How do you go outside... and not smell like outside?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have never experienced this smell, but I will give OP the benefit of the doubt.

OP, in your case, I would honestly suggest just dabbing a bit of perfume under your nose. This is about how you perceive your own smell--I guarantee you don't smell weird to other people after walking to the mailbox for 5 minutes. To be clear, I am not saying you are imagining this, just that is a quirk of your biology in your sense of smell. So, just mask the smell for yourself and you will be fine.

Read the last 9 pages. Lots of us smell this, not just OP. Our family spends a ton of time outside, I love crisp fresh air and being outdoors all year. I love the scent of rain, snow, the first, grass, dirt (soil, not clay) and a hundred other smells outside. It’s the smell of ozone I don’t like. And when my spouse walks to the mailbox or runs out to the car sometimes, I can smell it. It is a pennies/metallic smell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have never experienced this smell, but I will give OP the benefit of the doubt.

OP, in your case, I would honestly suggest just dabbing a bit of perfume under your nose. This is about how you perceive your own smell--I guarantee you don't smell weird to other people after walking to the mailbox for 5 minutes. To be clear, I am not saying you are imagining this, just that is a quirk of your biology in your sense of smell. So, just mask the smell for yourself and you will be fine.

Read the last 9 pages. Lots of us smell this, not just OP. Our family spends a ton of time outside, I love crisp fresh air and being outdoors all year. I love the scent of rain, snow, the first, grass, dirt (soil, not clay) and a hundred other smells outside. It’s the smell of ozone I don’t like. And when my spouse walks to the mailbox or runs out to the car sometimes, I can smell it. It is a pennies/metallic smell.

Well, you probably just have to accept it. That, or never let your family go outdoors. What do you want us to do/say?

[Anonymous]

I think it smells like sulfur/eggs. Both my dh and I can smell it.

[Anonymous]

It smells like wet dog.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It smells like wet dog.

Someone upthread said the same, but to me, wet dog is a different, sort of muddy and murky smell. I think the outside/ozone small is sharp and metallic like spilled battery acid. Pennies works too.

[Anonymous]

What in the world

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have never experienced this smell, but I will give OP the benefit of the doubt.

OP, in your case, I would honestly suggest just dabbing a bit of perfume under your nose. This is about how you perceive your own smell--I guarantee you don't smell weird to other people after walking to the mailbox for 5 minutes. To be clear, I am not saying you are imagining this, just that is a quirk of your biology in your sense of smell. So, just mask the smell for yourself and you will be fine.

It's not just on ourselves - you can smell it on other people. I know I can.

Sorry, it's not a great fresh smell. It may take closer to 10 minutes, but the smell isn't hard to pick up.

[Anonymous]

I noticed it on me in particular yesterday. After rain, it tends to be stronger. It's from chemical reactions. The smell is both ozone and geosmin. This is science. People who smell this are not crazy.

[Anonymous]

I live in arizona where it's really dry with low humidity and everything I bring outside smells after only a few minutes of being outside. Things like a freshly washed baby bouncer, clean baby blankets, clean change of clothes, the current clothes I have on, everything. It all smells like dirt and sweat without actually getting dirty or sweating. Drives me nuts

[Anonymous]

I’m so glad I don’t smell this!! It sounds like a bummer.

[Anonymous]

Is this a trait like where some people can smell asparagus in urine but others can't?

[Anonymous]

I love the smell of the sun on my skin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this a trait like where some people can smell asparagus in urine but others can't?

I've never been aware of this smell until I moved to Arizona. I've lived in several different states and even out of the country and have never smelt like this til now, so I don't think it's a gene thing.

I think someone was onto it when mentioning Geosmin. It's definitely a musty odor on everything I own, not just my clothes. It rarely rains here but I do have a sprinkler system, maybe that contributes to the geosmin smell.

[Anonymous]

I used to smell it during the summer because of high humidity but I’ve been able to smell it the last couple of years during the winter and I hate it.

[Anonymous]

I can smell it and I love it. That seems to be an unpopular opinion.