I Hate The Smell Of......

Hot oil; like from a deep fryer. That permeates everything! I very rarely pan-fry breaded chicken strips because you can still smell it in the house the next day. (Plus its not healthy of course!)

Crabs. I used to work next to a restaurant that served crabs one day a week. I was pregnant and that sure didn't help. But the smell outside was like the worst rotten carcas ever. And I used to live next to a marsh and that's awfully oppressive at times too.

Old musty houses. My flute teacher lived in one and taught from there. Sometimes its even the rotting foliage smell outside of places. Yuck.

I had a few clients that lived in less than desirable conditions and they were hard to take. Even worse I had to address the issue because my job was to get them ready to find jobs! I used to open a powder scented candle. I never lit it; just opening it helped.

Chicken houses smell bad but at least its not constant. I live near a few but I only catch it at home once in a while.

Cigarettes definitely. And the box when the cat has diarrhea. And too much perfume/cologne/aftershave.

Too much perfume.

Anyone say cat pee yet??

LIVER! Especially if it's cooking. The foulest stench in the world.

Cigarette smoke.
Strong perfume.
Cat feces.
Goats.
Pig barns.
Restaurant dumpsters.
Burning hair or skin.
Ammonia.
Outhouses.
Dirty diapers.

Right liver, I'd totally and happily forgotten that. Had to make liver for the cats one spring. (half wanted it raw, half wanted it cooked.) Lived with the windows open, until I got the iron tonic for them. Good iron tonic.

ditto on outhouses. Could tell when a town had modern plumbing from a mile away.

Mother Dragon said:

Goats.

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I love feeding the baby goats at petting zoos. I never noticed a bad smell.

I hate the smell of unwashed dog - dog that hasn't bathed in days. Wet dog is also an unbareable smell for me.

maggiedemi said:

I love feeding the baby goats at petting zoos. I never noticed a bad smell.

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I love the smell of barn animals and barns Goats do smell quite a quit because of the caproic acid their scent glands excrete.

LTS3 said:

I love the smell of barn animals and barns

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I was shocked how good the cow barns at the NY State Fair smell. The bedding they use smells kind of sweet. I love it.

maggiedemi said:

I love feeding the baby goats at petting zoos. I never noticed a bad smell.

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It's the billy goats mostly. Phew! If you have a billy goat too close to the milking area, it taints the taste of goat milk too. They are smelly. Petting zoos usually have wethers (neutered males) or nanny goats so they don't have as strong of an odor.

I like the clean barn smell of cows and horses but feedlots are nasty. Pig barns are worse. Poultry confinements are THE WORST. Birds are smelly anyway but you have a few thousand in there and they don't get cleaned until the birds are sent to slaughter so it gets pretty ripe.

Mice are smelly too. I had pet mice for a while but I'm not doing that again.

then the smell is the fault of the humans not the birds. Poor chickens.

Kflowers said:

then the smell is the fault of the humans not the birds. Poor chickens.

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Yes, but it's considered best practices. A lot of chickens will die from stress if they clean it with the chickens in there. They are slaughtered at 8 weeks so it's not that long between cleanings but they're still smelly. Probably smellier outside than inside, because of the exhaust systems.

To be fair, I'm no fan of how home chicken coops smell either!

Willowy said:

Mice are smelly too. I had pet mice for a while but I'm not doing that again.

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When I was a zoning officer, I got a call from a woman who owned a ladies clothing store in town. She was next to a pet store and the pet store had live mice that they sold to people who had snakes. She just called and asked me to please come in as she wanted to talk to me. I got close to the store and almost gagged. And when I walked into the clothing store, my eyes started to water; the smell from the poor mice was that bad. It took us a while, but we got the pet store to do some serious cleaning and they had to install an exhaust fan.....high off the building, so the smell wouldn't permeate the surrounding area.

I don't blame the woman for being upset. How can you sell really nice clothing (or any clothing, for that matter) when the smell knocks your socks off? I felt bad for her.

In my job now, I get the wonderful job of going out to inspect, take pictures, etc. of sites after the chicken barns have been constructed. Technically, they're not allowed to put the chickens in until the final inspection has been conducted, but nobody ever pays attention to that. The barn is finished and the chickens magically appear. Anyway, I quickly learned NOT to go around the huge exhaust fans at the barns. It only took one time....as I stood there and gagged. Chicken manure is so much worse than pig manure. Seriously.

Mother Dragon said:

LIVER! Especially if it's cooking. The foulest stench in the world.

Cigarette smoke.
Strong perfume.
Cat feces.
Goats.
Pig barns.
Restaurant dumpsters.
Burning hair or skin.
Ammonia.
Outhouses.
Dirty diapers.

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All of the above with the addition of gasoline.