I have completely the opposite problem. All houses that I fart in end up with their entire contents and structure reeking of my stinking bunghole.

Welcome aboard, Liv2Poop! Great to have you with us.

I also end up smelling like a place I stay in assuming I've been there a while. My farts smell very slightly of it, but it's detactable, plus the usual smell which is quite a bit stronger.

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"Double the flush, double the fun" --The Amazing Anus

Physiologically impossible. Trust me. I'm a doctor.

I think the air's scent particles get stuck to your butt, and get blasted back into the air when you fart.
Poop on!

-Poopgirl

Next time after you return home, but before you fart, take a steamy shower then put on clean clothes. Now let her rip and see what you think. I'm guessing the smell is in your clothes and gets mixed in with the escaping gases.

But if not -- if farts indeed carry traces of odors from where a person has recently been -- then what we have here is a powerful new forensics technique: the fart print.

Sorry, but I think this is bass-ackwards. It's the furniture you sit on--couches, throw pillows, etc.--while farting in your own house or someone else's that absorb the fart odors.

Isn't this simple physics? The air is being forced down and compressed into the fabric. It's left there.

That's my story, and my ass is sticking to it.

Those ideas make good sense to me. Also, with moving a lot, could some of the air in the house travel up your butt? On top of that, might you swallow some of the air there?

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"Double the flush, double the fun" --The Amazing Anus

One way to test this is to take some deep breaths near some mothballs, then go into a coat closet, and let out some BIG farts into the expensive fur coats, and see if people can smell mothballs in there.

I wonder if it could have something to do with sinuses, because you might inhale some bad air in some house, then when you get back to your own house, the molecules of bad air dislodge from your sinuses, causing you to think that you might have farted that smell.

I have no advice for you. I have no idea what to say.

I agree with logjam on this. I think that it's your clothes that absorb the smell. For example, I just went camping over the weekend. When I first got home all my farts smelled like campfire, once I did the Shit, Shave and Shower it was back to my own potent musk.

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CG, that's something I'd love to try, but I have no closet and I think it is completely wrong for a coat to be made of real fur.

And yes, the smells of your environment do stick around you for a while. Go talk with a friend who smokes for a few hours, then smell your shirt later...

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"Double the flush, double the fun" --The Amazing Anus

I've experienced the same thing. I think that it's a combination of what Logjam wrote, plus the fact that most people, whether we admit it or not, hold in our farts when we're in someone else's house. So by the time you get out of there, you're blasting away, so you notice the farts more. Also, the smell from their house is stuck in your nasal passages, and that's the first smell you notice when your "ass bouquet" hits the shnozz. That's the way this reporter sees it.

Insightful posts! I'm just glad to see I'm not the only one who has encountered this anomaly. I was watching Myth Busters the other night and they were doing some tests with farts. I think it was Jamie who said part of the air in farts is simply outside air that made it into your digestive tract without being burped out. If its not burped out, there is really only one other option left. That could be part of it as Double Flush points out. But I also think it may have to do with Logjams idea of your locations scent getting onto your closes. When a nice pootie passes through your clothing it takes some of that scent with it. I wonder if this can be tested. Maybe sit in a dirty bar or something for an evening than shoot air freshener thru your pants when you get home and see what it smells like.

I think the Poopreporters have figured it out. L2P, you're sitting down in the house and then the small smellable particles are blown off your pants when you fart.

I had this once in High School. Some kid squirted the seat of my pants with Lemon Pledge, and then my farts smelled vaguely lemony (Lemonny Sniffit) for the rest of the day.

This is ABSURD! How the hell could anyone come up with such nonsense? Stay off drugs!!

"Lemonny Sniffit" HAW! That one really got me going!

You all have some great minds. Is there someone willing to test our various theories?

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"Double the flush, double the fun" --The Amazing Anus

Where do you hang our when you visit your dad? In his workspace? Curious.

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The condition described is better known as analepathy or "anal gramming" I use it often when courting, I simply take a new beamer for a test drive, Store the scent in my sphincter, and release it while wooing my newest sweetie while driving in my 1973 gremlin,, it works every time, I swear it_____
owlbeback

Heh heh. So the smell from the BMW goes inside you, and later you can have a BMW fart. Genius! I must try this technique next time I want to impress a lady with rich tastes yet appreciates the humor of a perfectly timed fart.

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"Double the flush, double the fun" --The Amazing Anus

I've had two main categories of farts over the years: 1)those that have a rank odor, whether they be stronger or lighter, and 2) those that don't seem to have any odor.

I've never had a fart that smelled like furniture or cloth or clothes or anything else. And I'm having trouble with the concept that, unless some object has been sprayed with Febreze or Lemon Pledge, that it would have enough of an odor to affect clothes that touched it.

My sofas have no odor at all. Ditto my chairs.
I think you'd have to sit on very unclean furniture to come away with any odor at all. I guess that's possible.

Wiper. Believing that one's sofa (or house, more generally) has no odor is like believing that one doesn't have an accent. They may not stink, but rest assured that your furniture smells, especially to a blood-hound like Liv2Poop.

My two cents:
Your sense of smell is triggered by certain cells filling their respective sockets in your nostrils. Perhaps after a visit to grandpa's, the cells that represent his moldy old-spice scent are still present in your nose, and when you go to waft your own gassy perfume, a little bit of pops lingers and mingles with it.
Seems logical, as strong scents can often stay with you for a short amount of time.

When I fart, the only smell is my fetid bung - small children cry and paint starts peeling.

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teddy Well i say the smell stays on your pants and when you get home and fart it pushes it out plus whats still in your nose so you smell where you have been.I know some one else said it frist i agree.Even though i have never noticed that before..If you been eating crystals and drinking beer myself included.Its not the enviroment that follows you its the dark stinking cloud you leave..You won't smell a sofa or anything else and who ever's house will smell of shit he he..

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teddy I just wanted to tell everyone that if you think that a person can't suck air in and fart it out on demand well see for yourself.A guy named willthefarter on utube has videos to prove it.I never though this was possible but i know it is cause i have seen it.www.youtube.com Its strange but true check him out it's unreal looking.Surely he farts his bedroom smells...

Possible concept Poopaloopas. I do know that smell is considered the strongest of all our senses to bring about memories (kick ass National Geographic article I read once), any maybe you are onto something.

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Maybe it happens when those people feed you. If you eat their food, your farts smell like the farts that create the odor in their homes. Once you go back to eating your own food, your farts will smell like your house again.

And, DUH. If you see it on YouTube, it MUST be true.

Just give me some peanuts and Olive Oil, and I will produce such nasty farts, that wallpaper and paint will shrivel on contact.

Anyways, your problem sounds very unique. Maybee ML has an answer to this one.
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I find my farts and shit smell like malted milk biscuits when I go and visit one particular family member, that or Lincoln biscuits. They're the only two types of biccie he'll have and I have to say that turds and flatus shouldn't smell like only mildly flavoursome biscuits. Hob Nobs produce a rich heady aroma and a really good spluttering crap shortly after eating them.

I used to work in a recycling plant, and would handle empty milk jugs with rotten milk in them. When I would get home, my farts would smell like rotten milk!

I also used to work at Frito-Lay, and when I would get home, my farts would smell like potatoes!

I am 100% serious, and have always been curious about this.

Maybe you were absorbing it into your pores.

Motherload???

you see,you've inhaled their air and now its your butt air that smells like their home._______
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I am happy to find out that I am not the only one with this problem I am 24 and drink, smoke, eat gross food, but I have apparently had this problem for a while (my mama told me so). My mother also said that my father's poo smells like mothballs too, so effin weird.

I actually have the same problem as Thunderbox. When I fart in someone elses house I just stink up their house instead of mine. I guess my farts are too lethal to take on to imitating the scents of others houses.
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I think it's all psychosomatic myself. If, however, you want to verify this, L2P, I suggest this protocol. During your lunch break, go hang out at the Primate House at your local zoo. When you return to the office, let one rip in one of your co-worker's cubicles. Next, solicit your co-worker's opinion. I'm sure that your co-worker will agree with me that it's all in your head.

If you still doubt this, try your boss' office next. I'm sure that he'll be more than happy to give you all of the time off you need in order to further your research.
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Yo quiero Taco Bell.

I don't know why farts smell like Elizabeth Taylors perfume. It leaves a powder like smell on furniture that seems like only a few notice it. It sticks to clothes, matresses and other things around the house...how awful! Try driving an armored truck with no open windows...the seats....phew!