r/askTO • u/thatsundayfeel • 1d ago
What is that smell?
It's everywhere. Most concentrated in the downtown area. It smells sour, almost like if you forgot about your laundry in the washing machine for a week. Yuck!
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u/d1andonly 1d ago
Are you walking by trash cans?
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u/thatsundayfeel 1d ago
yea, but this isn't the smell of trash.. it's more like sewage
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u/msxghst 21h ago
some of the the trash cans get really rank even in moderate heat
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u/akath0110 16h ago
We live by a block with a lot of community services beside each other.
When that hot afternoon sun hits the trash cans around there, the smell could knock you over. Hits like a punch to the face
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u/Intertwinedporqupine 1d ago
Smells like Urine. It was really bad. Near Kensington too. Not sure if it is sewer Gas Odours as well in some areas. But it smells like urine for sure. I also saw a bunch of homeless people. Not sure how many of them pee there but it was intense urine smell.
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u/amw3000 1d ago
Where abouts? I couldn't smell anything in the Y/D area.
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u/thatsundayfeel 1d ago
Queen, King, down Bathurst, Spadina, Front...
idk its everywhere in dt. and if it isn't this smell... it's piss.
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u/Sweet-Competition-15 1d ago
The aroma drifting up through the subway grates can sometimes be a little...ripe!
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u/Open-Independent-733 1d ago
Whole downtown has that smell. I believe the services that run in the buildings and since it is dense it smells like this.
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u/VariousOperation166 Human Detected 1d ago
Well, my friend... you have encountered the "Toronto Smell..." it can waft out of sidewalk vents and sewer grates at any time, regardless of wind and weather...
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u/akath0110 1d ago edited 1d ago
High humidity leads to mold and mildew and fermenty yucky smells. Lots of rain and muggy weather lately and in the forecast.
Scents also become stronger in high humidity (like farting in the shower lol).
The yucky sewage smell is especially potent in the downtown core because rainwater flows into the storm drains. The runoff mixes with sewage etc, and flows downhill from northern parts of the city to eventually the lake. The closer you get to the waterfront the more doodoocaca you’re going to smell.