# Strange.. but it turns me on...... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 13, 2003, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-it-turns-me-on/201401 "2003-09-13T16:40:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-it-turns-me-on/201401/41 "2003-09-15T17:05:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by danceswithcats \* > \*\*I must be a warped guy. I love the scent of xylene, methyl-ethyl-ketone, acetone, and 1-1-1 trichloroethane. Mmm. Industrial solvents. \*\* Egads, **danceswithcats !** Take it easy with that stuff! The plant I retired from no longer uses MEK and 1-1-1 trichloroethane because they’re so bloody dangerous to the user. I just love the smell of fresh baked rye bread. Fresh rosemary herb is fabulous. The way a wool or mohair coat smells, coming in from the cold, always reminds me of Mom. I gave up tobacco more than twenty-five years ago, but I kept the pipe tobacco for five more years, just for the aroma. Knob Creek bourbon whiskey smells heavenly. It’s hard to beat the aroma of a pressure-cooker fulla green beans and new potatoes. I’m not a carpenter, but the smell of fresh cut pine is nice. Hey! :smack: None of the smileys has a nose! What’s with that? ---
**Author:** ![Sinshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Sinshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinshine)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-it-turns-me-on/201401/42 "2003-09-15T18:26:50Z")
I like the colognes with a spicy undertone, but then I love my spices. The scent just after sex, that speaks so loudly of satisfaction. Home cooking. Baking. Canning. Just - Food. And a newly discovered one: the scent of fresh motor oil. The boyfriend just opened a garage, and he was showing me around, and handed me an open oil jug, saying “I love the smell of Pennzoil in the morning.” Too bad the office isn’t enclosed … 😃 ---
**Author:** ![YWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/6f9a4e/32.png) [@YWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YWalker)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-it-turns-me-on/201401/43 "2003-09-15T18:34:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by WomanofScorn \* > \*\*I love the smell of Comet (the cleanser). It smells like chlorine from a pool which I also love. Oh and I love the smell of suntan lotion. The coconuty kind. Brings back so many memories. \*\* [third grade voice] Comet! It makes your breath smell clean! Comet! It tastes like gasoline! Comet! It makes you vomit — So by some Comet And vomit Today. [/third grade voice] ---
**Author:** ![Ender\_Will](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Ender\_Will](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_Will)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-it-turns-me-on/201401/44 "2003-09-15T18:52:06Z")
I really wish I could contribute more original smells to this, but: **NoClueBoy** > [@](#): > > A freshly bathed GF, without any parfume, just clean hair and skin. Yummy! **Danalan** Glad to hear I’m not the only one who loves the smell of steel. I’ve mentioned it to people and they’ve insisted it has no aroma! **Ice Wolf** Been to Rotorua? You’d be in heaven, volcanic sulfur smell everywhere. And only a few hours from Auckland. Ok, my six that aren’t ripped straight from someone else’s list:[list] [li]leather[/li][li]after a light rain, the sun comes out and starts warming everything up again[/li][li]burnt gunpowder[/li][li]speaking of guns, one of the solvents I use has a really nice, sweet smell[/li][li]dried cloves. Part of the reason I love making pumpkin pie[/li][li]pipe tobacco[list][/li]None of these “turn me on” but they’re just things I like the smell of and would miss if I couldn’t ---
**Author:** ![Ender\_Will](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Ender\_Will](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_Will)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-it-turns-me-on/201401/45 "2003-09-15T18:58:57Z")
I really wish I could contribute more original smells to this, but: **NoClueBoy** > [@](#): > > A freshly bathed GF, without any parfume, just clean hair and skin. Yummy! **Danalan** Glad to hear I’m not the only one who loves the smell of steel. I’ve mentioned it to people and they’ve insisted it has no aroma! **Ice Wolf** Been to Rotorua? You’d be in heaven, volcanic sulfur smell everywhere. And only a few hours from Auckland. Ok, my six that aren’t ripped straight from someone else’s list:[list] [li]leather[/li][li]after a light rain, the sun comes out and starts warming everything up again[/li][li]burnt gunpowder[/li][li]speaking of guns, one of the solvents I use has a really nice, sweet smell[/li][li]dried cloves. Part of the reason I love making pumpkin pie[/li][li]pipe tobacco[list][/li]None of these “turn me on” but they’re just things I like the smell of and would miss if I couldn’t ---
**Author:** ![troub](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troub/32/14802_2.png) [@troub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/troub)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-it-turns-me-on/201401/46 "2003-09-15T19:02:42Z")
I like most of the aforementioned smells. . .grass, winter (I know what you mean), bread, storms, solvents (oooh yeah), etc. As for turn-ons, there are some perfumes I remember from girlfriends in my teens (CKOne, or something?), and bleach–a girlfriend in high school worked at a restaurant and would get off of work after cleaning up smelling like bleach. Memories. ---
**Author:** ![Ender\_Will](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Ender\_Will](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_Will)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-it-turns-me-on/201401/47 "2003-09-15T20:00:44Z")
Sorry about the double post. Explorer and/or boards were misbehaving. Think a mod could delete one? And this one, too? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-it-turns-me-on/201401/48 "2003-09-15T20:18:00Z")
Horse saddles. Love that combination of work and the outdoors. ---
**Author:** ![Papaveraceae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e8c25b/32.png) [@Papaveraceae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Papaveraceae)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-it-turns-me-on/201401/49 "2003-09-15T20:24:40Z")
late afternoon heat, mixed with dust and eucalyptus= sensless delirium. desert sage in the sun. late night summer rain. campfire smoke. pine trees. old books, in old used bookstores. pantene shampoo. ---
**Author:** ![ouisey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9fc29f/32.png) [@ouisey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouisey)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-it-turns-me-on/201401/50 "2003-09-15T20:35:15Z")
The first smell of a wood fire on a crisp fall night. That’s my favorite smell in the world. Yaaaay! Winter’s coming and this foul heat and sunshine will be curbed for a few months. ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-it-turns-me-on/201401/51 "2003-09-15T21:44:51Z")
Actual turn-ons: Saliva dried on my skin after licking or kissing. Sexual smells. Men’s deodorant or faint cologne or soap. This one guy’s breath (though I usually can’t stand to breathe someone else’s breath, when I’d sleep with this guy, I’d align myself so I could inhale as much of his breath as possible… drove me crazy!) Smells I just like without being turned on: Lilacs, baking, magnolia perfume, and the Body Shop Satsuma oil. Yum! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-but-it-turns-me-on/201401.md?page=2)