# Manly Smells **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 27, 2010, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660 "2010-08-27T13:10:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/1 "2010-08-27T13:10:35Z")
Try and name some smells that are “manly” I can think of Bay Rum Charcoal Shoe polish Cut grass Saw Dust Pipes Gun powder What other? ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/2 "2010-08-27T13:26:15Z")
Gun oil. I found a silicone lubricant at the auto parts store that smells exactly like Hoppe’s #9 gun oil. I LURVES it! ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/3 "2010-08-27T13:26:47Z")
Clean sweat. Car grease. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/4 "2010-08-27T13:33:39Z")
WD-40 Pine Campfire smoke ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/5 "2010-08-27T13:36:21Z")
My husband smells like a combination of lubricant oil and fresh pencil shavings. Yum. ---
**Author:** ![panman\_1960](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/919ad9/32.png) [@panman\_1960](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panman_1960)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/6 "2010-08-27T13:44:44Z")
My wife loves it when I’m smoking meat with hardwood! Cherry and hickory weem to have the most appeal. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/7 "2010-08-27T13:45:31Z")
How can you forget [Old Spice](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE)? ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/8 "2010-08-27T14:26:36Z")
Pit sweat. ---
**Author:** ![Cowgirl\_Jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@Cowgirl\_Jules](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowgirl_Jules)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/9 "2010-08-27T14:26:45Z")
Diesel Machine grease Welding fumes Whiskey ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/10 "2010-08-27T14:28:30Z")
Burning rubber. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/11 "2010-08-27T14:41:41Z")
Oh, and the smell of The Beach! Or maybe that goes for both genders? (Cosmo Kramer on Seinfeld had a plan to bottle the smell and make a fortune.) ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/12 "2010-08-27T15:19:26Z")
The smell of Home Depot. Seriously, if I could bottle that, my husband would smell like that all the time. Something about the smell of wood, rubber, chemicals… mmm, sexy. Otherwise, I think the smell of vermouth is manly. Cedar. Meat on a charcoal grill. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/13 "2010-08-27T17:15:17Z")
Sweat, leather, and blood. _mmmmmm_. ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/14 "2010-08-27T17:30:57Z")
Mud ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/15 "2010-08-27T17:43:21Z")
Potato salad farts. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/16 "2010-08-28T11:11:16Z")
[Napalm son!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPXVGQnJm0w) CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/17 "2010-08-28T12:10:05Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Potato salad farts. Even better, [beans!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6dm9rN6oTs) ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/18 "2010-08-28T13:33:35Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > > [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > > > Potato salad farts. > > Even better, [beans!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6dm9rN6oTs) We had a guy named Big Eddie. He had a restaurant: Big Eddie’s BBQ. It wasn’t ‘What will I have to eat, today.’ It was. ‘What will I have to eat today, _with the beans?_’ They were all kinds of awesome…and smelled the same coming out as they did going in. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/19 "2010-08-28T13:40:59Z")
> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > They were all kinds of awesome…and smelled the same coming out as they did going in. Does it happen with other guys that if you have ginger or garlic or some of the other East Asian seasonings in abundance that the clouds you leave behind have that same basic aroma – over and above your basic fart? I know Mexican does! Cajun. Have yet to decide on Italian, Greek and Indian, though. Are there equivalent “smellers” to the “tasters” of wines and cheeses, etc.? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/20 "2010-08-28T14:16:58Z")
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