Are there any weird smells that you actually like?

[Lemonbalm]

Do you find yourself enjoying any weird smells? I'm not talking about the kind of smells that most people enjoy, like freshly baked bread or newly mown grass - I mean stuff that smells a bit strange, but for some reason you quite like it. I'll give you an example - I really like the smell of new carpet! Whenever I have a new carpet fitted, I really enjoy how it smells, and I feel sad when the new smell eventually fades.

Does anyone else out there have a weird nose, or is it just me?

 

[Adamridge79]

There is this weird ass smell that has been aggressively assaulting me lately...nor brussel sprouts but almost...shuts me down like hard-core. Probably not what you meant

 

[TheSkaFish]

Old car exhaust. I don't mean like a car that's broken, I mean like classic cars. I know it's pollution but it smells nice in its own way.

 

[Adamridge79]

Old car exhaust. I don't mean like a car that's broken, I mean like classic cars. I know it's pollution but it smells nice in its own way.

We had a hole in the ford... had to wear a blanket to school...but the exhaust always there

 

[TheSkaFish]

We had a hole in the ford... had to wear a blanket to school...but the exhaust always there

Now I'm curious...what kind of Ford was it?

 

[Adamridge79]

I don't know it was blue, and I was 6

 

[Adamridge79]

I just remember It was cold and the road was fast

 

[Lemonbalm]

Old car exhaust. I don't mean like a car that's broken, I mean like classic cars. I know it's pollution but it smells nice in its own way.

Yes, I like that smell too! It reminds me of my Granddad's car when I was a kid, an old Austin Cambridge (UK car).

 

[Adamridge79]

Oh, it really came down to my master mechanic father never fixing our vehicles ...same as I never bake bre6

 

[Adamridge79]

Bread

 

[Lemonbalm]

When I was a kid, there were some weeds growing around the edge of our school playground. I don't know what the weeds were called, but us kids used to call them 'stink weeds' as they had quite a pungent smell, that none of us liked. The leaves of French Marigolds have a similar sort of smell, and I rather like it now - I suppose because it reminds me of being a kid.

 

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[Zen28]

Engine oil. And industrial fumes. Remind me of the city I grew up in.

 

[Assimilate]

Gasoline and hot soldering flux. Two of my favorite smells that most people find revolting.

 

[Adamridge79]

Kind of on the same subject. There is this smell I'll occasionally, I dunno, smell in my head? I can't place it, but I know it's somehow related to my childhood. It's like a song you can't remember and drives you mad, but in the olfactory sense. This may just be a me thing, which would fit.

 

[Lemonbalm]

Engine oil. And industrial fumes. Remind me of the city I grew up in.

Yes, I like the smell of engine oil too.

 

[Lemonbalm]

Gasoline and hot soldering flux. Two of my favorite smells that most people find revolting.

Yes, I like the smell of gasoline (or petrol, as we call it here in the UK). Hot soldering flux - not so much!

 

[Lemonbalm]

Kind of on the same subject. There is this smell I'll occasionally, I dunno, smell in my head? I can't place it, but I know it's somehow related to my childhood. It's like a song you can't remember and drives you mad, but in the olfactory sense. This may just be a me thing, which would fit.

It's amazing how smells can take you back, isn't it? Occasionally I'll smell quite a sickly perfume on someone passing, and it takes me straight back to nursery school. I think one of the teachers there must have worn the same perfume. I don't actually like the perfume very much, but I like the memories it brings back.

 

[theablekingathelstan]

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Do you find yourself enjoying any weird smells? I'm not talking about the kind of smells that most people enjoy, like freshly baked bread or newly mown grass - I mean stuff that smells a bit strange, but for some reason you quite like it. I'll give you an example - I really like the smell of new carpet! Whenever I have a new carpet fitted, I really enjoy how it smells, and I feel sad when the new smell eventually fades.

Does anyone else out there have a weird nose, or is it just me?

Floor polish and cough medicine

 

[Lemonbalm]

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Floor polish and cough medicine

Floor polish - yes, that's a good one! Cough medicine - it depends what flavour it is.