Another fart story...
When I'm in a bath I like to shut my legs together very tight, let off a juicy fart and roll it up and down the backs of my thighs by altering the angle of my legs. It tickles!!!
(kabukisteve, Fri 14 Mar 2008, 16:01, 6 replies)

Tell me why
why do farts in the bath/shower smell diferent to everyday farts?
( Weetobix, Fri 14 Mar 2008, 16:23, closed)

...
I don't know, I've always wondered that myself!
(kabukisteve, Fri 14 Mar 2008, 16:36, closed)

I wondered this too
and I've come up with two thoughts:

1) having to pass through layers of fabric filters some of the noxious gases out and delays the release of the whole fart, so that it presents itself to your olfactory organ over a longer period. There may also be some sort of gas chromatography going on, separating the fart into its constituent components, and

2) the water in the bath dissolves some of the fart component and removes it from being released into the air. Or possibly a reaction occurs between the fart gases and the soap in the bath. Also, the whole fart volume is released at the same time, without being constrained by fabric, assuming you bathe naked like normal people.

Any comments, fellow scientists?
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 14 Mar 2008, 16:42, closed)

Not #1
#1 can easily be debunked via a trial in which neither fabric nor water is involved. Sorry to "burst your bubble"...okay, bad pun.
(chase, Fri 14 Mar 2008, 17:17, closed)

Apparently its because they don't disperse at all as they pass through the water
Instead remaining as bubbles until they reach the surface and break, generally only a foot away from your nose. You're smelling almost unsullied fart at that point due to the reduced fart-nose bridging distance..

In standard conditions, a fart would dissipate into the atmosphere, mingling with the air, well before it reached your nostrils, thus providing a diluted aroma.

Apparently, anyway, not that I've read about it or nowt.
( LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Fri 14 Mar 2008, 17:33, closed)

Could it also be...
... that you have a shower at the extremes of the day- morning or night- so your digestive tract will have had plenty time to digest more food, changing the composition of the farts?

Try having multiple showers through a day and see whether time has an effect on it!
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Sat 15 Mar 2008, 20:32, closed)