25 Things You Smell At Every Music Festival

    The definitive ranking, from OK to hideous nightmare.

    Naomi Zeichner
    by Naomi Zeichner

    BuzzFeed Staff

    25. Funnel cake

    24. Baby wipes

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    Carry perfumed-with-sunshine wet and cottony wipes for when you use the port-a-potties — no, they won't have toilet paper — and use them as a shower substitute for your dirt-covered face and body.

    23. Pizza

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    At a big festival, you can eat tacos, teriyaki bowls, burritos, artisinal popsicles, and more. But at the end of a long day, chose the salty and savory melting cheese pie.

    22. Burning blunt

    21. Sunscreen

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    At festivals, this can be used as both skin protectant and surfer musk perfume.

    20. Beer foam

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    Hops, carbonation, and cold satisfaction.

    19. Dewy grass

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    Best in the morning, after the cleanup crew has come through, before the crowds have ruined everything.

    18. Dry shampoo

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    Like chemically treated baby powder in an aerosol can, maybe with fruit.

    17. Water refill stations

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    With their mix of chlorinated pool water and earthy well water smells, these are often suspiciously close to the bathrooms.

    16. Camp stove fuel

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    Smells funky like a Zippo lighter, but makes dinner happen.

    15. Dust

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    Acidic little pieces of dirt that want to live in your nose, mouth, eyes, and tent.

    14. Golf cart exhaust

    13. Armpit sweat

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    It's no big deal, but everybody stinks.

    12. Shoes caked in mud

    11. Damp shorts

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    Yeah, your butt sweats that much.

    10. The inside of your baseball hat

    9. Fog machine

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    A million fast-moving particles of heated "fog juice." Plus, encourages smokers.

    8. Soggy hay

    7. Recycling

    Fermented beverage bottles, fermenting.

    6. Compost

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    Everybody's food and drink scraps, baked by the sun. Reeks of social responsibility.

    5. Cigarette smoke

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    Makes the air in a festival tent smell like a humid ashtray.

    4. A tent

    3. A fart in a tent

    2. Puke in a tent

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    Basically this is nuclear war. Take care to avoid at all costs.

    1. Hot port-a-potty