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Did any of you notice a funny smell in the air today?
It's a rather unpleasant (IMO) mixture of aniseed/liquorice and hollow celery kind of smell... and I don't understand what could be making it.. I've been in Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh and the smell has been there each time.
I'm hoping it goes away by tomorrow but does anybody have any idea why the air would smell like this? (Does anybody else smell it at all?)
Ta very much 🙂
Hmm - I've noticed a smell of "thunder" a couple of times over the last few days. usually in the afternoon. Is it ozone?? If so, I actually rather like that smell.
You haven't banged your head by any chance, have you?
Air smells ok in the Highlands. Maybe it's volcanic ash.
That unpleasant smell is the stench of Tory rule.
I cooked up a fairly spicy curry this eve - don't expect that to have any atmospheric effect till around 8am tomorrow though...
Only noticed the stench from battery chicken sheds on my ride up to Blairadam from Dunfermline.
[b][i]People [/i][/b]living in Scotland...
Oh, come on - you're pushing that description a bit far aren't you ? 😉
(good effort from Obi_twa, BTW)
Glasgow smells of cheap barbecued meat at the moment.
i suspect you might have put andys socks on by mistake this morning
I did notice a funny smell when out with the dog tonight, I just assumed it was Langlee, (Borders' 'joke'!) but it was akin to what you describe, strange...
My ex-girlfriend asked me to kiss her where it stinks.
I drove her to Dundee. That wasn't what she meant.
stuart - I go past that farm now and then and it's truly minging, makes me retch each time I ride past. I try and hold my nose now when I go past. There's also a rank one just above Townhill and one on the Cleish road to Crook of Devon. Gross.
My ex-girlfriend asked me to kiss her where it stinks.
I drove her to Dundee. That wasn't what she meant.
Not surprised shes now an ex - taking her to Dundee was always going to end badly
🙂
Rode past a few chicken sheds and pig units on tonight's evening ride (West Lothian) - pretty stinky here as well.
Is the OP sure she's not going a bit mental? Aren't there diseases that make you think you can smell stuff that isn't real?
Funnily enough, I am known for having a rather poor sense of smell (couldn't have put up with andy otherwise..)
I've certainly not banged my head! For one thing, I've smelled this in the air before, a good many months ago.
The weird icky smell of liquorice-covered-celery was certainly strongest in Dundee... but seems to have been fading through the day. Judging by the responses, I'm guessing this is going to remain a gross mystery (that hopefully won't torment me too often).
You've got some liquorice and celery stuck to your top lip. The people of glasgow, edinburgh and dundee have just been too polite to point it out. I live in Ayrshire and am therefore not too polite to point it out
You have uncovered the truth - it's a special pheromone - it stops people voting Tory, hence Scotland's voting pattern.
No, not noticed any unusual smell in glasgow in the last 2 years. Certainly not liquorice-y. Occasionally glasgow gets a "glasgow smell" - a sort of damp, humid hops-y/soily smell, usually after the first rainfall for a while. But it hasn't done that for a few weeks, and I've never smelled it anywhere else in scotland.
Think you're going nuts.
usually after the first rainfall for a while
my new favourite word
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor ]Petrichor[/url]
good find!
good find!
It came up in conversation once when a collegue of mine was saying that one of the benefits giving up smoking was being able to enjoy the smell of rain after a long dry spell.
I got to play my Petrichor card and this was this weird moment where everyone around the table was suddenly jotting it down or texting it to friends.
Then someone else piped up "theres another definition that I'm alway struggling to find the word for - you know when a man and a woman are sharing a bath, then the man farts and the lady has to try and bite the bubbles - whats the word for that?"
and with than the moment was gone
OK now you've lost me in revulsion!
precisely
I always thought the glasgow smell was kinda marmitey from Tennants brewery.
At the moment though, our office is next to a few windrows which smell of cats piss.
Loving it skidartist!
Can't say I've noticed it at all. Rode in to work the past three days and been out for a walk at lunch time and the only thing I can smell is the oish stinking closes in the gorbals, smelly junkies, dog shite and the brewery.
Obi_Twa - Member
That unpleasant smell is the stench of Tory rule.
I couldn't possibly comment - don't want to intrude on your obvious grief... 😆
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could be Linden trees[/url]
The stench of Vic(tory)ian rule
stuart - I go past that farm now and then and it's truly minging, makes me retch each time I ride past. I try and hold my nose now when I go past. There's also a rank one just above Townhill and one on the Cleish road to Crook of Devon. Gross.
I'm willing to bet that's the first time "The Crook" has been mentioned on STW - a big welcome to my hometown (when I'm not in Madrid).
but yes that chicken farm stinks, and so does (did) the one behind the Powmill milk bar and the ones at Balado. Horrible things.
I moved to Edinburgh recently and the whiff of (IMO) slightly burnt caramelised nuts/licorice hit me too, same smell of 7 years ago.
So I've been asking around all month... and it's not the witches, apparently it's the brewery. Usually the smell is worse around Dalry Road/Haymarket as the brewery is over that way. I think they'd be impressed with your hollow celery description.
Just a suggestion, but if the smell always seems to be in the same place you are... 😉
Usually the smell is worse around Dalry Road/Haymarket as the brewery is over that way.
It's a really nice smell. I used to live very close to there and enjoyed the smell a lot.
Not had the same smell back in my old home town which had a brewery in it, or liverpool which also had a brewery. I'd put it down to that at first too, but this is totally different and across the entire city.
The brewery always smells like "student weetabix" to me.
(e.g the sort of malty wheaty smell you got when you were a poor student and you bought Kwik Save own-brand "Wheaty-a-bicks" then put water on it cos you didn't have any milk left)
Sometimes when I get a cold or a virus things smell funny.
I got chicken pox when I was younger and it made tomatoes taste horrible!
BTW Dundee always smells braw!
It'll be Grangemouth - that place has its own weather system 😉
Fact the central belt stinks
Can't smell it.