Do you find any particular aromas sexually arousing?
Do you know why you have that association?
Do you get turned off by any aromas? Do you know why you have that association?
I am just dying to know, truly.
Thanks!
P.S. If you don’t mind, can you state if you are a male or a female. It might be interesting to see if there are any differences by gender. Thanks!
Male.
I like the smell of women with whom I’m involved, generally. Usually they have a unique scent signature based on their hormones, what they wash with, etc. If I smell that on a pillow where my girl has been lying, it can turn me on. Regarding perfumes, to me there’s “pleasing” or “not pleasing” - nothing perfume-wise seems to have an effect without an association. However, I do have do have associations between particular perfumes and people, or sexual experience.
Examples:
I hooked up with this girl but whenever it came to gettin’ jiggy, we weren’t really very compatible and I ended up finding the experience a chore. She wore a sweet, chocolatey-coconutty perfume and whenever I smell it again, I feel turned off.
I once went out with a total knockout babe, but she wore Chanel No. 5. Which is also what my grandmother wore. Minor libidinous conflict at first was overcome by lust. However now I still associate that smell with my grandmother, not the hottie.
Finally, when I was single, horny, up for anything and getting laid quite a bit, I found myself unconsciously and animalistically sniffing the air after a woman walked past. I didn’t know what I was looking for because it wasn’t a conscious action, but to me this kind of implies some monkey-brain part of me was looking for pheromones or something.
Not sure how helpful that will be to you, but those are my experiences.
Thanks. ROFL on the “monkey-brain” part!
Female here. The smell of Drakkar still works for me, due to old associations. 
That’s about it in terms of scents that turn me on/off, though.
Nothing currently, really. I lovelovelove the smell of Mr. Horseshoe when he’s all clean and just smells like himself, but that’s more of a homey, comforting thing to me. It tells my brain that My Person is Right Here.
The only thing that comes to mind is back in my senior year of high school when I first was gettin’ it on with my then-BF after 17 long years of utter celibacy. He was the first boy to ever pay any attention to me at all, and boy, did he reap the benefits.
Anyway, he washed his hair with that strongly-scented Clairol Herbal Essences shampoo. I hadn’t thought about that fact much until one day, walking through my chem lab classroom, I walked past a classmate who also washed her hair with that stuff. I went, quite literally, weak in the knees.
Oh, straight female. And I have associations with Drakkar Noir as well, from the same aforementioned ex. Jeebus, I hope he’s tone back the scent-assault by now…
Says here that men get turned off by the smell of a woman’s tears. So… that’s weird.
Well, yes there is indeed a female smell which I find quite arousing.
'Nuff said.
There is a particular scent that some women have that I find irresistible. Not an artificial fragrance or perfume, just the natural scent of some women. I can’t really describe it, maybe sort of musty but it’s a very specific smell and I’m VERY sensitive to it, although others don’t seem to notice it. I used to date a girl who expressed this smell, and I could actually follow her path through a dorm building via smell alone. If I’m out and about and I’ll occasionally come across the scent, and it’s strong enough that I’ll loose my train of thought. If I’m talking to someone with this smell, it’s literally difficult not to get aroused. Kind of creepy, but I assume it’s just some chemical signal that we have compatible genes or something that lights up my reptilian brain.
Oh yes. Some perfumes and other “artificial” (henna, for example) smells that remind me of previous intimate encounters are definitely still arousing, even if someone just walks past, sometimes.
And then there’s the more intimate smells.
Especially when those tears come during the act.
Me, I really like the smell of suntan lotion.
Except for these guys. I’ve known a few. And I can see their point. 
Me: female. Most perfumes/colognes/etc. smell like bathroom cleaner to me and make me sneeze. The most powerfully arousing smell to me is the smell of sexual arousal. Apparently not everyone can detect this, but a person’s normal scent changes when they become sexually aroused. Most, but not all, of the people I’ve had occasion to smell this change, get a muskier, “darker” undertone to their smell. One guy got some brighter, almost spicy notes.
Anyway, every person and every scent is different, but when that change happens, I get all lusty (well, lustier than 2 seconds ago). It’s one of my favorite parts of making out/sex, actually. Scent is a major arousal trigger for me.
I have also been with a few women (definitely in the minority) where I could taste their arousal in their saliva - instantly able to tell if she was kissing me with some action in mind, or just kissing me.
Male here.
I’m one of those (I believe) odd balls who doesn’t like scents of any kind. I like the smell of clean, if there is such a thing, meaning no scent at all.
Any type of perfume, cologne, or fragranced lotion makes the inside of my nose tingle uncomfortably and, more often than not, causes me to sneeze. Bodily odors, even those deemed by most to be pleasant, give me a somewhat sickly feeling, which I combat by breathing through my mouth as much as possible when in intimate contact with another person.
I’ve suspected for a very long time that I have a heightened sense of smell, although I have no way to prove this, and am able to detect aromas from farther away than others seem to, and smell things strongly that others are barely able to detect.
Missed the edit window, but thinking further about this, certain aromas and scents even cause my throat to involuntarily constrict, during which I feel kind of chokey (if there is such a term), making it a little uncomfortable to breathe. I hightail it away from the offending source as quickly as possible in such circumstances.
‘Darker’ is the descriptive word I was looking for when typing my response to Ladymarmalade above. This is exactly what bodily odors ‘feel like’ to me, with sexual arousal being varying shades of deeper darkness, depending on the person. Unlike you, however, I don’t find it pleasant at all.
There was a girl I knew back in college, who, at the time, really didn’t fit my “type” for the kind of girl I thought I was attracted to. She was a bit dumpy looking, kinda pear-shaped (baby got back, but baby didn’t get front, if you get my drift), overall not the “Cheerleader or Soccer player” body image I had generally been drawn towards up to that point.
She smelled like sexy. No other way to describe it, I just tended to go all hindbrain whenever she got within a few inches of me. After a few months, I finally decided “Fuck it, I guess I’ll be attracted to her then.” and stopped stressing over it. Kind of an epiphany moment for me regarding women I guess.
We were never really able to figure out what it was about her scent that set me off. The theory we came up with was that it was a cross between whatever “fertile” might smell like and her choice of shampoo, in this case some type of Herbal Essences. I can’t recall where the theory on fertility came up, but I do recall it was something she suggested. I couldn’t even describe the scent either, but I’d recognize it in half a heart beat if I smelt it again.
Female, Straight, in a committed relationship.
This one only occurs with my SO. I get a little weak at the scent of his neck after we’ve had a campfire.
And I guess the Drakkar thing must be a symptom of having been a teenager in the 1980s. Current SO wore it then, and I was crazy about him then, too. He keeps a bottle of it now, but almost never wears it. That’s OK with me, as I like the smell of his skin even better.
Male here. There’s a few scents that turn me on but I couldn’t tell you their names. It’s most likely an amalgam of shampoo, perfume and deodorant anyway.
There’s a certain scent that will practically time-warp my brain back to the era of my first girlfriend. It’s almost like I’m in her room again, lying under the covers. I’m not sure what it is but I think it’s her particular brand of detergent mixed with something else.
Heh!