That cabbage smell

fryup

Going for walks in the countryside i sometimes get a "boiled cabbage odour" it lingers for a certain time and then you walk on and its gone

the reason i ask is because at this time of year spring/summer the same cabbagey type smell occurs in one room in our house...its not noticeable in any other room...we've changed the carpets repainted it checked for dead rodents in the attic..but the smell keeps returning

the smell is most noticable in the morning and some days theres no smell at all

is there something in the environment causing this?? cause in wintertime theres no odour

Desmo

Privet? It is widely used in hedges and has a pungent kind of cabbagey smelll when it flowers. It usually flowers later than now.

fryup

that smell has returned, does anyone have any idea what it is??

(its not privets)

Desmo

The simplest explanation is still something flowering in your garden. Some plants that have quite weak smells close up can make rooms or hallways really smell if there is enough of the plant in your garden. I have had this from Privet (green hedge with very insignificant looking flowers), Geranium palmatum (1 metre tall plant with bright pink flowers) that make my doorway/porch smell like something had weed there and a shrub that we got rid of that whose name I never new that stank when you smelled it closely and which made our front room smell odd. The privet and Geranium are not in flower yet so it is not them alright. Check your shrubs and smell some of them close up.

Thargor

Any ragworth around? I find ragworth this time of year can have a horrible rotten meat/cabbage/urine smell from it.

Ulmus

Rapeseed? Yellow flowers have a cabbage-smell.

fryup

Desmo wrote: »

Check your shrubs and smell some of them close up.

this is the thing, i've put my nose to all of the flowers and plants but none of them give that odour

it must be something in the environment or soil, that triggers this foul odour..a sudden change in temperature maybe

jmkennedyie

fryup wrote: »

this is the thing, i've put my nose to all of the flowers and plants but none of them give that odour

it must be something in the environment or soil, that triggers this foul odour..a sudden change in temperature maybe

Fox have a pungent smell. I don't associate it with cabbage, but something to consider..