# Odd smells you love. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 17, 2006, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-smells-you-love/340436 "2006-01-17T23:46:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-smells-you-love/340436/81 "2006-01-19T19:04:37Z")
> [@Club 33](#): > > The Pirates of the Carribean ride at Disneyland. I’m sure someone here knows what I’m talking about. Right on, **Club 33** This is the very first thing that came to my mind. There is a certain stretch of Hawthorne Blvd. on the way to Palos Verdes that smells like that (not sure if there’s a resevoir nearby, or some kind of drainage thing or what). The odd look I received after proclaiming “oooh, it smells like the Pirates of the Carribean!” was enough to tell me this is not a well known phenomenom. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-smells-you-love/340436/82 "2006-01-19T19:38:25Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > The odd look I received after proclaiming “oooh, it smells like the Pirates of the Carribean!” was enough to tell me this is not a well known phenomenom. Maybe not all that odd. My brother the Disney freak tells me that on Disney message boards, a common thread is “what smells remind you of Disneyland?”, and a common response is stagnant water = PotC. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-smells-you-love/340436/83 "2006-01-19T20:21:01Z")
Gasoline - Don’t know why, but when I’m filling up my car I always take a deep whiff. Vanilla - When my wife is baking and is going to use some vanilla, she always calls me over for a deeeeeep inhale. She knows I need my fix. Chocolate - Next time you open a bag of Hershey’s Kisses, take a good sniff. Frabjous. Old books - I love that pulpy, slightly musty smell. Hardcovers from before the 1950s, and paperbacks from the 1950s and 1960s, are best. Mothballs - This is mostly for sentimental reasons. Always reminds me of getting out woolens for the winter, and looking forward to sledding, snowball fights, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2006, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-smells-you-love/340436/84 "2006-01-19T20:29:24Z")
> [@Dorjän](#): > > That wet dusty smell during the first moments of a rainshower. There’s actually a word for it: [petrichor](http://wordsmith.org/awad/archives/0404). One of my favorite smells of all time, after sycamore trees. ---
**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:** [January 20, 2006, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-smells-you-love/340436/85 "2006-01-20T04:09:44Z")
K other’s have mentioned these, but I’m puttin’ them here all in one place: Gun Oil - I haven’t been around firearms in 20 years, but that smell takes me right back Brakleen, WD-40, Kerosene, MEK, Tolulene, Gas - pretty near any petroleum product, which takes me to: Test’n’tune night at the Drag races. The smell is an amalgam of hot rubber, high octane race fuel, hot motor, anti-freeze, and adrenalyn. MAN it’s time for racin’ season again! hot good strong coffee. Simple Solution Cat pee enzyme cleaner stuff. I dunno why, but other brands made me retch. I lost both cats within 4 weeks last year. I don’t miss the pee or the barf, but I do miss the cats. ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-smells-you-love/340436/86 "2006-01-20T06:24:46Z")
> [@Large Marge](#): > > Oh, no! > > **I …edited…TSFR** … :rolleyes: > > I’m curious, were you once fond of someone who wore it? myself…my second ex wife (love o’ me life) and lots of other like-minded-humanfolk… it’s my own little \*jitterbug pefume’ \* peace, love and any smell that makes ypu simile… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![suezeekay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@suezeekay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suezeekay)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2006, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-smells-you-love/340436/87 "2006-01-20T08:06:04Z")
I love the smell of musty basements. And Youth Dew perfume. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-smells-you-love/340436.md?page=4)