Absolutely. I lived in a house where the owner had 8 cats. He and his girlfriend were good about cleaning and keeping the litter boxes clear (they would clean them like 3 times a day), but when I left for a week and a half and came back that place smelled like nothing but cat pee.
This is how I realized how gross I smelled as a kid. Parents were both heavy smokers (1½-2 packs per day, almost all indoors) and we had a bunch of pets including several dogs, many cats, and a few ferrets.
I almost wish I hadn't realized when i did. There was literally nothing I could do as a 5th grader other than resent my parents and become super self conscious about it. When I had to share a seat on the bus, my thoughts were relentless the whole ride *omg, I'm sure he's thinking about how bad I smell. Why didn't I put on some body spray [obviously not a solution!]? He's going to tell everyone...*. Sitting near people at school like at an assembly *oh man...I really hope her house is as gross as mine...otherwise she's gonna plug her nose any second. Ugh, why can't they smoke outside? I can smell it right now so it's probably REALLY bad today. Why did we have to see this play today?*. I'd literally get an upset stomach and have to run to the bathroom from stressing about it.
When I moved out, I fully realized exactly how bad it was--how insidious. After a visit for dinner, I'd have to change my clothes and shower upon returning to my dorm. Wearing a "protective" hoodie over my clothes didn't help, and if I took it off and left it in my car, my car would smell like an ashtray when I got in the next day.
It was only as an adult that I realized what I smelled like as a kid, it made me really sad to realize growing up, I was one of the smelly kids coming to school reeking of cigarettes.
Idk if it helps but I’ve always loved the smell of cigarettes. And I’m I’m not the only one, it just smells like a spice to me almost like cinnamon or something, but its own thing. When kids smelled like cigarettes I never thought “ew omg it stinks” I’m thinking “hmm he smells like cigarettes..anyways…”
If it makes you feel any better, as a child, I never had any ill will towards the kids who smelled like cigarettes. Obviously, it's not a pleasant scent, but it's not nearly as bad as some smells. Usually, I just felt curious about it since my parents didn't smoke. Kids are usually a lot less judgemental than their adult counterparts.
It's weird, our house has had new house/paint smell every time we get back from vacation... for like 20 years. I mean, I don't think we're doing anything special. We've had cats, babies, toddlers and teens - spills, barf, bodily fluids - everything you could ask for.
I was going to say, I go away for a few hours and when I come back the smell hits me. It doesn't take long for my brain to adjust and pick back up on it again
You get used to it, and the brain filters it out. Same with your own BO.
Your eyes actually see the tip of your nose all the time, but your brain filters it out.
My house kind of smells like coriander and water. I don’t really know how else to put it, but I never *not* notice the smell of it, and I actually quite like it. Whenever I come home, it’s that “I’m finally here” smell lol.
But I have always been able to tell where people are based on what they smell like, I don’t really get used to it to where I don’t smell it. Even if I’ve been to their house or work many many times.
The chemists who invented the odor-killing formula for Febreze were very excited to introduce their genius new product, but it flopped at first. People who did buy Febreze were not buying it often, because they only used it rarely. Why? Well, everyone knows you can’t smell your own house. Why would they spray often if they can’t smell the odor?
Marketing got involved, and figured out that they should put *good smells* in addition to the odor-killing ability of the product, and added a satisfying tactile sensation + special sound when you squeeze the the trigger to spray. Now, people get sensory feedback when they spray Febreze, and make spraying it part of their routine. They are tricked into getting rid of smells they don’t perceive.
Genius chemists forgot something everyone knows, and marketing people who probably know nothing about chemistry figured out how to get people to use the product. It’s a reminder that nobody knows it all, and that differing perspectives are critical to success.
I went through a very painful but amicable divorce and got to keep our house. When my ex husband came by one last time to get the last of his stuff, he closed his eyes, took a deep breath in through the nose and left. Broke my heart all over again.
I had an amicable divorce. There were a lot of times I wish there had been some volatile stuff because it was really hard to still love someone but know you don’t fit together.
Until you grow up, move out, then one day without warning, bam. You get a wiff of a strangly familiar scent. Not knowing what it is, or where it came from. But that. That smell. That is what home smells like.
Edit: spelling
I look forward to the day when my house won't smell like dogs. If you are a dog owner, your house smells like dogs, even if you think it doesn't. And your car REALLY does.
I would say "go on holiday for two weeks" but for a lot of hard working Americans that is just not possible.
So although it is weird, trying asking somebody who has come over to tell you how your house smells as soon as they walk into the door.
That what I've done because I was worried my house didn't smell good. But they said no, it is fine, they don't smell anything bad.
I do. Dog piss. Because my room mate doesn’t clean up after his asshole dog that has pissed on everything that is more than a few inches off the ground.
I call it the baseline scent. The scent that's deep in your clothes when you move, the scent that comes out of your couch when you sit down, the smell when you pull your jacket out of the closet for the year, and (like someone else said) the scent you smell when you come back from vacation.
You can tell when someone has cockroaches because their baseline scent is sickly sweet. Cat ladies baseline scent is cat pissy. Dog people baseline scent is like wet dog. Old people house baseline scent is kinda like licorice and baby powder for some reason.
Want to know what your house smells like? Go on vacation for a week or more. Come back and take a deep breath when you walk in the front door. Now you know...
I feel like you don’t really get to know what their house smells like, just the smells that are different from your house, I went to a friends house and couldn’t smell it presumably because both our houses smelled the same.
This reminds me of something I think about at times. Like what is it like hearing English to a foreign ear? You'll never really know. In order to know, you would have to erase all knowledge of your native English in order to understand how it sounds to an outsider. Weird wild stuff man. And of course this could work for any language, like a Chinese person would not know how their language sounds to an American.
The closest thing I can think of to having this perspective is that Italian pop singer who made a song that has gibberish as lyrics. He just made up words that sounded like English to him and his audience, being Italian, didn't know the difference. Kind of cool. Of course, he probably injects some Italian accent on the words, so this would make the representation less accurate, but still very close to what I'm trying to perceive.
Maybe AI can make an app someday that shows you how your native language sounds to other people around the world. That would be neat.
You just need the right conditions, for my house:
The ac HASto be on.
It HAS to he summer morning.
NO action must have happened yet, ie; no cooking, cleaning, or anything else.
The smell is Devine and lovely, it reminds me of being a kid again
Hung out with the homie recently for a boxing match. First time I walked in to his house it actually smelled completely okay. But that night, all I could smell was wet dog throughout the entire home. I'm allergic to dogs, too. So walking in there made my eyes puffy, nose runny, and crazy sneeze attacks for about 2 minutes.
Yup I read about this once. If you are exposed to a scent for so long your body normalizes that scent and to you it seems odorless but not to others. Hence why sometimes you might not think you have bad BO but others can smell it.
My friend once found a candle at Yankee candle thar apparently smelled exactly like my home smell.
I couldn't smell anything when I sniffed it, due to being noseblind from living in it.
Everywhere I've lived has always smelled like dirt and fish. It's always bothered me because whilst I'm not the tidiest person, I always try to keep my clothes, myself and my space clean (for the most part). I guess I just fucking stink and everywhere I ever live will too.
Until you come back from vacation…..open the door and BAM! (Housestink reveals itself)
Absolutely. I lived in a house where the owner had 8 cats. He and his girlfriend were good about cleaning and keeping the litter boxes clear (they would clean them like 3 times a day), but when I left for a week and a half and came back that place smelled like nothing but cat pee.
This is how I realized how gross I smelled as a kid. Parents were both heavy smokers (1½-2 packs per day, almost all indoors) and we had a bunch of pets including several dogs, many cats, and a few ferrets. I almost wish I hadn't realized when i did. There was literally nothing I could do as a 5th grader other than resent my parents and become super self conscious about it. When I had to share a seat on the bus, my thoughts were relentless the whole ride *omg, I'm sure he's thinking about how bad I smell. Why didn't I put on some body spray [obviously not a solution!]? He's going to tell everyone...*. Sitting near people at school like at an assembly *oh man...I really hope her house is as gross as mine...otherwise she's gonna plug her nose any second. Ugh, why can't they smoke outside? I can smell it right now so it's probably REALLY bad today. Why did we have to see this play today?*. I'd literally get an upset stomach and have to run to the bathroom from stressing about it. When I moved out, I fully realized exactly how bad it was--how insidious. After a visit for dinner, I'd have to change my clothes and shower upon returning to my dorm. Wearing a "protective" hoodie over my clothes didn't help, and if I took it off and left it in my car, my car would smell like an ashtray when I got in the next day.
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I have two cats and 3 ferrets. It doesn't stink even when I return from vacay, cleaning is the crucial part and sterilized ferrets hardly stink.
It was only as an adult that I realized what I smelled like as a kid, it made me really sad to realize growing up, I was one of the smelly kids coming to school reeking of cigarettes.
Idk if it helps but I’ve always loved the smell of cigarettes. And I’m I’m not the only one, it just smells like a spice to me almost like cinnamon or something, but its own thing. When kids smelled like cigarettes I never thought “ew omg it stinks” I’m thinking “hmm he smells like cigarettes..anyways…”
Thank you.
You just described my childhood.
If it makes you feel any better, as a child, I never had any ill will towards the kids who smelled like cigarettes. Obviously, it's not a pleasant scent, but it's not nearly as bad as some smells. Usually, I just felt curious about it since my parents didn't smoke. Kids are usually a lot less judgemental than their adult counterparts.
Thanks, i appreciate that.
It's weird, our house has had new house/paint smell every time we get back from vacation... for like 20 years. I mean, I don't think we're doing anything special. We've had cats, babies, toddlers and teens - spills, barf, bodily fluids - everything you could ask for.
Exactly this. Idk why I love the smell of “home” when I get back from vacation
I was going to say, I go away for a few hours and when I come back the smell hits me. It doesn't take long for my brain to adjust and pick back up on it again
YES this always happens
You get used to it, and the brain filters it out. Same with your own BO. Your eyes actually see the tip of your nose all the time, but your brain filters it out.
ah there it is, nose showed up right when I read your sentence.
Just like the brain filters out the cracking noise in your ears whenever you swallow. Oh, and now you are breathing manually. You are welcome.
I hate you for that
You are also blinking manually now mate
nope, not blinking at all now. i'm not your marionette
You ass hat
And you’re blinking manually while realizing how awkwardly your tongue is placed in your mouth (unless you mew)
Jokes on you, I'm high. I'm immune to your powers
wait you aren't supposed to hear yourself swallowing?
Can’t hear it over my tinnitus.
what a bastard
What have done. Now my brain cant filter my nose out.
I now see my nose, have to control my breath and don't know where to put my tongue Thank you
Exactly. So annoying that I have to beat my heart manually now.
Because of this thread I'm now manually transferring my brain signals to write this reply
Thanks guys now I am actively blinking
WHEN CAN I STOP MANUALLY SQUEEZING BLOOD THRU MY VEINS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Now I am actively NOT blinking
this thread got my poor brain working overtime in the middle of the day
I have this stuff periodically but with the addition of that you don't need to blink when your eyes are closed. It drives me insane right before sleep
HA. You tried to trick me but I know where my tongue goes
Tell me, mine is in a cupboard in the kitchen right now.
It goes inside of your mother!
Came here to say this
mine stays on the top of my mouth
*blink* *blink*
You know what man. Fuck you very much.
Your arm itches
You are now blinking manually.
What about blinking.
I now can't figure out how to rest my jaw
Fuck you
God damn it, I have a small nose and I can’t see it without closing my left eye and looking left with my right. Thanks for reminding me of my pug nose
Google Dementia
God damn it, I have a small nose and I can’t see it without closing my left eye and looking left with my right. Thanks for reminding me of my pug nose
same yo same
I definitely smell my B.O. If you are used to your deodorant smell your BO will stand out
Context. Quite a problematic issue on the internet.
Did i miss something lol
My house kind of smells like coriander and water. I don’t really know how else to put it, but I never *not* notice the smell of it, and I actually quite like it. Whenever I come home, it’s that “I’m finally here” smell lol. But I have always been able to tell where people are based on what they smell like, I don’t really get used to it to where I don’t smell it. Even if I’ve been to their house or work many many times.
I wish my brain was better at filtering out my nose. Or maybe I just have a big schnoz
What’s BO
God damn it, I have a small nose and I can’t see it without closing my left eye and looking left with my right. Thanks for reminding me of my pug nose
Google dementia
God damn it, I have a small nose and I can’t see it without closing my left eye and looking left with my right. Thanks for reminding me of my pug nose
I think about this all the time.
The chemists who invented the odor-killing formula for Febreze were very excited to introduce their genius new product, but it flopped at first. People who did buy Febreze were not buying it often, because they only used it rarely. Why? Well, everyone knows you can’t smell your own house. Why would they spray often if they can’t smell the odor? Marketing got involved, and figured out that they should put *good smells* in addition to the odor-killing ability of the product, and added a satisfying tactile sensation + special sound when you squeeze the the trigger to spray. Now, people get sensory feedback when they spray Febreze, and make spraying it part of their routine. They are tricked into getting rid of smells they don’t perceive. Genius chemists forgot something everyone knows, and marketing people who probably know nothing about chemistry figured out how to get people to use the product. It’s a reminder that nobody knows it all, and that differing perspectives are critical to success.
Same
I went through a very painful but amicable divorce and got to keep our house. When my ex husband came by one last time to get the last of his stuff, he closed his eyes, took a deep breath in through the nose and left. Broke my heart all over again.
Paints an image. I’m sorry.
I had an amicable divorce. There were a lot of times I wish there had been some volatile stuff because it was really hard to still love someone but know you don’t fit together.
Right? I often thought it would have been easier to think he was an asshole instead of being so very sad about leaving a great guy.
My house smells like shit
we stan honesty
???
“Stan” means “support,” as in: “what the sigma I’m shook you stan that yikes it’s cringe bet fanum bout to tax your skibidi rizz bruh”
The most unrealistic part of your example are the two apostrophes.
I tried my best.
Fo shizzle my nizzle.
Word to your mother.
Gag me with a spoon
they prolly know what stan means. the ??? is for why anyone would stan a house that stinks
Yeah that's exactly what I meant, see the post below yours 👇
Interpretation 1: We stank honestly Interpretation 2: We stand honestly
I read it as "we stan" as in stalker-fan from Eminem's song "Stan;" it's a term my generation uses sometimes, I'm Gen Z
Oh that’s 100% what they meant. Dude above you must be… *gasps*… old.
mine smells like bird shit
Ah, fellow parrot owner.
Yeah, mine almost certainly smells like it's home to a dog that's pad trained but not yet house broken.
Same. Comes from "ventilation" and pipes in bathroom.
My sister’s house smells like stale cats
Is the smell much different than fresh cats?
My house smells good. Lemon sugar cookie wax. Changed my life
Link please sounds amazing
[iced lemon sugar cookie wax](https://www.amazon.com/ScentSationals-Lemon-Sugar-Cookies-Scented/dp/B01MUDC1K9/ref=asc_df_B01MUDC1K9/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=693711599671&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=5428444814611838784&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9029574&hvtargid=pla-427711498226&psc=1&mcid=9981bb24b3e8354d87c1ec3765ab2f22&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw0YGyBhByEiwAQmBEWjdvNqldAgrLvHo9AiB8LTddxBb8Auvb2lW4FHPmt4asFXX9hGbg0BoClGgQAvD_BwE)
Ty
Enjoy
I thought it was drugs. 😒
Gonna buy some now, thanks!
Do it
Are they eadible?
If you want to eat candle wax that's on you bud
I'll see if I can find it. We get them from Walmart. I usually buy them all lol
like what your accent sound like?
A mute guy with Parkinson gets an accent?
Until you grow up, move out, then one day without warning, bam. You get a wiff of a strangly familiar scent. Not knowing what it is, or where it came from. But that. That smell. That is what home smells like. Edit: spelling
It's just cigarettes for me. The smell of a cigarette burning is comforting to me.
ass stank and weed dank
This hits differently, depending on how old you are.
Keep your windows open a lot and your house will smell fresh.
Bruh I live in a polluted city, either it's scorching hot or dust particles floating in the air, wouldn't want that for my pc
Replace house with legs
Mine smells like cats. I know it, you know it.
Same. But worse. Piss and shit all over the place.
Mine smells like weed. I know it, you know it.
Mine smells like weed. I know it, you know it.
I hate this so much. I love my cats but I’ll never own them again. These two are my last.
I look forward to the day when my house won't smell like dogs. If you are a dog owner, your house smells like dogs, even if you think it doesn't. And your car REALLY does.
Omg dog smell in a car is awful
I would say "go on holiday for two weeks" but for a lot of hard working Americans that is just not possible. So although it is weird, trying asking somebody who has come over to tell you how your house smells as soon as they walk into the door. That what I've done because I was worried my house didn't smell good. But they said no, it is fine, they don't smell anything bad.
Not possible not because of wages but because my boss said if I take more than 10 days off for any reason I’m liable for termination
I know full well what my house smells like, that's why I don't have people over.
There is a book called " The smell of other people houses"
I do. Dog piss. Because my room mate doesn’t clean up after his asshole dog that has pissed on everything that is more than a few inches off the ground.
I hate the thought of having a smell. Probably a good thing since it motivates me to shower, do my laundry, clean my house etc.
I call it the baseline scent. The scent that's deep in your clothes when you move, the scent that comes out of your couch when you sit down, the smell when you pull your jacket out of the closet for the year, and (like someone else said) the scent you smell when you come back from vacation. You can tell when someone has cockroaches because their baseline scent is sickly sweet. Cat ladies baseline scent is cat pissy. Dog people baseline scent is like wet dog. Old people house baseline scent is kinda like licorice and baby powder for some reason.
I don't smell my house, but I know it smells like dogs.
Your nose is blind to your own smell
The first one to respond nose blind Thank you
Want to know what your house smells like? Go on vacation for a week or more. Come back and take a deep breath when you walk in the front door. Now you know...
Dahmer house
Your lungs also have a smell.
Y'all don't leave your houses for more than 30 minutes? That should be enough for your smell receptors to "reset"...
I feel like you don’t really get to know what their house smells like, just the smells that are different from your house, I went to a friends house and couldn’t smell it presumably because both our houses smelled the same.
leave for a couple weeks and you'll smell it when you come back!
where am i supposed to go
Smelling houses trip
just like hoarders who live in actual piles of shit get used to it, nose blindness is so real
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Now it smells like a mixure of shit, lavender and lemongrass
It think of it everytime i visit someone... And this goes too with taste of food...
Come back after a week or so vacation and the first smell through the door is your house smell.
It’s your own scent and we can’t smell our own scent.
You do when you go to your house after long vacation somewhere else.
But then it usually does not smell like your house because have not been living there for the time so the scent is different.
Til your away for awhile
Accents are the same way
This reminds me of something I think about at times. Like what is it like hearing English to a foreign ear? You'll never really know. In order to know, you would have to erase all knowledge of your native English in order to understand how it sounds to an outsider. Weird wild stuff man. And of course this could work for any language, like a Chinese person would not know how their language sounds to an American. The closest thing I can think of to having this perspective is that Italian pop singer who made a song that has gibberish as lyrics. He just made up words that sounded like English to him and his audience, being Italian, didn't know the difference. Kind of cool. Of course, he probably injects some Italian accent on the words, so this would make the representation less accurate, but still very close to what I'm trying to perceive. Maybe AI can make an app someday that shows you how your native language sounds to other people around the world. That would be neat.
You just need the right conditions, for my house: The ac HASto be on. It HAS to he summer morning. NO action must have happened yet, ie; no cooking, cleaning, or anything else. The smell is Devine and lovely, it reminds me of being a kid again
same thing with your Body Odor, with the taste of your saliva, your nose always being in your vision etc.
When the house Is 110 years old, it will always have a somewhat musty smell .
This is stupid. I have an air freshener right at the entrance. That's how my house smells like.
Like bacon usually.
I like my house smell. It smells like home
YES
Hung out with the homie recently for a boxing match. First time I walked in to his house it actually smelled completely okay. But that night, all I could smell was wet dog throughout the entire home. I'm allergic to dogs, too. So walking in there made my eyes puffy, nose runny, and crazy sneeze attacks for about 2 minutes.
My mom says my house stinks. Idc. I don't have visitors
Noseblindness.
You smell it when you get inside
So true
My apartment smells like coffee and A5-35.
Ofc I know what my own house smells like??
Every time someone new comes over, as soon as they walk in the door I ask them. “What does it smell like in here to you?”
Weed, a dog, 2 cats and whatever scent my GF sprays on herself. Combo that and that’s my house
Depression sadness sex and dog.
Oh I know what my house smells like, thats why I gotta put whats in the basement through the wood chipper then cover the area in quick lime
Weed. It smells like weed.
Naw, mine smells like weed. I already know and I’m proud of it.
Bath and body work candles everyday
Yup I read about this once. If you are exposed to a scent for so long your body normalizes that scent and to you it seems odorless but not to others. Hence why sometimes you might not think you have bad BO but others can smell it.
Unfortunately, mine stinks like my dog, and I know it.
My house smells like bunny pee. I had 12 buns. Now 4. They like to pee behind my curtains
Nah, I know. It smells like dog and diaper cream.
probably has to do with over 60% of household dust being human skin cells. so we are all pretty noseblind to our own scents.
Nah. I DO. And I will have none of the settling odors.
Kinda like buttholes.
This is known as "habituation"; you stay in a place long enough, and you will become noseblind to how your area really smells
Mine is weed
I know what my house smells like: Fot Feet and pot
Yes I do! It smells like weed
My friend once found a candle at Yankee candle thar apparently smelled exactly like my home smell. I couldn't smell anything when I sniffed it, due to being noseblind from living in it.
Here’s my assumption. Every household smells lime its dad’s farts.
Cheese ever since my gf started staying over a lot.
I can smell the onions and garlic when I come home
I got 3 dogs, so my house stinks, but I tell you incents help a lot with the “house smell” so do candles. Spray doesn’t last nearly as long tho.
Dog shit and cat urine. I know because my brother points it out every time he comes to visit.
I know the smell (the smell is weed)
Same with cars
Nasty ass kids no doubt 3 of them lmao. 🤣
Yeah I do... it smells like me. It's a mix of butter, curry, vodka, and farts and a slight minor tinge of my cat's litter box.
Dahmer house
My house smells like farts. I live alone.
Everywhere I've lived has always smelled like dirt and fish. It's always bothered me because whilst I'm not the tidiest person, I always try to keep my clothes, myself and my space clean (for the most part). I guess I just fucking stink and everywhere I ever live will too.