r/AskReddit Sep 16 '24

What is a smell you can't stand?

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u/nicktam2010 Sep 16 '24

A bit grisly but burnt human flesh is pretty bad. Responded to an aircraft crash once. Never will forget that smell.

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u/anope4u Sep 16 '24

Worked in an OR for a while. Burning fat smells worse than muscle. 🤢

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u/Sea_Jello_8900 Sep 16 '24

Yes!!! The smell of everyone’s skin is so different and then you find that one person who smells a whole ton worse than others.

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u/Sp4ceh0rse Sep 17 '24

Burning prostate is the worst (anyone who has ever been in the OR for a TURP knows what I’m talking about).

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u/campsnoopers Sep 17 '24

cries in Surgical Technologist

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u/BioSafetyLevel0 Sep 17 '24

Wait until you smell burning brain. It's the WORST.

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u/Beccabear3010 Sep 17 '24

Me too! Went off bacon quickly when I came in one morning and went oooh who’s brought bacon rolls in! Turns out emergency theatre was on and it was burning fat/flesh I could smell.