Ewe, What’s That Awful Smell?! 

When was the last time you were on your way somewhere when all of a sudden the most horrible stench was swallowed in by your nose? I’m talking about one of those smells where you just can’t help but think, “That has got to be the worst smell in the world!” We must admit, there are some pretty atrocious smells in this world but have you ever stopped to wonder, “What exactly is the most horrible smell in this world?” 

Curiosity brought me to write this article. It consisted of me personally asking 50 different people as well as conducting some research on what they considered to be the worst smell in the world. Some of these answers are so gross that the mere act of reading them will have your nose turned up. Some are pretty obvious while there are others that you probably have never even thought of. It most likely has to do with a person’s worldly experience. But before we begin, I must warn you—only read on if you truly don’t mind being grossed out or subjected to TMI (Too Much Information) Other than that, here’s to being disgusted… 

The majority of people who were interviewed gave some of the more obvious answers such as Doggy poop, warm puke, fart, sweaty butt-cheeks, ammonia, wet dog, starchy socks, old urine, barns, gangrene, sewage, trash juice, and belly button cheese. After awhile, it started to get more interesting. Some people even mentioned some things that other people are pretty much able to bare the smell of, such as a wet ash trays; big deal huh?! But it was the answers like burning flesh, maggot infested bodies, tooth decay and soupy diarrhea, that really started to get to me. Just the sounds of these things make you start to gag.  

It’s easy to think of a number of responses off the top of your head, but it is impossible to think of them all. There are far too many and “unfortunately” some of them we haven’t even had the pleasure of experiencing. In that case, how would we crown the rankest smell of them all? Even after trying the yahoo approach, it was still pretty obvious that we would not come to a conclusion. We have covered a broad spectrum of rank smells, including those that were animal and food related. Amongst those were body excretions, toe jam, athlete’s foot, molded cheese, rotten eggs, boiled cabbage and spoiled pork that had been cooked. 

It was decided that the only way to come up with the worst stench in the world, we would have to go with the one that was most mentioned. To everyone who has never heard of this before, I would like to introduce to you stinkest of them all—Ms. Titan Arum! Also going by the name Amorphophallus titanium, this flower (yes, flower) is also known as the Corpse Flower. No matter what anyone chooses to call it, let’s just say that it smells like death itself!( rotting fish mixed with burned sugar or elephant corpse to be exact) Maybe this flower was the very thing that defined the term “looks can be deceiving”; even though this monstrous plant can easily weigh a good 170 pounds fully mature. It stalk is nearly 10” in diameter and was first discovered in the Sumatran jungle in 1878. What gives this plant its foul aroma is sulfur based compounds within the plant that heat up to attract beetle pollinators.  

By far the nastiest “worst smell” response that I have received had to do with a cyst. It was described as “an infected and inflamed cyst on my buttocks the size of an eyeball. All I know is that I had this thing in an areas that’s already known for not having the rosiest smell, rapidly filling up with dead white blood cells and stagnant blood” How gross!  As some of us may already know, a cyst is an infected hair follicle that swells up with puss and blood. They went on with the description; “Besides being horribly painful, this thing drains said bloody pus all the time, so I’m basically having my first period as a twenty-year-old male. And I’m supposed to keep this thing clean, which means I get to smell my own horrible decaying, diseased fluids all the damn time. Putrid, sickly sweet in its own horrible way, extract of body odor, 100% pure stank concentrate is what I’m getting at here.”- Insomniacman 

Please excuse me for the odd subject topic; I agree, it is a little far off from my norm. Sometimes the need to give into my overactive thoughts and imagination becomes a bit overwhelming. But atleast now when you smell something really horrible, you can no longer say to yourself “That just has to be the worst smell in the world”; well atleast not until you have smelled Ms. Titan Arum—Ewwwww.

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