What unusual smells do you enjoy?

Mmmm… napalm :smiley:

Scent junkies, get your fix here:

http://www.fashion-planet.com/shopping/demeter/scents.html

Having a few of these, I can verify that they do indeed smell like their namesake.

No one else came up with anaerobic sewerage, hmmmmm.

To take this in the totally oppisite direction for no apparent reason:
One smell I can’t stand that many seem to like and even lust over is

NEW CAR SMELL

I can’t stand that smell even for a short time

In no particular order:

rain on a warm day
wet dogs
young doggy fur
puppy breath
sawdust (wood products in general)
freshly shorn wool (sheep smell lovely!)
horse stables (hay, poop, blankets, sweat soaked leather…)
new car upholstry
Germolene

But perhaps one of the strangest things I like the smell of are my feet after I’ve been wearing nylons all day. They have a slightly musky smell that is just lovely. Hard to describe, but very enjoyable.

Don’t know how strage it is, but I love to walk past a house where the clothes dryer is running. These dryers usually vent to the outside, releasing the imcomparable fragrance of steam, hot air, fabric softener and cotton.

Just a few:

Cigarette smoke
Witch hazel
Sex (you know the smell I’m talking about)
Acetone
Eucalyptus
Paper
Burning leaves
Rain. Any rain. Cold rain, warm rain, spring rain, rain mixed with sleet. Any.
And the one that grosses everyone out…sweat. I love the smell of healthy sweat.

Ahhh, the smell of cotton clothing that’s been stored in a wooden drawer – not necessarily cedar, just regular dresser drawers. I dunno what it is. The cotton? The wood? Aged laundry detergent residue? Same goes for cotton clothing that’s sat in a closet. I really love that smell.


Portwest wanders off to go sniff the dresser drawers

*Tennis balls
*The air before it snows
*Summer night air – a mixture of soil and green growing things and flowers and cut grass and damp
*Magic Markers
*My mom’s clothes after she’s worn them
*Bonfires

My own farts. Don’t lie, people. I know I’m not alone.

Wow, I can’t believe no one has mentioned this one: Tire store. The manly odor of rubber in a roomful of new tires is the greatest.

glad to see there are other barn-sniffers about. warm horse, well-used leather, poop in the sun… ahhhhhh.

and i’m another who doesn’t mind the smell of skunk from the roadside. a bit more pungent than fox musk, but not all that far off, IMO.

for my private weirdees, i love the smell of lantana plants when i handle them. not the flowers (which i’m not sure even have a scent), but the greenery. pungently pleasant, even more so than tomato plants. geranium greenery is nice too. (i also like normal herbs like lemon thyme and dill, plus a brand-new case of the hots for basils and nutmeg-scented geranium.)

and New Text Books. loved to sit and sniff them, back in the day.

what, nobody else love the smell of fountain pen ink?

and Tiger Balm Red…maybe as much a physical association (for pain relief) as the scent itself. much nicer than Ben Gay.

and that ozone-y smell that’s right before a major rainstorm. wooo, could practically get high on that.

new leather boots or shoes. or a purse. (guess we’re back to the barn again.)

Horse barns.
Puppy breath (when I worked at a vet’s office, that’s how we separated “classes” of animal lovers - either you loved it, or you didn’t!).
Cat fur (especially belly).
My husband’s armpit at the end of the day (still slightly deodorant-y, but with a touch of HIM).
Wood shavings.

I’m kinda fond of Bergamot Coriander.

I’m pregnant and my new favorite smell is air conditioning. It’s not even hot here yet and I’ve had my a/c blasting in the car, with my windows down, because it smells so good to me.

Other smells I’ve always loved, since I was a kid:

Basements (or cold garages with lots of stuff in them). I’m with you on this one, Lissa. I think it’s the cold mustiness. Mmmmm.

A cigarette just being lit.

Cow barns (Probably from spending summers at my uncle’s dairy farm - pleasant memories. But I HATE the smell of the silo.)

Jet exhaust. When I was a brand-new avionics technician in the Navy, I worked mids, preflighting and troubleshooting the electronics systems on the S-3A. Flying was banned at night - apparently all the retired admirals who lived in Coronado didn’t want the jets flying out of North Island when it was dark out. But around 6AM, they’d start to turn and burn. The mixture of the jet exhaust and the ocean breeze was wonderful.

Even here where ocean breezes don’t reach, the exhaust smell takes me back to North Island.

I also love the blended smells in a marina. Varnish, wax, paint, diesel and gasoline, wet wood, fish, whatever people may be cooking… mmmmmmmmmm

This has cracked-me-up !
Notice that most of the smells mentioned are not considered " good smells ".

Besides cat/dog breath, no one mentioned cat/dog FEET … they smell like pretzels.

Another interesting smell–
a dead mouse. I used to raise them for pet shops. When there was a dead one in the room it didn’t take long to find which cage it was in !
The smell mixed with the smell of woodchips----
is EXACTLY the same as pickled ( sweet ) cabbage. I cannot eat it without thinking of a dead mouse.

Tabu and Jucy Fruit gum remind me of Grandma.

My dog’s feet smell like, well, * feet. *

She always cracks me up when she scratches her ears with her hind feet. She stops afterward to sniff them. Maybe she likes the smell of her feet, too.

YES! This was the smell of my dad. And the sound that goes with it. I had forgoten that. Thanks for reminding me. :wink:
I also like gasoline, baby burp, baby feet, and my husbands deordant/armpit/himself smell. :stuck_out_tongue:
Melissa