Name a weird smell that you like

[Yeshuasdaughter]

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

I've always loved the chemical-sweet smell of WD-40.

 

[Tom]

When I was young I kept my favorite toy soldiers in shoe boxes. When I would open the box to play with them I would catch a whiff of the pvc plastic smell that had built up in the box. Something like new car smell. I still have them today and many others I've added, and when I open the box still get a little of the scent and it reminds me of many hours happily drinking tea and fighting imaginary battles on the dining room table on weekend nights while all else were asleep.

I had the green army men of course (still do) but these were the nicely painted ones made by Britains in England and Hong Kong.

 

[Suzette]

"Fecal" is a scent note used in perfumes.

But for me, crayons are a lovely, happy smell.

 

[dragonfire42]

Wet paint. And glue (but not the rubber cement stuff). And gasoline. And Sharpies.

I swear I do not deliberately sniff any of these. Nor do I get any sensation besides “that smells nice.”

And I actually dislike the smell of most flowers (real flowers, not just flower-scented stuff). They aren’t too sweet or anything, there’s a different aspect that I can’t describe besides “floral” that I don’t like.

 

[Tom]

Artists conception of our home planet.

 

[Magna]

Dead skunk, kimchi, limburger cheese, valerian root.

They say most people whether they admit it or not like the smell of their own farts.

 

[Hazel_1914]

Aero-kroil.

The wood-and-oils smell of the inside of a clock or cabinet gramophone that's been sitting for a long, long time.

That hot, dusty, metallic-waxy smell of an old tube radio starting up.

The gasoline-and-blueberries smell of a brand-new typewriter platen.

Pipe tobacco being smoked

A very old woolen overcoat from the 1930s-1940s

These are standard-issue nice smells though

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Aero-kroil.

The wood-and-oils smell of the inside of a clock or cabinet gramophone that's been sitting for a long, long time.

That hot, dusty, metallic-waxy smell of an old tube radio starting up.

The gasoline-and-blueberries smell of a brand-new typewriter platen.

Pipe tobacco being smoked

A very old woolen overcoat from the 1930s-1940s

These are standard-issue nice smells though

I think we like the same scents.

 

[Hazel_1914]

I think we like the same scents.

It's not impossible!

To me all those remind me of good things. And it probably has a lot to do with sitting at home right now playing a record & thinking about sneaking a smoke.

 

[clg114]

I love the smell of a good cigar. When I smell one I want one, but the doctors say no.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Pickled herring, my wife will leave the room if I eat it, love the smell.

 

[Thinx]

Polished wood in the sun. Peat smoke. Books and paper often, something comforting and nostalgic about those scents. Just reminded myself of summer holidays years ago in a town of bookshops. Even the castle was an open air bookshop, with wasps sunning themselves on the old paper, and maybe reusing it in their nests? Pay by donation.

And that reminds me of a lovely place in Scotland I used to go on residential weeks at. Think it was old wood and eco cleaning products and woodfires there that created a unique scent.

Pumpkin plants smell nice. Also courgette plants.

 

[Au Naturel]

Horse manure. Reminds me of horses. There is nothing bad about horses.

 

[Skittlebisquit]

Old books. Used blankets, because they smell like people, bears smell like a farm laborer who didnt wash all week times ten, like the strongest b.o. ever. The greyhound bus smell

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Old books. Used blankets, because they smell like people, bears smell like a farm laborer who didnt wash all week times ten, like the strongest b.o. ever. The greyhound bus smell

I love the greyhound bus smell! It's like this artificial cherry, dusty furniture, people smell mixed with axle grease.

 

[Progster]

The smell of freshly fallen rain.

 

[SusanLR]

A Feed store. All the grains, hay, chicken feed, etc.

Freshly fallen rain.

Pipe smoke and a good cigar smell.

 

[James45]

Petrol and other people's cigarette smoke drifting into my nasal receptors must be outside and from a distance, just a whiff...yes!

 

[Suzanne]

And I actually dislike the smell of most flowers (real flowers, not just flower-scented stuff). They aren’t too sweet or anything, there’s a different aspect that I can’t describe besides “floral” that I don’t like

Me too! I do not get this floral smell at all and think: if that is what the smell is, no thanks!

There is a yellow rose, which is called: mountbattan and that smell is devine. Smells of oranges.