# What smells do you like that no one else does? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 22, 2006, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-smells-do-you-like-that-no-one-else-does/373710 "2006-09-22T14:12:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Unregistered\_Bull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3da27b/32.png) [@Unregistered\_Bull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unregistered_Bull)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-smells-do-you-like-that-no-one-else-does/373710/61 "2006-09-26T20:15:23Z")
Smell of a horse itself. Only when dry. Leather, like the inside of new boots. The smell of boot and saddle shops. Marvel’s Mystery Oil. Especially if using it to cool a drill bit while drilling though metal. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-smells-do-you-like-that-no-one-else-does/373710/62 "2006-09-27T00:07:17Z")
All of the solvents: Xylene, acetone, MEK, naptha, toluene. There’s a brew of solvents called ‘brush cleaner’ that does a fine job of extracting crud from paint brushes, and it smells great! Today’s kids are cheated-who of my generation doesn’t remember sniffing a quiz in school? The lovely purple aroma of mimeograph paper… ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slip\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f475e1/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slip\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slip_1)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-smells-do-you-like-that-no-one-else-does/373710/63 "2006-09-27T02:03:14Z")
There was a spray we used to use in the nursing home to treat bedsores called Granulex. The nurses hated it. I LOVED it. Tire stores. I’m the one that gets tires on the car, just so I can sit there for a few hours. Creosote is good. It reminds me of amusement parks. ---
**Author:** ![Sonia\_Montdore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Sonia\_Montdore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonia_Montdore)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-smells-do-you-like-that-no-one-else-does/373710/64 "2006-09-27T02:11:08Z")
Mimeograph ink. Anybody else remember the smell of that? As a schoolchild in the 60’s, I used love it when the teacher would passout a mimeographed handout. I’d press it to my face and inhale deeply. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-smells-do-you-like-that-no-one-else-does/373710/65 "2006-09-27T03:58:53Z")
Speaking of paper and ink, remember the U.S. Authorized Edition of _The Lord of the Rings_ published by Ballantine Paperbacks in the 1960s? I obtained my copies when I was 10. It was the most intoxicating book aroma I’d ever known. While reading throughout the entire text, I would press my nose right between the pages and inhale deeply. The intoxicating scent of Ballantine ink and paper took me directly to Middle-Earth. To the Middle-Earth of a child’s imagination, which is something extra fantastic. I can still remember that smell–and, attached to it, what it felt like to escape from the Tower of Cirith Ungol. ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-smells-do-you-like-that-no-one-else-does/373710/66 "2006-09-27T04:10:31Z")
Another vote for skunk and fresh paint. Damn you, SDMB, I used to think I was special. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-smells-do-you-like-that-no-one-else-does/373710.md?page=3)