Reported by: N/A
Time/Date: 8:00 PM 10/26/24
Location: Dock St by the Canal Club
Smell: Burnt sewage, sulfuric and woodsy like satans favorite cologne
Speculations: almost smelled worse than the patrons of canal club

Reported by: No
Time/Date: Mornings daily
Location: North Barton Heights
Smell: Natural gases, rotten eggs, sewage, weed
Speculations: N/A

Reported by: N/A
Time/Date: 8:30 pm 10/28/24
Location: Midlothian
Smell: Rancid doodo fart. Thought I stepped in dog shit but it was all in the air.
Speculations: I smelled this earlier today while working I work/drive in city/east end. Not the normal Richmond city sewer smell.

Reported by: Robbie
Time/Date: Just now (10/28/2024)
Location: My bathroom
Smell: Positively horrid
Speculations: My wife

Reported by: C
Time/Date: 10:30am, 10/28/24
Location: I-64 by Highland Park
Smell: Garbage and dead animal
Speculations: Saw a Reddit post about a sewage smell…maybe that?

Reported by: Johnny Thundershits
Time/Date: October 28, 2024
Location: Northside by Commerce Blvd.
Smell: Soggy diapers and two week old Chinese food.
Speculations: The smell stuck to me like a used condom that finds it's way on your back in the middle of the night, the one you lost midway through sex two weeks ago and now can't reach because it's right between those shoulder blades. Even when you do eventually remove it, the shitty sticky feeling is still there for days.

Reported by: Brad Pepsi
Time/Date: October 23, 2023
Location: In my very own home
Smell: Smells like piss and shit and poop farts. Unable to determine source of the odor, which is coming from literally the air outside. Forced to stick incense into my door frames.
Speculations: Not happy about this poop fart smell.

Reported by: N/A
Time/Date: midday Tuesday, Oct 22
Location: 3rd Floor Pollak near the elevators
Smell: Rancid farts
Speculations: Smells like someone blew up the gender neutral bathroom…

Reported by: M^X
Time/Date: Oct 17th 8pm
Location: Main St by the station
Smell: butt mixed with cigarettes and sex
Speculations: probably the two people having sex across the st by mcdonald’s but the cigarettes idk they didn’t smoke cigarettes most likely meth by how they itched

Reported by: Veronica
Time/Date: 11:30am ish
Location: By Dunkin’ on broad
Smell: Straight gas And sewage
Speculations: This was the same time and place where a man offered to pay me $50 to see my feet

Reported by: t. Fish
Time/Date: Last Dew of Fading Summer's Sigh
Location: Round Yonder River, Hark! The James
Smell: Floating verily crosswise nose does ride that uncomfortable smell. At once a moment the pleasure of Her Perfume then turns rotten to gark the hay ducts with absolute rankarity. This I lay before you, Smeller, to wonder as to why the sweet is only sweeter when the sour flies right by...
Speculations: Every side has another story, every sheet an opposite, every smell another smell equally or more or less in magnitude. Where fore art thou Juliet? My bane blade's sheen years for a new liquid to drip.

Reported by: Nancy
Time/Date: 10:45 am 10/21
Location: At the cross street of Marion Mashore Dr and Pilkington st
Smell: Exactly like when you first light a match
Speculations: N/A

Reported by: saraaaaaaa
Time/Date: today (10/21/24)
Location: broad st by capital smoke
Smell: urine. good ole fashion human piss
Speculations: N/A

Reported by: anita break
Time/Date: october 19 2:30pm
Location: shockoe slip
Smell: smelled like east cary became a marijuana wind tunnel
Speculations: people be smoking

Reported by: N/A
Time/Date: April 8th, 1865
Location: All throughout the city
Smell: a stinging acrid smoke.
Speculations: I tried to run from it but the whole city was one fire and bellowing this miasma that threatened to choke the life out of every poor soul that still called Richmond home. The Confederacy had concluded that if they couldn’t win, nobody would. The Union would march on the ashes of this once great city. I hope in my heart as I lay here, gazing upon a sea of malevolent oranges and blacks that other live on and rebuild.

Reported by: Crosta Pondwater
Time/Date: 4:15AM
Location: Birmingham, UK
Smell: I can smell the overwhelming odour of wasted mash and possum shit all the way across the pond.
Speculations: Clean it up, Richmond. Our Richmond-upon-Thames sits on a river with even less sewage than yours and it’s the 38th biggest city in the world and our pipes are from the Victorian age.

Reported by: saraaaaaaa
Time/Date: today (10/21/2024)
Location: broad st by capital smoke
Smell: urine. good ole fashion human piss
Speculations: N/A

Reported by: N/A
Time/Date: Poop/fart smell/turtlehead
Location: Siné Irish Pub
Smell: I was on the dance floor and someone kept farting or shitting themselves.
Speculations: Stop.

Reported by: Nancy
Time/Date: 10:45 am 10/21
Location: At the cross street of Marion Mashore Dr and Pilkington st
Smell: Exactly like when you first light a match
Speculations: N/A

Reported by: N/A
Time/Date: September 15th? 2pm? It wasnt long ago but I dont exactly remember
Location: Living room of low-income apartment in Sandston
Smell: Strong maple syrup smell, my mom noticed it too
Speculations: A Canadian ghost I don't know

Reported by: Anonymous
Time/Date: 10/13/2024
Location: Outside of the 7/11
Smell: Gasoline and what my pipe smells like after I smoke tar
Speculations: I think that I was smoking heroine outside of the shell gas station

Reported by: N/A
Time/Date: October 20 ~ 5:00 PM
Location: Pump House Drive, approaching the Carilon
Smell: It was like a cinnamon/maple syrup mixed with a campfire
Speculations: No idea, unless I was having a stroke and haven’t realized it yet. Hopefully it was just a downdraft from the sewage treatment plant indicating the beginning of pumpkin spice season.

Reported by: N/A
Time/Date: October 18th 6pm
Location: East end library
Smell: Rancid frazzled trash
Speculations: Probably the sewage librarian there

Reported by: Won’t Arnett
Time/Date: 3pm 10/20/2024
Location: My ex’s apartment in Shockoe
Smell: It smelled like lies and deceit, also cheap clothes from Shein.
Speculations: Yes, I should’ve paid attention to the smell when we first met.

Reported by: N/A
Time/Date: 10/19/24 12:35 PM
Location: Bar solita
Smell: Trash/poop
Speculations: N/A

Reported by: smalls
Time/Date: summer start to finish
Location: carytown kroger entrance
Smell: sewer hot stinky nostalgic rva sewerage
Speculations: N/A

Reported by: Brenham
Time/Date: Last spring
Location: The streets of the fan
Smell: Ripe sewage
Speculations: I would expect the source of the smell to be sewage

Reported by: Griffin
Time/Date: October 20th, 3:53pm
Location: Outside Zorch Pizza
Smell: A mix of raw sewage, freshly baked pizza, and basil. Frankly a weird combination that I wish I could have investigated more, but I was on my lunch break and had to eat my lunch.
Speculations: A zorch employee was picking fresh basil in the window when i walked by, however the raw sewage scent was a mystery. Was it an overflowing toilet? A pile of trash on the side of the street? Was it wafting from the rotting skeleton in the alleyway? Who knows.

Reported by: Stella Fontaine
Time/Date: 10/18/2024 9pm
Location: Starr Hill brewery rooftop in Scott’s Addition
Smell: Wet hot dumpster
Speculations: Me and my friend went to grab a seat on the rooftop overlooking the street when we were hit with the most dank trash ass smell ever. We thought maybe there was just a dumpster below us so we moved seats. When we left we walked past where the smell was and there was no dumpster or nothing. Stanky mystery

Reported by: N/A
Time/Date: October 19 at approx 11am
Location: My room
Smell: Kinda like a fart
Speculations: I woke up around 11am suddenly because of a startling sound similar to flatulence. I was then hit by a wave of a very unpleasant odor. It was shockingly similar in smell to cheetos and salami, which is strange because i had consumed an ungodly amount of cheetos and prosciutto the night prior. I don’t understand whats happening to Richmond. I thought i would be safe from these smells in my own home!!

Reported by: N/A
Time/Date: All day everyday especially in mornings
Location: Outside of richmond jeweler
Smell: sulfur / poop
Speculations: I really don’t know. It is def worse whenever it rains

Reported by: N/A
Time/Date: oct 17
Location: Near Johnson Hall
Smell: stench of trash and gasoline
Speculations: probably cause of that stinky ass building

Reported by: Tanka Jahari
Time/Date: Friday, October 11, around 11pm
Location: Thirsty's, in the men's bathroom
Smell: Initial smell of urine, but also pepperoni pizza mixed with chemically lipstick
Speculations: At first, I was just taking a piss. Then, a twink and a bear walked into the bathroom and went into a single stall. After that it just started smelling like what I'd describe as a chemically lipstick smell mixed with pepperoni pizza. I don't even think Thirsty's serves pizza. And they certainly did not come in with an entire box of pizza. The chemically lipstick smell is what threw me off, though. They were also being eerily silent in there. Didn't hear a single drop of piss, no sounds of pleasure or anything... just the smell.

Reported by: mr. stinky
Time/Date: Oct 17 2024
Location: VCU Commons
Smell: halal munchies, onion, cava also eeffoc
Speculations: Its right behind me isnt it

Reported by: N/A
Time/Date: august - present
Location: VCU campus
Smell: rotten tooth. body odor.
Speculations: i know who it is.

Reported by: N/A
Time/Date: Dusk, october 9th 2024
Location: on the 1000 block of franklin street
Smell: a mixture of something man made and extra terrestrial. earthy, burnt, enough to seemingly singe the nostril hairs
Speculations: this particular smell was so familiar…. and yet so distant that it’s mere existence in the air rattled me to my core. what could it be?

Reported by: N/A
Time/Date: 12:31 pm, October 15th, 2024
Location: The vcu comapss
Smell: I cannot escape the scent of jalapeño Cheetos combined with body odor and axe spray. It’s destroying me!!!
Speculations: Many men were seen eating jalapeños and Cheetos maybe that has something to do with it