I like the smell of asphalt. I also like the smell of gasoline, kerosene, and body putty. I think it’s because my father’s pick-up trucks always smelled like those things.
Even as a kid, I liked the smell of gasoline. When the country went through the switchover from leaded to unleaded gas when I was about 10 (which shows how old I am), I hated the change. It took me YEARS before I got used to the smell of unleaded gasoline. Now I like it almost as much as I liked the old stuff.
I don’t mind tar, but what I really love is turpentine. It gives me this weird nostalgia trip to my childhood cellar way where the tools and solvents were stored.
My sister had some T-gel shampoo that smelled of tar. When I visited her in November, I opened the bottle in her shower to smell it. It was a trip to the past.
And hot gasoline reminds me of summers spent mowing grass.
Me, too. Reminds me of working with my dad, building models and painting stuff. I also really like the smell of gasoline, mimeo paper (ah, that dates me!) and magic markers. Tar, however, I could take or leave.
Cats generally like the smell of tar and crude oil. They also generally dislike the smell of turpenes, a class of chemicals including citrus and pine oils. I don’t think anybody knows why.
I think that the hot tar used to repair/seal flat roofs rather stinks, but the fresh asphalt on newly re-paved roads is not a bad smell (since around my area of NY the road crews tend toward the ‘cold-patch’ method of fixing roads, and only rarely do the utilities do a real patch job w/ hot tar, I don’t know if the hot tar used for roofing is the same as used for road repair).
For the record, I’ve always liked the smell of new tires (still do), and haven’t really smelled tube model cement since I was a kid (in the '70s, when they added a lemon scent to it to discourage glue sniffing) - while I still construct plastic models, I use liquid model cement which has it’s own (rather bleh) smell…
During part of my childhood I lived in the beautiful city of Wood River, Illinois. It was basically surrounded by
So any smell involving petroleum products (iincluding tar and asphalt) teds to make me a little homesick. Never did get used to the smell of animal hides, though (wind from the southwest).
Blue dittos, still damp from the machine…ah, memories.
Oh yes, I love the smell of tar and asphalt. It reminds me of bicycling on hot roads in summer. I especially love it when it’s blended with the fresh smells of pine forest and farmland – like on peaceful country roads where there are few cars and almost no other distracting aromas.
Almost makes me want to jump on my bicycle right now and ride 40 miles before dinner. A pity it’s February and everything is cold, damp, dreary, and still partially covered with stale snow.
I’m not that crazy about tar. But, I love the smell of creosote; it smells like an amusement park.
And I love the smell of tires. Even if I can leave, I would prefer to sit in a tire shop while the car gets serviced. Have no idea why, but I’ve liked it as long as I can remember.
I like the smell of tar, gasoline, diesel, oil, new tires, sharpie markers, etc.
But my favorite smell along these lines is the smell of a Zippo lighter after it’s been used awhile and broken in. That smell just does something to me.
Even more so in my case, as my granddad worked as road maintenance crew in rural roads and this was thus it’s associated with a special person and time.
And ditto blue dittos – man, I caught some buzzes and headaches over that machine in my day…
I loved the smell of tar, quite intensely, until I spent six months on a Viking ship replica project. Got a lifetime’s worth of tar-smell during that gig, I guess. (The entire 40-foot ship was basically bathed in tar, multiple times over several weeks, inside a boat yard building).
Count me in as another asphalt fan.
I love the smell of tar in the morning - smells like…childhood!
Yup, I too remember being a tar fan as a kid. I used to love popping the little bubbles with a lollipop stick, or something.
Tar doesn’t do it for me, but the smell of a hot glue gun means Christmas to me…mom always had some craft projects going about that time of year.
I almost always did the wrapping at Christmas, so the smell of tape makes me think of Christmas.
My babysitter liked the smell of tar. Even as a kid I thought that was weird.
I do like the smell of gas/petrol, though.
At first, I thought you said your babysitter smelled of tar, which would be ever weirder. Although, in middle school, I did have a locker right next to a girl who I always thought smelled a bit like beef jerky.
My son likes it. He also says he likes skunk smell.