Just wondered if anyone knew what a skunk smelled like. I suppose i should do a search on google or something for a smell description, but i decided to post on here instead.

I've smelled a rat more than once :suspect:

Yes my Aunty lives in Ontario and I visited her 20 years ago. Their car tyre was sprayed by a skunk one evening and it smelled bloody awful.

You could smell it for the full 3 weeks we were visiting... in fact I swear you could still smell it now if you were to re-visit!

i suggest you try it for yourself :)

i imagine its one of them things you can't put into words, film it and show us :) johnny knoxville did it and nearly all the crew threw up.

Originally posted by thestruggle
Just wondered if anyone knew what a skunk smelled like. I suppose i should do a search on google or something for a smell description, but i decided to post on here instead. I smelled skunks quite a few times. Have you ever caught a whiff of foxes or where foxes have been? Skunk smell is very, very musky and smells like fox smell magnified about 50 times

When I was in America about a month ago, I was in a part of the country that had quite a lot of skunks.

Next door had a problem that a skunk had decided to live under their porch and I can say that the smell is pretty bad in the air but fresh sprayed skunk is terrible.

To me the smell was too strong to smell at first but once it dried off a bit, I thought it smelled a lot like burnt rubber.

Wilf

Come round to my house, **** off my ferrets. Apparently their scent glands (When activated - quite unusual) are nearly the same as a skunk. I can believe it, we have to evacuate the area. My mum can vouch for this, they ran over a skunk in West Virginia and got the smell all down the highway. Niiiiice. Ferrets and skunks are very similar anatomically you see, mustelids.

That's a good description, Wilf - certainly matches what I've smelt of them.

The peristence is amazing.

I came across a roadkill skunk in British Columbia and that was dreadful, even though the body was about 2 days old. I almost threw up myself.

Joe

Might help...

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26346&highlight=skunk

Ha ha i was AMAZED the first time i smelt a skunk. I really was nieve and didn't realize they really do smell like very string weed! I kind of like the smell, although it's more toxic and smells more like chemicals.

When i was younger i just though skunk as in the weed, was called skunk because it smelt very strong.. it was an eye opener.

Originally posted by back2basics
Ha ha i was AMAZED the first time i smelt a skunk. I really was nieve and didn't realize they really do smell like very string weed! I kind of like the smell, although it's more toxic and smells more like chemicals.

When i was younger i just though skunk as in the weed, was called skunk because it smelt very strong.. it was an eye opener. Well, it was the other way round with me. I was on edge about telling someone close to me that they smelt like a skunk. I found out it was from that 'weed' and not because they hadn't had a bath for 12 months. It is a warning to others who like the smelly weed, it makes YOU smell like a skunk for real:D

Originally posted by tulip
Well, it was the other way round with me. I was on edge about telling someone close to me that they smelt like a skunk. I found out it was from that 'weed' and not because they hadn't had a bath for 12 months. It is a warning to others who like the smelly weed, it makes YOU smell like a skunk for real:D

You were raised in America tulip or lived for a while?

Wonder if dogs can tell the difference between Skunk and Skunk?

If you want to know what a skunk smells like, here's a useless/useful piece of information for you:

when I used to work for a petrol company, we had one of the (then) new LPG (Liquid Propane Gas) tanks installed for newer vehicles to run duel fuels, so we had to go an an extensive training course, to cut a long story short, because LPG in its natural gaseous form has no smell, the oil companies had to give it a "smell", that smell is tecnically known as "ethyl mercaptan "- skunk spay.
So if you go and stand with someone who is filling up a duel fuel vehicle with LPG, that is the smell of skunk.:thumbsup:
incredible but true.:P

Originally posted by jonluvsnique

incredible but true.

Close but no cigar!:D I'm sure that they could smell very similar.

Ethyl mercaptan (C2H5SH) and butyl seleno-mercaptan (C4H9SeH) could claim to be the worst of the 17,000 smells classified to date. The former is man-made, and the latter is found in skunk spray.

From: Guinness World Records (http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=47178)

Yes, totally disgusting and until then I would not have believed anything could be quite so repugnant. The novelty hit me in the face and I am not in a hurry to repeat the experience.

Originally posted by back2basics
You were raised in America tulip or lived for a while?

Wonder if dogs can tell the difference between Skunk and Skunk? I was raised in Sheffield. I left for the south of England when I was 18 and move here almost 2 years ago.

I bet those sniffer dogs can tell the difference between skunk & skunk