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by mediaskate648 on January 18th, 2007

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Whats the best smell in the world?

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  • by Gideon on February 7th, 2007

    Gideon

    Decaying human flesh. No contest.

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  • by dertster on February 7th, 2007

    dertster

    Bad breath: A mixture of stale coffee and decaying teeth that's been marinating for way too long in someone's mouth, and just so happens that you get to smell it!

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  • by Katie on February 7th, 2007

    Katie

    a small classroom filled with non deoderant wearing 7th grade boys who just came from athletics... and didn't shower.

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  • by Anonymous on February 7th, 2007

    Anonymous

    A decomposed human body in a make shift morgue.

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  • by Andy Is Wicked Married to Penal Colony on February 7th, 2007

    Andy Is Wicked Married to Penal Colony

    The burnt rubber smell from a vacuum cleaner that has thrown a belt. I don't know why I find it so repulisve, but I do.

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  • by Anonymous on February 28th, 2007

    Anonymous

    My wife's skin after she gets out of the bath or shower.

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  • by horsegal13 on February 7th, 2007

    horsegal13

    burning flesh and hair, or a large amount of lung-spoiling cat poop...
    I volunteer at petsmart with the cats that are up for adoption. man, i don't now what they eat, but the aftermath is really really bad. So bad that some people have to leave the room because everyone is gaging... not very fun...

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  • by Midnighttoker on February 7th, 2007

    Midnighttoker

    deer/road-kill.

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  • by Sunblynd 5.0 on February 7th, 2007

    Sunblynd 5.0

    There's a place that we called the Reek where I worked security before, the company commander used to send the rookies there and those who were under disciplinary action got sent to the Reek as well ...Ya wanna take a whiff?

    Walk into any convalesent center or hospice and get a reeeal good gasp of the aroma, oh, don't try to hold your breath that won't help, waving your hand in front of your face will just circulate more of the pungent aroma into your nostrils, don't be shy... open up those sinuses... take a deep breath and savor that vapor, now don't go to one of those fancy places, but you want to go to a real old folks home where people send there parents and relatives off to die and be forgotten.

    Those places smell like death warmed over, everything you can possibly imagine, piss, shit, flatulence, cancer patients, people dying all over, old folks praying to God, Jesus, and his brother to be saved from the nurse who graduated top of her class at Joseph Mengela Medical University, hey, if war is hell at least you have the off chance of dying a quick death, in an old folks home you die a sloooooowwww death.

    If the Death Express has a train station, this is it folks.... All Aboard!

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  • by - retroglide - on February 7th, 2007

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    It was rotting chicken trimmings infested with maggots in 3-50 gallon trash cans stored at the back door of a KFC. I was a manager for KFC and was transfered to that location to clean the restaurant up. The excuse for the rotten chicken waste was because the cans were too heavy for anyone to empty into the dumpster. The smell hit you when you walked in the door. It's no wonder that location was going in the red.

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  • by justme32 loves the weekends on February 7th, 2007

    justme32 loves the weekends

    My uncles feet. *gagging*

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  • by JD. on February 7th, 2007

    JD.

    i honestly can't think of anything that smells worse than a dead fox. doesn't smell quite like any other animal.... ergh, nothing short of revolting!

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  • by cami1211 on February 7th, 2007

    cami1211

    I dont know if it is the worst in the world, but sulfides .. smell pretty nasty ( that rotten egg smell)

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  • by CheddarCatsKiss is Queen of Sexytown on August 24th, 2008

    CheddarCatsKiss is Queen of Sexytown

    This is a toss up between freshly ground coffee beans, fresh cut grass and rain.

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  • by oldmanuk on March 23rd, 2007

    oldmanuk

    My Grandmothers cooking

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  • by Fluffy on March 23rd, 2007

    Fluffy

    hot pizza out of the oven.

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  • by Nom de guerre on March 23rd, 2007

    Nom de guerre

    Napalm in the morning. j/k! Couldn't resist.

    Honeysuckle... gardenias... fresh-mowed grass... the ocean... citrusy scents, especially lime... the smell of hay.... the smell of barns... the smell of my babies...

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  • by PrettyPirate on March 8th, 2007

    PrettyPirate

    Rotten, festering, liquified potatoes.

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  • by justme32 loves the weekends on February 27th, 2007

    justme32 loves the weekends

    A newborn baby.

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  • by MrBLT needs to be contained on February 27th, 2007

    MrBLT needs to be contained

    my girlfriends hair

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  • by mrs.ANONYMOUS on February 15th, 2007

    mrs.ANONYMOUS

    The burn unit in any hospital. The smell sort of sticks to you after you leave.

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  • by Sarita1 Goes Bollywood on February 12th, 2007

    Sarita1 Goes Bollywood

    New York City.

    When you are here, you don't notice it but getting off the plane after being away from NYC for months, you get to smell the rotting garbage, decomposed animal flesh, burnt EVERYTHING smell! It is a horrific smell!

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  • by QuinnFan on August 24th, 2008

    QuinnFan

    Berry. I remember my grandma always had a candle that smelled wonderful, I think it was mulberry. Loved it.

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  • by TheOriginalTaterTotB4Tjobaxter on August 24th, 2008

    TheOriginalTaterTotB4Tjobaxter

    Vanilla...yummy! ;)

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  • by Zebra Girl on August 24th, 2008

    Zebra Girl

    My grandma's home cooking. It's something that I will never get to smell again but I'll always remember.

    Next to that, a newborn baby's head after a bath in Johnson and Johnson. I wish my babies were still that little.

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  • by BigDaddyBS on March 23rd, 2008

    BigDaddyBS

    Hmmm... Depends...

    I LOVE the smell of grilling steaks, bar-b-que chicken or pork steaks, heck, even hamburgers.

    But I also like the smell of the scented candle or incense aisle at the store. (I've NEVER been able to find a single scented candle or incense that smells so good!)

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  • by xXxsnnyDaythryxXx Rain is fighting back on March 23rd, 2008

    xXxsnnyDaythryxXx Rain is fighting back

    i like the smell of my man...ya...i really like the way he smells...its like...axe mixed with...i dont know...it smells goooood

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  • by Sosueme on March 23rd, 2008

    Sosueme

    Freshly cut grass....and me trying to hit a little white ball while I'm sniffing:)

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  • by MG1942 Has a Life Penguin on March 23rd, 2008

    MG1942 Has a Life Penguin

    My son's skin. He always smells like my baby boy, even though he's almost 10. I'll drive long miles for that.

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  • by DrkBlader27 on March 23rd, 2008

    DrkBlader27

    Prolly butterscotch or something like that...

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  • by Lippycow on July 7th, 2007

    Lippycow

    Bread just out of the oven.

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  • by mrtorch on July 7th, 2007

    mrtorch

    Napalm in the morning.

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  • by Jestah on March 26th, 2007

    Jestah

    I love the smell of petrol when a motorbike goes past lol!

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  • by Elleonora on February 27th, 2007

    Elleonora

    fresh mown grass. preferably in a park in the city, with lots of concrete buildings around so people notice it harder.

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  • by 09898 on February 27th, 2007

    09898

    gasoline and fireplaces not together.

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  • by bootlace on February 27th, 2007

    bootlace

    My boyfriends neck

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  • by Anonymous on February 27th, 2007

    Anonymous

    Colombian coffee brewing in the morning.

    Its an eye opener.

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  • by evie32 on February 22nd, 2007

    evie32

    freshly brewed coffee, yummy

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  • by Anonymous on February 21st, 2007

    Anonymous

    The smell of October.

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  • by JulieW on February 19th, 2007

    JulieW

    New Baby!

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  • by Jodie44 on February 16th, 2007

    Jodie44

    A skunk that's been hit and killed by a car. That's got to be the foulest, most gut-wrenchingly putrid smell on the planet. It's not even describable.

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  • by Anonymous on February 15th, 2007

    Anonymous

    I was once in this little town in Mexico that smelled like the posterial oriface of the world! No plumbing anywhere! that comes close.

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  • by RudyBox on February 15th, 2007

    RudyBox

    1. rotting meat (haven't smelled rotting human flesh, luckily)

    2. rotting food between own or others teeth (and other causes of bad breath)

    3. cat pee (how can something so nasty come out of something so nice?)

    4. vomit

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  • by Melanie on February 11th, 2007

    Melanie

    Skunk.

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  • by Stableboy on February 7th, 2007

    Stableboy

    We used to have wild hills behind our house before the developers bought the city council. My wife had a dog named Keesha, and each morning we'd go walking up in the hills early, sometimes before dawn, when skunks ruled the roost.

    On one particularly memorable morning, Keesha was out ahead scouting for trouble and found it. Our first clue was a VISIBLE cloud of some gas lightly illuminated by the dawn, the yelping of the dog racing toward us, and a vague sense that something unpleasant was in our future.

    I'm not enough of a poet to describe the strength of the odor emanating from this dog.

    So while my wife prepared the bathtub and held her nose, the duty fell to me to go shopping for the cure -- at least from what we had heard -- a year's supply of Massengill douche.

    Of course, at this hour in the grocery store, there aren't a lot of customers; but all the customers that WERE in the store chose to queue up behind me at the checkstand as I unloaded my cartful of magic potion. As much as I think of myself as self-assured and unconcerned with the opinions of others, the 4 sets of eyeballs (including the cashier) following my every move made me uncomfortable. SOMETHING had to happen to break the tension.

    So I finished stacking up the last douchebox on the conveyor, stood up straight, let out a long sigh, cracked my knuckles, and told the cashier straight out: "I just DON'T feel fresh today!"

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    (Sorry for cheating, I originally posted this answer to a different question today, but it seemed to answer both so here is the original context:
    http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/89382/362810
    )

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  • by janacide on February 7th, 2007

    janacide

    This is a duplicate question.

    http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/121968

    But my answer would be,The smell of death

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  • by O_hare on February 7th, 2007

    O_hare

    decaying animal.

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  • by thinkin on February 7th, 2007

    thinkin

    The stuff that we use in our steam cleaner our parts at work (I work at a place where we rebuild engine parts) it just burns my nose and throut if I smell it. I have no clue how the guys do it all day long.

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  • by -Ben 10- on February 3rd, 2007

    -Ben 10-

    the smell of food prepared by my mother

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  • by Tinkabelle on January 18th, 2007

    Tinkabelle

    Rain! I looove rain :)

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