How exactly would one describe the smell of blood?

Question

I'm writing a story, and I am, unfortunately, unwilling to slit my wrists for this detail. Similies and metaphors welcome.

I'm working on a story, and, unfortunately, I'm unwilling to slit my own wrists to find out. Similies and metaphors are welcome, but I think it's more or less been answered already. And, for those of you who wondered, just regular human blood, freshly spilled. Thanks.

Answer 1

It is very tinny. metallic - slightly sour.

Answer 2

Smell Of Blood

Answer 3

First of all feel it is luke warm remember it has just come out of body. bloody varies from person to person not omly in colour but also texture. Also if they have an illness it may differ but only slight.
Blood can be dark/light/very runny or thick so it is imortant if writing about blood loss you get those facts included to be more visual to the reader talking about smell is not enough in a book.
Smell this depends on where it is coming from and the type of injury or condition that is causing the blood loss.
It has a sweet type of taste but also with a very slight smell of metalic a lot of the times blood has no smell especially fresh from a wound however if it is left then the smell is worse as it rots and does not have a long life unless given in transfusions and then it is obviously preserved for future use.
What you need are the discriptive words but before anyone can do that they need to know what type of wound and where. if a main archery is severed then blood will squirt out at great speed a stab wound will gush out with great speed.
Blood tends to be very thin and depending on which part of body it come from and how it will have different effect.
Blood tend not to smell so think more of colour/texture/volume to give a good picture.
hope that helped a bit.

Answer 4

Blood has the distinctive smell of copper (metal).
Blood does not have any smell whilst flowing through the body and there is no smell when it spurts from a wound only,when it comes into contact with air.
If you receive a cut inside your mouth your natural reaction is to take in a large amount of air which gives it that taste,smell.

Answer 5

It's a cloying sweet smell, depends on how fresh it is. It's a 'heavy' smell that hangs in the air. That is the smell of fresh blood. Old blood has bacteria in it so is rather sour and rancid (like meat that has gone off). Again it is a heavy smell, which taints the clothes and you can smell it on your clothes after you leave a room.
Hope these words help.

Answer 6

In France, perfume-makers distinguish 3 elements that go into a perfume in order to build up a "smell": the undertone, the body, the head. Or, in musical metaphors: top, middle and base notes, with the base appearing and lingering after top and middle are gone.

I would say that, for human blood, the top note is sweet, with many volatile organic compounds; this accounts for the "sickly" that many respondents describe.

The middle note, or the "heart", is metallic; it comes from the hemoglobine, a red compound in blood cells that contains an iron atom at its centre.

The base note or undertone I would describe as salty, or salty-mineral, with some sweet elements ( blood carries the body's sugar, and many enzymes. Most enzymes have a strongly sweet tone in their smell. ) Blood contains many minerals such as calcium, potassium and fosforus.

The entire "smell", indeed, can something sick-making.

So the overall description would be "a too-sweet and rather volatile head, a body quite strongly metallic, and undertones of salt and minerals".

Answer 7

The smell of the blood was warm and sweet and teased the senses of everyone in the room. How's that?

Answer 8

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The smell is likened to when you leave a steak out at room temp for a week..... If you can stand the flies.... take a whiff...... the odour is biting like infant feces and pungent like rotten food and a little like the musty smell of blood

Answer 9

It would have a metalic smell. Iron to be more precise. The moment you smell something foul, then its not fresh anymore

Answer 10

Fressh blood has a metallic, coppery smell to it.

Rub some copper coins and see if it reminds you of blood.

Answer 11

RE:
How exactly would one describe the smell of blood?
I'm writing a story, and I am, unfortunately, unwilling to slit my wrists for this detail. Similies and metaphors welcome.