Whats that smell

[DisneyDetective]

Ugh...Mousegear always has the WORST smell! It smells like sewage, or old meat, or something gross like that! I pointed it out to my dad, who said that perhaps it was the gear oil that has been used for so many years to run those mechanisms in the ceiling. Makes sense for Mousegear, but it doesn't explain the rest of the area (which I have noticed, too). Must be a large sewer somewhere in that area by that character meet and greet.

I smelt it at Mousegear and around the old Odyssey building.

 

[magicbob]

At wdw and dlr I notice that funk whenever I'm near landscaping and especially if it has recently been watered. I think it's the probably-reclaimed water used for watering.

I also recall this theory being proposed last time the question was raised. I'm pretty sure it's not just the sulfur water. I grew up in Florida and that "rotten egg" smell is not the same as a sewer smell. But it very well could be fertilizer or something else in the water being used on the landscaping in that area.

 

[Conan the Librarian]

Not sure about the "sewer" smell, but, with all the spray that comes off the fountain between CC and MG, I would be willing to bet they have great colonies of mildew and mold growing in and around that area.

But, put me down as a long time visitor that has never smelled it.

 

[Stefecatzz]

I've never noticed a smell in that area. I have noticed a manure smell in the landscape in front of the Japan store.

 

[Tink575]

Anyone noticed the totally obnoxious smell around the middle of Epcot. Especially strong around the Coca Cola Ice Station Cool location. Sewage???? It is horrible. It is around that area but permeates all over the middle of Epcot. I have noticed this for years. In fact, in Mousegear it was so strong the last couple of trips that we had a hard time shopping there. Anyone else noticed this??

Yes! There is a path (from Imagination) into the bldg. with the Fountainview/Starbucks, that lead past bathrooms in a corridor. There is an awful smell of sewage/mold there and it is near Club Cool.