I used to love the smell of petrol/gasoline, but last month a petrol can leaked in the back of my car and the smell has only just dispersed. It gets old after a while!
Cotton poison. Or some such herbicide which farmers used to use around here on their fields. It has a bittersweet smell.
Does anyone else remember DDT? The kind which was sprayed for mosquitoes. It had a pinkish/purplish smell to me. That smell is linked to some long ago memories of the mystical billowing clouds swallowing the neighborhood before my eyes. Yeah, prolly some drain bamage there too 
Another vote for sweaty men. I like the way my Hubby smells when he’s come home after being out on the tractor, and has fixed himself a toddy. When he kisses me on the cheek I get a scent of diesel fuel/cigarette smoke/whisky/man sweat which is incredibly attractive to me.
Roofing tar - in small doses. (I don’t know if I should say that I like it, more that the smell is interesting in some weird way - despite the number of times I’ve smelled it before.)
The smell of burning Sterno, the alcohol stuff fuel used for chafing dishes.
I’m a big fan of the smell of film fixer (black and white film developing), though it’s best not to stick your nose in the 5 gallon cooler of the stuff just because of this.
I also love the smell of freshly-chopped garlic.
Both of these smells are smells that stay on my fingers for DAYS regardless of how often I wash my hands.
Patchouli.
A couple of posters have mentioned something similar, but here goes.
I love the smell of a culture of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Not quite enough to lean in to taste it, but it smells nice.
And yeast, too. An agar plate covered in little Candida colonies smells so delicious.
I also like the chemical-y smells of ethanol and acetone.
I started a thread a while ago with a similar premise.
Personally, I love the smell of atrophied skin. I can’t get enough of it when I come across it.
I like the smell of stale cigarettes. I could never get my last GF, a smoker, to believe me. (OK, it can get nasty, but I actually really liked it for a while cause it reminded me of her.)
Ooh, I almost forgot. I like pretty much every smell in the histology lab. Formalin, Xylene, all those lovely dyes…
Matches, too. And gasoline. :eek:
Also, the scent of old paperbacks, especially those belonging to a smoker. Old paper and cigarette smoke combine to make a surprisingly sweet scent.
I like the smell of sudsy ammonia…
I also adore good Patchouli…especially on a cute hippie chick…
I also very much enjoy Sai Baba Nag Champa incense.
Suplhur
Skunks
Gasoline
Tar
Wet Paint
Permanent Marker
Well, I am also partial to WD40, and I use it just about every day at work. So…
(God I hope you’re single and female)
…How *you * doin’?
I like horse manure, though cow’s does nothing for me. It’s a barn-y sort of thing. I don’t want in in my face, but mixed with straw and general horse sweat and leather, it’s nice.
Menthol Eucalyptus cough drops, baby powder and Old Spice. I don’t know that I’d call it a pleasant smell, but the combination reminds me of visiting with my grandma as a kid/young adult. I also love the smell that capguns make when fired. Mm.
Count me in with those who like the smell of gasoline as well.
Hot wires and insulation. It always reminds me of the train set my grandfather had in his basement.
And I’ll agree with others that cow manure and skunk aren’t actually that bad, in small doses. They both just smell “rural” to me, and that’s a good association.
Soldering iron smoke.
Durien.
The smell a heater or furnace makes when you first fire it up for the season.
As some others have mentioned, horse smell - manure, sweat, hay, feed, etc., all mixed up.
Napalm in the morning?
Tarmac – it always reminds me of the hot summer day each year when I was little and we’d get to go to Six Flag. The pavement would seem to be literally melting. Anytime I smell that same thing, it’s what I’m reminded of. One of few good memories.
Agreed. Is it from the canvas? I wonder.
Oh, and Elmer’s glue. Probably from all those projects as a kid.
Burning leaves. Rotting leaves, even.
Cookout smoke, as long as it can be dodged when you’ve had enough.
Burning charcoal lit with starter fluid.
A slight fireplace odor in a heavily AC’d living room on a hot day. A little voice in your nose in midsummer reminding you that to everything turn, turn, turn there is a season turn, turn, turn…
I keep waiting for this thread to end up right above or below the one about the guy sniffing his sister’s undies in order to submit to Consecutive Thread Titles, but it hasn’t happened yet…
I’ll say the same thing I said in the other thread…vinegar. I don’t think that’s too popular. And I love the smell of vinegar.
And my SO’s crotch…none of you better like that smell :mad: 