# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/61 "2010-08-19T14:17:27Z")
Burnt hair. Did a lot of fire performance in college, and being a fairly hairy guy would inevitably end up burning something (usually the hair on the back of my hands). I’d sniff those bad boys all night. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/62 "2010-08-19T14:54:26Z")
> [@Mauvaise](#): > > … I also like the smell of a nail salon. Ahh. I’m not the only one, then. Do you like it for the same reason as me? I had a couple or three pedicures, back when I had disposable income, and they did one \*helluva \*job rubbing my feet and calves and shin. Ever since then, the overall smell of all the chemicals in a nail salon all together like that seriously turns me on. And a non-smoker here chiming in that the smell of a freshly-lit cigarette is indeed awesome. (Even better, though, is the smell of a candle that was just snuffed out, although I suspect that that one doesn’t come into the “odd” category.) Still not as good as onion-hands, though. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/63 "2010-08-19T18:26:40Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Yes, asphalt. Also gasoline. And lumber. And skunk odor, but only from a distance. All of that, except the skunk odor. I also love the smell of freshly copied paper. It’s warm, and there’s something about the smell… ---
**Author:** ![Fastidiots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@Fastidiots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fastidiots)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/64 "2010-08-19T22:02:28Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > Moth balls. > (of course you have to lift their tiny peckers to get a good whiff. ba-dum-bum) > My grandparents closets and clothing smelled of them and even after their passing the smell brings back great memories of them. Slapped my knee to this one a few times. ---
**Author:** ![Fastidiots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@Fastidiots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fastidiots)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/65 "2010-08-19T22:21:31Z")
2-stroke gasoline. Ran a lot of chainsaws when I was younger. Also, someone else welding. Australian Mulga trees. Freshly slaughtered sheep have a particular scent that’s hard to peg. It ain’t meat, and it ain’t sheep. It’s insides mostly. ---
**Author:** ![AnnaKareninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@AnnaKareninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnnaKareninja)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/66 "2010-08-20T05:38:59Z")
I like the smell of recently snuffed birthday candles, cats, clothes from an Op shop (the strange scent of deodorant/washing powder that I don’t use), and old books. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/67 "2010-08-21T18:02:57Z")
I remembered my weird tasting thing yesterday - I like the taste of orange juice after brushing my teeth. It’s so…tart. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rafe\_Hollister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Rafe\_Hollister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rafe_Hollister)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/68 "2010-08-21T19:50:43Z")
Smell of the air in the fall in the IL farm country. Combines & trucks carrying the grains to the elevators, with the occasional whiff of diesel and the dusty smell of cut soybeans and corn. Cut grass. Wild cherry blossoms. Coffee, but I don’t drink it. Burnt gun powder & Hoppe’s #9 gun solvent. Females. ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/69 "2010-08-23T06:47:19Z")
**Diesel exhaust**. I don’t know why, but I enjoy the musky smell. Curiously (or perhaps not), I do not enjoy the smell of gasoline whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/70 "2010-08-23T10:16:42Z")
I quite enjoy the smell of chlorine, especially that emanating from swimming pools… ---
**Author:** ![Khaki\_Campbell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Khaki\_Campbell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khaki_Campbell)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/71 "2010-08-23T11:26:20Z")
The smell of my sweaty and talc-y buttcrack, as carried by my fingers. Doesn’t smell like poo at all, but like some weird combination of smoky salmon and bacon. With ginger. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441/72 "2010-08-23T12:22:21Z")
I love the smell of vinyl records (the smell inside the LP cover). Also, I love the smell of old magazines and books (Not the musty smell, the old paper smell). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-odd-things-do-you-enjoy-smelling-or-tasting-or-doing/550441.md?page=3)