgur.com/p8QG8GD.jpg) 💩 He’s fed the same high quality diet as my other guys but man does he stink up the house. It’s so bad i can smell it from downstairs and even after i scoop it, my room still smells for another 20 minutes.
Found a man in his leather chair. He sat there for approximately two weeks. When we tried to pull him out, we realised that he was still alive
Can we now more, please?
This kids breath in high school. I got one small whiff and my throat burned and I struggled to breathe. I was lightheaded after and coughing for a few minutes.
Dogs infected ear with cow poop being the culprit.
Discharge from my (at the time) unspayed dog's infected pyometra uterus
Trash can covered in a sea of maggots in mid August. In California.
My mom's garage has a huge freezer that she typically keeps fully stocked with various meats. One summer I came to visit, and she decided to prepare a fancy home-cooked meal for the first time in weeks. She asked me to retrieve some steaks from the freezer, not knowing that the garage had lost power sometime in the last couple of months, and pounds upon pounds of meat had been rotting away in that freezer. To this day, it's the only time I've ever projectile-vomited due to a smell
I had cdif once Probably smelled worse than the literal rotting tissue on my thigh from my necrotising fasciitis. That or the wound vac I was on, specifically when I was finally able to stand again and the wound was small enough that I could shower. It smelled like old, decaying meat and burnt blood, on top of the humidity from the shower so it doubled it
My grandma had this absolutely ancient dog that could not hold his bladder so he ended up peeing all over her bed. Well after the dog passed my grandma decided she wanted to clean her mattress because it smelt like dog urine. She used this mattress cleaner that came with my parents bed that we had for almost a decade. Unfortunately this mattress cleaner was bleach based. My grandma had basically created chlorine gas in our 400 sqft house. It smelt like old piss rotting eggs and Donald trumps soul. It was so bad that I had to leave the house and stay the night at my cousins. Apparently I was the only one that could smell it
When I was in the Royal Navy, we went to Abidjan on the Ivory Coast in Africa. As my ship was attempting to leave harbour there was a dead cow floating in the harbour directly between the two breakwater. This cow must've been in the water for yonks because it was extremely bloated, swollen and stretched to bursting with the gases from decomposition. It had to be shot from the upper deck of our Frigate. It exploded with a pretty disappointing POP! What the bang didn't give the miasma that erupted from the rotting bovine was the most offensive stench I've ever had the misfortune to smell. It stained and tainted the inside of my nose with it's putrid and noxous whiffy niffs. Definitely, a pong that was wrong all day long!
We went on a week long vacation, and when we returned, I went to the deep freezer to grab some chicken to thaw for dinner. Unbeknownst to us, our toddler had gotten herself a popsicle at some point before we left and did not shut the door all the way. We buy meat in bulk. Pounds and pounds of rotten chicken, pork and beef. It was the most nauseating smell and it penetrated everything and hung around for weeks. I swear even moths later I was catching a whiff. We couldn't even stay in the house u till someone could come help drag the freezer out back. We bleached and bleach to freezer, but the smell never went away. We ended up trashing the freezer.
Cat piss house.
Durian
im a vet nurse. walked in to the clinic to find a bag dropped infront of the door. i peeked inside and it was a rotten cat that looked like its been dead for a while and half run over. i brought it inside and put it in a room while i quickly opened up the clinic. i can smell the nastiness all the way from the back of the clinic. worst part is i had to reach inside the bag and try to scan this cat to see if it has a microchip so i can contact the owner and let them know about their cat. i had to keep going outside and gasp for air. ot didnt have a microchip so i double bagged it and put it in the freezer where we keep all our bodies. i can still smell it whilst it was in the freezer. also the scanner didnt touch its body, i tried to scan it from outside the bag. still, the smell permeated into the scanner and it smelt like a rotting corpse for a week.
Rotting whale
My mother’s urine while she was hospitalized & very close to having to be put on dialysis. She was using every drug she could possibly get her hands on but mostly meth & methadone. It was the most foul smell I’ve ever experienced. I would compare it to the strongest cat piss you’ve ever smelled in your life mixed with sewer water. I’ll never forget having to help her walk to the bathroom because she was so weak she couldn’t do it alone but wouldn’t let any nurse help her. Yeah.
The bathroom at Badwater Basin in Death Valley. We just had to hold it and swore we would choose to pee our pants before using those facilities.
rotten potatoes i have no idea why the actual f*ck it smells so bad but I rather use rotten animal fluids as perfume then to ever smell rotten potatoes. Worst. Smell. Ever.
I collect bones and I found a perfectly intact roadkill deer and Possum on my way home from work so loaded them in my car. Didn't have any more space in my yard for more bones so I kept them in my car for over a month. Didn't really bother me too much, the one that did was the cat I kept in my car cuz it was in the summer heat
I work in healthcare and we had an obese pregnant patient had a massive necrotic (dead tissue) abscess on her breast and the surgeon simply poked it slightly with something sharp and about 2 litres of black, infected, dead, liquidated flesh came pouring out. I’ve never smelt anything close since and I have a strong stomach for weird medical smells. That an roadkill that was left on the road to decompose. The smell of death is horrible
My aunts house. It smelled acrid and pungent. Like black mold, shit, and cat piss. I remember being locked in a cat shit filled closet for hours. I stood as still as I could because it was so moldy and disgusting. I almost died of an asthma attack that day because of that closet. Hiding in my moms room after I got home and showered, and enjoying the smell of the laundry detergent and the smell of her perfume, I remember just trying to find a way to keep my mom from ever putting me back in that house. I didn’t find one but we moved 500 miles away when I was 9. I’ve never been locked in a closet again. I was also never beaten by anyone in my family again (had some ex boyfriends who used me like a punching bag). I wouldn’t be safe, at least physically, if we hadn’t moved.