Aromas are a tricky thing.
Good smelling stuff can calm, energize and excite us.
Awful smelling stuff can produce results that range from smirks to gagging all the way up to nausea and even passing out.
In a survival crisis, most of us will experience a lot of the latter and not a whole lot of the former.
Worse, we likely will not have to be right on top of something to smell it – in some cases, we might even be miles away.
That should inform us, though.
If you can smell something chances are someone near that smell might be able to smell you!
In a survival crisis, that can create a lot of potential problems, not the least is that the person who smells you might be desperate or a criminal and may want to do you harm!
To learn three smells you must prepare for before a survival situation, check out the next page.
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You’re in a railyard, and smell fresh drying hay… Get away fast, and get high ground…
When your in my living room and smell warm crap and see my son smiling… run like hell
I thought this was smells to avoid, not smells to avoid making. Stupid and misleading.
When your in a room and smell a noticeable almond smell, get the hell out of dodge, you were about to be poisoned by cyanide
Adam Birch
Why what is it? o_o
Phosgene…. Used as a pesticide in grain shipments. Under certain circumstances it can outgas causing toxic clouds.
Highly effective in ww1.
Why does drying hay smell like?
Kind of in between cut grass and dry hay, slightly sweetish. Hard to describe if you haven’t smelled it. Makes you a bit paranoid if you suddenly smell it at a mall , or elsewhere if you’ve had to work with Phosgene pellets. Some woman had some damp haybales in her truck one day in town…gave me the willies before i figured out where the smell was from.