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What smell can’t you stand no matter what?

Asked by Hypocrisy_Central (26879points) January 6th, 2015

What smell if you got even a whiff of it the hairs on the back of your neck will stiffen, or you clear the area quick? Rotting flesh, human or animal, urine, sewage, baby vomit, rotting cabbage, body odor, mold, etc. what smell just will cause you to stop in your tracks and seek and escape from it?

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ucme's avatar

Weak, pissy beer
Old people’s elbows
Fat people on a donkey

Buttonstc's avatar

Cigarette smoke.

Spray insecticides like Raid.

Winter_Pariah's avatar

Chicken Pot Pie and Dip

Cruiser's avatar

Burnt hair and mercaptan. Yuck yuck yuck.

longgone's avatar

Fuel. Ungh.

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

@longgone Fuel. Ungh.
Really? I know people who find it unpleasant, but it equals rotting cabbage to you, or something equally nefarious, smell wise?

jca's avatar

Body odor. Bad breath. Mayonnaise in a jar (not on potato salad or whatever).

prairierose's avatar

The stench of rendering plants; a lingering smell of dead animal carcasses.

dxs's avatar

There used to be these mushrooms in my parents’ yard that would sprout up that smelled HORRID! I was afraid to walk out in the yard in fear of smelling them. One day, I gained the courage to walk up to one and look at it, and to my memory, it had this weird brown paste on it. They were nasty little fungi.

gondwanalon's avatar

The following I find particularly disgusting:
Kimchi
Musk perfume
Chinese aged fish
All of the stinky cheeses (especially the one that smells like vomit)

Adagio's avatar

@gondwanalon I think you are referring to Parmesan, years ago I used to call it “sick cheese” but I love it just the same.

rojo's avatar

Lobster

jonsblond's avatar

Strong floral perfume.
Cigarette smoke.
That foul rotten egg smell that surrounds some factories.

JLeslie's avatar

Black mold spores. I know when it is flying in the air. It totally freaks me out. I can feel it infecting my body. I once got very sick from black mold exposure.

Earthbound_Misfit's avatar

Dog farts.
Husband farts.
Candle and soap shops.

Here2_4's avatar

Boiled cabbage, raw meat, and I must agree with the above mention of dog farts. Husband farts never bothered me that much, because I am a great cook. LOL

gailcalled's avatar

Dead mice trapped inside interior walls.

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

Hog farms, cattle belches, BO, and bad breath. I had a woman that worked for me. Her breath could knock a buzzard off a shit wagon at 50 meters.

Cruiser's avatar

@Adirondackwannabe hog farms are indeed nasty but when you drive by hog and cattle rendering plants you better have plastic bags handy in the car especially in mid summer.

prairierose's avatar

^^ Very true!

Lightlyseared's avatar

Feacal vomit. It’s a symptom of small bowel obtrution. Food goes down, starts to be digested, ferments then comes back up.

Aster's avatar

The odor of frying liver and onions.

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

@Adirondackwannabe Her breath could knock a buzzard off a shit wagon at 50 meters.
That has to be the phrase of the day as far as stench goes, equal to “a smeel that can make your flesh melt” LOL

@gailcalled Dead mice trapped inside interior walls.
That is why you need a cat to get the little bastard before he can die ion the wall.

@Lightlyseared Feacal vomit. It’s a symptom of small bowel obtrution. Food goes down, starts to be digested, ferments then comes back up.
If it smells as bad as it sounds…..hand me a barf bag.

talljasperman's avatar

Stewed cabbage mixed with sauce.

Cruiser's avatar

@talljasperman Kim Chi takes that to a whole new level. Ugh!

Winter_Pariah's avatar

The mention of Korean food reminds of something far worse than kimchi (which I actually love but that’s probably because I have grown up with it). I don’t remember the name, but it’s fermented skate wing. Uric Acid in food? Ammonia assaulting your nostrils as well? That it’s pretty much rotting fish? Nope nope nope nope nope…

And I hear some people get addicted to it.

Kardamom's avatar

I couldn’t remember the name of this terrible smelling insecticide, malathion, until today. To me it reeks of death. I remember some of my neighbors using it periodically, in the 60’s, when I was a little kid, and I always got a panicky feeling whenever I smelled it.

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