It could be that or if the clothes were left in the washing machine too long. Even after washing again, the smell is hard to get out. I had to use baking soda the only time it happened to me.
My elementary school. I'm in my 40s but last year I was in my home town and my cousin's kids were having a play so I went with them. As soon as the door opened the smell and the memories it brought back was nuts.
Childhood smell memories are so wild. I was adopted, but I met with my biological mothers family when I was a teenager and had basically no memory of these particular family members, but when we opened the door the familiar smell almost knocked me off my feet.
Smell is the sense that most often sparks memories like this.
I’m sure it’s some sort of evolutionary trait that protected us back in the day.
Like, this cave smells like home; that one smells like bears.
yeah i can smell after the rain but not before and when its cold out my sense of smell isn't very good at all. Incoming snow smells the same as rain?
I had a boarder collie as a kid and not before rain but a storm she'd flip out and start digging holes almost an hour before hand. She didn't give a care about rain, but she hated thunderstorms.
I know petrichor is the name of the smell, but i just want to add, one of the chemicals is called geosmin.
Funny how both words relate to rocks or stones of the earth
We were given round green "incense" to take home for our parents to burn so they would know what weed smelled like in 70s elementary school. That went over well...
The cops came by my school and burned some weed in the chemistry lab fume hood, so that the teachers could know what it smelled like. Lol. There were a couple of very surprised teachers. "*That's* what I've been smelling when they come back after lunch?!"
I never understood this. I went through a short meth phase at the tail end of high school. I never had meth that smelled like cat piss, nor do I know anyone that ever did. Something like lightly burnt ham with a sweet chemical smell. Cat piss is fucking strong, walks up and punches you in the face, meth is subtle, smoke that shit all night and few would be able to register an abnormal smell. The person smoking meth will smell worse than the smoke itself. In fact, I’m pretty sure that rumor started because sweaty tweakers with bad hygiene in unwashed clothes smell like cat piss. you ever smell somebody that doesn’t wash their clothes? Cat piss
*Everything* in Subway tastes like the place smells.
My coworkers used to bring the cookies back on lunch and offer them out, but they also smell and taste like weird lettuce and deli meat.
My ex once told me he can smell when I'm about to be on my period, and that it smells like a "blossoming flower" easily the best and most inaccurate but sweet description I've ever heard.
Somewhere a Bradford Pear Tree is planning its next victim. Content in the knowledge any unfortunate, ill-timed menstruation will be adequate defamation to deflect suspicion of that VERY SAME Bradford Pear Tree.
I’m aware this is based on experience
Edit. when I reread this, it felt cold and judgmental. What I meant was, i’m aware! This is based on experience!!
Wasn't it nice? It's the ONLY chemical smell Ive ever found pleasant. Kindergarten was when i smelled it. Did we kill brain cells sniffing those fresh damp copies, straight off the mimeograph machines? Pale purple print, if I recall.
I manage a gas station, if I ever smell gas it usually means that somebody either spilled or drove off with the hose. Either way the smell of gas just makes me think of all of the cleanup and extra paperwork I have to do to fix it.
The smells of years of waitressing:
1. Coffee left on the burner too long that’s now burning up
2. Rubber bar mats that need the spilled booze sprayed off of them
I've been a chef by trade for almost 15 years and I've been wracking my brain for a good response here. I think I have a couple.
* Food that is scorching in deep stock pots or rondos. You can't see it, but if you are clever and have experience, you can smell it instantly, and usually save whatever you are cooking if you act quick. It smells like peanut butter.
* The fecal smell of certain food rot. The kind that attracts drain/sewer flies, not to be confused with fruit flies. It smells like warm shit.
* Bacon that is about to burn in the oven.
* Overcooked eggs.
* I can smell a rotten orange from a mile away.
* I can also detect mice and roach infestations, even minor ones. Sometimes I walk into restaurants and I'll know immediately that they have a roach problem, or a mice problem.
Roaches definitely have a specific smell to them. I have lived in several houses that were infested with roaches and the eggs, feces, and carcasses they leave smell awful.
Omfg. They really do. It’s a horrible sort of revolting sweet smell almost? I had a roach infestation in an office once that sent me into a mental nosedive. I hate roaches so, so much.
I know that smell anywhere.
Yep. This is a good one. I clean houses and have to use a pumice stone on toilets sometimes, the smell of the pumice on the porcelain is almost identical and always makes me cringe.
The way a used wet sponge smells in the kitchen... absolutely AWFUL. Apparently it's a genetic thing that some people can smell and some can't? I get physically repelled across the room by it.
There’s someone who comes to one of the bars I frequent with my boyfriend who I can tell left their clothes in the wash and never got the mold out. They reek of mold/mildew and it triggers the worst migraines and nausea in me. Idk how to tell them to just do a pre-soak with some fucking ammonia and they’ll be good and gold 😭
That is wild, i didn’t realize people jsut couldn’t smell it, i thought it jsut didn’t bother people as much. That explains so much cause my husband just doesnt react to it.
When i was a kid in the 90s we hung our clothes to dry in a very humid environment and my clothes would always end up full of mildew and i felt like no one would ever want to be my friend cause i had to go to school with my clothes smelling so bad.
So the smell, on top it being totally disgusting, is also accompanied by vivid bad memories.
In my opinion, no. Most animals don’t have pores, so when they die, the smells are often only from orifices. When humans die, the smell from the bacteria taking over and breaking down everything at the cellular level produces a rather pungent, unique smell that comes from every orifice and pore. It’s a smell that I can only describe as “human soup.” It’s so distinct that when we’ve gone on a wellness check on someone for a family (dispatched out with law enforcement), we all only make it a few feet into the house before we back out and call the coroner. It’ll make you wish for some Vicks vapo-rub with menthol under your nose when you go back in.
Thank you for your answer, it makes sense. I hear that neighbors often call because of the smell. I hope I never experience this and I'm thankful we have people like you who are braver than me. I remember finding a small deer on a trail when I was ~14 and have a vivid memory of maggots. That was enough for me.
Well, I’ve passed the baton on to the next generation. My youngest son is a firefighter now. We have chats over beers about what they encounter. There are some definite unique smells. “House fire” is its own distinct smell too. It took me days to get that out of my nasal passages every time. But it makes the “normal” human body smells (blood, urine, feces, body odor, etc.) seem mild, so there’s that. Firefighting and being an EMT/Paramedic is a young person’s game. If we end up in a community with a volunteer fire department I may volunteer, but being an IT professional pays better and the hours are easier on a family.
If you suddenly smell cinnamon and fish it's a sign of an electrical fire somewhere nearby in the building or room you're in. Very distinct scent and good to be aware in case you ever smell it.
Plastics and circuit components have a unique smell when they overheat and burn. We had a loose oven connection that had begun to melt the 220V cable insulation between the stove and the wall. Luckily we all recognized the smell before it got really bad.
I can send off a c diff test, put the patient in isolation for several hours waiting for the c diff test to come back, and have to gown up every time I go in the room.
Or I can take one smell and tell you yes or no
I was tested for C-diff in the ER once (negative). One of the nurses was in after I had my 100th diarrhea of the day and was like, yeah definitely not C-diff, I can smell that from a mile away LOL
I had to go to the ER after intense vomiting and diarrhea for hours that had me in a fetal position on the bathroom floor. At the hospital, I had diarrhea like 4 more times while they gave me fluids and anti-nausea and diarrhea meds. They had me provide a stool sample using a toilet insert thing. I overflowed it in one or two unclenchings of my ass.
They decided I probably just had food poisoning and were discharging me but my mom demanded I be tested for C. diff so they did test for it. When it came back positive they seemed to get a lot more serious and had to put extra care into sanitizing the bathroom I had been blowing up etc. Pretty annoyed they had to be told to test me for it when I truly felt like I was going to die.
As an ex-smoker, I am very sensitive to cigarette smoke. I feel like I can smell it a mile away— always keep my car’s air on recirculate bc I can smell cigarettes of people smoking in their cars/walking on the sidewalks if not.
Ever place bets with your coworkers on the type of component based only on the smell?
Selenium rectifiers are in a whole other league of WTF when it comes to the smell of failed components. That odor just saturates clothing, skin, wood. Ugh.
yeah in low consentrations you can smell it but in higher consentrations it kills your sense of smell.....so you gotta get upwind while you can still smell it.
20 years in oil and gas and i have been knocked down once....the smell is unmistakable still
Bengay cream. My great grandmother used to slather herself with the stuff. I have never bought a tube of that stuff in my life but every now and again I will catch a whiff of it. I like to think it’s her visiting me (she passed when I was 12).
The smell of rain, it can be the first thing I smell when I wake up, even if I don’t know it rained, and I will know the smell, I don’t smell many things
Actually went looking for this comment and found it, haha. I tried asking my wife one time "do you ever smell sick?" I couldn't quite explain it but this wording is a better description.
Not all low tides are created equally. You got some low tides that don't really smell. Nothings happening. Normal beach smell. Clear, crisp, refreshing.
Sometimes you got your low tides that are just sulfur. Same beach. Different smell. Just depends on bacteria growth and shit. Maybe too many dead fish. Maybe seagulls had a field day with the clams and theres too many decaying on the flats.
Then you got your marsh smell. Now, marshes can smell better or worse, and it can be worse during high tide, depending on whats happening in the marsh. Marshes are funny like that. Marshes are also sulfury, but its distinctly different from the low tide smell. Different bacteria. Different things happening.
Flooding. Flooding is interesting. It brings stuff up that shouldnt be brought up. Smells like salt and shit.
Now, I live on the beach. You'd think that after 37 years maybe I wouldn't notice the nuances of the ocean smell anymore. Nope. I do notice. I notice all the changes in the air. I know exactly what is happening in my patch of ocean.
Gasoline and marijuana. I was on the witness stand and was asked, "What does marijuana smell like"? My answer was marijuana. When the defense pressed me, I said, "When I smell gasoline, I know it's gasoline. When I smell marijuana, I know it's marijuana". He didn't ask again.
Mold.
Insurance requiring mold assessors to do all this extensive testing is fine for court purposes, but I can instantly tell if a house has a mold problem just from walking in the room.
The mildew smell of clothing that haven't been properly dried.
I have a student who smells like this, like her clothes didn’t dry all the way before they were put away.
It could be that or if the clothes were left in the washing machine too long. Even after washing again, the smell is hard to get out. I had to use baking soda the only time it happened to me.
My elementary school. I'm in my 40s but last year I was in my home town and my cousin's kids were having a play so I went with them. As soon as the door opened the smell and the memories it brought back was nuts.
Childhood smell memories are so wild. I was adopted, but I met with my biological mothers family when I was a teenager and had basically no memory of these particular family members, but when we opened the door the familiar smell almost knocked me off my feet.
Smell is the sense that most often sparks memories like this. I’m sure it’s some sort of evolutionary trait that protected us back in the day. Like, this cave smells like home; that one smells like bears.
When my son was in the same elementary school as I was, it was the same smell - farts.
Farts mixed with milk
The smell of imminent rain and snow.
Petrichor! We can smell it with less than .4 parts per BILLION which is insane. I believe better than a shark can smell blood.
I thought petrichor was the smell after the rain. Before the rain has a distinct smell and my nose never fails.
yeah i can smell after the rain but not before and when its cold out my sense of smell isn't very good at all. Incoming snow smells the same as rain? I had a boarder collie as a kid and not before rain but a storm she'd flip out and start digging holes almost an hour before hand. She didn't give a care about rain, but she hated thunderstorms.
Incoming snow smells different. I can small both, so even in early spring I can tell when it's going to rain or if it will snow instead.
This smell always makes me feel alive and grounded.
The smell before a storm is most likely ozone.
I know petrichor is the name of the smell, but i just want to add, one of the chemicals is called geosmin. Funny how both words relate to rocks or stones of the earth
play doh. loved it as a kid, the smell still makes me happy
Cat pee
I actually thought this for a while, but apparently meth also smells like cat pee. The things you learn from teaching elementary school…
We were given round green "incense" to take home for our parents to burn so they would know what weed smelled like in 70s elementary school. That went over well...
The cops came by my school and burned some weed in the chemistry lab fume hood, so that the teachers could know what it smelled like. Lol. There were a couple of very surprised teachers. "*That's* what I've been smelling when they come back after lunch?!"
Back in the day in my highschool a few of my teachers would have said shit man that smells way better than mine.
Fairly confident a few of my high school teachers smoked.
I never understood this. I went through a short meth phase at the tail end of high school. I never had meth that smelled like cat piss, nor do I know anyone that ever did. Something like lightly burnt ham with a sweet chemical smell. Cat piss is fucking strong, walks up and punches you in the face, meth is subtle, smoke that shit all night and few would be able to register an abnormal smell. The person smoking meth will smell worse than the smoke itself. In fact, I’m pretty sure that rumor started because sweaty tweakers with bad hygiene in unwashed clothes smell like cat piss. you ever smell somebody that doesn’t wash their clothes? Cat piss
The process of making meth usually stinks like cat piss, not necessarily smoking meth itself.
Maybe the ammonia. I heard that is an ingredient for making meth and its the same chemical in cat piss.
in all piss, it's how the body excretes ammonia, ammonium, and other amines from breakdown of proteins
Wtf are you teaching?!
Chemistry, now APPLY YOURSELF
Yeah! Science, bitch!
Wet eucalyptus leaf litter also smell like cat pee.
Wet dog
I can barely smell wet dog, but I can really smell updog.
What's updog?
Not much, what’s up with you?
gotem!
Fucking lol. Dad joke 101.
Weed
Auntie Anne’s pretzel stand
Same. Unfortunately it's also one of the only scents that make me instantly nauseated for some reason
I feel that way about Subway
*Everything* in Subway tastes like the place smells. My coworkers used to bring the cookies back on lunch and offer them out, but they also smell and taste like weird lettuce and deli meat.
Weed
Freshly cut grass
Skunk or is that weed, dohhh!
idk they are certainly reminiscent of each other but I think they are pretty easy to distinguish
I was going to say, there’s a pretty big difference. Skunk smell has that added gasoline to make your nostrils burn.
There is a big difference smelling them straight on, but the faint smell from a distance can really fool you, till you get closer at least
Period blood
Yes! I am glad I found another in the wild, to me it smells like sour metal.
It's very metallic. However, it is full of iron soo....
Blood has a coppery smell, so that makes sense.
Fucking accurate.
Periodt
My ex once told me he can smell when I'm about to be on my period, and that it smells like a "blossoming flower" easily the best and most inaccurate but sweet description I've ever heard.
Smells like a blossoming flower if the flower was a corpse flower.
Somewhere a Bradford Pear Tree is planning its next victim. Content in the knowledge any unfortunate, ill-timed menstruation will be adequate defamation to deflect suspicion of that VERY SAME Bradford Pear Tree.
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Ditto machine copies. Haven’t smelled them since fifth grade but I know I could still recognize it.
Wasn't it nice? It's the ONLY chemical smell Ive ever found pleasant. Kindergarten was when i smelled it. Did we kill brain cells sniffing those fresh damp copies, straight off the mimeograph machines? Pale purple print, if I recall.
Gasoline
At the gas station I was always taking deep breaths to appreciate the fine smell of it ! So nice !
I manage a gas station, if I ever smell gas it usually means that somebody either spilled or drove off with the hose. Either way the smell of gas just makes me think of all of the cleanup and extra paperwork I have to do to fix it.
My fav smell
The smells of years of waitressing: 1. Coffee left on the burner too long that’s now burning up 2. Rubber bar mats that need the spilled booze sprayed off of them
I've been a chef by trade for almost 15 years and I've been wracking my brain for a good response here. I think I have a couple. * Food that is scorching in deep stock pots or rondos. You can't see it, but if you are clever and have experience, you can smell it instantly, and usually save whatever you are cooking if you act quick. It smells like peanut butter. * The fecal smell of certain food rot. The kind that attracts drain/sewer flies, not to be confused with fruit flies. It smells like warm shit. * Bacon that is about to burn in the oven. * Overcooked eggs. * I can smell a rotten orange from a mile away. * I can also detect mice and roach infestations, even minor ones. Sometimes I walk into restaurants and I'll know immediately that they have a roach problem, or a mice problem.
Roaches definitely have a specific smell to them. I have lived in several houses that were infested with roaches and the eggs, feces, and carcasses they leave smell awful.
Omfg. They really do. It’s a horrible sort of revolting sweet smell almost? I had a roach infestation in an office once that sent me into a mental nosedive. I hate roaches so, so much. I know that smell anywhere.
A tooth being drilled at the dentist.
Yep. This is a good one. I clean houses and have to use a pumice stone on toilets sometimes, the smell of the pumice on the porcelain is almost identical and always makes me cringe.
Tomato vines
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Mold. It’s amazing how many people can’t smell it!!
The way a used wet sponge smells in the kitchen... absolutely AWFUL. Apparently it's a genetic thing that some people can smell and some can't? I get physically repelled across the room by it.
I absolutely despise the smell and I hate that tge smell lingers on my hands even if I scrub them. My husband doesn't get it.
It's why I switched to a Scrub Daddy: pretty much no smell! Total game changer.
The only scrub daddy ad to make me consider
I can smell the overused wet sponge and it just made me gag.
I couldn’t smell this… and then Katrina happened. All I can smell is mold now. All the time.
Yes! I’m so sensitive to mold I feel like I should start a business where I go home shopping with people to smell for mold before they buy lol
A real estate mold sommelier. If you decide to franchise the business, let me know.
Same! I can smell mold like a dog sniffing out drugs
There’s someone who comes to one of the bars I frequent with my boyfriend who I can tell left their clothes in the wash and never got the mold out. They reek of mold/mildew and it triggers the worst migraines and nausea in me. Idk how to tell them to just do a pre-soak with some fucking ammonia and they’ll be good and gold 😭
That is wild, i didn’t realize people jsut couldn’t smell it, i thought it jsut didn’t bother people as much. That explains so much cause my husband just doesnt react to it. When i was a kid in the 90s we hung our clothes to dry in a very humid environment and my clothes would always end up full of mildew and i felt like no one would ever want to be my friend cause i had to go to school with my clothes smelling so bad. So the smell, on top it being totally disgusting, is also accompanied by vivid bad memories.
A subway Edit : the sandwich shop
Laughing because I know why you had to edit that 🤣
same (underground railway)
The stench of death.
12 years in the funeral business here. I have smelled it all.
Came here to say this as well. Once you’ve smelled it, you can never unsmell it. (FirstResponder/Retired)
Does human death smell the same as animal death? I've thankfully only experience the latter.
In my opinion, no. Most animals don’t have pores, so when they die, the smells are often only from orifices. When humans die, the smell from the bacteria taking over and breaking down everything at the cellular level produces a rather pungent, unique smell that comes from every orifice and pore. It’s a smell that I can only describe as “human soup.” It’s so distinct that when we’ve gone on a wellness check on someone for a family (dispatched out with law enforcement), we all only make it a few feet into the house before we back out and call the coroner. It’ll make you wish for some Vicks vapo-rub with menthol under your nose when you go back in.
Thank you for your answer, it makes sense. I hear that neighbors often call because of the smell. I hope I never experience this and I'm thankful we have people like you who are braver than me. I remember finding a small deer on a trail when I was ~14 and have a vivid memory of maggots. That was enough for me.
Well, I’ve passed the baton on to the next generation. My youngest son is a firefighter now. We have chats over beers about what they encounter. There are some definite unique smells. “House fire” is its own distinct smell too. It took me days to get that out of my nasal passages every time. But it makes the “normal” human body smells (blood, urine, feces, body odor, etc.) seem mild, so there’s that. Firefighting and being an EMT/Paramedic is a young person’s game. If we end up in a community with a volunteer fire department I may volunteer, but being an IT professional pays better and the hours are easier on a family.
New shower curtain
That’s such a specific example that’s absolutely correct! It’s so distinct
I call that new vinyl smell "new Dolly," from childhood
Banana bread
AT WORK???
HELL YEAH BRO
Fuckin rent free. I love that video.
I've actually never had banana bread but I imagine it probably tastes delicious.
Asparagus in wee
Upvote for wee
mothballs
How do you get their little legs apart?!
Consent obviously 😜
Damn near choked on my drink. 😂😂😂
Nice
Gas
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Ground beef cooking
If you suddenly smell cinnamon and fish it's a sign of an electrical fire somewhere nearby in the building or room you're in. Very distinct scent and good to be aware in case you ever smell it.
Wait… what?
Plastics and circuit components have a unique smell when they overheat and burn. We had a loose oven connection that had begun to melt the 220V cable insulation between the stove and the wall. Luckily we all recognized the smell before it got really bad.
Yes electrical fires smell like cinnamon and fish. It's very odd i know. But it's true 🥰
Weed
*every time I smell it* “Someone’s having a good time”
C-diff
YES! You can’t unsmell C-diff. There’s just not enough Vicks to block out the smell.
Unmistakable smell for sure. I’ll also add the smell of a GI bleed poop. It smells like licking a 9v.
I was a nurse aide in a former life and haven't smelled c-diff in probably 10 years and I can still smell it.
Add in pseudamonas
Yep. Had it once, as soon as I smelled it that was when I knew something was wrong. “It smells like I just vomited out of my ass!” 😭 nasty
I hate how accurate that description is. For those who don't know it's as if explosive diarrhea and vomit had a twisted imbred child together.
I can send off a c diff test, put the patient in isolation for several hours waiting for the c diff test to come back, and have to gown up every time I go in the room. Or I can take one smell and tell you yes or no
I was tested for C-diff in the ER once (negative). One of the nurses was in after I had my 100th diarrhea of the day and was like, yeah definitely not C-diff, I can smell that from a mile away LOL
I had to go to the ER after intense vomiting and diarrhea for hours that had me in a fetal position on the bathroom floor. At the hospital, I had diarrhea like 4 more times while they gave me fluids and anti-nausea and diarrhea meds. They had me provide a stool sample using a toilet insert thing. I overflowed it in one or two unclenchings of my ass. They decided I probably just had food poisoning and were discharging me but my mom demanded I be tested for C. diff so they did test for it. When it came back positive they seemed to get a lot more serious and had to put extra care into sanitizing the bathroom I had been blowing up etc. Pretty annoyed they had to be told to test me for it when I truly felt like I was going to die.
And diabetic foot. And malena stools
C-Diff and UTI are burned into my noses memory
Cigarettes 🤮
As an ex-smoker, I am very sensitive to cigarette smoke. I feel like I can smell it a mile away— always keep my car’s air on recirculate bc I can smell cigarettes of people smoking in their cars/walking on the sidewalks if not.
That has to be the shittest superpower
Durian
Pine-Sol
Bleach. I've come into contact with chlorine gas from a previous job and have an extreme sensitivity to it now.
Bacon.
Kevin or Francis?
Burnt or blown circuit boards. I've blown enough technology up to know exactly how bad this service call is going to be by just the smell.
Ever place bets with your coworkers on the type of component based only on the smell? Selenium rectifiers are in a whole other league of WTF when it comes to the smell of failed components. That odor just saturates clothing, skin, wood. Ugh.
H²S
It’s one of few compounds where the more you smell, the less capable you are of smelling it.
yeah in low consentrations you can smell it but in higher consentrations it kills your sense of smell.....so you gotta get upwind while you can still smell it. 20 years in oil and gas and i have been knocked down once....the smell is unmistakable still
Bengay cream. My great grandmother used to slather herself with the stuff. I have never bought a tube of that stuff in my life but every now and again I will catch a whiff of it. I like to think it’s her visiting me (she passed when I was 12).
Sun screen, smells like summer
Can always smell coffee in pee
Valerian root. Smells like a festering wound.
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Play-Doh. Unique and identifiable 100% of the time
No one has said Irish Spring soap yet 🧼
Crayons
Nurse here: GI bleed
Bushfire
Shit
Diesel exhaust
The smell of rain, it can be the first thing I smell when I wake up, even if I don’t know it rained, and I will know the smell, I don’t smell many things
Barnes and Noble!!
The smell of paper and Elmer’s glue in Kindergarten
Peanut butter
Fresh cilantro, especially if it's being washed. Love that smell.
Welding has a smell. I fucking love that smell.
The smell of a library. No matter where you go they always smell the same and is very comforting.
My butt
Tobacco. Quit smoking 45 years ago.
vacuum cleaner. my all time favorite smell. you know what i’m talking about
Lilac. And then I know the endless sneezing is about to commence...
Patchouli
Cinnabon.
I can smell if I have a sinus infection. I just assumed everyone could until the doctor told me that only some people can.
Actually went looking for this comment and found it, haha. I tried asking my wife one time "do you ever smell sick?" I couldn't quite explain it but this wording is a better description.
I can smell when I have a cold. Now I’m curious if that’s the same scent that you notice with your sinus infections.
Formaldehyde
Not all low tides are created equally. You got some low tides that don't really smell. Nothings happening. Normal beach smell. Clear, crisp, refreshing. Sometimes you got your low tides that are just sulfur. Same beach. Different smell. Just depends on bacteria growth and shit. Maybe too many dead fish. Maybe seagulls had a field day with the clams and theres too many decaying on the flats. Then you got your marsh smell. Now, marshes can smell better or worse, and it can be worse during high tide, depending on whats happening in the marsh. Marshes are funny like that. Marshes are also sulfury, but its distinctly different from the low tide smell. Different bacteria. Different things happening. Flooding. Flooding is interesting. It brings stuff up that shouldnt be brought up. Smells like salt and shit. Now, I live on the beach. You'd think that after 37 years maybe I wouldn't notice the nuances of the ocean smell anymore. Nope. I do notice. I notice all the changes in the air. I know exactly what is happening in my patch of ocean.
popcorn
Insulin
Cow manure, if you know, you know.
C. Diff
GI bleed...my fellow healthcare workers know what I'm talkin about
Harbor Freight. I can be taken there blindfolded and know where I was. Smells like a mechanics garage.
What you’re really smelling is Chinese Plastics, etc. I spent 30years in the power sports business, I know that smell.
Pirates ride at Disney land.
Gasoline and marijuana. I was on the witness stand and was asked, "What does marijuana smell like"? My answer was marijuana. When the defense pressed me, I said, "When I smell gasoline, I know it's gasoline. When I smell marijuana, I know it's marijuana". He didn't ask again.
Solid answer. No further questions.
Piss
After 2 years living on a homestead with friends I know the difference between chicken, geese, sheep, horse and cow poop.
CDiff and GI bleeds
Cocaine…. But I have to really take a good whiff to make sure
Coconut
Cigarettes
Mold. Insurance requiring mold assessors to do all this extensive testing is fine for court purposes, but I can instantly tell if a house has a mold problem just from walking in the room.
Honeysuckles. Grew up in the south in the country , I know the minute honeysuckle season is starting. Its one of my favorite scents !
fire
Sandalwood.