Disturbing Smells
By Anna
@LadyDuck (502573)
Italy
September 18, 2015 8:50am CST
I have an acute sense of smells.
There are fragrances that I love and others that I cannot stand.
I dislike the smell of chemical and plastic materials, but even more the smell of bleach.
I am back from my laundry room, I had to use some bleach on the napkins, because there were fruit stains.
Now I continue to feel the smell of the bleach on my hands.
I do not know how many times I have already washed them, but this smell is hard to go.
There is a smell that you particularly dislike?
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29 responses
@Rollo1 (16676)
• Boston, Massachusetts
18 Sep 15
Bleach is a wonderful cleaning tool, but it is overpowering. There is a bugkiller spray for flies I bought, and it's supposed to be completely safe and non-toxic unless it gets into water supplies. It has a perfumed smell which should be pleasant. But for some reason, this just makes me choke and feel sick. I don't even use it even though it's effective because I really hate the smell of it.
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@LadyDuck (502573)
• Italy
21 Sep 15
@crazyhorseladycx We do not have flies, this is a good thing, but there are other bugs, wasps, mosquitoes, bumble bees, they like herbs.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
18 Sep 15
don'tcha wonder who those folks 've test that sorta thingy?? i plant basil by the doors 'long with other herbs to deter flies from comin' in.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
18 Sep 15
Too many to name, but I'll try:
laundry detergent, fabric sheets, most perfumes, after shave, bug spray, Pine Sol, gasoline, motor oil, car exhaust fume, dill pickles, garlic and many many more
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
18 Sep 15
@LadyDuck Plus I can smell things miles away when my husband can't smell them at all
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@GardenGerty (169479)
• United States
18 Sep 15
Certain perfumes and also certain laundry soaps are really bad. For fruit stains have you tried pouring on liquid hydrogen peroxide? I think that works on fruit as well as on blood stains.
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@RasmaSandra (98033)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
18 Sep 15
@LadyDuck a smell I cannot stand is anything that has rotted. I love specific smells like the smell of a library and freshly baked bread. 
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@LadyDuck (502573)
• Italy
18 Sep 15
@RasmaSandra Rotten potatoes are horrible, they really smell bad.
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@TexanTornado (5573)
• United States
21 Sep 15
I also have an issue with the smell of bleach. When I use it in the whites (laundry) is it like it went straight up my nose, and I can't get the smell to go away after. It feels like it will be with me for hours afterwards.
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@TexanTornado (5573)
• United States
21 Sep 15
@LadyDuck I have tried the bleaches with febreeze in them to see if it would help. It does a little, but then it's a matter of having the heavy bleach smell, and a slight fragrance mixed with it.
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@LadyDuck (502573)
• Italy
21 Sep 15
@TexanTornado I also tried what they call here "perfumed bleach", they mask the smell with a fragrance, it only helps a bit.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
18 Sep 15
bless yer heart, most chemical smells make me ill. try some lemon juice on yer hands 'n take a whiff 'f coffee if'n ya can to clear those sinuses 'f such. i use vinegar 'n lemon to get out stains here...with bakin' soda. it aint usually 's quick 's usin' bleach 'd be, but i don't suffer the consequences neither.
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@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
28 Sep 15
there are not too many smells that bother me... apart from obvious ones... but I do not like the smell of strong garlic...cooking or fish.... and like you it takes me ages to get the smell of bleach of my hands... but I sometimes use salt and vinegar to wash my hands and that helps...
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@LadyDuck (502573)
• Italy
28 Sep 15
@sueznewz2 I have this thing, it works for garlic and onions... but not for bleach.
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@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
28 Sep 15
@LadyDuck okay... you can buy a bar of stainless steal, shaped like a bar of soap, and wash your hands with it... and that neutralizes all sorts of odours on your hands like garlic and onion... so it might work on bleach too.... and it does not leave your hands smelling metaliccy either...
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@jstory07 (148734)
• Roseburg, Oregon
18 Sep 15
I do not like the smell of bleach either. It seems to stay around for awhile befor it leaves.
@cahaya1983 (11116)
• Malaysia
21 Sep 15
@sofssu I don't like the smell of lavender either! I really don't understand why they make a lot of air freshener with lavender fragrance. I can't stand it.
@garymarsh6 (24025)
• United Kingdom
24 Sep 15
There are some smells that make you reminisce of past times. Whenever I smell lavender it reminds me of furniture polish my grandmother used to use. It is funny how certain smells can remind you of other things or happier times!
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@TheHorse (238325)
• Walnut Creek, California
19 Oct 15
I have an unusually acute sense of smell as well. Sometimes it causes me problems around humans. They're actually quite stinky. Bleach is OK with me. So is horse poop. Vulgar perfumes and colognes are not. Bed breath in a human is actually my nemesis.
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@crossbones27 (52905)
• Mojave, California
22 Sep 15
Some smells also just linger more than others like chemicals and harmful things. Funny how that works. Maybe it is a survival thing.
@besweet (9831)
• Ireland
20 Sep 15
I can smell the bleach for many hours after using it and I don't like that smell. That's why I use gloves when I am doing the house works. Apart from that, my sense of smell is weak and I think that people around me have a wider variety of smelling sensors.
I find the smell of hair dye very disturbing.
@cahaya1983 (11116)
• Malaysia
21 Sep 15
Too many. I don't like the smell of bleach either, but I hate the smell of petrol more. I don't even like the smell of many types of perfume these days, they're just too strong for me.
@Marilynda1225 (91129)
• United States
20 Sep 15
Yes, bleach is very hard to get rid of once you get it on your hands. There are some perfumes that actually make me sneeze or give me a headache
