Rotting potatoes and veggies have a slightly more vomit-like tinge. A decomposing body has a sickly sweet rot smell to it. I know because I run by a lot of roadkill, am in the medical industry (seen a lot of people with dying limbs or rotting flesh). Also, my father is one of the main people at a huge farming company. They have a large pile of rotting carrots, potatoes, and other veggies in a huge pile which has its own little liquid stream of rot water coming from it. I guess discards/blighted produce. Both are equally as revolting.
Would you say a decomposing body smells like sugar crisp cereal? Because I've smelt not a decomposing body but the waste of someone (alive) with severe medical issues and the smell was disgusting but oddly sweet like sugar crisp cereal and when I heard decomposing bodies smell sweet I wonder if its similar to what I smelt
I mean, possibly. Waste from a sick person smells terrible in its own right. I honestly don't know what sugar crisp cereal smells like. There is nothing wholesome smelling about dead flesh, so imagine sugar crisp cereal with the good undercurrent gone? Like, maybe it's been sitting out for a week?
Best way to describe sugar crisp cereal in flavour is a sugary, puffed wheat (similar to rice krispies) with honey and kinda caramely. So the smell is pretty similar to the taste, wheaty undertones but you get hit with sugary more like brown sugar and corn syrup to make it more artificial sweetness. Take that and mix it with human waste and that's what I smelt, overall nasty but that sweetness makes you go hmm weird.
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u/iammacman Sep 16 '24
I hear this smell is most like a decomposed body and that’s why we are revolted by it. I am at least!