llleopard
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Particularly a smell of death?
My husband experiences a smell where nobody else does. It happens around people who are not even necessarily ill, but then pass away within a short space of time. For instance, we got out of the car on the road in front of a friend's house this evening, and he reeled back and asked if I could smell it. Nope. He said it was much stronger inside the house, but in general, not emanating from the person like a natural smell would. He says the smell is always the same, but when it's a child it has a kind of tragic overlay. He smells it with people we know, but has also had it happen with total strangers passing on the street.
My husband used to work as a mortician, so he knows what bodies smell like naturally after death. He says this is very different though . It's not a decomposition smell, more like a 'sweet, sickly heavy smell, sort of like lilies.'
I am wondering if anyone else has this experience, and also, what could the point of it possibly be? It seems like an unpleasant and not useful quirk. It freaks him out slightly for obvious reasons.
My husband experiences a smell where nobody else does. It happens around people who are not even necessarily ill, but then pass away within a short space of time. For instance, we got out of the car on the road in front of a friend's house this evening, and he reeled back and asked if I could smell it. Nope. He said it was much stronger inside the house, but in general, not emanating from the person like a natural smell would. He says the smell is always the same, but when it's a child it has a kind of tragic overlay. He smells it with people we know, but has also had it happen with total strangers passing on the street.
My husband used to work as a mortician, so he knows what bodies smell like naturally after death. He says this is very different though . It's not a decomposition smell, more like a 'sweet, sickly heavy smell, sort of like lilies.'
I am wondering if anyone else has this experience, and also, what could the point of it possibly be? It seems like an unpleasant and not useful quirk. It freaks him out slightly for obvious reasons.