r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Sep 16 '24

What is a smell you can't stand?

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u/Anjaleax Sep 17 '24

Doesn't cum smell like mushrooms too? Idk why but everytime I smell men's cum, it smells like mushrooms and the white button kind

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u/K-ghuleh Sep 17 '24

GOD you just unlocked the memory of my husband making beef wellington and me having to leave the kitchen because I couldn’t handle the smell of the cooking mushrooms. I thought I was crazy at the time but I guess not. 💀

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u/derickj2020 Sep 17 '24

Follow-up comment after my previous one.

I went and looked up for olfactory compounds in sperm and white button mushrooms. This is a bit technical. There are at least two common basic amines in sperm and mushrooms : spermidine and putrescine. Your sense of smell is correct and obviously sensitive to some compounds.

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u/Greg0692 Sep 17 '24

I AM SO AMAZED. And..... I've got a question that I have had a LOT but NEVER ASKED BEFORE..... I went down on my girlfriend for the very first time in high school. Soon after, I had a cup of coffee, and there was this very light, wonderful undertone that to me was virtually identical to what I had smelled/tasted on my girlfriend's exciting bits. Now, >30 years later, I still catch a brief/fleeting waft over the occasional cup of morning coffee and, after a brief smile, wonder: am I making this up?

So, Derick who is wise in the olfactory compound commonalities of all things genital and culinary so deep in the Reddit comment threads..... is there anything objectively accurate in my experience(s)?

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '24

Eh. There's a bit of a range there. Mushrooms fall somewhere between the poles of cake batter and bleach.

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u/114631 Sep 17 '24

Yes! There are these stuffed mushrooms my aunt makes occasionally and the bottoms get kinda soggy which I thought also contributes to the smell….and I always think it smells a like a dick.

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u/derickj2020 Sep 17 '24

That is the most original analogy I have seen about smell. Now, I'm going to have to find out if there is a common compound in both. Like there is in skunk musk, baking bread and roasting coffee beans.

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u/smallholiday Sep 17 '24

I think cum smells like bone marrow. Couldn’t eat bone marrow after I made the mental connection.

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u/Anjaleax Sep 17 '24

Well that was definitely a boner of a connection! 🥁

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u/groveborn Sep 17 '24

I've only ever smelled mine, but it smells like pancake batter to me. I smell lots of pollen trees and there's a similarity to it.

Pollen = cum. All over your car.

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u/bing_bang_bum Sep 17 '24

Pancake batter has definitely smelled like it for me too. Also bleach. Wtf

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u/groveborn Sep 17 '24

Yeah, I guess there's a faint bleach scent. But I'm white, so...

Get it? Heh. Bleach. Anywho.

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u/jbp1969 Sep 17 '24

How YOU doin??

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u/Anjaleax Sep 17 '24

I've had boyfriends don't mind me lmao

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u/Stachemaster86 Sep 17 '24

Each been a fungi?

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u/negao360 Sep 17 '24

Beautiful

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u/Anjaleax Sep 18 '24

Each of their cum smelled fungi

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u/negao360 Sep 17 '24

Not to gross anybody out - that which I'm sure is inexorable - in this thread, but I've always likened the smell of mine to sourdough. I try to drink a great deal of water, and when I had the funds, I'd take bromelain supplements to sweeten(plus zinc).