The best and worse smell.

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

According to a nursing friend of mine, who is often accosted with numerous smells of both a bodily and manufactured chemical nature, he told the foulest thing to ever assault him ever was a patient with dead bowel.

He used to eat like crap, like most professionals without enough time to work and sleep, much less eat well. But he told me that one case was enough for him to take on a well balanced, healthy diet. Love your intestines.

 

[The Philistine]

Best: I'm going to agree with fresh laundry. Just something about the smell of freshly dried clothes.

Worst: A skunk sprayed dog that someone has then tried to hose off with just water. Something about the mixture of skunk and wet dog inside an enclosed space that makes me want to violently hurl.

 

[Jux]

best - spicy food, the stronger the better

worst - a refrigerator full of food left unplugged for 10 months

 

[Silvanus]

In before 'that' smell. You know the one. The 'female' one.

Chanel?

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

Best, hmmm... either that fresh smell after or during rain, or flowers in bloom. Well, some flowers. Obviously not things like the corpse flower. Love flowers, but hope I never have to smell one of those.

As for worst smell... I personally dislike the smell of squished bugs. You know that smell. That really nasty one that some dead bugs give off. Yuck, it's enough to turn my stomach.

 

[Zhukov]

Good: Old books, fried onions, babies (don't look at me like that, I've heard other people say the same), citrus peel, tobacco (before some idiot sets it on fire), eucalyptus forests (reminds me of home) and whatever that smell is on women's skin after sex (hey, someone was gonna say it).

Bad: Vomit, rotting fish, cut grass (I know some people like it, I don't), burning plastic, cigarette smoke and...

Worst is probably the smell of recently and violently, dead. I can't explain it,but you can just instinctually tell,and it triggers the fight or flight instinct. The serious kind of fight or flight,that fucks you up for hours after, or even days

... this, assuming we're thinking of the same thing.

The smell itself isn't all that bad. It's far from pleasant, but not unbearable. However it immediately rings every fucking mental alarm you've got.

 

[WindKnight]

Best - the smell you get after a rainstorm.

Worst - chicken droppings. Always makes me gag.

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

Best - Cinnamon and freshly baked bread. I go nuts at a Cinnabon stand.

Worst - Probably cat piss. That high ammonia content really hits you high in the nasal cavity.

 

[MythicMatt]

Worst - Deodrants and perfumes. I literally have to hold my breath any time I end up in a place with too much of either smell, because my nose just hates them.

Best - Tough choice, but... Meat from land animals. I love the smell of bacon in the morning.

 

[Angelblaze]

Best - French fries

Worst - D: Trash from a house of 3 women having their 'special week'.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Best: Freshly baked bread. It makes my nose orgasm in joy.

Worst: Vomit. I will almost throw up groceries of my own if I smell it. Two week old raw meat in a refrigerator is a close second, which almost made me yell protein.

Best - French fries

Worst - D: Trash from a house of 3 women having their 'special week'.

Just the thought of that makes me gag, and I'm a lady! D:

 

[Michel Henzel]

Best: I dunno really, I can't say I ever thought about smell I like the best. Strawberries perhaps, or fresh petrol as weird as that sounds.
Worst: It's Surstr?mming and I still hate my friend for making me have that experience. Glad he was smart enough to do it outside as I puked all over his grass from a mere whiff of the stuff.

 

[FPLOON]

Good: Favorite food [combos] served right...
Bad: Zombies in a coma...
Personal: Cum stains and/or second-hand weed...

Other than that, metaphorically, music smells wonderful when mixed just right...

 

[Terminal Marque]

Best: Fresh pastries, donuts, anything sweet and bready. REALLY fresh, maybe in the process of being made.

Worst: Rotting meat in an closed environment for a long time.

 

[Kyrian007]

Best: I don't like vanilla flavored coffee. But you mix a light amount of vanilla scent with strong coffee smell... I like it. Or I had an ex who used who used a hair product in the shower (I don't know if it was a shampoo or conditioner or whatever) and while her hair was still wet it gave off a great deal of fragrance (could fog the whole house.) Not sure if the smell was that good or if it is just the association... but I liked it.

Worst: Turkey farm. Several miles from where I grew up there is a large capacity hog farm. Stinks terribly. But 10 or so miles away from that is a free range turkey farm. 10 times worse than hogs.

Best - the smell you get after a rainstorm.

Worst - chicken droppings. Always makes me gag.

Yeah, the chickens. It's like that, but the poop is bigger. And even without the excrement... turkeys just give off a fowl (har) odor.

 

[Slenn]

second-hand weed...

Seconded. God dang that stuff reeks to high heaven.

Best: There's so many good ones. I could go with freshly cooked popcorn. I cook it on the stove top nearly every day and it makes the apartment smell great! I'd also have to go with orange zest when making orange marinated beef.

Worst: Halitosis from tonsil stones. Fish those out of your mouth with a tooth pick to get rid of it.

 

[Vicarious Reality]

Best: Agalloch

Worst: Smokers

 

[SummerHaze]

the best is vanilla or banana smell
the worst is addle egg

 

[GrumbleGrump]

Best - The ocean.

Worst - The smell of rotting flesh.

 

[Evonisia]

Best - the smell of Wine Gums, especially so from bags of them. This is scientific fact.

Worst - Rotting, seems a fairly standard answer for this thread.