"What Does Zim Smell Like" part 2 is officially coming soon.. very soon!

personally i’ve always been an advocate for zim smelling like hot glue. like, it’s not necessarily a bad smell, but you gotta admit no human kid smells like this.

I SMELL LIKE ZIM! THE GREATEST SCENT OF ALL!

Zim probably smells like pool chlorine

I've always associated Zim with smelling like rubbing alchohol

i- i think he would smell like paste. he has to cover himself in paste so dib doesn't hit him with water, and he doesn't get rained on so- pretty sure he would just smell like paste.

I imagine he smells like cleaning supplies just cuz of that one episode when he became afraid of germs. But also i think his breath would smell like burnt rubber dont even ask why.

I asked my sibling and they said he would smell like crayons

Since he and his species eat a lot of candy, I think he would smell like something sweet

Despite how much of a clean freak Zim is (him being a clean freak and all), I can’t imagine him smelling like anything pleasant. Given how much time he spends with his inventions and building machines, the only conclusion I can reach to is that he would smell of Oil and Corroded Batteries. On the days he doesn’t work though, he’d probably stink of unscented sanitiser or strong chemicals. He definitely would use more than just soap when he’s cleansing himself of Earth Germs Why did I spend this long writing about how I think Zim would smell like?

he would straight up smell like artificial strawberries

Id say zim smells like, probably like a cheap colone, trying to fit in to the humans with a knockoff perfume.

I think zim would smell like peaches if you didnt open/bite them yet + a rusted penny smell. Zim in the movie would probably smell like a strawberry shortcake

As the weird kid who keeps bugs as pets, I can say with absolute certainty, that Invader Zim smells like bugs - isopods to be exact. Isopods have a very distinct, earthy smell, especially when there's a lot of them in one place and as a bug keeper you know that smell probably very well. It's not unpleasant, just a little weird and it makes you think of bugs instantly. Invader Zim smells like a colony of isopods. Also, I am so glad I am not the only one who pondered about his smell.

the fact that latex and playdoe would also be my response but now that i think about it more in an educated way he would smell like what foil sounds like. i will not elaborate.

I think he smells like bacon Thanks to that darn soap GIR made

Why do I just imagine he'd smell either like a cat, or something that has done nothing but cleaning?

Personally i believe zim smells like cleaning products, theyd be really strong on him given his aversion to germs. But under that, i believe irkens naturally smell like new tennis balls (wet pool shirt is also extremely acceptable)

Zim absolutely has a smell, and so does Dib (not the same smell). For some reason watching the show as a kid I would get these faint smells in my nose that I associated with the characters. It’s not a smell I have a name for, it’s just a Smell. And this didn’t happen with any other shows, either.

You know this specific smell when you walk into a public swimming pool and that chlorine hits your nose and you just know "Ahh, I'm in a swimming pool"? That. That is what he smells like.

probably like sour apple candy, or like a sweet floral scent.

He would smell like glue because he bathes in glue to not get burned by rain.

He'd smell like Glue and Clorox. With using paste on his skin and the endless cleaning he does.

I think he would smell like glue since he's always covered in it

As Zim, Axe body spray.

I imagine him smelling like artificial apple scent, a variation on what your brother said.

Wilting flowers and hairspray just kinda sounds like something Zim would smell like.

I can’t imagine Zim smelling like any natural earthy scent. I feel like he would smell very metallic, but I don’t think he’d smell like a food or plant. He also usually involves scent in his insults so I think he’d be very aware of his own scent and use some sort of perfume or something.

I think Invader Zim smells very faintly of metal mixed with various cleaning supplies (kinda like the kind of perfume that when you enter its radius, it chokes you) but not enough to make you feel uneasy. My reasoning: He’s obsessed with cleanliness and is also down in his underground base, which has a lot of metals in it.

He smells like kiwi. Don't ask why. Ever since I was little i would always see him and see him as a kiwi

He might smell like Fun Dip candy. (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ I believe it's one of Zim's favorites

Gaz: he smell like Ham. Zim: Ham? Zim's not smell like- Gaz: Slaps him with a Ham 🍖

*[Zim Smells Like..Zim]*

While I really like the thought of Zim smelling like strawberry milk, I think him smelling like latex and playdo or feet with melted cheese is probably closer to reality 😂 I personally think he'd smell like an old shirt. You know, those kinds of shirts that have been in your closet for ages, which is why they slightly smell of the wood from your closet and the other laundry in there. You'd wear these kinds of shirts at home to chill and maybe get them dirty or even slightly sweat in them, so that they smell of you now. It's not necessarily a bad scent, it's just the smell of an old, frequently used and worn shirt

I think an Irken would smell like some mix of an electrical fire and cucumber juice. The smell that would come off would probably be so otherworldly and foreign that it could not possibly be described with words and hard to determine and whether or not it's a pleasant smell.

i can tell you all that this was the most interesting 5 minutes I have ever dealt with in my entire life

THE WET POOL SHIRT ONE OMG It would smell like a bit of sweet perfume, chlorine water and wet fabric! Clean, sweet but still weirdly damp and savory. Only thing I could add to that is the light (or not so light) smell of glue and sugar (because I think that zim consuming sweets would influence his overall smell)

I have always thought he smelled minty but now that I watched this I could also agree that he could very possibly smell like cotton candy because of his all sugar diet lol 😂

This is definitely a strange video, but oddly interesting. But I feel like he'd probably smell like that of dust/weird Urthy forest smell with a bit of sweetness to it? Considering the typical Irken diet. Maybe even syrup due to the waffles and such he eats. But I also imagine he's often smell uncomfortably like cleaning products since he is a germophobe.

I Imagine He Smells Like Candy Apples... Cuz' He's Green And All. 💚

I was thinking of this the other day I know what he smells like but it's very particular and ill need to smell things to find out what specifically. Without testing what the smell in my head is, I'm guessing it is: vinyl, wet storebought tofu, a brand new dollarstore sponge that just got wet for the first time, or plastic. Whatever of these it is, there is also a subtle hint of the smell of sweaty but odorless skin that is very clean and add a hint of wet flowerpot soil. All smells mentioned are very mild and unobtrusive but don't really smell like anything we'd be super familiar with (hence it's hard to tell which it is). I think his sweat might smell how i imagine battery acid does, (despite knowing it doesn't actually smell like that): spicy and acidic, like the scent of chili powder mixed with that lemonjuice/extract you buy at the store in a plastic lemon-shaped bottle. (Never ever drink those btw, they are hell).

This video is amazing. I love the little doodles. People are suggesting some good things (paste, latex, oil, ect.) , but personally, I think he smells like green stink bug. I wouldn't describe it as unpleasant, but it's a kinda weird bug-ee, leafy smell. And I mean, he kinda LOOKS like a bug, so I think it fits.

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I think I agree with slime, play-doh, and wet shirt the most. If I were to pick... Glue. The kind you get in school (Edible, even if unadvisable). Not unpleasant, but definitely weird.

He'd smell like a shirt that's been sitting out in the sun for a few hours

I feel like zim, would smell of fun dip because he likes it. He is a germaphobe so I doubt he would smell bad especially sense he tell dib he reeks a lot

Zim smells like the hairspray that makes your hair go stiff.

I think he would smell like mechanical gas or somthing since hes always you know around his creation or somthing

The fact a video like this exist made my day better than it already was

An incredible video! I love the dumb doodle you did of Zim, and you've inspired me to ask other people I know about what they think he smells like! In my opinion, i'm gonna have to agree with the green apple answer. Invader Zim would smell like Green Apple Shampoo. Like the kids version, because the adult version would hurt his big sensitive bug eyes.

I feel like Zim would smell like some sort of chemical (most likely some sort of house hold cleaning item).

I have always AND I MEAN ALWAYS thought that Zim smelt like a sock that has been worn SPECIFICALLY 4 times or hot water, not boiling.... just hot water.

I think it is likely that he would smell fairly strongly, because it has been shown that he has some very alien bodily substances on his skin. I would say he either smells musty, because that would make sense. However I think he could also smell like key lime pie, because ectoplasm smells faintly of limes. My favorite response is strawberry milk. I think he could smell like strawberry milk.

I'm surprised no one thought to say paste, because he showers in it every day so he can be immune to water

sour candy, a glass of water that has been left out a while but hasn't gone completely stagnant, and...maybe a hint of glue.

I feel like he would smell like both Clorox Bleach and the mild scent of sweat, and maybe even some other strange, unidentifiable irken smell that would be reminiscent of the two aforementioned scents

If Zim had a particular specific smell...I think it would have been specified in the series, like Dib's big head !

Never thought about it, but with their high sugar diet honestly something sweet like artificial apple scent slime smell or cotton candy would make sense as a default for Irkens. Though I imagine between experiments and working on machines Zim probably has some chemical and oil smell as well. So I imagine Zim would probably smell like a bowl full of artificially sweetened candy and ice cream splashed with engine oil.

1: thank you for putting this discussion in the world. 2: a container of live feeder crickets hotboxed with cotton candy vape clouds.

You know the smell when an ant dies? Yeah that mixed with the smell of brand new shoes is what I imagine Zim smelling like. Don't know why, I just do.

He would probably smell like Soap, Metal and Sugar

He probably smells like glue and lysol

Me, a 14 years old boy, thinks that Zim smells like desert-like acid smell, with some interesting overtones because he comes from Mars

Zim smells like wet pool shirt. Discussion over, that was the best description

I don’t know why, but I think he would smell like either lemon scented Lysol or soup

I think he smells like toilet water XDDD

Zim either smells like sweaty socks, hello kitty perfume, or a laundry dependant on how he feels that day

Zim smells like cranberry sauce and cider. No one can convince me otherwise.

I agree with the cotton candy one

The fact this video has the same vibe put into it as videos they show in sciences classes is hilarious to me

1:07 having it be oddly satisfying makes the smell, fuzzier, less sharp and clear, i can see zim having a vauge apple scent

Zim can only smell like hospital waiting room or the inside of a fresh packed bag of cheetos

I think he might smell like Vinegar. But not a bad vinegar smell, just mildly strong like freshly opening a bag of Salt-&-Vinegar chips and sniffing directly into the bag.

Going off of the wet pool shirt thing, chlorine seems like an acceptable option. Like public swimming pool smell

Cheese seems like a fairly common theme in the answers. Though I really like the latex and playdoh smell idea. I now consider that his smell.

it says he baths in past so i guess he'd smell like a rubbery glue smell like a fresh monster high doll that was left in the sun

I think he'd smell vaguely of peas

Invader Zim smells like Dib's teen spirit!

Always thought he’d smell like hot glue and artificial grape

probably hand sanitizer being scared of germs in all lol, but maybe a sweeter scented hand sanitizer * just takes bath in hand sanitizer*

As someone with no sense of smell, this entire video had me rolling XD I can't imagine any of these!!! hahahahahaha

Personally I think he smells ever so slightly of mustard, but according to the comics he smells like bologna

I think he smells like artificial sugar, glue, faintly soap, and perhaps depending on the day any food Gir had been making or forced him to eat.

What does Invader Zim smell like? Me: “Burnt electrical outlet, and green apple jolly rancher. Combined.”

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I think he'd smell like strawberry milk shake. AND I THINK HE IS A CUTE TINY THING SO DON'T JUDGE 😂

honestly I never thought about it but now I think he'd smell like a mix between artificial watermellon, lime and welding fumes.

Probably doesn't smell like very much, whatever he smells like. He's a clean freak who cleans himself with chalky soaps. I support the latex play doh smell

The question also is: are we asking about his natural smell, or about what might change it?

(probably because of the colors) I feel like he smells very heavily of artificial watermelon, industrial cleaner and metal.

He smells like paste because he canonically bathes in it every day to protect him from water

Something like chlorine probably I feel. Not particularly a bad smell but something that's overpowering and you immediately think "Hmm oh that must be Zim" when he walks in but like not in a bad way

This is the only thing that has made me laugh all day, thank you. But anyway I can imagine him smelling like chlorine

I think when you smell Zim, you automatically smell your own favorite smell!😳👽

My friend said “hotel rooms and bananas” so I said “a car wash, a doctors offices, bubble gum and play dough.”

In my mind he either smells like 1. new shoes 2.when you first open a bag of Skittles 3.somehow the act of snorting Smarties, no i didn't think that had a smell either. or the fourth option which is just all of these mixed together

LOOK, I know I’m late to the party BUT I think he would smell like a combination of dish soap and That One Specific Clean Laundry Smell I Can’t NameTM

You know, I never thought I'd that, and now that's all I can think of

I think he'd smell like a mixture of cleaning supplies, metal, and just the faintest bit of nachos(because of Gir)

I've always imagined a spicy plant-y smell, like some insects.