John Mace’s farts!
ETA: shit. Ninja’d.
Shit is right!!
Several people on this board have stated how they hate the smell.
Sulfer.
Reminds me of the sunny summer days of my youth, spent lighting firecrackers and shooting cap guns under the giant old willow tree.
And John Mace’s farts, of course.
I can do without JMs farts. But my dog#1 farts like a grown man (she is about 5 lbs. Of hair and air) Her farts smell unusually like burnt popcorn. So do her feet. Strange, I know. But we like it. I call her lil’ popcorn-fart alot.
Cat breath. Most of the cats I’ve had have been kissers.
I would agree, but only if it’s the right wood. Some wood smells better than others. (Our neighbors must burn the greenest, cheapest crap and it’s awful) Otherwise, I love the smell of a good bonfire.
I like the smell of squabs still in the nest.
Oooh, baby pigeons! Under glass?
I’ll second pohjonen on cow manure (horse, too). To me, it’s a rustic, rural smell.
Mesquite does it for me, and it’s my favorite to cook with or BBQ sauce flavor.
Burning diesel fuel. It reminds me of my grandfather on his tractor, when I was a kid.
That’s another one I don’t mind and would be willing to say I like. Like you, it’s ‘the smell of skunk…from a distance’, as if one sprayed off in a field a 100 yards off the main road and you’re just driving past it. Having two dogs get skunked and trying to wipe it on the furniture or having a skunk spray right outside an open window…not so much. It’s similar to how I mentioned cigarette smoke, those first few whiffs just drifting in from another room.
And while my fondness of that smell isn’t related, it’s worth noting that the smell of skunk it’s almost identical to the smell of high end weed.
I enjoy the smell of stinky tofu cooking. (Outside, at any rate – not in my house.)
Nobody doesn’t like 2-stroke stank! I’ll let my RZ just idle in the garage sometimes for the wonderful smell.
Here’s another example of something that is not “generally thought of as repulsive.” Most people seem to enjoy the smell of cherry pipe tobacco or any pipe tobacco being smoked by someone in the vicinity, even if they dislike cigarettes. Unless they have asthma or some other aversion to smoke generally, I have never heard anyone complain of the smell of pipe tobacco.
Likewise, burning wood smoke from someone’s chimney, or from a barbecue smoker or something, is typically regarded as desirable, not repulsive. Even if there are a few people who dislike it, I don’t think it’s the norm.
The smell of a dairy barn (manure mixed with spoiled milk, I guess) is one that takes me back to childhood.
Pipe tobacco and Old spice together is a off-putting scent to most people I have talked to about it. I like it because of my Daddy. If I smell it in a store or on a passer-by I want to cry. Me and one of my sisters actually brought some Old spice to the funeral home with his pipe. We smelled him up. Boy, my brother got mad at us about that. He was/is so anal sometimes. It made us happy, though.
Gasoline and oil – the smell of a mechanic’s shop.
The smell of airplane cockpits (old propeller craft mainly). It’s hard to describe, but old airplane cockpits all have a similar smell.
Diesel exhaust in the rain. Memories. And yes, dairy and horse barns.