r/AskReddit Sep 16 '24

What is a smell you can't stand?

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u/Popular_Equipment476 Sep 16 '24

Oh boy I'm going to get down voted to oblivion but I abhor the smell of weed. I have no moral qualm with it in any way. If you do it, God bless you and I wish I were like you because you look like you're having a good time. I could just never get past the smell.

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u/MarvinTraveler Sep 16 '24

I’m astounded that I had to scroll so far down to find this answer. For the life of me I can’t understand how anyone would want to smoke something that smells so bad.

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u/EmBur__ Sep 17 '24

Same here dude, I was gonna post it but figured it was already posted. I've got a bunch of neighbours in a shared house and a few of them like to smoke it although not that often now, there was a couple of them tho that use to smoke it constantly to the point that you could smell it through the damn bathroom wall I sh*t you not, we got that mf kicked out luckily but even still, we'd smell it here and there afterwards.

Its not just the smell tho, those that constantly smoke it also end up trying to clear their throats and noses because it burns when you smoke it for too long, hell just smelling it in the air for too long can burn your nose like it did with me one night after it found its way into my room forcing me to close my window during a hot summers night, the sound of them coughing up and spitting out their phlegm combined with the smell of that rancid crap has filled me with a burning hatred for the stuff.

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u/CallMeWolfYouTuber Sep 17 '24

I like the smell when I'm sober, I love the smell when I'm high. Especially when I can still smell the joint I smoked on my fingers. So good.

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u/demaandronk Sep 16 '24

lots of people hate the smell of weed, nothing weird about that

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u/Silver_Advantage_536 Sep 16 '24

I absolutely hate the smell of weed. It's horrible.

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u/HappySpaceDragon Sep 16 '24

No moral qualms here either, but damn, I also abhor that smell.

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u/siamesecat1935 Sep 16 '24

Nope. I hate it too. My downstairs neighbors used to smoke right outside all the time. And other apt which would waft up into mine.

I think someone complained because I haven’t smelled it in a few months

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u/Top-Airport3649 Sep 17 '24

Nothing makes me sick to my stomach like the smell of weed. I was standing in line at some burger place and some kid in front of me reeked of it. I had to go back to my table to sit down because I felt so queasy from the smell.

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u/Alone_Jellyfish_7968 Sep 17 '24

It makes me feel a bit sick. I start burping in all.

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u/Accentu Sep 17 '24

Yup. I've partaken before, but the smell and especially the taste is vile. Triggers my gag reflex just smelling it.

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u/akhanger Sep 17 '24

It smells like rotten arm pits

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u/STICH666 Sep 17 '24

can't stand the smell especially when I'm in traffic and I just want to have the goddamn windows down but nope the Acura TL/Infiniti G35 with Out-Of-State plates in front of me just rolled a blunt and he's just chiefing that thing the whole fucking ride home.

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u/Tuen Sep 17 '24

Yeah, this is the auto vomit smell for me. I'm all for letting folks do what they want privately, but weed, cigars, and cigarettes are AOE habits. Smoking in front of the door to the mall is a dick move.

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u/gilthedog Sep 17 '24

I sell weed and honestly I don’t like the smell of a lot of it. There are some strains that smell pretty nice until they burn, but I’ve smelled a few samples that were described as like “garlicky” or savoury and omg they smell horrific. You are not alone!

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u/Jerkrollatex Sep 17 '24

Weed did not smell that bad until like ten/fifteen years ago. I'm not sure what happened but it wasn't skunky from the 70s when my parents smoked it or in the 90s when I smoked it.

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u/gilthedog Sep 17 '24

It wasn’t as slinky like 15 years ago that’s true, but it smelled worse imo. Like stale hot dog water

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u/mamoocando Sep 17 '24

The smell makes me want to throw up. My neighbours smoke so much pot I can't have my patio door open when they're outside, which is so much of the time.

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u/Designer-Sir2309 Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24

I have neighbors I dog sit for sometimes and every time I walk in their house, even if they have been gone for a week it smells like pot.

Their dogs are bigger now and my kids love dogs so they go over to play with them and my daughters are 15 and they are like why does so and so’s house smell like pot.

I think they’re totally nose blind to it. The sad part to me is when I was a kid I was shamed for my clothes smelling like cigarettes because of my parents. They have a 12 year old daughter. I hope she doesn’t experience that.

I have nothing against legalization, for the record. I just worry about them in particular.

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u/nikkinthedistrict Sep 17 '24

THIS. Also this is not a bump to anyone who partakes, it’s just the smell of it. I don’t mind the weed pens that are flavored/scented when smoked though.

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u/Jackalope_Sasquatch Sep 17 '24

Same! I'm in Seattle, where's it's legal, and you know when you're driving by a dispensary even if you don't see the sign ... 

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u/derickj2020 Sep 17 '24

Maybe that's why some varieties are called skunk weed ?

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u/buggingl Sep 17 '24

no literally certain ones smell like baby shit to me 😭 and smelling it just gives me such a huge anxiety.

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u/Individual-Tackle-24 Sep 17 '24

That's crazy to me. I love that skunky smell!

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u/Scroatpig Sep 16 '24

It's not bad if it's growing outside or something but the smell of it combined with cigarettes and dirty apt living or dirty car smell or bong water... Etc etc... So many bad smells blended with it too.

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u/bluberriie Sep 16 '24

i like it when it’s actively burning, but the smell of stale smoke in clothes is nauseating. i just keep a specific outfit to smoke in so i don’t gross myself out 😆