What does coal smell like?

depends when you smell it, if its fresh, then...burnt wood

if its old, it actually has almost no odor at all

coal oil is rarely used for lamps anymore. What maximum folk propose while they say coal oil is kerosene. It smells lots like jet gas. easily, it smells precisely like jet gas when you consider that jet gas is kerosene. It that smell you each each now and then notice as your getting off of an airliner.

Like coal or the inside of a wood stove.

I seem to remember it having an oily fuel smell, kinda dirty as well but not dirt as in earth, just dirty. Definitely not like sulphur. It didn't have that rotten egg smell but rather more of an 'industrial' kind of odour (for want of a better word)

go buy some at the store...or ask your neighbors if they grill with coal and ask if you can smell a piece

find some coal and smell it

Smells like sulphur... burn't matchsticks

to me, it smells like a burnt rock.

nobody actully knows cuz the first person that smelled coal is dead cuz coal can give you black heart disaes.

smokey dirty(like literally dirt...) smell