Does anyone know what blood smells like?

Question

I am writing a scene and someone was murdered, blood everywhere. I am trying to make this real..

Thanks!

Answer 1

Metallic. That's one word to describe it. If the blood had been there for a while and haven't dried up yet, a bit of decay as well. Just a slight bit though. Mostly it smells like metal would smell like, if you know what it smells like.

Answer 2

What Does Blood Smell Like

Answer 3

Ever been to a butcher shop? All blood smells alike. And there is a difference between fresh blood and blood that sat and congealed. Is metallic in ways.

Answer 4

1

Answer 5

Smells like iron. A bit like rust but very faint (unless you are in someplace hot). I would be more concerned about the stinking dead bodies though.

Dead bodies would smell like what you get with rotting meat - a very sour yet 'fattening' and greasy smell.

Answer 6

Blood does taste slightly metallic, but I don't really think of it as smelling all that much. It is really slippery and sticky, however, which might be useful to you.

Hope this helps (and you don't think I'm an axe murderer!)

Answer 7

It does smell metallic, while its fresh, and if there is enough of it.
It rapidly deteriorates to a rotting, putrefied smell, dependant on the ambient temperature of the environment.

Answer 8

Agree that it smells metalic.
Why not have the person burned - I can never describe the smell, but once you have smelled burning flesh you never forget.

Answer 9

since the blood is alkaline in nature , it smells lil nauseating n as earlier said a lil metallic too

Answer 10

You have Iron in your blood, that's the smell. That's why anaemic people need to take iron supplements.