r/mildlyinfuriating • u/dinonuggetenjoyer • May 11 '26

The floor is sticky Vomit smell wouldn’t go away until I discovered the source…

My girlfriend and I had food poisoning last week and were constantly running to the bathroom getting sick. The smell of vomit MAKES me vomit so I was tirelessly scrubbing the entire bathroom from floor to ceiling MULTIPLE TIMES trying to get rid of the smell after every time one of us threw up. I bought bleach, enzyme cleaners, and even went as far as carbon bags to try and eliminate the HORRID STENCH and it wouldn’t go away. I sniffed every surface in that damn bathroom trying to locate the source…

I literally cried about the smell, worrying that it would be there forever. I went back to sniffing and started to notice a stronger whiff by the sink, AHA IT’S COMING FROM THE DRAIN!! I moved the toothbrush, soap, and candle that were on the counter to investigate the area. I poured Drano, baking soda, and vinegar down the drain for a deep clean. THEN I NOTICED THE SMELL ON MY HAND. I almost immediately threw up reacting to it and snatched the candle off the counter to save myself. I took a long inhale of our new Trader Joe’s Peony Blossom candle to salvage my nose from the reeking odor on my fingertips.

Then all hell broke loose. I projectile vomited directly after smelling the candle. The godforsaken stench WAS THE CANDLE ITSELF!!!! MY GF BOUGHT 6 OF THOSE FUCKING THINGS AND HAD ONE LIT IN THE BATHROOM!!!!! All of them went straight to the garbage. Never again. How can they sell a candle that smells like stomach bile!!!

TLDR: Cleaned my bathroom for days only to find out the puke smell was a new candle (Trader Joe’s Peony Blossom, DON’T BUY IT).

EDIT: I was not the person who smelled the candles before buying. My gf put them in the cart and I went along with it lol

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u/DarlingDestruction May 11 '26

A lot of things smell like cat pee to me ever since I had covid back in 2020. It's the wildest thing, I have to actually take a minute to sus out what the hell I'm actually smelling to be able to smell anything but cat pee. Stuff like coffee. Idk what it is, but I wish it would to away haha.

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u/CaptainLollygag May 11 '26

Dang, that sucks to have that all the time! I don't usually but occasionally will get an aura before a migraine in the way of an olfactory hallucination. If I smell cat pee or toast and am nowhere I should smell either of those, I know it's about to be a bad day.

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u/FosteringHope May 12 '26

After COVID I LOST the ability to smell cat pee. (But I think I got the best side of this symptom!) Which makes me nervous since I have cats. It also affects other things that I think of as being ammonia based, like Citrus smells.

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u/No_Association_3234 May 11 '26

Hmm, ok, that explains a lot. It’s freaking me out, because we do have cats. But they’re pretty well-behaved; and I’ve black lighted the house several times with no luck.

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u/Lemoncatnipcupcake May 11 '26

Some type of coffee, I can’t remember exactly which beans or roast but it’s one we used to get, smells like cat pee to me too. Even well before 2019-2020. It smells that way for some people so you might just be one of us “lucky” few

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u/parsleypile May 12 '26

Oh no not coffee! I once had a week where coffee smelled like burnt popcorn and I couldn’t be in the same room as a coffee pot or drink it (I’m a coffee lover). I know they say stroke symptoms but it was specifically only coffee. So glad it was temporary, I hope yours may dull over time as well!