What is that SMELL????

HappyathomeMN
HappyathomeMN Posts: 498 Member
edited September 30 in Chit-Chat
Ok, I work with some weird stuff but I just had to move some test samples from the oven to cool and they smelled bad! It reminded me of a horse barn and not in the good clean smell of a horse barn but more in the stall shoveling duties of the barn. Considering that the fluid is a hydraulic oil, that's a very weird association.

Any unusual smells that you can think of, I'd love to hear about it! :sick: :laugh: :laugh:
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  • Jellyphant
    Jellyphant Posts: 1,400 Member
    Loctite always smelled like vanilla cookies to me. -shrug-
  • juleseybaby
    juleseybaby Posts: 712 Member
    The 'farty' smell of hard boiled eggs!
  • millymoozie
    millymoozie Posts: 150
    my teenage boy has a strange aroma sometimes !
  • millymoozie
    millymoozie Posts: 150
    my teenage boy has a strange aroma sometimes !
    shall i put him in the oven & then cool him down ? what temperature ?
  • rmsrws
    rmsrws Posts: 639 Member
    My hubbys dirty socks smell like salted corn chips.....LOL....I like the smell of corn chips, just not associated with his socks!
  • karrenbennett
    karrenbennett Posts: 89
    My dog smells bad when he gets out of the pool!
  • sblair77
    sblair77 Posts: 355 Member
    I can't figure out the smell that is coming from our fridge or microwave at work. I've cleaned them both out several times. It kinda smells like I imagine Antonio Banderas would smell - Really Really Olive Oiled Eggplant
  • Alaranio
    Alaranio Posts: 75
    Durian fruit.... If you have ever smelled it you'll understand.
  • simkat
    simkat Posts: 72
    My dog smells like crackers and cream cheese frosting.
  • NotGoddess
    NotGoddess Posts: 1,198 Member
    The stairwell of my parking garage smells like the white filling of an Oreo cookie. We've never figured out why. It's a good smell-much better than the typical alternatives- but really out of place.
  • HappyathomeMN
    HappyathomeMN Posts: 498 Member
    my teenage boy has a strange aroma sometimes !
    shall i put him in the oven & then cool him down ? what temperature ?

    ALL teenage boys have strange aroma's!! Must be the aromatic essence of the increased hormones?? Or they just plain old smell funny.

    As far as the oven - you don't want to work with the temperatures I have to handle (anywhere from 200C to 600C)
  • ket_the_jet
    ket_the_jet Posts: 1,257 Member
    It kinda smells like I imagine Antonio Banderas would smell - Really Really Olive Oiled Eggplant

    I have nothing to add to the conversation, but I did want to say that I've never really thought about what Antonio Banderas would smell like...until now.
    -wtk
  • susyseq
    susyseq Posts: 94
    What about people who you notice at the airport on a really early morning and you can smell the grease from their hair :sick:
    Not pleasant
  • Missylydia
    Missylydia Posts: 304 Member
    Blackcurrant juice smells a bit like urine...
  • rg4u
    rg4u Posts: 20
    The front of my house smells like a homeless person!!
  • pumpkinmoccasin
    pumpkinmoccasin Posts: 316
    Piercings, particularly stretched ones, give off an interesting stale belly button fragrance if you don't wash them/oil them every day. When I first had my septum pierced I experienced what's lovingly referred to as "septum funk" which basically made my septum smell like old farts INSIDE MY NOSE for a few months. All better now but while it was healing MAN it was weird.

    Sometimes I'll have forgotten to take my 4g plugs out of my ears in the morning when I'm getting ready to clean them and then I'll play with them in class and get a whiff of ear funk. Yuck.

    **Edited to add that it sounds like I wasn't cleaning my septum piercing... I was, this is just a common issue with septum piercings and for some people it never goes away no matter how much you wash it! I'm glad mine quit smelling bad, haha
  • mariapuhl
    mariapuhl Posts: 529 Member
    Damp bathing suits or bathing suits that you've swam in a few times in the same week and they haven't ever really dried out.... always smell like Fritos to me.
  • mommared53
    mommared53 Posts: 9,543 Member
    Sometimes when I get on the Metro bus it smells like skunk. My son says it's from those funny little cigarettes. EEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!
  • Qarol
    Qarol Posts: 6,171 Member
    The 'farty' smell of hard boiled eggs!

    yes, this is what I thought of immediately
  • sunkisses
    sunkisses Posts: 2,365 Member
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6q9nBusrq8
    Oooooooooooooh that smell!!
  • tiffwhit16
    tiffwhit16 Posts: 76
    Kids when they come in from playing outside...they always smell like a wet dog!
  • Froggy1976
    Froggy1976 Posts: 472
    The smell of greens cooking is not particularly refreshing. It's a good smell if you know what it is. Just like opening my lunch container of leftover brocolli, not a good smell but if you know what it is it's ok.
  • mommared53
    mommared53 Posts: 9,543 Member
    Another one is the smell of hominy. :sick: I cannot stand the smell of hominy!
  • Atlantique
    Atlantique Posts: 2,484 Member
    The other dogs owners will appreciate this, but the rest of you will be totally grossed out:

    Years ago, my dog was licking her bum. All I could smell was something akin to rotting meat. In a panic, I called the vet and begged to get in right away as to me, the dog smelled as though she was rotting form the inside out. I figured she must have some horrible infection. Luckily, I had a very kind vet and they let me bring her in right away.

    The vet expressed her anal glands and oh yeah--that was the smell all right! The vet had a good laugh and explained that my dog was, indeed, fine, although she may need to have this done every few months. She was not, in fact, dying or even mildly ill.

    The vet couldn't believe that I had grown up around dogs and never been aware of this relatively common issue, but we had never had a dog with this problem so I was totally ignorant of it.

    I was a little embarrassed, but mainly relieved that my dog was OK. Still funny in hindsight though. And you never forget that smell--WOWZERS.
  • JujiBean
    JujiBean Posts: 187
    I live in a small town in New England. As with most small towns, the tradition in town is that the departing high school seniors play a prank on the undergrads left behind.

    Well, a few years ago, the senior class announced that they were much more mature than that, and that they would rise above the tradition of pranks and actually make a gift to the high school so that their class would be remembered fondly. This news, of course, was welcomed in town.

    The day of the gifting came. With great ceremony the seniors presented the high school with a dozen or so gorgeous trees, the name of which I can't remember. They were planted with equal ceremony around the center patio that spilled from the dining hall and touched all the surrounding buildings. They were beautiful....

    ......until the next Spring....when they flowered. The stench was so bad that for 4 days, all the windows of the school had to remain closed and the patio could not be used.

    The kids now refer to them as "*kitten*-Crack Trees."
  • Shannon023
    Shannon023 Posts: 14,529 Member
    Bump
  • Froggy1976
    Froggy1976 Posts: 472
    The other dogs owners will appreciate this, but the rest of you will be totally grossed out:

    Years ago, my dog was licking her bum. All I could smell was something akin to rotting meat. In a panic, I called the vet and begged to get in right away as to me, the dog smelled as though she was rotting form the inside out. I figured she must have some horrible infection. Luckily, I had a very kind vet and they let me bring her in right away.

    The vet expressed her anal glands and oh yeah--that was the smell all right! The vet had a good laugh and explained that my dog was, indeed, fine, although she may need to have this done every few months. She was not, in fact, dying or even mildly ill.

    The vet couldn't believe that I had grown up around dogs and never been aware of this relatively common issue, but we had never had a dog with this problem so I was totally ignorant of it.

    I was a little embarrassed, but mainly relieved that my dog was OK. Still funny in hindsight though. And you never forget that smell--WOWZERS.
    That is indeed a nasty smell. Thank goodness the groomers do that so I don't have to.
  • FORKDOWN
    FORKDOWN Posts: 1,754
    The by-product of fiber bars.

    :noway:
  • sillygoose1977
    sillygoose1977 Posts: 2,151 Member
    The by-product of fiber bars.

    :noway:

    In my house we just call them fart bars.
  • mominabox
    mominabox Posts: 26
    my teenage boy has a strange aroma sometimes !
    shall i put him in the oven & then cool him down ? what temperature ?
    He might of spoiled toss him, hahah
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