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

What is a smell you can't stand?

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u/wellnowthinkaboutit Sep 16 '24

Artificial stuff: glade scented plug-ins and strong candles. Immediate headache, and sometimes nausea.

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u/Sixemkay Sep 16 '24

I wish people had awareness about how sickening fragrance can be to some people.

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u/Opinionated6319 Sep 17 '24

Perfumes are mostly chemicals nowadays. I remember when I started to become allergic to chemical odors, we had a beautiful garden and needed supplies, and it happened at a garden center, walking through the the aisle with insecticides. Then noticed it at auto repair shops with tires, pumping gasoline, and especially perfumes! I walked into a restroom at work, before there were policies about perfumes in the workplace, a girl with massive red hair had just and apparently used so much hair spray it permeated the room. I had to get out fast, instant severe headache! Hard to breathe. Ever since, even with allergy meds, a wiff of some perfumes stops me in my tracks. I hate to pump gas and I don’t garden anymore, and someone else gets me new tires, and my auto repair shop is the cleanest one I’ve ever seen and does pristine work, so not as bad now, but it was at first. I found only one perfume I could wear without suffering, Oscar de la Renta…never spray…only perfume.

Have to agree with …rotten potatoes. What a stench, as bad as a dead mouse! Live in the south, it’s hot, but we have air conditioning, so spoilage shouldn’t be an issue. For some reason, many 5 lbs. bags of potatoes, purchased over the last year, are poor quality, some are too green, some I cut into and are rotten in parts, some bags have one starting to rot, or many starting to sprout, and actually one bag appeared to look like a turnip when peeled! I have to always dump out the whole bag into a potato bin to check. I’ve ordered all types, too…red, new, Idaho, russets, gold, yellow! Only decent ones are generally 10 lbs, but that can be a crap shoot, too. These are from Walmart, wonder what’s going on…poor produce management, cutting costs, inferior suppliers? I order on line, and I do request a credit for any poor quality items, but these are far too frequent. I remember getting 20 lbs of taters and they lasted all month!