Scents/smells that make you sick...

[NewWaveChick1981]

:yoiks: I was in a store earlier today, and some idiot had been testing the fake-berry-scent room spray all over the place. :puke: I fucking HATE fake berry scent! :grr: The following scents also give me a headache and/or make me wanna hurl: very strong rose/tuberose scent, gardenia, amber (used in many perfumes---Obsession comes to mind :puke:), fresh asphalt, and creosote.

I don't hate perfumes, just very strong ones or sickening ones (see above). Oh, and what's the deal with "scented oil candles" and crap like that? :shrug: I'd like for my room to smell like nothing, thank you very much...

[datasuspect]

1. putrefaction/death

i taste that shit for at least two weeks after i get a good mouthful of it.

[NewWaveChick1981]

3. Yeah, I know it's pretty foul.

I think putrefaction/death is what manufacturers use to make fake berry scent. :P :yoiks:

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

53. Ugh, when we dissect things in school, the smell of formaldehyde

(or whatever they now use) stays in you nose for DAYS. It is one of the most sickening smells ever.

[Redstone]

2. ANY "air freshener." Want to "freshen" the air? Open a fucking window!

Redstone

[NewWaveChick1981]

4. Exactly.

:hi:

[femmocrat]

45. Well... that isn't always such a great idea!

I live among people with burn barrels. Forget opening the window when they are out there burning their garbage. We have to stay hermetically sealed. Disgusting.

[Lyric]

5. I completely agree with you about fake "berry" scent, and would add

fake "berry" flavor as well. :puke:

As for scents--the smell of dog poo and anything rotten always makes me ill.

[NewWaveChick1981]

11. I'm not as offended by dog poo as am fake berry scent/flavor...

:P And yes, anything rotten...:puke:

[lost-in-nj]

6. roof tar

burnt microwaved popcorn,rose scented perfume
and a lot of those no name body sprays.


to much garlic, I like to smell garlic cooking... but sometimes.... blech



lost

[graywarrior]

7. OMG, burnt tar and diesel fumes

A gynocologist once told me if you were affected by the smell of tar and diesel that meant your hormones were low. For the life of me, I cannot figure out why that would be. She never explained it, probably because at the time I was more concerned about why I was having a 6 month period.

[NewWaveChick1981]

9. Gag...burnt microwave popcorn...

..and roof tar...:puke: :puke: and rose perfume...:puke:

Yeah, garlic can get too strong at times....

[CTyankee]

32. Is there such a thing as too much garlic?

I use 3X as much garlic in a recipe than is called for. My minestrone soup is popular, I think, because of all of the garlic I put in it. I don't, however, put it in a recipe where it would be inappropriate.

But we in the U.S. are too sensitive about garlic, IMHO. When I smell the garlic wafting from my favorite Italizn restaurant I nearly fall over from hunger for it. I used to work next door to a wonderful Italian restaurant and even at 10 in the morning, I could smell the garlic being sauteed and I would be so wretchedly hungry I couldn't wait to eat. If that restaurant hadn't been so expensive and my paycheck so small I would have eaten lunch there every day...

[tpsbmam]

59. No! n/t

[Evoman]

81. I agree..I've never thought ANYTHING has too much garlic.

I make the Red Lobster type biscuits and put about a billion times the garlic they say in the recipe and people RAVE about them. Same with everything else...garlic, garlic, garlic.

[Guava Jelly]

8. Fajita's

To me it is how cat urine in a scalding hot skillet would smell.

[NewWaveChick1981]

13. OMG...

:rofl: Your description of hot sizzlin' fajitas is absolutely correct...:rofl: :hi: :puke:

[supernova]

10. Tires

I hate when it's time to buy tires. It's absolutely :puke: inducing.

As for perfumes and room fresheners, floral is ok (but can easily be too sweet and cloying for me) I prefer what I call "clean" smells, just fresh, mostly.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

36. Wait'll the scented tires come out. Ugh.

http://blogs.sportcompactcarweb.com/6230047/expert-car-opinions/kumhos-scented-tires/index.html

[MorningGlow]

12. Cat spray

And lucky me, our alpha male has been squirting everything he can get his butt on ever since we moved into this house more than two years ago. I am perpetually armed with cleaning spray and paper towels.

Also men's "body spray"--you know, the kind that comes in a black spray can with neon lettering.
:puke: :puke: :puke:

[Lavender Brown]

14. eggs

Every morning I get stuck in the elevator at work with a bunch of people with Dunkin Donuts egg sandwiches, and I feel nauseous. Way to start the day. x(

[Haole Girl]

15. Many perfumes and almost all room deodorizers

With Vasomotor rhinitis, it doesn't take much. :-( Charlie, though, has to be the most putrid perfume ever known to mankind. :-(

[nuxvomica]

16. cilantro

:scared:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

17. Popcorn.

[HuffleClaw]

18. KFC

makes me wanna yak.

[skater314159]

19. Cinnamon makes me projectile vomit.

:puke:Which means I can easily become a Bio-Weapon if given the scent of Cinnamon or a bite of a Cinna-Bun.:puke:

:puke:I once got to use my Super-Power to (almost) puke on Tara LaPinksy after being kicked off the ice because we were playing hockey. :puke:

And just because I love using it, some more gratuitous use of :puke:


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[THUNDER HANDS]

20. steamed broccoli

[Bennyboy]

21. cabbage cooking......

YECH!

[GreenPartyVoter]

22. Raw meat, eggs, canned garlic

:puke:

[Deja Q]

23. Nuttin' like napalm in the bedroom on a Monday morn'...

:hide:

[barb162]

75. smells like....victory n/t

[Aristus]

24. Burning rubber.

Every time I smell it, usually when I'm driving, my first thought is: 'Oh no! Something's wrong with my car!" It turns out always to be something wrong with someone else's car, but it doesn't stop me from worrying.

Back about fourteen years ago, I was living in abject poverty, always one paycheck away from disaster. If anything happened to my car that couldn't easily and cheaply be repaired, that would lead to all sorts of trouble. Now that I'm financially comfortable, the fear persists...

[latebloomer]

25. twice-cooked bacon fat and cut-rate cigarettes

My m-i-l, who is currently and (hopefully) temporarily living with us, saves used bacon grease like it's gold and then fries her grilled-cheese sandwiches in it. I don't mind the smell of frying bacon, but twice-cooked bacon practically makes me barf. After 6 months of this shit, I finally told her the smell really bothers me.

Not to mention that she smokes like a fiend on the porch and comes in smelling putrid.

Did I mention that I am in early recovery from a stem-cell transplant for leukemia?

:mad:

[mwooldri]

26. Those Pickles you find in burgers. Nasty! (nt)

[LeftyMom]

27. Fake fruit scents generally.

The kinds used in candies, "fruit drinks" etc. Here's an idea- if you want something that tastes and smells like fruit, head on over to the produce section and get some fruit, instead of stinking the place up with corn syrup and artificial fruit flavor.

I would rather smell week old roadkill than "fruit" punch or, heaven forfend, starburst. :puke:

The one that amuses me most are room sprays that are supposed to smell like clean laundry. I get my clean laundry scent for free every time I wash my socks.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

87. Yes, they are way too sweet.

If you want to scent up the house, put a pot of water on the stove and throw in orange peels, lemon peels, cinnamon, vanilla extract, or use a few drops of essential oils -- lavender, rosemary, things like that.

Much better smelling and REAL!!!

[mwooldri]

28. Well there's a sight too. Blood.

I can't stand the sight of blood, get squeamish at it. Especially in gory type films. Makes me turn away at the first sight.

[BreweryYardRat]

29. Stale cat piss. Makes my nose close up,

Unfortunately, since I'm visiting my parents for spring break (too broke to hit NYC like I planned), I'll be smelling that whenever I'm at home.

[AlCzervik]

30. Cloves, Fritos, puke, febreze---any scent and is there anything they don't put it in to these days?

and kind of air freshener and lots of other things.

[datasuspect]

31. subtract the cloves and febreze

and you have captured the very essence of my foot odor.

[lizerdbits]

33. Most perfumes/colognes, especially when it's too much

I hate the 20 yard cologne zone. No marinating please! We had visitors at work who took a lab tour and one of them must have worn my lab coat after marination. 2 HOURS later I put it on and can smell it. It was so strong I had to put it in the laundry pile and get my other one.

And running an ultracentrifuge that needs an oil change. It smells like ass.

[DarkTirade]

34. I'm fine with most scented stuff

the only two things that make me feel sick to my stomach when I smell them are carraway seeds (I don't know why, but it kinda sucks when there's a perfectly good foodstuff that has 'em in it. Occasionally if it's very well cooked the aroma goes away and I can eat it just fine, but if they're not overcooked, they're inedible to me.) and rotting meat. Which sucked for several years, because I lived in a hot and humid place where roadkill started rotting immediately... and I didn't have a car for 5 years so I had to walk everywhere. Seriously, I could never become a cop or a serial killer just because of that. I really just can't handle it. Even a little whiff and I start to gag. If I couldn't hold my breath for long periods of time, I wouldn't have been able to get to work every day.

[JTG of the PRB]

35. Raspberry vodka.

We had a very nasty... breakup, let's call it.

[1gobluedem]

37. Patchouli

Blech. Also any scented air freshener.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

38. Chicken cordon bleu

And rutabagas. I have to literally leave the house before I ralph. x( :P

[Pacifist Patriot]

39. Pumpkin Spice

Room freshners, candles, scented oil, etc. Reminds me of morning sickness. We had a Yankee Candle in that scent when I in my first trimester with my last son and I've associated it ever since. My husband bought me some pumpkin spice scented body lotion and bubble bath a few years ago. I almost hurled! Just recently I walked into an antique/gift store and turned right on my heels because they were burning a pumpkin spice candle.

Fortunately pumpkin pie doesn't do this to me. Just the fake-scented pumpkin spice.

[av8rdave]

40. Sodium whatever, the gas they used to use for anesthesia....

Had surgery when I was 12 (around 1970). That stuff made me SO sick. To this day, when I even catch a whiff of that odor, it nauseates me. That and Southern Comfort, but that's a totally different story.

[Bennyboy]

41. Curry.....

Can't stand it. I once had a customer when I used to deliver newspapers, that every time I went to their door had this huge blast of curry coming out of their house. That customer never paid me on time, so I had to go to their door a lot to collect and every time was this disgusting odor of curry.

Now whenever I smell curry it takes me back to that customer. And it makes me sick.

[x-g.o.p.er]

42. Yankee Candle Company Store

Get a tremendous headache if I'm in there over 5 min. Smell overload for me.

Of course, my wife likes that store.

[bicentennial_baby]

46. You should try the flagship store in MA...

Not only is the inside incredibly nauseating, you can smell the place for miles, when the weather's right. :puke:

[x-g.o.p.er]

47. Yikes! No thanks n/t

[barb162]

76. Whenever I get scented candles as a gift, I regift them.

Who the hell uses that stuff?

[Oeditpus Rex]

49. What? You don't like...

:shrug:

[x-g.o.p.er]

114. ...

:rofl:

[tpsbmam]

58. I'm with your wife on that one but have trouble even walking past

Bath & Body Works. Fortunately I hate shopping & malls and rarely have to go near it. Too bad -- they don't use animal testing & I'd love to shop there but no go -- the smells are all sickly sweet. Blech!

[CTyankee]

60. Horrible place. I would never go there, much less insist my husband go there!

I don't buy candles for myself anyway. I am convinced that candles are a fire waiting to happen, having seen too many fires caused by them.

There are some candles that are OK, but Yankee Candle ones don't make the cut for me.

[tpsbmam]

43. Beer

Yeah, yeah....it's true. It doesn't have to be stale beer -- the smell of beer makes me :puke:

[Hand]

50. Obviously you hate America.

Off to Gitmo you go! :rofl:

[tpsbmam]

55. And I hate the smell of

fried food and I live in the South. :puke: I'm doomed, I tell ya, doomed! :hide:

[Hand]

71. Hee hee.

Reminds me of yesterday evening; we were at a nice Chinese restaurant and one of the ladies in the group said she couldn't have anything that contained soy sauce (gluten thing, apparently real). That's a bit like going to an Italian restaurant and saying you can't have anything with olive oil!

Oh, and yeah--yer doomed! Sorry about that. :evilgrin: Your secret is safe with me--for a price. :rofl:

[femmocrat]

44. Just about all fragrances give me a migraine.

I can't even be in the same room with someone wearing heavy perfume. Ugh. I practically run through the department store to get away from the "perfume ladies"!

Cigarette smoke makes me really sick. Lately the smell of fried foods has been turning my stomach, too.

[Skittles]

48. milk

:puke:

[Runcible Spoon]

51. WOW no PATCHOULI mention yet?

chalk me up then. Disgusting, and not because I hate hippes mmmk? I love the scent of rose and lavender oil but patchouli makes me want to barf. I think it's due to a childhood memory where someone spilled an entire vial into a brass dish that was used to hold miscellaneous household knick knacks and everything that ever went into that bowl smelled like copper tainted stale patchouli for life.

[LiberalEsto]

52. Patchouli means "bath substitute" nt

[Runcible Spoon]

54. snarf

you said it not me!

[dembotoz]

56. a bad perfume memory

My first real heavy duty teen age kissing date.
Much looked forward to by me...
She was wearing some perfume-
I could not stop sneezing.
talk about a mood breaker....

[SalmonChantedEvening]

57. Stinkbugs

They come out early when the house is too warm and they let an scent out when threatened. PU and then some.

Cayenne gets me, but I think that has more to do with my choppuhs. Heavy flavors and odor's cling to them.

Meh, beats not chewing :)

[TommyO]

61. Sephora!

I take the long way around the local mall to avoid the stench coming from their store.

[Adsos Letter]

62. Nail Polish...

I have three women in my house and that nail polish just drives me drives me nuts (which is a very short drive when you live with three women) :hide:

[fudge stripe cookays]

63. Pine Sol...

causes an automatic gut reaction with me. I've had to vomit a couple times because of it. If I go in anywhere and they've cleaned with it, I have to leave immediately.

[TrogL]

64. Must

Like the smell you get in a closet where vegatables have rotted, or when you put a bathing suit or towel in a plastic bag and forgotten to take it out.

One good whiff and I'm in full-blown panic attack.

[mitchum]

65. nail polish remover

[AngryAmish]

66. poo

[Mugu]

67. I guess that it really is true that misery loves company.

Because knowing that others are irritated by scents makes me feel better about how many odors affect me. There are many everyday products that I have to keep in glass containers with metal lids if I'm going to get any sleep. For the life of me I can't understand why anybody would buy dryer-sheets, Irish Spring soap, perfumed dish/clothes-washing detergent, or anything from Pier I imports.

Regards, Mugu

[stratomagi]

68. I work in a hospital so I've gotten used to everything

except vomit, vomit still makes me gag, its like its contageous almost.

[darmok167]

104. I can't believe it took 68 posts

before this one came up. It was thye first thing I thought of. I couldn't agree more.

[Tektonik]

69. Indian food of all sorts

:puke:

[Ryano42]

70. Hubris.

Undiluted, Reich Wing, Evil.

[mondo joe]

72. We have a no-perfume policy at my work. And believe it or not some people just don't get it.

[PittPoliSci]

77. same at my place.

we have announcements every few days. the supervisors are really tiring, they have sigh and get annoyed "i can't believe i have to say this...again!"

i do like the policy though.

[Drum]

73. Southern Comfort.

Ick-O

[tammywammy]

74. My co-worker's perfume

I can smell her from 15 feet away when I first get in. And she's the next desk over. :puke:

[buzzard]

78. Hotdogs make me wretch. n/t

[Lil Missy]

79. I hate the smell of microwaved popcorn.

Especially if it is burnt! Barf!

She also cooks all meat in oil. Just makes me want to puke every time.

I can fry or broil a piece of meat without all the stink in the house. Thus, I do most of the cooking....

Yuk!

[Sultana]

80. Melted butter & animal fat oil stuff

:puke:

:crazy: :puke:

[Evoman]

82. Lipton Chicken noodle soup.

CAN'T STAND IT. It's because it 4th grade, this girl in my class puked up about 5 L of Chicken Noodle Soup and it smelled so fucking gross. I haven't been able to touch the stuff ever since, and even smelling it makes me gag.

Sewage is also pretty gross.

Slightly bad raw chicken is pretty bad.

This guy I know called Matt's farts. I hate the smell of farts, but this guy smelled so fucking bad I was gagging. Fuck he was gross.

[Capn Sunshine]

83. Cordite

too many bombs, too many bombs

[Radio_Lady]

84. Skunk smell...and all the PLASTIC BAGS and WRAPS that smell like skunk...

Also moldy smells make me ill.

Musk isn't great -- the base of lots of perfumes.

Also, for some reason, jasmine tea (in a Chinese restaurant, usually) makes me think I'm drinking perfume. Can't stand it.

[Lasher]

85. I'm allergic to something that's in scented candles.

Also those things you plug into a wall outlet that stink up the house. And those cardboard scented things that you hang up your car. There's something in all of them that sort of pickles and dries out my sinuses bigtime. Makes my tongue seem like shoe leather and it's like somebody shit in my mouth, even for several hours after I escape an area that has such things. Seems like I can tolerate the crap for a little while but it builds up in me with prolonged exposure.

I can't even detect what they're supposed to smell like because whatever that ingredient is, just destroys my nose. I wonder if anybody else has a similar reaction.

[ashling]

86. tobacco

most insense, particularly sandlewood, curry,

[Manifestor_of_Light]

88. Smoked oysters.

Make me gag.

And most of the other things mentioned in this thread.

Shellfish. I'm allergic to it, as I found out a few years ago.

[ordinaryaveragegirl]

89. Pee, and anise or black licorice. Yuck. n/t

[Withywindle]

105. Another anise/licorice victim here.

Can't stand the stuff. The slightest hint of fennel or anything in that family can put me off a perfectly otherwise good meal...or eating in general, all day. :puke:

I'm not generally someone who's sensitive to scents or tastes in general. Most of the stuff mentioned on this thread doesn't bother me in the least, and I'll eat almost anything else.

But something about anise and its loathsome relatives just repels me like Kryptonite.

[DarkTirade]

108. Anise makes me a bit unsettled

but not quite as bad as carraway for me.

[annonymous]

90. The smell of smoked fish makes me gag.

I also can't stand the smell of Opium perfume. It gives me a headache. I also don't like the smell of burnt microwave popcorn or the smell of fish cooked in a microwave.

[ghostsofgiants]

91. Vanilla scents, and shit like Axe body spray.

Instant headache for me.

The lingering stale tobacco smell that a lot of smokers have is nasty too. Much worse than the actual smell of tobacco smoke as it is being smoked.

[zanne]

92. I have to agree with the strong flower smells...

My neighbor has a beautiful bed of roses and on warm summer days, the breeze brings their fragrance to my back door. Unfortunately, strong flower fragrances remind me of funeral homes.

[LeftinOH]

93. Rancid body odor...the kind that makes your eyes water. Its all I can do

to keep from retching.

[raccoon]

94. Stale cigarette smell in a room or on a person who reeks of it.

Decaying flesh.

[AirmensMom]

95. Fragrance ...

the chemical soup that's made in a test tube. Makes me really sick. I don't buy anything that has fragrance listed in the ingredients.

The best smell in the world: Clothes dried outside. :)

[gbate]

96. Raw meat.

[youthere]

97. Play-Dough, Microwave Popcorn, Pumpkin Guts, and Lavender.

[gbate]

102. I love all of these ,but especially Play Doh.

[youthere]

103. It makes me gag...

I made homemade play-dough for my kids because I couldn't stand the smell of the commercial stuff.At Halloween I always hide out in my bedroom while my husband and the kids carve pumpkins. They get them all lit and then I come out and ooh and ahh over them. They also clean up all the seeds and get them ready for me to roast. No other squash does that to me, but the smell of pumpkin guts just makes me sick. The popcorn and lavender just give me a horrendous headache.

[jakefrep]

98. Cooking cabbage, liver

And candle shops make me sneeze - the smells are just about suffocating.

[KansDem]

99. Burning enamel--like when you get your teeth drilled.

Has a somewhat offensive odor about it.

[Phillycat]

100. Giorgio perfume.

It literally makes me gag.

[Genevieve]

107. me too --nt

[ganeshji]

101. Tuna, watermelon scented anything,

but the worst smell to me is dirty hair. Ugh!

[KitchenWitch]

106. fish cooked in the microwave

:puke:

[Eurobabe]

109. Liver cooking

:puke: :puke:

and right now, the stench in GDP

[no name no slogan]

110. young men enjoying themselves

nt

[movie_girl99]

111. vanilla air fresheners..

i love the smell of vanilla extract or even a nice vanilla candle but not hose oil things.

[ceile]

112. White Linen and Youth Dew

I think those are both Estee Lauder scents. My oma used to wear White Linen, I was car sick as a child and we spent most summers driving around TX. I'm sure you can figure out the end...

[Amerigo Vespucci]

113. Guys who take a bath in shit like Calvin Klein's "Obsession"...

...any of the heavy, oily, musky scents. Guys who think they are one of the Festrunk Brothers and smell accordingly.

[CreekDog]

115. Liver

:puke: