What can you smell in a Tudor house?

Answer 1

Today nothing, but in its prime you would smell a number of things. The streets outside were full of garbage and animal feces so that would come in from the street especially on a hot day. The smell of cooking since open fireplaces were used for meats along with the smoke of the fires. The tallow candles also smelled and created an oily smoke through out the house. The bedpans and other smells from the feces and urine of the people living there would also be present. Since a bath was a rare thing unwashed bodies and unwashed clothing would also leave a scent. Animals were also around in the streets and there may be a stall near for the horse you would own. Many businesses were mixed with residental areas would give off smells of all sorts. Life was dirty smelly in Tudor times.