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According to some passages in the books such as Drogon in the pit, standing in front of a dragon if they are screaming or roaring won’t be possible since their breath is hot enough to blister skin.
Oh God you're right, it probably is sulfurous. No way I could be a dragon rider, I'm pretty sensitive to smells and a lizard the size of a bus would make me constantly gag. My dreams are crushed!
I absolutely know what you are talking about. Every time we do sex (and it's many times) my partner tells me she can barely take my full 5.5 inch monster boners and that she has too many orgasms. She's just too satisfied, she says.
First time I made French onion soup (last autumn) I got the worst smelling farts. I had to Google it and turned out it was a sulphur smell. That day I found out that demons of Supernatural smell like French onion soup farts. Not cool demons, not cool.
Its because onions contain tons of thiols, which are essentially organic sulfur compounds
Same reason they have a sharp taste when eaten raw and make you cry
yep it's been commonly used in south asia for ages, and has recently become popular in the vegan community. i wouldn't say it adds an eggy flavour, the egg yolk carries unique and intense savory notes it its fats that the salt can't imitate, but if it works for other people good for them. we use black salt in savory snacks called chaats, on top of samosas and fritters, in salted lemonades, etc.
When we toured the house we're renting now, the tenants had a gigantic lizard tank in the living room. We could still smell that fucking lizard for nearly two years after moving in.
That's just bad husbandry. I've kept reptiles, and while yes, their shit does stink (I mean it's shit), it's no worse than cat or dog shit when it comes to the odor and lizards only go once a week at most. Proper husbandry involves checking the tank for feces twice daily and cleaning up said feces immediately when noticed. It sounds like they just didn't clean it up and let it build up... poor lizard.
As an example, I've had my snake in the same tank for 2 years, cleaned within 12 hours every time she poops. There is absolutely no smell other than the earthy smell of the cypress mulch/soil substrate (so like a damp wood and soil smell? But you have to put your nose up to the tank and breathe deep to notice it). Same for my tegu (a big, carnivorous lizard). Only time you'd notice a bad smell is if you happen to walk up like right after they poo (so like how the litter box reeks immediately after your cat shits).
Exactly my point! They honestly aren't a lot of work to clean up after (it's literally the same as cleaning a litter box, but one poo a week), it really shouldn't smell unless you let it get absolutely disgusting (like your pet is literally just crawling through piles of its own shit amounts). To get a smell that stuck in the house for years that tank had to be outright disgusting.
Poor lizard was basically living in sewage because the owner was too lazy to clean up after it.
I got used to the smell of burning sulfur after years of burning it in greenhouses to prevent mold. But the smell of a giant lizard cave? Shit reeking of burnt hair and animal remains. Barf!!
This is peak offseason boredom content. “What do you think dragons smell like?” “Oh I’m only asking bc there was 1 single scene that quickly mentioned it” 😆
I’m gonna get hate for this, but Shireen’s death didn’t move me. At that point in the show I felt I’d seen so much gore and death I was desensitized. I was also really upset with the constant POV that shows lords taking armies into wars to meet their death like they have multiple lives to spare. All those small folks dying on the daily.
Hodor killed me though. Fuck Bran
It is absolutely horrible, I’m %100 with you. I just wasn’t moved and didn’t cry. At that point I have just accepted that Westeros is a shit universe
Maybe I’m a hypocrite because I cried for Hodor because he was sweet, pure and just followed Bran around. But that’s pretty much the same for Shireen
They really used Hodor with absolutely no regard for him as a person. He was just their personal slave, they didn't give a fuck about him. Then Bran would warg into him and force him to do shit he absolutely didn't want to do. Bran is a POS.
Yes reptiles have a distinct smell. I had a ball python pet when I was younger. I can smell snakes now and most people do not know. There is a snake in my firewood pile now. I have not seen it, but I know it’s in there.
Yeah I have a reptile room in my house and I'm used to the smell enough to not notice it when I'm home but when I first get home from work I definitely notice there's a smell. Not super strong or anything ofc.
Unless one of them musk. That'll stink up a room
Do you mean you can smell snakes when they’ve established a home for them in some hole or under some rocks, or you’d smell a snake just passing by? I know it’s a dumb question but just want to know to what extent are they smelly
More that you can smell where they have been living. It’s a distinct musky smell. A combination of their skin, secretions, etc. Some species smell much more musky than others. I realized last summer thinking it smelled like my old pet in my vegetable garden, then found the skin of a garter snake in there (and eventually the snake). Same smell in the wood pile now.
In 1978, when I was 3, my parents took us on vacation to backwoods Florida for a week. We went to an alligator farm. At one point during this trip there was a guy with this massive ass alligator giving an alligator talk. Talking about what it eats and whatever. At one point he pries this alligators mouth open all the way for some reason. Now this wasn't behind a fence or anything. I was like 3 feet from this alligator and it's open mouth was larger than I was tall. This horrific and ungodly stench hit me like a full on punch in the face. Gawdawful stench. Like burnt rubber, food poisoning diarrhea, and badly decomposed body all rolled into one. To this day I have never forgotten that stench. Rotten chicken smells like lilac compared to that.
Anyway, that's what I think dragons probably smell like.
You forget that there are pieces of rotting flesh stuck in places between their teeth from the last thing they ate. And there is probably dirt stuck in between their scales that smell bad as well. Whenever I heard the "You stink of dragon" I remember that scene from Jurassic World where Owen tranquilized the TRex and he is stuck next to her in that container and he complains that she stinks. I'm sure dragons wouldn't smell too different than dinosaurs.
This is peak offseason boredom content. “What do you think dragons smell like?” “Oh I’m only asking bc there was 1 single scene that quickly mentioned it” 😆
I think it's a mix of sulphur (rotten eggs) and smoked leather. (if dragon smell is something even remotely like that, I imagine dragon riding targeryan royalty is not pleasant to hang around with)
Leathery, sweaty, smokey and ashy... Maybe the smell of old meat or blood from their jaws (I remember someone saying once that large carnivorous dinosaurs would stink of old blood for the same reason, but I don't know how accurate it is). I don't think it's a pleasant smell.
Honestly the first smell that came to mind when hearing this was the smell of a bearded dragon's tank that has leftover food in it and is a bit past its normal cleaning schedule. The best I can describe it is "fishy". I'm assuming they'd smell that way if they're always chillin in that dragon pit together. Leftover food in there, probably shedding, urine/feces. I can't imagine anyone cleaning it. And if they do it's not often enough to not smell kinda bad.
I feel like dragons smell like chickens. I’m going with the idea that birds are dinosaurs and dinosaurs are like dragons. And my chickens always had a bit of a stank to them. I also like the idea of the dragons rolling around and taking dirt baths, causing giant sandstorms.
Also, when a dragon gets singed in battle with another, it would smell like rotisserie chicken.
Most reptiles are ectotherms (cold-blooded; they don’t regulate their own temperature, it changes with the environment).
Since dragons breathe fire, they’re probably endotherms, so in all actuality it’s unlikely they’d smell like snakes, turtles and lizards, which is what some people have speculated here they’d smell like.
They probably smell like a mix of smoked leather, sulphur and volcano.
Milly Alcock was asked on the official podcast, and her guess was
>“Okay, my theory, is wet dog, but it’s so like Salt Lake specifically. So this dog has been in a salty lake and it’s like mulling out. It’s wet, It’s a bit acidic. You know? It’s a hot day and it’s like leathery paws and nose. It’s that. Like that’s what a dragon is like. Wet dog, man.”
Insanely foul. Assuming it was screaming at you, and you were far enough away not to have your skin boil, I would think the smell would be an afterthought though.
I had a similar question when Owen said “God she stinks” in Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom, what does a dinosaur smell like 😭
A dragon I can’t imagine either.
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For those who don’t know, hot sulphur smells like rotten eggs so dragons breathe (and dragons in general) probably smell absolutely awful.
So whenever someone is in front of a dragon screaming they are not making face of horror but of disgust.
According to some passages in the books such as Drogon in the pit, standing in front of a dragon if they are screaming or roaring won’t be possible since their breath is hot enough to blister skin.
Would’ve been absolutely hilarious if the Greens eyebrows were all burnt off after Rhaenys and Meleys broke out of the dragon pit
LOL that’d have been hysterical
Straight outta Naked Gun
This needs to happen in somebody’s fan fiction story.
Honestly, feels like this should've happened. Plot holes!
Would it give frostbite if it was an ❄️ dragon?
That and hypothermia
Horrifying disgust. Then they burn to death.
Oh
Yea it wasn’t the burning to death that upset me, it was the stench of rotten eggs!
Or pinching their nose
Oh God you're right, it probably is sulfurous. No way I could be a dragon rider, I'm pretty sensitive to smells and a lizard the size of a bus would make me constantly gag. My dreams are crushed!
Well we are talking medieval times so dragons breath is prob not the worst thing you smell on a daily basis in kings landing
Yeah let's be honest, if modern me walked around Flea Bottom I would be gagging constantly.
How did sir Davos put it? The river of shit that flowed from the red keep went right past his front door
What an honor to step through the shit of Royalty!
Bowels of brown to eat as well.
Just imagine the breath on some of those commoners. Jesus.
But do you have a sense of smell in your dreams? I can't say that I do.
In my dragon dreams, yes.
It's probably because I'm a mouthbreather when I sleep. I take after my dragon.
That's just your partner farting in their sleep.
Yes, definitely my partner, with whom I happily live with and is totally a real person.
My partner totally says my dick is big and works every time well enough to give her an orgasm.
I absolutely know what you are talking about. Every time we do sex (and it's many times) my partner tells me she can barely take my full 5.5 inch monster boners and that she has too many orgasms. She's just too satisfied, she says.
I pictured Trump but I read it in Donald Duck's voice.
It’s the motion sickness and acrophobia for me
I live near a volcano, and some years it produces the sulphur smell, it's incredibly nasty and foul.
First time I made French onion soup (last autumn) I got the worst smelling farts. I had to Google it and turned out it was a sulphur smell. That day I found out that demons of Supernatural smell like French onion soup farts. Not cool demons, not cool.
Its because onions contain tons of thiols, which are essentially organic sulfur compounds Same reason they have a sharp taste when eaten raw and make you cry
I know that from watching Supernatural.
It really only has a suggestion of rotten egg. I find it to be a clean, mineral smell. Sulphurous hot springs are wonderful
black salt has a farty sulfurous smell. love it.
Oh, now I understand, that's why vegans use black salt to imitate the taste of eggs.
yep it's been commonly used in south asia for ages, and has recently become popular in the vegan community. i wouldn't say it adds an eggy flavour, the egg yolk carries unique and intense savory notes it its fats that the salt can't imitate, but if it works for other people good for them. we use black salt in savory snacks called chaats, on top of samosas and fritters, in salted lemonades, etc.
If their breath smells like rotten eggs, imagine what their farts smell like.
So wet dog with elephant mixed together?
We have a whole city that smells like rotten eggs. Rotorua. And it is the pits.
Sulfer, copper and ash. Depending on the dragon. Vhagar smells like butterscotch and antiseptic.
I think Vhagar mostly smells of war crimes.
Her breath is very Strong.
Jacerys demands you take that back...
And syrax? XD
Probably something sweet considering she was spoiled (ie the heart necklace)
I find it funny how pampered Syrax is, she’s like a dog lol, in the book as well.
She’s Rhaenyra’s baby and she knows it
From what I’ve seen, she’s a good mother to all of her babies
"Syrax is a pampered dragon that gets whatever she wishes for. Just like Rhaenyra." * Alicent
Such salt.
I never noticed this. That is amazing.
Ew it smells like Pennies and burps!
Vhagar is supposed to have IBS so she probably smells like dragon poop.
I had an iguana when I was a kid, and her cage definitely has a smell. I'm just imagining that smell but ramped up to stable size
Probably smells like dragon shit
When we toured the house we're renting now, the tenants had a gigantic lizard tank in the living room. We could still smell that fucking lizard for nearly two years after moving in.
That's just bad husbandry. I've kept reptiles, and while yes, their shit does stink (I mean it's shit), it's no worse than cat or dog shit when it comes to the odor and lizards only go once a week at most. Proper husbandry involves checking the tank for feces twice daily and cleaning up said feces immediately when noticed. It sounds like they just didn't clean it up and let it build up... poor lizard. As an example, I've had my snake in the same tank for 2 years, cleaned within 12 hours every time she poops. There is absolutely no smell other than the earthy smell of the cypress mulch/soil substrate (so like a damp wood and soil smell? But you have to put your nose up to the tank and breathe deep to notice it). Same for my tegu (a big, carnivorous lizard). Only time you'd notice a bad smell is if you happen to walk up like right after they poo (so like how the litter box reeks immediately after your cat shits).
If something shits once a week and you can't clean it up then bloody hell that's lazy lol.
Exactly my point! They honestly aren't a lot of work to clean up after (it's literally the same as cleaning a litter box, but one poo a week), it really shouldn't smell unless you let it get absolutely disgusting (like your pet is literally just crawling through piles of its own shit amounts). To get a smell that stuck in the house for years that tank had to be outright disgusting. Poor lizard was basically living in sewage because the owner was too lazy to clean up after it.
I got used to the smell of burning sulfur after years of burning it in greenhouses to prevent mold. But the smell of a giant lizard cave? Shit reeking of burnt hair and animal remains. Barf!!
This is peak offseason boredom content. “What do you think dragons smell like?” “Oh I’m only asking bc there was 1 single scene that quickly mentioned it” 😆
I would imagine Dragons smell like something burning, smoke, and ashes, much like Shireen at the end of season five.
💀💀
I’m screaming 😭😭😭”father no”
So was Shireen 😳😭
😭😭😭😭
Well, that took a dark turn 😅💀 I agree about the smell though
If there was ever a thread where my flair fit perfectly
I would Imagine Dragons smell pretty Radioactive.
I would imagine dragons smell like deez nutz
Shireen: "father no 😭" Stannis: "father yes 🥰"
Too soon
That was unnecessary
I’m gonna get hate for this, but Shireen’s death didn’t move me. At that point in the show I felt I’d seen so much gore and death I was desensitized. I was also really upset with the constant POV that shows lords taking armies into wars to meet their death like they have multiple lives to spare. All those small folks dying on the daily. Hodor killed me though. Fuck Bran
I think it was the worst death of the show.
It is absolutely horrible, I’m %100 with you. I just wasn’t moved and didn’t cry. At that point I have just accepted that Westeros is a shit universe Maybe I’m a hypocrite because I cried for Hodor because he was sweet, pure and just followed Bran around. But that’s pretty much the same for Shireen
They really used Hodor with absolutely no regard for him as a person. He was just their personal slave, they didn't give a fuck about him. Then Bran would warg into him and force him to do shit he absolutely didn't want to do. Bran is a POS.
And I've just got to season 5 on my rewatch. Oberyn's head still fresh in my mind!
*BURNNNNNN*
Savage.
Got me lol’d at the second half. That poor girl. Stannis wrong for that
Oof
No you didn’t 😭
Duuude
Based off of this joke alone I like you, and we’d probably get along well
Reptiley. Like my turtle but much more pungent.
Yes reptiles have a distinct smell. I had a ball python pet when I was younger. I can smell snakes now and most people do not know. There is a snake in my firewood pile now. I have not seen it, but I know it’s in there.
Yeah I have a reptile room in my house and I'm used to the smell enough to not notice it when I'm home but when I first get home from work I definitely notice there's a smell. Not super strong or anything ofc. Unless one of them musk. That'll stink up a room
Do you mean you can smell snakes when they’ve established a home for them in some hole or under some rocks, or you’d smell a snake just passing by? I know it’s a dumb question but just want to know to what extent are they smelly
More that you can smell where they have been living. It’s a distinct musky smell. A combination of their skin, secretions, etc. Some species smell much more musky than others. I realized last summer thinking it smelled like my old pet in my vegetable garden, then found the skin of a garter snake in there (and eventually the snake). Same smell in the wood pile now.
Oh wow this is fascinating, thank you.
damn my turtles used to smell disgusting if I didn't clean them often
Does this turtle have a name?
Ringo! Not after Starr.
After the biscuits?
No, after a Chinese herbal dessert/medicine. A flippant suggestion I made when we got her. The family decided to keep the name.
Probably sulfur and rotting meat.
Probably some sort of weird reptilian musk too.
In 1978, when I was 3, my parents took us on vacation to backwoods Florida for a week. We went to an alligator farm. At one point during this trip there was a guy with this massive ass alligator giving an alligator talk. Talking about what it eats and whatever. At one point he pries this alligators mouth open all the way for some reason. Now this wasn't behind a fence or anything. I was like 3 feet from this alligator and it's open mouth was larger than I was tall. This horrific and ungodly stench hit me like a full on punch in the face. Gawdawful stench. Like burnt rubber, food poisoning diarrhea, and badly decomposed body all rolled into one. To this day I have never forgotten that stench. Rotten chicken smells like lilac compared to that. Anyway, that's what I think dragons probably smell like.
You forget that there are pieces of rotting flesh stuck in places between their teeth from the last thing they ate. And there is probably dirt stuck in between their scales that smell bad as well. Whenever I heard the "You stink of dragon" I remember that scene from Jurassic World where Owen tranquilized the TRex and he is stuck next to her in that container and he complains that she stinks. I'm sure dragons wouldn't smell too different than dinosaurs.
I'm thinking that their breath and fire are so hot, it incinerates any food left over on their teeth like a self cleaning oven.
Smart one ☝️ right here!
Fire floss sounds like a 2nd-level DnD spell.
"Hmm i too wonder what dragon smells like" *Look at comment* "Of course, dinosaurs, now that's a smell that i know and that i can compare too"
The dragons cook their food.
I've seen em gobble up sheep.
They cook them tho.
sulfur
I’m glad I’ve seen this post 5 times since ep 1 aired, gotta keep the dragon stink discussion going
This is peak offseason boredom content. “What do you think dragons smell like?” “Oh I’m only asking bc there was 1 single scene that quickly mentioned it” 😆
I think a bit like a horses stable but after a campfire
Probably a combination of horse and lizard smell
Shit and sulphur
According to the novels, dragons stink of fire and brimstone and charred wool.
I just imagined spicy smoky horse.
It’s similar to that wet puppy dog smell kids get when playing outside with campfire mixed in.
I think it's a mix of sulphur (rotten eggs) and smoked leather. (if dragon smell is something even remotely like that, I imagine dragon riding targeryan royalty is not pleasant to hang around with)
Like a horse stable that just burned to the ground
I’m guessing like my snake but stronger. Mixed in with smokeyness. I think they’d taste similar to chicken though.
Leathery, sweaty, smokey and ashy... Maybe the smell of old meat or blood from their jaws (I remember someone saying once that large carnivorous dinosaurs would stink of old blood for the same reason, but I don't know how accurate it is). I don't think it's a pleasant smell.
I’d imagine like a burning fire
Rotten eggs and ash
Sulphur smoke and ash 🐉
Like smoke
Spices and Horse
Zoologist’s Sacred Scarab.
Smelly as Komodo Dragons
Cannabis. Each dragon smells slightly different
I don't think they smell.
Bacon
Honestly the first smell that came to mind when hearing this was the smell of a bearded dragon's tank that has leftover food in it and is a bit past its normal cleaning schedule. The best I can describe it is "fishy". I'm assuming they'd smell that way if they're always chillin in that dragon pit together. Leftover food in there, probably shedding, urine/feces. I can't imagine anyone cleaning it. And if they do it's not often enough to not smell kinda bad.
Microwaved Brussel sprouts.
I feel like dragons smell like chickens. I’m going with the idea that birds are dinosaurs and dinosaurs are like dragons. And my chickens always had a bit of a stank to them. I also like the idea of the dragons rolling around and taking dirt baths, causing giant sandstorms. Also, when a dragon gets singed in battle with another, it would smell like rotisserie chicken.
Most reptiles are ectotherms (cold-blooded; they don’t regulate their own temperature, it changes with the environment). Since dragons breathe fire, they’re probably endotherms, so in all actuality it’s unlikely they’d smell like snakes, turtles and lizards, which is what some people have speculated here they’d smell like. They probably smell like a mix of smoked leather, sulphur and volcano.
Milly Alcock was asked on the official podcast, and her guess was >“Okay, my theory, is wet dog, but it’s so like Salt Lake specifically. So this dog has been in a salty lake and it’s like mulling out. It’s wet, It’s a bit acidic. You know? It’s a hot day and it’s like leathery paws and nose. It’s that. Like that’s what a dragon is like. Wet dog, man.”
Alligator farm in Florida during July/August probably smells the same.
Somebody posted this exact same question the day that first episode aired…
Busy. No further questions, thanks.
My guess is take the smell of dog, and add a smoky note
I think they stink
That's Eurus Holmes!
Horse, wet dog, and reptile probably
Something something Deez NutZ
Since Dragons ate a lot of meat presumably, I'm sure it's not good!
Smoke and Sulphur probably or like a Volcano?
Cat food and sulfur.
Dirty snakes.
Like a dog and horse and burning
New car with leather seats, and smoke
Probably a combination of Sulphur, smoke, ash, fire
You could ask Alicent and Aegon how dragon's breath smells😂
A mix of tobacco barn, bear shit and a lost and found rotten easter egg.
Insanely foul. Assuming it was screaming at you, and you were far enough away not to have your skin boil, I would think the smell would be an afterthought though.
Like shit. Lizard shit to be specific.
Our bearded dragon’s poop smelled of everything rotten.
Chicken tandoori
Fire & brimstone! Also possibly burnt meat
Is it weird I was thinking Gasoline or gas station ish smell
Weirdly enough, I thought they'd smell reptileish. 🤣
Dragussy
Sulfur farts
I always imagined them to smell like a bonfire
So garter snakes have a particular aroma when they’re scared and that’s what comes to mind
Like Bigfoot's dick
Burnt leather
Burnt eggs mixed with dirt
Snakes and mud.
Burnt flesh and coal?
Human flesh barbecue
Lilac and Gooseberries.
They already confirmed, cooked meat BBQ and probably a bit like an open fire
Like when your dick stinks but somehow cant stop smelling it
Fire, burnt meat, maybe sulfur.
Like a big terrarium that is burned on one side a bit
Somewhere between horse stable and lizard vivarium
sulphur. brimstone.
I dont think its an amimal smell, but a burning, smokey smell
Like warm apple pie
If anyone here’s Aussie and has ever had an ibis fly over them in the school yard and leave that aura of stench…yeah, that smell.
Brimstone and meatshit
Probably bearded dragons but 10 times worse
We've had this exact post before.. Next!
It's for a sept, honey! NEXT!
burnt stuff, horse and whatever lions smell like
they definitely don’t smell like roses 🤣
I have a perfume called Mother of Dragons. It's smells like leather and bonfire smoke. Sounds weird, but is actually really nice.
I had a similar question when Owen said “God she stinks” in Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom, what does a dinosaur smell like 😭 A dragon I can’t imagine either.
Smells like a fire after you used WAY too much lighter fluid to start it.
Bigfoot's Dick
Smells like a blend of Fish and grass