Similar weed with white flowers....

[Bbbananas]

But is very smelly.
Truly! When you touch it, or try to pull it up, it has a horrid very hard-to-describe smell, really gets up your nose.

It is like the bindweed that ric describes, in that it has white flowers and is similar-ish to ivy, but is a more upright weed rather than a long trailing one.

Anyone?

[McMouse]

It's shagwort

[Ric.ror]

Are you kidding McMouse?

[rowanwitch]

more detail please.. can't think of a white wild plant that has a bad smell when you pull it up.

[LoftyLottie]

Marijuana!!

[Ric.ror]

Has Marijuana got flowers?
Does it smell like cats?

[rowanwitch]

does it have small clusters flowers or larger single ones

[follyfancier]

is it stinking nanny

[Bbbananas]

It's definitely not marijuana - I wound't complain about having that in my garden.

Stinking nanny? Could be.

single flowers, though rather large. Creamy white with a yellow stamen. Ivy-like flowers but upright rather than trailing. The smell is not disgusting, but strange - like a really cheap horrid perfume that makes your nose itch.

[LoftyLottie]

For Ric.ror

http://medicalmarijua...Wizard_Marijuana.html

[woofgang]

Houttuynia? smell like cheap orange perfume..not strictly a weed but spreads and is hard to get rid of
http://en.wikipedia.o...outtuynia_cordata.jpg

[Ric.ror]

Sorry the one I thinking of is a tree with clusters of small White flowers
It smells just like cats wee

[LoftyLottie]

Valerian smells like Dog Poo.

The other shrub that stinks of tom cat pee is Ribes (flowering current)

[rowanwitch]

houttynia would be a good suspect I agree you tend not to find the green leafed one much since chameleon came along but it was very vigorous and could be mistaken for a weed

[Bbbananas]

woofgang & Rowan - that's the culprit indeedy - Houttynia. Looks nice, but the smell is horrid.

So it's not a weed?