The most rancid smell you have ever whiffed is?

Cleaning up a house that had been flooded by Hurricane Harvey and sat buttoned up for three weeks before the floodwaters had receded to the point the homeowners could return. The stench took my breath away when I removed my mask. Won’t ever forget that one.
 
We unearthed a skunks nest under a house with a bobcat once. Had to leave the job and go beers. When we came back we had to leave the job for the day.
I've never been napalmed but I'll bet it is similar.
Yup skunk close up takes it all day. I trapped one once and I was genuinley going to try and release it elsewhere but it wouldn't let me get near without spraying. I ended up shooting it and it released the entire contents of it's scent glands into the snow. Hard to describe the acrid stench and was there for weeks. It's a dark yellow, once it had frozen up I chipped it out with a shovel and spread it onto a neighbours yard
 
When my daughter was about 6, I said to her lets go to the car wash. I went to the garage and got a token, drove up to the car wash and slipped the token into the slot. Just as the water came down and the windows went up, she dropped the worst smelling stench I have smelt. She just looked at me and laughed, as we sat there for about 5 mins, but seemed to last an hour.
Yup, evil..
 
A food skip full of putrid pork.
Worked for Barons meat factory in Audenshaw for a few months when i left school in the eighties.
Somebody had filled the wrong skip with pork meat and the skip company wouldn't take it.
So it had been left in the summer heat for a week while the dispute went on.
It got to the point where the factory workers refused to come into work due to the stench of rotting meat.
Our cleaning team got instructed to shovel the meat out and into the correct skip.

No words would ever do the smell justice. The meat had turned green, and slimy. We had to stand on it to shovel it out.
No masks and just wellies were offered. Looking back, i have no idea why i didn't tell them to go fuck themselves!
Edwards and son meat traders swiftly came to the rescue and bought the lot.
 
personally, a tie between a freshly squashed skunk and the remains of a pig that had drowned in a spillway . Rumour has it an anchovy's fanny is right up there......
 
A food skip full of putrid pork.
Worked for Barons meat factory in Audenshaw for a few months when i left school in the eighties.
Somebody had filled the wrong skip with pork meat and the skip company wouldn't take it.
So it had been left in the summer heat for a week while the dispute went on.
It got to the point where the factory workers refused to come into work due to the stench of rotting meat.
Our cleaning team got instructed to shovel the meat out and into the correct skip.

No words would ever do the smell justice. The meat had turned green, and slimy. We had to stand on it to shovel it out.
No masks and just wellies were offered. Looking back, i have no idea why i didn't tell them to go fuck themselves!
That describes Smiths boneyard in Hyde, but everday of our school year's we had to put up with the stench.
 
I once had to dissect a rat in biology class and remove all the organs. Absolutely fucking ville smell.

On the upside, since stitching the rat back up I hear it's gone and got itself a job for Sky commentating on United games. Gary something his name was.
Very good
 
Bearded Dragon diarrhoea. Can't even put into words how much it hits you, I pulled the muscles in my side with how badly I gagged/wretched. Their shit normally smells pretty bad, particularly if you clean it up straight away, but he had diarrhoea on my carpet when I let him run around, so went to clean it up straight away and, fucking hell, you could weaponise the smell. It was one of those that's so strong you don't really even smell it, you feel it. (top tip, don't overfeed lizards, they will commit war crimes)
Needless to say, I wasn't expecting that..........
 
A toss up between a 4 day old dead old body, or a dead mouse in my kit bag as the worst smells

I have a memory for smells, and the one that I remember the most is the combination of body v express train, combined with the grease of the train tracks. I was doing a brief placement with Surrey Ambulance Service as an observer, and that was the very first job I attended. Needless to say the Paramedic was not needed. Freshly mangled body smells very much like offal, and even now, I can't walk past a butchers shop without getting vivid flashbacks.

Another job I attended that week was to a local homeless alcoholic with chest pains, who was wearing a Motty style sheepskin jacket that he hadn't taken off in about 6 months. That jacket was f*cking rotten, and riddled with fleas. It took a while to get rid of that smell.
 
Where i lived in GX my house was the last in line of 6 on a shared drain, before it joined the main sewer. Well the manhole blocked up so I open the cover up and there was about 6 months worth of shit, tampax etc. So I went down into the manhole with a small shovel and bin liners and cleared it out. How I never spewed I never know. I then had to get rid so I buried them in the back garden. Years later I dug some footings for my shed and not one bit of shit was left. Great strawberries though.
 
Leachate....
Basically it the fluid drained off a landfill,fuck me it's bad.
They say you get used to the smell of things over the years,not this shit.
I've literally had my eyes bulging out of my head I've wretched so hard.
 

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