This morning, my wife discovered a forgotten bag of potatoes that have apparently been our pantry since the Taft administration. The bag burst, leaving rotten potato mush and juice on our old hardwood floors. It smells like death has vomited more death on top of death. Help.
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posted by 4ster
on Jun 8, 2013 -
12 answers
We just bought a new house, yay! It's in suburban NC, less than 3 years old. Starting today, my husband and I noticed a strong musty smell in the front entryway. There is a guest bathroom and a home office just beyond this foyer, but those rooms smell fine to me. The floors are hardwood, no rugs down yet. There is an air vent directly overhead as you enter the house. Could that vent (pushing out a/c for the first time since move-in, now that weather is warm) be the source of the funky smell? If yes, why?? And how do we get rid of it?
posted by little mouth
on Apr 10, 2013 -
11 answers
How can I get the Goodwill smell out of dry-clean only clothes? Added complication: I live in a college dorm.
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posted by topoisomerase
on Nov 3, 2012 -
15 answers
How and why do we become accustomed to smells? What makes some odours personally super-pungent one day and unnoticed 'background noise' later on, despite the smell remaining objectively unchanged?
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posted by peacay
on May 19, 2012 -
7 answers
Over the last few months we've noticed a strange lighter fluid/butane scent coming from our home sauna. I need help trying to figure out a possible explanation.
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posted by bonobothegreat
on May 16, 2012 -
6 answers
You made my house smell like (delicious, delicious) onions! Now please help me make it stop.
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posted by range
on May 10, 2012 -
24 answers
I live in a house in a suburban neighborhood and my neighbor's dog lives full-time in a kennel that is on the line of our property. The neighbors do not clean the kennel regularly and it smells.
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posted by WhathaveIdonenow?
on Apr 8, 2012 -
10 answers
I want to indicate that something is close enough to smell, but I want to do so in a way that matches these examples: "in sight" for close enough to see, "in reach" for close enough to touch, and "in earshot" for close enough to hear. I keep thinking there must be a simple and obvious way to phrase it, but right now I'm drawing a blank.
posted by amyms
on Dec 20, 2011 -
29 answers
I clean my apartment (and myself) on the regular. So why does it smell like dirty laundry all the time? How do I make it stop?
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posted by schroedinger
on Nov 3, 2011 -
39 answers
Oh new shower curtains, glossy book pages, and auto-body shops: why do I love your aromas so?
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posted by tamagogirl
on Sep 14, 2011 -
14 answers
Shooting for the weirdest food question of the year -- how do I get the smell of varsol out of a chicken?
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posted by liquado
on Sep 4, 2011 -
8 answers
Is it common to experience a taste/smell when one's head is hit very hard?
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posted by Bebo
on Jun 20, 2011 -
20 answers
Many new garments have a distinctive smell that disagrees with me. What's the likely source of this odor?
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posted by jocelmeow
on May 14, 2011 -
15 answers
Something (probably a lizard) has died in a pipe behind a wall, and it's stinking up our house. It's bad and it seems to be getting worse. What can we do?
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posted by HopStopDon'tShop
on Jun 25, 2010 -
8 answers
Ack! I forgot deodorant and I'm starting to smell like B.O. I'm at work and can't get to a store, plus my shirt's starting to smell anyway. Help me smell better asap!
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posted by lizbunny
on Mar 17, 2010 -
17 answers
How can I get my coworkers from compulsively using air freshener, as it gives me a terrible, go-home-early migraine? Asking nicely every day for the last week has been unsuccessful.
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posted by kella
on Mar 5, 2010 -
28 answers
I had a party at my place and stupidly let a friend have a smoke. How do I get the smell out?
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posted by vanitas
on Feb 26, 2010 -
12 answers
My parents have just bought a house and now realize it has a smell of unknown origin. Ideas on things to do or people to contact to help get rid of it?
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posted by geekgirl397
on Feb 17, 2010 -
12 answers
So there are dozens of posts on AskMeFi raising the question of how to mask or remove a bad smell. But I have the opposite dilemma: I wasnt to
create a bad smell. Not something so abhorrent that people wretch, but a clearly noticeable odour that perhaps evokes decay or sickness or death. And before you start calling the police, it's for a Halloween show. Thoughts on how to disperse said smell (using a plug-in mister? Using a fan?) gladly accepted.
posted by skylar
on Oct 19, 2009 -
28 answers
I am a type 1 [insulin-dependent] diabetic, and sometimes at night, when I haven't eaten enough to cover the insulin I took that evening, I 'bottom out': my blood sugar goes down very low and I wake up bathed in sweat and must go searching for orange juice.
My question is about this: The nighttime sweat from low blood sugar just...
stinks. It is
powerfully rank sweat, as though I had not washed in many days. My partner agreed, he has noticed that it is different from any other sweat I sweat. "You NEVER smell like that any other time. It's a low blood sugar thing." Yet only at night! I also become clothes-soakingly sweaty if low blood sugar happens during the day, BUT it seems 'normal', the same as when I exercise.
Can anyone tell me why this might be? Why is the night-time hypoglycemic sweat so incredibly smelly?
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posted by st looney up the cream bun and jam
on Aug 24, 2009 -
9 answers
Can someone identify the clean soap (or other laundry product) smell I keep noticing among hispanics?
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posted by bradly
on Aug 2, 2009 -
8 answers
