what is the worst smell you have ever gotten a whiff of?

Question

don't be shy about what the smell was.....we want to hear all about it!! the yuckier the better!!

Answer 1

The worst smell I have ever caught a whiff of was a gym bag containing old gym socks and a shirt covered in vomit. I never wanna do that again....ever.

Answer 2

I work in the car industry.....was visiting a buddies detail shop over lunch time. We were just standing around, talking, bs'ing and a employee pulled in a dealers car to clean next. We all noticed a odd smell and started to hunt around. After a few minutes one employee popped the trunk and we all bout dropped dead. Even at 50 ft away it was unbearable.

A salesmen had used this car to go get his lunch.....some chicken and other items, believe it was a boston market meal. Well he must of gotten busy or had a customer or something and totally forgot about his lunch in the trunk. Since the stuff had literally eaten thru the plastic tray, we figured it had been there for least a few weeks....and it was summer, so a nice cooking effect got put into the works as well.

I have smelled a car that has had a dead body in it for over 3 days.......that boston market meal was by FAR worse. Even trying to recall the smell makes me want to gag, it was just that bad. I use to work in food as a kid, never encountered anything like that even in those days.

Answer 3

Hope I don't make anyone ill with this story, but it happened to me and a friend nearly thirty years ago. I am going to purposely be vague about details and location, because the man was a part of someone's family, and I don't want any of them to read this and realize I am talking about their relative.

My friend owned a small mortuary in the southwestern part of the country in the desert, and I was serving my apprenticeship for him while teaching school. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SUMMER WHEN TEMPERATURES WERE WELL OVER 100 DEGREES we received the body of a hang glider who had run into trouble, let go of the glider, and his chute didn't open, plunging him several hundred feet to his death. By the time his body was retrieved, there were maggots, etc...And there is nothing quite as bad as the smell of decaying human flesh; it is much worse than any other flesh...

To be perfectly blunt about it, he was essentially like a burst melon, but we did the best to put him back together by stitching him together the best we could with over 1,000 stitches, then placing him in a plastic, form-fitting body bag made just for that type of purpose, then placing him in a casket.

He was to be buried nearly two hundred miles away, so we put him in a station wagon to transport. Well...to make a long story short, the air conditioning in the vehicle went out. Combine ripe, leaking flesh along with very heated embalming fluid, and add a touch of temperatures well over 100 outside and goodness only knows how hot it was in the vehicle, and I'm sure you can imagine a little of what it was like.

Needless to say, it was quite an olfactory sensation, one which I will never forget. Thank our lucky stars the family wanted only a graveside service and the wind mercifully began blowing away from the crowd, because the stench made us so sick on the way down we had to stop about every five miles and get out for some fresh, but hot, air!

Need I say more?

Answer 4

The 7 train in New York, Queens to be exact, at rush hour in the summer months. You need to realize the neighborhoods in which it travels, it is against some peoples culture and religion to use deodorant or dress appropriately for the summer months. I don't want to name cultures or religions because I might offend some, but most people can probably guess. OMG that is a nasty stench, especially when people are holding the strap hangers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2nd turpentine
3rd formaldehyde

Answer 5

Last summer I was riding in a car with the windows down and I smelled something kind of foul in the air but didn't know what it was. After driving about another two miles a truck load of cows pulled up along side us. It was the worst thing I ever smelled. They could use that smell to torture someone. I could see it driving someone mad or to killing themselves that's how horrible it was.

Answer 6

Well, I'm sure most are going to say their husband/wives etc. gas or bowl movements, which is a pretty disgusting smell. Others might say dead animals or something similiar to that. Yesterday my husband did fart so bad I could smell it in another room and thought their might have been a dead mouse or something in here, but the smell that really disgusts me is bad breath. Whensome one has bad breath it smells worse than gas or a dead animal. Bad breath and sweat annoys me and makes me want to puke.

Answer 7

ok i work at a hotel at the desk and a family came in they all weighed over 300 pounds which i do not care that is there own deal but when you and ur whole fam smell like rotten fish and feces then ewwww my friend worked in the restaurant bar and smelled the same thing....we could not rent the room they stayed in for over a month due to the stench

Answer 8

Cotton Seed Cheesecake bait, its used to catch cat fish. I work at a bait shop and i have to smell it everytime i walk in the door.

Once it starts to sit awhile, it smells like a pissy diaper mixed with manure, worst in the summer.

Answer 9

In the nursing home. An old man who hadn't showered in a week...it was a nice mixture of sweat and urine covered by really strong medication-smelling cologne.

Answer 10

Limburger Cheese after its has sat in my locker for a week in a sealed Tupperware container. My mom had me even wash it out and the fuzz was even growing outside of the container.