The Worst Smell Ever

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A friend of mine had very smelly feet, it was terrible so made it made me ill!

I think B.O ranks up there in the top ten smells I absolutely despise. Riding crowded city buses in the hot weather is the worst. Sometimes I end up getting off the bus three stops ahead, just to get fresh air. Also, I hate very strong hair preparation smells, like perms, gel, hairspray, etc. Horses smell good; even their manure is not that bad of a smell.

Decaying flesh. The worst that I have ever smelled it was when I was 9 and I was at the beach in Half Moon Bay. There was a giant walrus with its head cut off, and it was there for a while. Being curious, I moved closer to it to see what it looked like up-close. I almost vomited!

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I've never smelt skunk, we don't have them here.

Rotten potatoes and rotten mushrooms are up there with the worst smells. Rotten mushrooms ferment so much that I swear they could lend power to something. All that energy wasted.

I work at a bakery at the moment and the raw pie mix there doesn't smell too good.

Worst smells? Well, i'd say that skunks, rotten eggs and moldy things in the sink are definately up there. A really weird thing to mention is this one flavor of Rugelach (A kind of pastry). I forgot what flavor it was but it smelled TERRIBLE!

Yeah, sinus-stripping stuff.

An ashtray full of wet cigarette butts is quite disgusting. That and my brother's trainers.

Decaying flesh is a definite. I have two recent memories of that and I warn you than number two is quite stomach-turning.

1) Our cat managed, without me noticing, to bring a dead mouse into my room and hide it under some clothing. As it was autumn, heading for Winter, I had my heationg on. I found it three days AFTER it started to smell. Everything it had touched had to be thrown out.

2) Back in 2004, someone on our housing estate died. Again, the heating was on and he had had a heart attack after coming out of the bath. This had happened sometime Thursday/Friday and he was found on a Monday after people in the flat next door noticed a foul odour. Flies had laid eggs on him and he was so badly decomposed that when he was moved his body cavity ruptured, releasing the semiliquid contents all over the floor and down the steps. A cleanup crew had tried to eradicate/disguise the smell with very strong disinfectant, but the smell of the two combined that I smelt when I went to put flowers at the door almost made me chunder on the spot. Holding my breath, putting down the flowers and running as fast and as far as I could from the area till I almost blacked out for lack of oxygen is the only reason I did not.

Poo and aur freshener (or farts and the same) comes in at no. 2 for me (no pun intended)

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I know what I think smells bad. I'm not going to specify (except for one thing, when people pass wind).

GOODNESS! Now THAT is just freakin' downright nasty! I don't blame ya for running!

I detest the smell of burnt cheese.

The worst smell for me is smoke, I can't stand being around anyone who is smoking.

Yeah, decaying flesh is pretty rough - decaying fish has a pretty nasty smell also (amines and amides like that probably come as a not too distant second to isonitriles)

A few other things I could mention

Rotting potatoes - that can clear a room fast and a lot of drug runners even used to supposedly bury their payload of coke behind stuff like that because the coast guard wouldn't want to go near it.

Rotten grease - passing the grease trap at work outside has been pretty rough at times, even worse when a smell like that or raw sewage has hit me and it felt like it instantly lubricated the inside of my lungs and nasal passages (shudders).

Mice - ever go to the store as a kid, see a glass tank full of mice, and actually peak over the side? Not the most recommendable thing...

Earing posts - everyone who has em probably knows what I'm getting at.

Rotten food at the bottom of a wheelie bin in mid-summer, with maggots squirming round. Ugh.

This drunk guy who rides the bus...he showers maybe twice a year and regularly soils himself.