Has anyone here smelled a durian fruit, If so what was it like?!
Answers: It smells like hell..gangrenous wound, dead mouse, ultra dirty socks, rotten meat rolled into one. I haven't tasted it though but my husband has and he thinks that the taste is divine. I have heard from others that it is an aphrodisiac. I never tried to prove or disprove it because I don't need it.
I have (and yes I tried eating it for a dare). Supposedly it smells like rotting flesh. I haven't smelled that so couldn't make the comparison.
Put it this way it is highly pungent and gets right up your nose.
Aren't they the ones that smell like babies poo.........
if you ever smelled a rotting onion or a potato that's rotted out and oozing... that's what it smells like.
The taste is just as worst. I don't understand who people can say durian has a "sweetnees" to it.
It smelled of a combination of vomit and feet..........I thought I was going to be sick, I can't imagine why anyone would ever even consider eating it!!!
rotten meat..............if you can get past the smell the fruit doesn't taste too bad........not worth the smell though!!
Yes, it smells disgusting. Its quite a distinctive smell and quite unpleasent if you have never smelled it before.
I think some of the responses are a little extreme. Durian does have an unpleasant smell, its a little like rotting garbage or the drains. The fruit itself is delicious, particularly as part of a tropical fruit salad.
Yes, it's like vomit. Even the hotels in Thailand have signs up saying No Durian.
Rotten banana, mango and something else, in Penang taxis won't let anyone carrying one in.
Yes, a Thai friend smuggled some years ago, cause they aren't allowed on the planes either. She managed by clingfilming it, then put it inside a hermetic plastic container, wrapped in more cling film and into another container, cling filmed once again and inside a zip lock bag. Opening the parcel was like peeling an onion, layer after layer,lol. The smell was revolting, and I thought it had gone off, ultil she assured me it wasn't so. I tried as not to offend my friend and it wasn't too bad, but certainly not worth all the trouble.