Where’s the world’s smelliest place?

Looking for the smelliest places on Earth? A new Japanese website has developed a map to try and track them.

The Nioi-bu—Smell Club—was formed in December and has marked more than 160 smells from across the globe on a Google map at the website Nioibu.com. The site, in Japanese only, includes such smells as “cow dung” from Fujisawa City near Tokyo and “cats with halitosis” from the eastern Japanese city of Kamakura, as well as more pleasant odours like the “scent of verbena soap near a monastery” from Paris and a mix of “incense, grass, dirt and wild dogs” from the Thai city of Ayuthaya.

Kayo Matsubara, a spokeswoman for the site’s operator, told The Associated Press that more than 200 people have joined the site so far.

“All that is missing on the web is a smelling function,” Matsubara told AP. “That’s our next challenge.”

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