Why Do Narcissists Smell So Bad? 

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It's probably because they are literally rotten to the core. Decaying flesh smells horrific.

My sister is a narcissist and my children said she smells like the smell of death , I’m so surprised to see this post

The malignant narcissist permeates , evil , even a phone conversation , you feel sick 🤮, your spiritual and physical self is repelled by them

You just answered yet another long pondered question I had about my ex narc husband. He had a bad smell to him. When he was younger it was milder but he was also still chasing me to get me so he worked harder on his hygiene and health, he even went to the gym. We married and things went downhill fast. He stopped going to the gym, put on weight, ate utter garbage foods when not at home and turned into a sloppy kind of a guy. His breath became repulsive, even after he brushed, flossed, cleaned his tongue, used mouthwash. The smell was always there and it came off of him everywhere. Freshly showered he still had the smell. The smell was disgusting to me, a kind of like musty, old, decaying type of a smell, not your usual bad breath smell. I wondered if he had a serious disease and the smell was a symptom. Maybe something like tonsil stones, except he no longer had tonsils. Physicals found nothing, dentists found nothing, he just smelled bad. It got worse as he aged too. He cheated on me (more than once and in numerous ways) plus he was a compulsive liar. I divorced him after we went through several years in marriage counseling and it went nowhere because he didn't participate and amused himself by trying to play and manipulate the psychiatrist. He is now on wife number 3 and I wonder 1) How can she stand that smell?! And 2) How long will she stay with him or is this his final marriage? Thank you for answering another one of my unanswered questions about him. The bad smell issue was huge and now I think it's finally resolved in my head, he was just a rotten human being. Thank you Danish!

Negative emotions open doors to demons. Demons DO smell!

They say real-life demons smell like sulfur, so……

You see the opposite in saintly people, they smell like flowers

The smell does not go away. If they sit on a fabric chair, the smell will continue to be there for years. The smell is so annoying.

Thanks a lot. Another thing explained - I'm not crazy. Thank you.

My ex-husband is a narcissist abuser. The first time he abused me he produced a foul putrid smell and his eyes turned as red as coal. The final time he abused me he produced that same foul putrid smell. When my mother came to speak to him about what he was doing he was producing that scent. When he left the room my mother asked me, “Why is he stinking so bad?” This video was mind blowing and mind opening.

One day, I found a note on my door and remember noting how the hallway smelled like a dead animal before I found the note. The note was from the narcissist.😂

This post is ground breaking (forgive the pun) as this may be the first time anyone has explored the death smell of a narcissist. Halitosis seems to be a common denominator. There is much to explore. Great observation, Danish!

(ALL CAPS AS IAM LEGALLY BLIND) WOW I JUST CAME ACROSS YOUR CHANNEL AND I WAS ABUSED BY MY FATHER'S WIFE FROM BIRTH UNTIL MY EARLY 30'S AND I NEVER MENTIONED IT TO ANYBODY ABOUT HER SMELL BC I THOUGHT IT WOULD SOUND CRAZY, BUT SHE HAD A VERY DISTINCT ODOR & I WENT NO CONTACT MANY YRS AGO & JUST THINKING ABOUT HER I CAN IMMEDIATELY REMEMBER THAT SMELL. THANK YOU. NEW SUBSCRIBER. MUCH LOVE FROM VERMONT STATE U.S

Makes sense. Having a chronically malicious mindset must affect your gut microbiome negatively, which will likely promote the build up of toxins over time, which the body will try to get rid of through the pores if it becomes systemic, hence the persistent odour .

I've noticed this too and it's my opinion in some cases it comes off of their spirit and you need a spiritual nose to smell it

After my ex-husband narc left; I had to throw out his pillows. Stink 😩😩😩

My 10 month old grandson had a very unusual response to my narcissistic brother the first time he met him. A normally very happy and content child, the first time he looked at my brother began crying and was visibly upset, as if being in the presence of a demon.

Demons stink.

Mine hated water, he said it would" hurt" him. He also claimed" the world stinks,not me". He hated deo, good smelling soaps and got angry about me showering. He saw it as an insult!

I think it may have a spiritual aspect because its so strong that everyone should be able to smell it, but that isn't the case.

The last one i had the misfortune of dating was a total shapeshifter and while he didn't smell himself - his home had this toxic death smell to it that was very pungent. i could barely stand it when i walked in. i somehow knew it was evil spirits.

Brushing, mouthwash, mints, chewing gum...I will NEVER forget that breath.

Bad Breath

Danish, both my father and ex husband are narcs and they both smelt. My dad had chronic bad breath when I was a child, I mean you could smell it across a room. Because he was an angry narc no one could tell him his breath stank and he should go to the dentist. Also he had chronic fungal nail infections from sweaty mouldy shoes. And his farts would stink out his whole shop, my mum would spray air freshener all over but it could never mask the death like stench. My ex husband always outwardly prided himself on hygiene, but the truth was he stank from mouldy bath towels. He couldn't smell the dank mouldy smell on them, so he'd have a daily shower, with stinky coal tar soap, then wipe himself all over with the mouldy towel. His pillow and bed area where he slept stank too. And he would go out running and come back smelling like an old ditch. Not sweat but a real dank, damp fetid smell would stink up the house. So yes, your video is kooky maybe, but true!

My former Husband has that exact smell. I'm his primary carer as a volunteer. He's on the mental ward currently. I'd shower him and dress him in clean clothes, and yet he stank. I'd clean all his Flat but it sill had a lingering stench. His Flat (Apartment) was high up two flights of stairs and the smell met you in the hallway, and got stronger as you climbed the stairs. In his Flat it made you feel physically sick. When he got evicted from his Flat, the Landlord had to strip it completely bare, including the carpets because the stench had permeated everything. Wherever he'd been, even for a short while, his death-like stench lingered. People would say; "John's been, hasn't he?" I didn't realize until today it was associated with him being a Narcissist . So finally I have the answer to that awful smell. I thought it was peculiar to John.

There is a very negative energy, too. It's heavy. When I came home from the hospital - yes, he made me that sick! He and his family had been in our home, moving him and my son out, without my knowledge. I came home to empty closets, no son and a 'note' telling me to feel better soon. The energy was horrible. I had to clean the home from top to bottom. My neighbor came over and she had experienced this before with her friend. It's like you have to clear away that energy and then, once it is gone, it just feels so much better! As for smell, it wasn't too bad in the early years, but later on, towards the end of the marriage, it was bad. I could hardly stand it, but fortunately, there was no intimacy, so that was good. His sister's house also smelled, but I chalked that up to her inability to do housework. When my son would come home after being with any of them, he'd be a mess, dirty and smelly. It was awful. Thank you for sharing this. I never even considered it. And, no, they weren't really dirty people, but it was just something, it came out of the pores.

I met some of them with really bad breath. It is decayed and awful even if they are handsome .

My dad stank physically and spiritually. Even my mum who was his main victim told him he stank. I didnt even attempt to bring friends home from school.

This is true. My narcissistic mother had an unpleasant odor.

I know exactly what you're talking about. My demonic birth giver has the worst breath, like all my life it's been very stank. Recently, she was asked why she flipped out and got violent on a relative at a doctor appointment for the demon's mother. You'd think if you're at the doctor with your mom for a very serious medical condition, you'd be full of worry and concern. No, demon says she was full of rage and just wanted to fight. She has said that many times over my life, especially at times when a mother should be full of joy, or concerned, or empathetic. No, that loon is always in rage mode.

i thought this sounded crazy at first but yeah my parents do both have horrible smells that never go away.

Thank you for posting this, it needs to be discussed. God knows the narc loves to call other people dirty laundry. Its only fair ❤

I have met many narcissist and worse over my lifetime and never noticed a smell but what I have noticed is most of the ones I knew have got cancer in their 40’s/50’s. So I agree their constant negativity rots them from the inside.

Danish, now I understand why my narcissistic husband has this foul smell about him! Wow! You have got it 100% correct. When my narc stands up he leaves a smell that is so bad like rotting flesh. I can't describe it. I keep a bottle of linen mist next to me because the.smell is so bad that I want to get sick. Now it makes sense.. Thank you. He ticks every block that you have discussed a narcissist to be. You have no idea just how much your talks have helped me. Thank you for that. You are giving me the strength that I need to make my next moves with the objective of leaving him for good to emigrate to the UK to be close to my daughter. 👌

Yes. He smelled like death and it permeated everything around him. He wanted to touch me and I would be nauseous and couldn’t stand it. It wasn’t like that at first.

My brother is a narcissist and after watching this video i realize why his odor offends me. I just cannot stand it. He claims he cannot smell anything but he stinks to me. It is disgusting...he is repulsive

I've heard others speak about this smell, but I always had allergies and a stopped up nose. However, after I cut out dairy, I started smelling rotting food, and shit everywhere!!!!!! The narc is a slob and I can't clean fast enough before the whole house is trashed again!!!!!

my ex wife was narcissist and her clothes and her towel had an awful smell, like rotten onions. Even after washing.

Ty Danish ❤As a child I always winced at my mothers touch, but longed for my father’s hug. I thought I was a terrible person to imagine she wasn’t clean somehow, and wanted to wash whatever she touched on my body. But those feelings continued up until the reverse discard in middle age. She really wasn’t a clean person. About the odor, It was more than being kind of unclean, she was unwholesome and cruel. I wish I could have helped, but she always hated me. I had a bad reaction to her. It’s the way it was. For instance, I had my hair done for my wedding, and she ran her fingers through the style before the wedding took place. (To try and destroy what the stylist had done, yet on the pretense of just making a loving gesture of running her hands through her daughter’s hair) It made me so sick I had to fight every ounce in my body not to go rewash my hair before the wedding just to get the feeling of her hand off of me. So I know I was just kind of flipped out and allergic to her in particular :/

I agree. And my Nmom also was so concerned about her appearance, that she didn't wash her clothes or send them to the dry cleaner unless there was an obvious stain. She was under the delusion that if she hung her dirty clothes back up in the closet, and they didn't appear in the rotation for weeks or months (she had so many clothes) that they would magically be clean again. It was absolutely disgusting. And of course she doused herself and her clothes with some ridiculously powerful perfume that didn't get rid of the underlying horrific smell, it just meant there were two horrible smells for the price of one. Lastly, because I think she is actually a psychopath, her own sense of smell is significantly impaired- she literally doesn't think her own shit stinks.

I almost drop my phone when I saw this title, my ex had this wet dog smell and it was disgusting and it made me feel like I wanted to throw up you are on point!!!!

Death breath.

Trimethylaminuria is a disorder in which the body is unable to break down trimethylamine, a chemical compound that has a pungent odor. Trimethylamine has been described as smelling like rotten or decaying fish. I have this condition and I am not a narc, I shower 2 -3 times a day, yet some people can smell it more.

Danish, you are so right yet again! Thank you for bringing this scary narcissistic fact up. I thought it was only my ex narcissist that had this horrid breath until now. My ex-narcissist developed the absolutely worst possible breath I’ve ever smelled, after I was trapped by marriage, to him. His breath literally smelled like something had crawled up inside of him and died. I am NOT exaggerating in the least bit! His breath would go from the putrid smell of rotting flesh to the same exact smell as that of a living pig sty. He never could smell his own horrid breath. I finally told him, very gently, that he had bad breath for a while now and needed to figure out what was causing it. He asked how bad it was and, being a very honest person, I told him as bad as the smell of a dead and decaying animal. It was absolutely unbearable and intolerable. Well after divorcing the parasite I was watching a documentary on evil and demonic entities when I just froze upon hearing that the sign a human has a demonic entity inside them is their breath becomes rancid and intolerable by others but goes absolutely undetectable by the person. And their breath is so rancid that people can smell it without having to be next to the person. Freaked me out so bad know I was even more blessed than I knew I was, that I escaped with my life.

Narcissist Speak lots of lies that cause bad breath

My sister had a death smell for a while. Turns out she had a case of the clap. My narcs didn’t stink too much. My mother had stale coffee and cigarette breath. My step mother would get a really sour smell to her. Not a death smell. More like you find a crumpled damp towel , in the corner, on your bathroom floor, and it smells sour, smell.

The sense of smell is primal and picks up on more than what we consciously register. When someone smells bad to you, they may not even smell bad in general, it's your body subconsciously sensing some kind of threat from that specific person to you specifically. When in doubt it's never a bad choice to just go with your gut. Yeah you may miss out on what might have been a great relationship, but you also may have literally saved your own life.

Trust me you are finally giving me the clarity on this. The odor would not wash out of the sheets even using Tide with Bleach. Even his undershirts he wore under his $300 Armani dress shirts would have this odor I could not get rid of. He would wear tons of deodorant and go through an entire stick in less then a month. Also layers of Tom Ford $500 cologne and still smell at the end of the day. I feel bad airing this on the internet but holly cow for years I knew this was nothing like i had ever smelt on someone. He never would eat onions or certain foods. However, when he drank hard alcohol like his Scotch that cost an arm and leg for that smokey barrel taste and two shots of he really would have a strong odor. The odor filled the bedroom while he slept. He was a very clean person hygiene wise and never made messes for me. He used to mentally torch-er me for more then 8 hrs at a time like an interrogation for nothing. Honestly I lived in hell for 7 years and finally when I escaped it has taken years to unravel the mental abuse. Now i will never remarry and i will never to be honest date. :) I am perfectly fine with this and I love my freedom too much to ever be controlled like that. What I find to be the strangest thing is as I say all this i remember that person in him that he rarely showed me that I loved so much. I hope he never sees this because it is kind of personal what i am saying here. I know who ever he is with now is living under the cloud of abuse and probably wondering about this odor. I forgot to say the pillows had the odor also and had to be thrown away yearly.

Funny you bring this up! Mine always had an odd unnatural smell in her hair/head. I never thought much of it, except that it was a tad unusual, and had never before experienced/noticed it with anyone else.

Sulphuric from their demonic self.

I can't believe this video exists, it's underrated 💛

I always thought it was me when I noticed my mother's smell. I knew it wasn't me when my eight year old nephew complained to me that "Grandma smells bad." As she got older her hygiene suffered, but this makes a lot of sense.

Married for 36 years he had a distinct smell I even asked him several times, why you have this smell. You could also perceive it in his car.

Yes! My husband smelled so bad that I had to air the house out and riding in the car with him was awful😫

Omg! My father in law! He leaves the room and leaves remnants of the smell of death!!!! ☠️

The day he moved out I took the bed the lounge and all pillows sheets and blankets to the tip... Good riddance

My ex started smelling like sewage or something months before I went no contact. It got worse. I bought deodorant pills, changed his soap, mouthwash, even Smart mouth and Therabreath didn't work, changed his toothpaste, washed his clothes, scrubbed his body, NOTHING took it away. His breath was horrendous!! After he was gone, it took about 2 months for his smell to finally leave my home. And I treated my couch in the spot that he Sat and it went away. That spot smelled so horrible. I also had to clean the inside of my washing machine and wash curtains, wash the walls. And I even started exhibiting minor body odor issues which are completely gone ever since he been gone. A lot of things stopped in its tracks once we parted. Thank God he is gone and it's over!!!!

My exnarc husband had a bad smell - thought it was his stinky feet. As the years went on it got worse. I did not want him to get near me towards the end. This is the first time I hadd heard of this. He used to hurt me and say I had bad breath but it was really him. No on else ever told me that.

It's not a constant smell but sometimes it's as though he has vomited and never brushed his teeth. Once I asked him if he threw up today. His face also has another rotting smell. Not always but sometimes. I don't get it. So strange how others smell as well. What in the world.

This has always been a kind of secret by experience for me and now actually glad that I was able to learn from it. That first shock of realization I felt through that smell, taste and feeling of death yet coming from a living human being is on the one hand useful to me as a powerful reminder to stay strong in no contact and boundaries. On the other hand, it keeps triggering my compassionate traits toward them. They are often extremely hygienic and clean, but cannot hide or escape this inexplicable deep inner, rotting, moist, vacuous, chilly smell and feeling they give off. Thank you so much for your excellent video's full of acknowledgement and understanding. And for sharing your wisdom, knowledge, advice, help and support. 👍🙏❤‍🩹

This is not just a ordinary smell. It’s a type of rotten flesh or meat smell . I definitely used to get it off the narcissist when he was in bed . It’s a foul sickly like a rotten corpse. .

💐✋💐 It is God's Punishment to them for being evil which tells us who they really are.

Yep, this is a real thing.

Wow, you have hit the nail on the head with the foul breath! I often wondered why is she not taking care of her breath? We're not together anymore, but you have been a blessing for me in the past also.(2022).. She's been a very attractive lady, I have to admit that! Videos like these have saved me from becoming bewitched. Thanks for your help!!

MY JAW IS ON THE FLOOR AT READING THIS TITLE !!!!! Omggggggg. My ex narc of 15 years always grossed me out because of his smell!!!! Omgggggg

She doesn't care about hygiene.Only the mission of destruction and chaos.

A former manager who should've never been put in a authoritative position always wore this cologne that nauseated me. The fact that he was escorted out by police for stealing and unauthorized company credit card purchases and can never come back on the premises makes up for being wrongfully terminated.

My son-in-law is also alcoholic. He smells of old beer and booze seeping out of his pores! My brother has animals and smells like he lives with them in a barn, he also had very sour sweat smell before. Sad

I have learned and healed so much Danish because of you. I can’t thank you enough.

Omg I had no idea about that duration of cortisol release, i will be meditating quite a bit more as im already high cortisol currently from stress. Yes that smell is unmistakable!

My ex mouth was smelling like hell after a long break I recognized this horrible change

So funny! Just a few hours ago I was hit with this weird memory of how my narc smelled. No body odor, weirdly. But his breath and his excrement smelled exceptionally horrid. My mother is npd/bpd and she too has developed an unusually off-putting smell. So funny that I thought of all of this earlier today and then I find that Danish put out a video....

If théy dont smell themself they house smell bad

My narcissist mum passed away 2 years ago & even after washing some of her belongings, they still smell just like my mum 2 years later. It now makes sense.

My narcissistic ex smelled, and knew he smelled, and it didn't bother him, he also doesn't like bathing, so there's that. I think he liked it in fact, having a pungent smell made him stand out in the crowd, ( made him special?) in his mind. Nope, can't make this stuff up. Ugh.

Mi excelled like diesel exhaust and he refused to shower before bed.

I purchased a home from a elderly narcissist and her body odor stayed in the house for years

Yup I knew it was gonna be a bad day when her breath was off.

Thank you for answering my unspeakable question❤

I'll bet many of the victims of narc abuse end up with these symptoms due to high stress leading to I.B.S. etc.

Holy crap! At last someone who knows about this! The odors, omg, the guy was literally toxic. Bedding had to be thrown away after a while, you could not get the stink out. As time passed it only got worse!

I am hearing this for the first time and it reminded me of a next door narcissist who has a strong pungent body smell. I didn't know that her smell is coming from her hormonal chaos

After 10 years of renting a room to an incontinent covert Narc, I can't get the smell of decaying poop out of my house. I'm going to have to get rid of my furniture and all the clothes he left behind.

The narc I encountered in my life spent a fortune on perfume and showered every day however there was a horrible smell that came from her head it was vile I was to scared in those days to mention anything this video makes perfect sense to me.

In all my life, I have never experienced anything like this fowl odor coming from a narcissist. It was so bad that I couldn't breathe. It's impossible to describe; an evil, horrible odor that I hope never to experience again. Even his clothes closet was filled with this disgusting smell. But strangely, not alway!!! It was creepy and scary and repelling. I thought I must be going crazy but I knew something in that home was very evil !!! One day it was so bad I sat outside, refusing to go back in. Shortly after that, I left for good and never, ever went back. Haven't had that happen since!!!

So true. Makes perfect sense. Their evil nature manifests in different ways.

Neglect of their bodies, which already hold chronic irritation and inflammation, seemed to make Narcspouse's natural body oils into an infectious unguent. A yellowing of pillowcases, armpit stains that are like burnt cooking grease... Because of nicotine use, I thought it was just that... But he suffered repeat abscesses in his gums and skin, his body was a crooked, ill-postured one, which included pilonidal cysts, gum decay, and toe fungus that ripped through rotted socks // Kiddo and i try only to refer to him as Moldemort, now

Well this answers my 20 y o question. The smell permeates everything and you can't wash it out.

Yes you are telling the truth, my Mother and ex- Husband got a rotten egg smell like burning sulfer or dead flesh.

I worked as a carer for elderly people for a few years, i experienced the smell of death a few times, yes its a smell i will never forget and for them death was immenent. Last time i smelled that was in my last relationship. I recognized tge smell and because he was a heavy drinker i just thought his death would be soon. Luckily i got out and hes in another relationship. Very interesting video.

This explains my grandmother's apartment smelling so foul. My sister and I thought she was sick and dying but that wasn't the case. She lived for another 25 years.

This is really interesting; I also found the hygiene/ smell issues got projected onto EVERYONE else. Ours was shaming and embarrassing HIM. 🙄

I dont know if they smell but I do feel extreme irritation when they approach me. I feel the irritation from my chest up till my throat. Its a tingling sensation but not excitement. Its just irritation. Its something like anger but not really anger. Mixture of anger and disgust. And sometimes I see people in public who disgust me because of their looks and/or something I sense about them wirhout knowing them. At those times I dont feel like walking on the same place as they did nor touch i.e. door knobs they touched. I know from myself that I have something like a washing and cleaning compulsive behaviour. Regarding stranger about whom I think they are narcissits or some other kind of demonic creatures, it might be just me thinking bad about them. But ppl I know, about whom I strongly feel that something is wrong with them, - it's always irritation that makes me just avoid them or just not talk to them.

And it’s a smell so distinctive that I will never forget it. His smell always permeated the whole house and it was preceded by a Grand Mal seizure. When he died from seizure complications, I waited 5 years and decided to put his ashes in the dumpster. The day the dumpster was emptied and left the property, I became so ill, totally lack of energy; I couldn’t even speak. Four months later, the local police knocked on my door. Police said they found the box of ashes by the side of the road. I would not even touch them. I told the police to drop in the box I gave him. I threw the ashes away again. I got a Hoovered after he died. Never underestimate this Spiritual W@r.

It is also biblical Isaiah 3:24 Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a sash, a rope; instead of well-dressed hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, branding. I have noticed this death stench also. Good video

Its true I experienced it but its hard to talk of it

I appreciate your boldness in those video. Keep up the good work

I have never noticed this; the narcissists in my life had impeccable hygiene, but they did wear perfume and cologne.

I have experienced this only once, the first time we had sex, it was pungent and repulsive. At the time I vowed never to see him again but he kept visiting. Didn’t smell it again after that. Definitely a red flag.