# I smell good enough to drink... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 7, 2001, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-smell-good-enough-to-drink/75343 "2001-08-07T20:13:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-smell-good-enough-to-drink/75343/21 "2001-08-07T22:43:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by THespos \* > \*\*: Standing next to my Weber, with a “Kiss the Cook” apron on : > > So, dear struuter, would you like yours rare or well done? \*\* Standing next to my CharBroil with a grill mitt on. After having mowed the lawn. Offering you a cold brewski. So how YOU doin’? ---
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-smell-good-enough-to-drink/75343/22 "2001-08-07T22:47:44Z")
hmmmm…That doesn’t look right somehow. The offer’s for our delectable **Struuter**. BTW; _just_ an oven mitt. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-smell-good-enough-to-drink/75343/23 "2001-08-07T22:47:59Z")
When I worked in a movie theatre I would come home smelling like fresh popcorn and (I was told) tasted like it and salty too. My girlfriend at the time sure liked it. ---
**Author:** ![Ganryu\_Kojiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Ganryu\_Kojiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ganryu_Kojiro)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2001, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-smell-good-enough-to-drink/75343/24 "2001-08-07T23:09:59Z")
From what I’ve been told, I apparently smell of old paper and incense. Sounds bizarre to me, but hey, I don’t mind those smells, so who am I to complain? ---
**Author:** ![struuter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@struuter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/struuter)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-smell-good-enough-to-drink/75343/25 "2001-08-08T00:14:40Z")
Old paper and incense. Sounds cool to me, we’ll keep you. Hope you didn’t have any plans for the rest of your life. Oh, welcome to the boards, Ganryu…that’s what I meant. Salty men taste good? Is that what you’re telling me, Z? 🙂 And Vestal I think the obvious question is, WHERE is this oven mitt? I need details, man! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![oldscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-smell-good-enough-to-drink/75343/26 "2001-08-08T01:39:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Simetra \* > \*\* > > The rest of time, everyone says I smell like patchouli… \*\* fuckin hippy ---
**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-smell-good-enough-to-drink/75343/27 "2001-08-08T07:37:32Z")
I worked for almost 3 years in a bagel store, and always smelled like an onion bagel by the end of my shift. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-smell-good-enough-to-drink/75343/28 "2001-08-08T17:09:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by wishbone \* > Back when I was salmon fishing I used to reek of diesel. Every night I went to bed I layed my head on a diesel-scented pillow and and may as well have been using diesel-scented deodorant. I didn’t care for it at first but now when I smell it it makes me long for the good old days. Diesel does it for me, too. My first boyfriend drove an old Mercedez-Benz that blasted out fogs of exhaust. Combine that with the scent of old leather seats … excuse me, I think I’ll go roam the parking lot. ---
**Author:** ![Simetra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Simetra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simetra)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-smell-good-enough-to-drink/75343/29 "2001-08-08T17:14:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by oldscratch \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Simetra \* > > \*\* > > > > The rest of time, everyone says I smell like patchouli… \*\* > > fuckin hippy \*\* F\*ckin’ candy raver. 🙂 Hey, I think I smell like me, and occasionally Opium.(Not the drug.) ---
**Author:** ![struuter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@struuter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/struuter)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-smell-good-enough-to-drink/75343/30 "2001-08-08T20:06:46Z")
Well, it’s official. I smell good. While at work today, a man asked if it was me that smelled so good or the coffee. I figured since I smelled like coffee the answer was fairly obvious, but I told him that it was me. He said I made the whole place smell good. 🙂 I’ll take that as a compliment. Only problem is it makes me crave coffee something fierce. Now all I need is some caramel and chocolate syrup and some steamed milk. Ouch, maybe not. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-smell-good-enough-to-drink/75343/31 "2001-08-08T20:21:57Z")
It makes me happy when I’ve been sitting around a campfire and have a faint smell of woodsmoke about my hair and clothes. Yummy. Also, my hubby sometimes smells faintly of his brand of cigars, which is nice. I hate it when it’s really strong (like when he’s actually smoking the damned things) but a faint smell of it is scrumptious. On a side note, I almost never wear perfume or cologne, because my natural smell is much nicer than any artificial thing I can put on, both to myself and to my husband (who’s opinion really counts to me 🙂 ) On the other hand, I can’t get him to stop wearing cologne, which I hate, hate, hate. Apparently my opinion doesn’t count for much there. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-smell-good-enough-to-drink/75343/32 "2001-08-08T20:35:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by struuter \* > \*\* > > And Vestal I think the obvious question is, WHERE is this oven mitt? I need details, man! 😉 \*\* Let’s just say that if encouraged, it could rise to the occasion! 😉 My girls tell me they like the smell of my aftershave, which at the moment is Gilette ‘Cool Waves’ gel. ---
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-smell-good-enough-to-drink/75343/33 "2001-08-08T21:40:58Z")
All I know is, good beer must combine with my body chemistry to give off some high-octane pheromones - every time I drink beer I get very well kissed. Sad to say that cigars have the opposite effect. Pipe smoke not as much, though. But diesel?!? I took a bus cross country years ago and after three days all I could smell was diesel. The ride back was just as bad. Still can’t stand the smell. It’s almost as bad as patchouli. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-smell-good-enough-to-drink/75343.md?page=1)