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worst: london
best: the forest as the sun heats it up after a quick warm summer shower then arriving home and walking in to a house filled with the smell of a slow roasted chicken 
I can vouch for that..... I do like it after a ride when he smells all outdoorsy and rugged though TMI I know sorry....
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Mummy I'm frightened and I don't feel very well....
*worries someone's just discovered Hora's corpse*
*goes to Phil's house for dinner*
The smell of someone who has been dead for a few weeks with the heating full on and doors and windows locked.
Why the hell have you got the heating on? It's 16'C outside.
Worst Old cars that have been smoked in. Bleeeurh
Best. Newly unfurling ferns. Or post " you know" skin.
mmmmmmmmmm ferns! emsz... dammit as long as you promise not to steal mrsconsequence from me you're more than welcome to join yeti, myself and the rest of the best on a ride
Worst: the smell in the morning of last nights beer and takeaway slowly rotting in the kitchen
Best: the smell of last nights beer and takeaway
Best: pine-woods, the sea, peat(not him), parma violets, toast on a campsite, fish supper at the Real food cafe after a long day in the hills. Summer rain.
Worst: Norfolk
Some seem like best and worst at the same time. The Edinburgh brewery smell does this for me.
Actually, the worst is halitosis.
Worst - New car smell, makes me feel sick
Best - summer rain, ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
Best; the smell of baking & fresh bread
Worst; dog poo, it just makes me gag!
DMSO
Horrible, horrible stuff...
Worst: rotting shellfish
Best: wild garlic in the woods
Best smell - Castrol R - speedway bikes, 2-strokes running it - absolutely fabulous smell.
Worst smell - a guy I once worked with - you could see flowers wilting when he walked past!
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Worst...A wet Labrador that has just rolled in fox pooh
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Best.... Jet engine exhaust gases
Best: spicy food, bacon sandwiches, sausages off a barbecue, creosote
Worst: the Lush soap/ toiletries shop, donut stands, poo, chicken bits that have been in a warm bin for a week
worst smells- In vessel composting systems, autoclaving municipal solid waste, clinical waste treatments that aren't working very well and dimethyl formamide
good smells- leather, that lovely grass smell after rain, pine forests up mountains
A tramp once took his shoes and socks off on a tube train which made the entire carriage evacuate at the next stop gagging and choking.
It was truly awful, a smell so bad that human instict told you to run for your life, no exageration.
He just sat there chuckling to himself
fave smell = well grown, sweet-smelling, funky skunky smelly weed sh1t.
I once had to paint a guy with DMSO,neither of us enjoyed it much,but worst is a man who has been in the local reservoir for 6 weeks,about 10 mins after they start the PM.
Ian
Worst: dead/rotting animal.
Best: nice vagina.
Favorite - Bleach or hyporchlorite
Least Fav - Rotten banana skins
WORST: the smell that emerges when you accidentally cut open a rabbit's stomach when gutting it. Can't describe it but it fills your eyes, ears, nose and writes off your other senses in a split second.
BEST: that melange of curry and garlic nann wafting down the street near the local takeaways.
3 fish - could you be any more explicit?
Best: Petrichor
Worst: The smell of donuts in liverpool city centre. They used to smell great until I ate one, and nearly vomited back up the spoonfulls of old oil used to cook them.
3 fish - could you be any more explicit?
Is that a rhetorical question?
The fishing crew who drowned and stayed down for a couple of weeks until their fermented digestive gasses made them bob to the surface. The crew (and attached sea creature infestations) were all taken to the same mortuary. They literally fell apart on being disrobed, toes coming off with socks etc. The place stank for weeks afterwards and was later closed. Still gives me the boak years later.
Quite like the subtle blend of coffee and GT85 wafting from Wheelcraft.
Meat rendering plant in exeter by the playing field, was gagging for the 200 metres before and after it 🙁
Best smell: Roasted coffee or GT85.
worst: burning bakelite.. especially when you're not burning any bakelite.. very unnerving..
best: burning MDMA
Dead Badger,after about a week or so,Makes me urge and i have a very strong stomach
worst: the wife's feet.
best: the beach (probably cos the water is covering the wife's feet)
At the moment it's the smell of my friend's ecu frying. He insisted on driving down to pick up a curry rather than walk for 5 minutes. Went to come back and everything is flashing and firing intermittently and the distinct smell of components melting, and that's not a nice smell.
So the cars still outside the curry house.
Best smell, well the curry is pretty good.
Worst either the mass grave we found in Bosnia or the dead animal I ended up mixed with as I dived to the floor during a section attack
Best two stroke motorbikes
Worst: Veet hair removal cream as its doing its thing *Gag*
Best: Tough one, well vinegared chips (that conflicts with someone on the page before) fresh coffee. Can't seem to think of anything not food related 🙂
So many great smells....freshly cut grass, rain, the sea (although I often frequent Bempton Cliffs and that doesn't smell so good!), fresh baking, used to love the smell of tarmac being laid as a kid, coal fires and getting the Christmas decorations out. There was a peculiar sweet smell to them, a smell that I've never come close to anywhere else. I'm vegan but must confess that the smell of a dirty burger van gets me drooling.
Can cope with the smell of silage and other farmyard smells, mowing cat sh*t and treading in dog eggs is not good but and the bogs at work are pretty bad as they're on mascerators instead of standard plumbing but the worst smell I ever encountered was when a guy at work dropped his bat and the ensuing fall out cleared a large part of the mess room, people were leaving rather than endure it, and those that walked into it were beaten back by the pungent fug. It was still rank about five minutes after it was unleashed. All the while the perpetrator was stood by the water cooler looking reet pleased with himself. Made your eyes sting.
best: angle grinding metal
worst: the crew tour bus after someone has broken the golden rule of tour busses.
Worst: A knackers yard I had to take samples from one summer when the machines broke down and a mountain of dead things was left to decompose for a month or so.
Chicken shit ranks fairly highly for me, just below my own feet, pub urinals, and lilacs.
Butyl isocyanide is probably up there - like any small isocyanide.
An extract from a paper about it. from 1937:
Butyl isocyanide proved to be so disagreeable to manipulate that none of its physical constants except boiling point were determined. Even when a hood with an extra forced draft was used, the odor pervaded the laboratory and adjoining rooms, deadening the sense of smell and producing in the operator, and in others, severe headaches and nausea which usually persisted for several days.
For me though, the worst smell is melted cheese, for example, any pizza. Eugh. It makes me heave.
Best smell is probably cut grass, or pear drops.
if you think the kitchen bin may be a bit whiffy, best not open the lid and stick your face right down there..... 😐
best smell is lady bits...
Ever attended a post mortem? That doesnt smell too fresh, to be honest.
Don't know about Subway but our dog used tug like hell and shake like a leaf if we happened to pass the extractor fan on the local Chinese take-away.
Have shoveled a fair few types shi*t before and goat's has to be up there as the worst, although I think it might have been more of an ammonia thing, smells so bad it burns the inside of your nostrils.
Burning rubber/fat/oil etc.. it makes the air go "thick" and I feel like I can't breathe properly.
Shit in any form is always disgusting. As are farts, especially those of the guy I work with. Rancid all the time, every time! Even he's disgusted with them.
Best smell is freshly cut grass - smells like summer 🙂 Other honorable mentions go to petrol, pine forests, gt85, curry, beer, puncture repair glue, ted baker shower gel, my Gibson SG (yes it has a smell and it's great!), BBQ, new car etc.
Worst smell ever was a particular student basement flat in Bristol in 1998.
Best, brandy coffee immediately after getting off the last lift of the day.
Worst: emma82's farts