As Napier said, never smelled a rotten egg but I’ve had the displeasure of frequenting a few houses with a sulfur problem at the water source. Pretty much ruins a place. Never been anyone who failed to mention that it smelled like rotten eggs, either…
It’s stuff like this that gives me the will to live.
Smells like sulphur, which is stinky, but at the same time an interesting and not unpleasant smell; that is if you know what the source is.
However, rotten egg is sulfur + some untold evil.
Hey- it was late on a Friday night- you expect Shakespeare? 
(Plus, to be honest, I have no idea what a skunk smells like).
QFT
OTOH, gas does smell exactly like some kind of lubricant they use in escalators. One time they were repairing escalators in my building, and I was running around asking everyone if they thought there was a gas leak.
Do rotten eggs smell like hard-boiled eggs?
(Maybe a stupid question, but I’m curious.)
You have been blessed. Skunk is so bad that if one is roadkill, the smell still permeates your car by just driving past it.
As a kid, my dad asked me to dispose of duck eggs one of the Muscovies had laid earlier in the summer. They were infertile (no males) and had been incubated by her all summer.
Picking them up, one dropped and exploded with enough force to drive a fragment of shell into my calf! One of the worst smells I’ve ever experienced.
Yes, while cleaning my grandfather’s house after he moved into a nursing home. We discovered two old eggs hidden during Easters past. We broke them open on the back porch and found that one was neatly fossilized; the other was…not. It had an absolutely foul and revolting stench.
Honestly, the sulphur smell that people describe as smelling like rotten eggs smells more like egg farts to me.
A friend of mine had a hard-boiled egg stuck deep in the air vent of his car’s dash.
Don’t ask.
I still think skunk smells better than hard-boiled eggs. 
Now I’m kind of curious as to what rotten eggs actually smell like. I wonder if it’s similar to the “Century Egg” dish, which I’ve also never smelled but is described as smelling like farts and pee.
My mother raised chickens.
Sometimes we didn’t find the eggs in time.
As I remember it, rotten eggs basically smell like something that’s died and been left out. Not comparable to any edible substance I want to know about.
Not in my experience; those taste something like slightly salty egg-flavored jello, without much smell to speak of. At least in Taiwan; God knows what they do over in the mainland.
You made me laugh out loud and holler at my husband, “Hey! Guess what this guy said?”
Rotten eggs per se, no.
Hydrosulphuric acid and mercaptanes, hell yeah. You see, the 2nd-year students in the school I attended for Chem Eng (no campus, all classes and labs took place in two buildings just across a yard from each other) spent the second half of the year performing time and again an H[sub]2[/sub]S-based analytical technique: every year between February and May the whole school smells like a giant just farted. The first time we smelled it, we were told that any of us who graduated would do so being able to ignore that and worse smells: it turned out to be true, as one of my classmates found out when we were in the 5th year. Everybody in an extremely-full bus kept trying to move away from him and he couldn’t figure out why until he realized his benchmate was making something from urea…
I don’t quite get it. His lab partner was making something from urea and he went home smelling like that? Or it’s a euphemism indicating that the guy next to him on the bus peed himself?
This is probably a good approach, but needs to be balanced with the additional bowl-washing that this entails. I really don’t like washing up things involving raw egg, so to minimise that is also vital!
His lab neighbor was making something from urea, so both the actual “cook” and the eight people whose benches neighbored his went home smelling like they’d drenched themselves in pee. Thing is, after five hours in the cloud of stench, the guy in the bus had completely stopped smelling it (as had the rest, several of whom had stories of getting home and being sent to change and wash their clothes toot suit by their flatmates/relatives).
Now that’s funny.
I have smelled rotten eggs from an easter egg that was hidden too well. It is a very powerful smell, the kind that is hard to believe you can’t see it. It smells like mercaptan and sulfur the same way a fifty pound box of poop would smell like a fart. There is an intensity to it that you encounter in very few other smells.