Question

If I fart, how long will the smell linger?

Tom De Backer Top Answerer

This depends on too many factors to give a specific answer: the amount of gas, the fabric of your clothes, air turbulence, the way you are dressed, etc. In jeans for example, the smell can faintly stay with the fabric until you wash it, which according to some can be as much as up to six months. If you are not wearing pants under a skirt or kilt outside on a particularly windy day, the smell will be gone in as little as two to three seconds.