# What odd things do you enjoy smelling or tasting or doing? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 16, 2010, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441 "2010-08-16T19:47:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/21 "2010-08-17T08:06:04Z")
New shoes. ---
**Author:** ![Audrey\_Levins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Audrey\_Levins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Audrey_Levins)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/22 "2010-08-17T09:01:16Z")
I love the way cold coins feel in my hand. And the way cold jewelry feels when it goes on my fingers/wrists/neck. I’ve been known to take my rings off just to enjoy the cold sensation of putting them back on a couple of minutes later. ---
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/23 "2010-08-17T12:30:10Z")
The inside of dogs ears. it has a cheesy, funky smell that is just unique. Puppy fur. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/24 "2010-08-17T13:44:09Z")
I like to eat the one or two micro-shrimp in the top of the Cup O’ Noodles before I add any water. The smell of a residential garage. Childhood memories, that one. Like others, the smell of cut grass and gasoline, especially on hot, hot summer days. ---
**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 17, 2010, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/25 "2010-08-17T13:48:05Z")
The breakfast cereal-like smell of my grandmother’s kitchen. The lingering odor of Irish Spring in her bathroom. The smell of my husband’s head–smells just like fresh pencil shavings, sort of a bitter smell, but good. On the opposite end of smells… a lot of beds where men sleep end up with a very acrid odor. I call it “testosterone stink”. Thankfully, my husband doesn’t produce this smell. ETA… oh, and I love love love antacids. Any flavor, any brand, chalky or chewy. They’re as good as any fruity candy. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/26 "2010-08-17T13:52:52Z")
The smell of gun powder after firing off a round. ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/27 "2010-08-17T14:02:42Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Secondly. I looooove the smell of a freshly lit cigarette. Specifically if it’s somewhere away from me (like, in another room). Just that first minute or so as it drifts into the room…love it. As an ex-smoker, this is one I love too. I loved the smell of my dog’s feet. They smelled vaguely like corn chips. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/28 "2010-08-17T14:07:01Z")
> [@Dante](#): > > > [@Joey\_P](#): > > > > Secondly. I looooove the smell of a freshly lit cigarette. Specifically if it’s somewhere away from me (like, in another room). Just that first minute or so as it drifts into the room…love it. > > As an ex-smoker, this is one I love too. As a current smoker, I’d like to point out that between the fact that I like that smell and that I smoke does not mean that I like the smell of smoke in general. Whenever I tell people that I like that first whiff of a cigarette they start going on and on about clothes smelling like smoke and crowded bars etc etc etc. They don’t get it. It’s just that first whiff as it drifts into the room. Beyond that I’d rather not be smelling it. I suspect I’d like the smell even if I was a non-smoker. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/29 "2010-08-17T14:12:45Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Jellied gasoline, but only in the morning. Smells like victory! Myself- I like the antiseptic smell of doctors’ offices or dentists’ waiting rooms. And how is this for odd associations?- Because those places often have the children’s Bible Story books or Uncle Arthur’s (S. Maxwell) story books which are put out by the Seventh-Day Adventists, I associate that smell with Adventism. If I ever enter a SDA Church & it doesn’t smell like that (which I’m sure it won’t), I’ll feel a bit disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/30 "2010-08-17T14:26:00Z")
I’m another one that likes the smell of skunk. I also like that…cattle smell. Anyone that has taken I5 from LA to SF and passed by Harris ranch knows the smell. I don’t know why, but I just like it. I also like the smell of a nail salon. ---
**Author:** ![ReticulatingSplines](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@ReticulatingSplines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReticulatingSplines)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/31 "2010-08-17T14:42:43Z")
I love the smell of glossy paper, like magazines or (especially) baseball cards. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/32 "2010-08-17T14:54:48Z")
> [@Dante](#): > > I loved the smell of my dog’s feet. They smelled vaguely like corn chips. Frito feet! Love 'em! ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/33 "2010-08-17T15:26:20Z")
> [@Mauvaise](#): > > I’m another one that likes the smell of skunk. Me too! but only in small amounts. Such as driving down a road and being able to tell that one just sprayed off in the distance. I’d prefer not to have one spray into my house (again). And with the skunk smell is the smell of really good pot being smoked…though I suspect I’m not alone in that one. ---
**Author:** ![Mooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mooch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooch)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/34 "2010-08-17T16:21:12Z")
I love the smell of exhaust at the airport - it reminds me of going on vacation when I was a child. Whenever I open a new pack of post-its I fan the paper and take a deep whiff. I love it! It reminds me of playing old Sierra games when I was young and breathing in the printer paper smell. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/35 "2010-08-17T17:33:42Z")
> [@An\_Arky](#): > > Can’t say I really enjoy it, but asparagus pee is kind of interesting. Mine, that is. I’m glad I’m not the only person who thinks that. Not about yours, of course - just mine. ---
**Author:** ![overlyverbose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9dc877/32.png) [@overlyverbose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/overlyverbose)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/36 "2010-08-17T17:38:24Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > On the opposite end of smells… a lot of beds where men sleep end up with a very acrid odor. I call it “testosterone stink”. Thankfully, my husband doesn’t produce this smell. That’s a good word for it. I only like my husband’s testosterone stink, but not anyone else’s. I thought of one even more disgusting. When my daughter was exclusively breastfed - no solids - I didn’t mind the smell of her poop. I certainly wouldn’t go out of my way to smell it, but it really wasn’t particularly unpleasant. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2010, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/37 "2010-08-17T17:44:42Z")
The library and to a lesser extent, book stores. I don’t know if it’s the paper, the ink or the combination thereof but it’s such a distinct, serene smell. I also used to love the smell of those plastic, zippable pencil holders that you would put in your three ring binder. I bet some of our younger dopers don’t have a clue what I’m talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/38 "2010-08-17T17:46:07Z")
It’s not gross, but maybe unusual- I love the smell of Pine-Sol. I especially loved it during pregnancies, probably because that smell signifies clean to me, and I would find something to mop or clean it with every day while nesting. I’d even crave the smell, often going to my kitchen cabinet just to get it out and smell it. I still love the smell but I’m not as much of a fanatic about it as I was while pregnant. Also, the creosote smell here in the desert when it rains… aaaaah. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/39 "2010-08-17T19:02:51Z")
Gasoline smell is nice, but combined with seawater smell, it’s heavenly. Somehow I got that from my childhood, which is weird, because I grew up in Iowa. Not many oceans there. New electronics. New car, of course. As for taste, I love cough medicine. Once every four hours my ass. ---
**Author:** ![tattman40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/db5fbb/32.png) [@tattman40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tattman40)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/40 "2010-08-17T20:01:06Z")
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