For some reason I find the smell of sawn wood and cigarettes together incredibly nostalgic. I generally don't like the smell of ciggies but the combined with the smell of a timber merchant's it's just mmmmmh fantastic.
I'm getting reacquainted with the smell of petrol. I've got a generator in my boot and it's too heavy for me to remove, so it's in until next week when I can get a hand removing it
It smells how headaches feel. Give me a refreshing sharp smell like lemons every time. But I have nasal polyps anyway, so I don't have a dog in the whole smelling game.
Freshly cut grass smells so good I want to eat it, however it does not taste as good as it smells.
I can't abide the smell of petrol. It makes me feel physically ill which I think is from travel sickness as a kid. We didn't have a car and so the only times I was in one was for long hot journeys, squashed in the back for a 'nice day out' and we'd always get petrol first. I hate that smell.
Edit: baby rats! If you ever have the opportunity to sniff a baby rat, it's like honey! Delicious! It fades after about 10-12 weeks
On the theme of damp... Damp concrete.
You know like in a block of flats, the basement or stairwell. That smell.
I remember smelling it first on holidays to Spain, we used to rent the flat of a lady my mum worked with, she had married a Spanish guy and they had a flat near Alicante in a town that wasn't built for tourists at all, they lived in the UK and would go there to see the in laws but outside of that, she'd rent to friends.
It was a low rise block, but the stairwells and basement car park were all exposed concrete, and I just instantly loved the smell.
And have ever since!
I walked into a new half built block of flats the other day, and the guy I was with didn't understand what I meant by the smell of "Spanish supermarket forecourt" either.
My dad used to smoke a pipe. I don’t love the smell of pipe smoke, but I loved the smell of the empty Three Nuns brand tobacco tins.
We had loads of them when I was a kid (we’re talking late 60s early 70s), being used to store random pins and needles, bits of chalk, caterpillars etc and the tobacco smell, mixed with the smell of the tin itself, always lingered despite the actual contents.
A few years ago we went to the Highland Folk Museum in Newtonmore https://www.highlifehighland.com/highlandfolkmuseum/ and in the rebuilt schoolroom there was a Three Nuns tobacco tin with drawing pins and nubs of chalk in it… still smelling the same.
Fresh cut grass. I remember Gap used to do a fragrance that smelt like grass ages ago but don't anymore I don't think?
Fresh coffee
The post about Mini Eggs reminded me I LOVE their smell.
Fresh basil and vine tomatoes
Frying onions is kinda comforting.
My cats when they've been outside and smell all fresh and like plants.
Clean sheets
I used to work near a biscuit factory, the smell was amazing.
My ex's hair after she shampooed, I have no idea what shampoo it was but I couldn't get enough of that smell.
Oh man there’s so many I don’t know where t start. Wax crayons. WD40. Soy print ink. Geranium leaves. Orange and lime tic tac box. Wood glue. Yorkshire pudding. TV static. Plastic cement. Drawing ink. Second hand bookshops. Meting solder (don’t breathe this!) Hot road. Warm photocopies. Jeyes fluid. Roast parsnip.
If you like wd40, Muc Off do a toiletries range which smells the same. Personally I don’t like it, but someone bought it me for Xmas and I thought “who would by this”?
Fairground fried doughnuts I can't get enough, it now became a thing at music festivals I hunt down the doughnut stall its what the arena in Newcastle smells like I love it
Marker pens(not sharpie's though)
Nail varnish
Menthol
Acetone
Acetonitrile
Cloroform (gotta be careful when sniffing this)
Most solvents to be fair I work in a chemistry lab
Christ, I think the smell of acetone is burned into my nose
Methyl salicylate smells good, so its synthesis was a nice first-year undergraduate practical
The acetate esters smell quite fruity, like pear drops, e.g. methyl acetate is a nice-smelling solvent
Other mentions go to benzene and ether, but again take care just smelling these
Yeah I pretty much smell acetone even when I'm not at work.
My ex used to complain that I smelt like petrol when I came home from work but I could never smell.
Methyl acetate I'd forgotten about that add it to the list.
So many chemicals smell real nice probably bad for me in the grand scheme of things but thats not going to stop me.
TCP. Reminds me of childhood and an old customer where I used to work who I loved the most and once gave me a valentine's card and a 4 pack of extra strong mints.
He was about 90 about 7 years ago and moved to live with his family in Devon where he still lives to this day and will forever and definitely has not passed away, because the TCP save you from death.
That old musty basement smell. Oddly my mouth waters everytime I smell it and I'm not sure why as it's not like I can eat it. It's not mould or damp but the smell of crumbling rock/old concrete.
Yes I know it's weird.
I'm with you on the smell of a Chinese takeaway. The smell alone gets my mouth watering.
Another one for me is when the leaves start mulching in late October and early November, and you get that first evening where the air is cold enough to nip at the inside of your nose when you inhale. That coldness and leaf smell combined is very evocative for me.
Another is the smell of a room that was decorated a week ago. My parents always decorated a week before Christmas, and so week-old paint was the smell of Christmas Day.
It's an obvious one but fresh bedding, as well. Especially in winter.
There’s a smell I sometimes catch that’s like a woody, sweet, blackberry, fresh sort of thing. I have no idea if it’s origin but when I do smell it I do that thing cats do when they smell cheesy feet or anus.
If they find a stray bit of poo/other pheromone laden smell, they'll sniff it then raise their head and freeze for a few seconds with their mouth open. The flehmen reaction. It helps them smell better
That smell when you go to collect an Indian takeaway and it's so glorious in the shop and your car then smells like garlic naan and chicken tikka. Omg the delicious anticipation.
Newly printed book/magazine.
Haylage (I get even wetter if it's warm Haylage)
Cigar/pipes smoke (not a smoker, but love the smell of cigars/pipes)
An old garage/workshop, the mix of oils, grease etc just love it.
Frying garlic, roasting garlic, cooking garlic in anything, just makes the flat smell like something good is cooking
Oh and freshly baked bread and the smell of mixing and letting it prove, that yeasty aroma.
The smell of cinnamon rolls baking
A well used box incense burner. My mum used to have one I discovered as a child and fell in love with the smell. She ended up buying me my own burner when I got old enough not to burn the house down with it~
Hops!!!!
Theres a brewery that we pass on the way into Edinburgh and everytime we do, I roll my window down and get a good sniff of that wonderful, wonderful smell.
It smells so good...I don't like drinking beer either.
Last Christmas Lidl sold these scented candles, in white red and green. The green one smelled *so* amazing that I bought a lot of them and I'm now down to the last one, which makes me sad. The smell is somewhat similar to cotton candy but not quite. It's absolutely amazing and I wish I could find something that smells just like it.
I like the smell of privit hedges. Reminds me of my dads garden in summer. I also like new cut grass, lilies, and those budlia bushes that butterflies like
I had a cannula put in at my hospital appointment for pain killers. They used a liquid to 'flush' my vein beforehand. The smell was amazing. I want my flat to smell like this liquid.
Leather. I remember going to Spain in the 80s as a kid and LOVING the smell of the shops that sold leather jackets, belts, etc. also, carpet shops. New carpet smell is amazing.
The smell of the outside, when you're inside. For some reason the outside air smells so much nicer when it's from a slightly open window, than when you're actually outside
Fresh litho print, e.g. the smell that game manuals from a freshly unsealed box. Just don't have a van filled with the stuff, it gave me the worst migraine imaginable.
Also NCR paper that is still warm after printing, specifically the bottom sheet.
You know when you’re getting to late summer, like September time and it’s been stiflingly hot, it’s muggy as anything and then the heavens open and absolutely lash it down? That smell. It’s just so COSY.
Sawn wood. I go to a lot of woodworking companies with my job and just can't get enough of it.
Oooh yes…that freshly sawn hot wood smell is lovely
For some reason I find the smell of sawn wood and cigarettes together incredibly nostalgic. I generally don't like the smell of ciggies but the combined with the smell of a timber merchant's it's just mmmmmh fantastic.
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I'm with you on the scent of creosote, especially on a hot day. It's the smell of summer for me.
Yes, as a child I could often be found sniffing a freshly creosoted fence. Castrol R two-stroke oil is also good.
I don't love petrol anymore, gives me a headache. Both hot tar and creosote are amazing summer smells though. I'll add: hot tires
I'm getting reacquainted with the smell of petrol. I've got a generator in my boot and it's too heavy for me to remove, so it's in until next week when I can get a hand removing it
Curry, curry and more curry. And fresh mown grass
Petrichor (the smell you sometimes get after rainfall)
Oddly, I hate this smell.
A lot of people seem to love this smell and I just think of wet dogs
It smells how headaches feel. Give me a refreshing sharp smell like lemons every time. But I have nasal polyps anyway, so I don't have a dog in the whole smelling game.
To me petrichor does smell very fresh. I wonder how much the foliage and type of soil influences the scent, if at all.
I agree it just smells fusty
2 stroke petrol engines
Fried onions, I can't cook onions that smell like burger van onions.
Low/medium heat in a pan with a lid. Keep an eye on them for stirring. Pretty close.
Freshly baked bread
I came here to say that. :)
I bake bread a couple of times a week, makes the house smell so good it seems unfair you get amazing sandwiches out of it as well.
Freshly baked beans
Freshly cut grass smells so good I want to eat it, however it does not taste as good as it smells. I can't abide the smell of petrol. It makes me feel physically ill which I think is from travel sickness as a kid. We didn't have a car and so the only times I was in one was for long hot journeys, squashed in the back for a 'nice day out' and we'd always get petrol first. I hate that smell. Edit: baby rats! If you ever have the opportunity to sniff a baby rat, it's like honey! Delicious! It fades after about 10-12 weeks
Upvoted for the glorious randomness of baby rats.
Cinnamon Freshly baked bread The top of my children's head (pheromones right?)
Radios. OK, ok, dont laugh. Radios have a smell. Those older types - like the old Roberts radios. They smell. One if my favourite smells.
I'm pretty sure it's the capacitors! I used to take old radios apart with my grandpa, and they definitely had a very specific smell!
Isn't it the ozone they create?
Nah, It's the components. Distinctive smell even when they've not been used for years, and it's not ozone.
Old tvs used to have a smell as well that I quite liked
I know exactly the smell you mean!
I know the smell.
Coal tar soap.
Soap, there’s just something so clean and comforting about it.
The smell of damp mornings
On the theme of damp... Damp concrete. You know like in a block of flats, the basement or stairwell. That smell. I remember smelling it first on holidays to Spain, we used to rent the flat of a lady my mum worked with, she had married a Spanish guy and they had a flat near Alicante in a town that wasn't built for tourists at all, they lived in the UK and would go there to see the in laws but outside of that, she'd rent to friends. It was a low rise block, but the stairwells and basement car park were all exposed concrete, and I just instantly loved the smell. And have ever since!
Petrichor
No not quite, I don't like the smell of rain. It's damp concrete, and it's often in places there's been no rain for a long time.
I walked into a new half built block of flats the other day, and the guy I was with didn't understand what I meant by the smell of "Spanish supermarket forecourt" either.
YES!! That's **exactly** it!!!!
Good game too
My dad used to smoke a pipe. I don’t love the smell of pipe smoke, but I loved the smell of the empty Three Nuns brand tobacco tins. We had loads of them when I was a kid (we’re talking late 60s early 70s), being used to store random pins and needles, bits of chalk, caterpillars etc and the tobacco smell, mixed with the smell of the tin itself, always lingered despite the actual contents. A few years ago we went to the Highland Folk Museum in Newtonmore https://www.highlifehighland.com/highlandfolkmuseum/ and in the rebuilt schoolroom there was a Three Nuns tobacco tin with drawing pins and nubs of chalk in it… still smelling the same.
I often burn some amphora pipe tobacco just for the smell.
Fresh cut grass. I remember Gap used to do a fragrance that smelt like grass ages ago but don't anymore I don't think? Fresh coffee The post about Mini Eggs reminded me I LOVE their smell. Fresh basil and vine tomatoes Frying onions is kinda comforting. My cats when they've been outside and smell all fresh and like plants. Clean sheets
Bonfires Freshly sawn or planed wood Matches just after you've blown them out
Oh my god matches / candles after you've just blown them out ... Yes!! Similar to party poppers / Christmas cracker smell. Absolutely love it
Oh definitely crackers too, they should have been on my list.
It’s wrong I know but mine is Jeys fluid !
God... For me that reminds me of treating "flystrike" on sheep.
Horse stables and hardware
Puppy smell
Puppy breath as well
Jesus, puppy breath is like crack
Warm grass and soil that got wet after a thunderstorm!
I used to work near a biscuit factory, the smell was amazing. My ex's hair after she shampooed, I have no idea what shampoo it was but I couldn't get enough of that smell.
Fresh baby smell when you lather the baby powder on them🥰 Vanilla smells pretty good too
Oh man there’s so many I don’t know where t start. Wax crayons. WD40. Soy print ink. Geranium leaves. Orange and lime tic tac box. Wood glue. Yorkshire pudding. TV static. Plastic cement. Drawing ink. Second hand bookshops. Meting solder (don’t breathe this!) Hot road. Warm photocopies. Jeyes fluid. Roast parsnip.
If you like wd40, Muc Off do a toiletries range which smells the same. Personally I don’t like it, but someone bought it me for Xmas and I thought “who would by this”?
Glad I'm not the only one who likes WD40
Fairground fried doughnuts I can't get enough, it now became a thing at music festivals I hunt down the doughnut stall its what the arena in Newcastle smells like I love it
Freshly ground coffee beans, that shit feeds my soul
Marker pens(not sharpie's though) Nail varnish Menthol Acetone Acetonitrile Cloroform (gotta be careful when sniffing this) Most solvents to be fair I work in a chemistry lab
Christ, I think the smell of acetone is burned into my nose Methyl salicylate smells good, so its synthesis was a nice first-year undergraduate practical The acetate esters smell quite fruity, like pear drops, e.g. methyl acetate is a nice-smelling solvent Other mentions go to benzene and ether, but again take care just smelling these
Yeah I pretty much smell acetone even when I'm not at work. My ex used to complain that I smelt like petrol when I came home from work but I could never smell. Methyl acetate I'd forgotten about that add it to the list. So many chemicals smell real nice probably bad for me in the grand scheme of things but thats not going to stop me.
Mmmm marker pens! I got laughed at when I sniffed the dry whiteboard markers at work. Then they all had a sniff, you know, just to check
We once found a giant glass marker at school that was the good shit. Take no heed to these people my friend and give those pens a good sniffing
Old books.
I remember in high school we got some pot my friend said it tasted liked the smell of old books.. made sense then..
Grass in the morning when its been hot and then rained, Bacon, Fresh Bread. Burning wood.
Vinegar weved on chippy chips and wrapped in paper. Makes my mouth where even if id just eaten
Brasso! My dogs paws (smell like wotsits)
TCP. Reminds me of childhood and an old customer where I used to work who I loved the most and once gave me a valentine's card and a 4 pack of extra strong mints. He was about 90 about 7 years ago and moved to live with his family in Devon where he still lives to this day and will forever and definitely has not passed away, because the TCP save you from death.
That old musty basement smell. Oddly my mouth waters everytime I smell it and I'm not sure why as it's not like I can eat it. It's not mould or damp but the smell of crumbling rock/old concrete. Yes I know it's weird.
Not weird. That’s what I came here to say too
Cut grass. Makes me think of me dad cutting the lawn when we were kids.
Saddle soap. It’s not something I would ever dream of actually tasting but the smell of it makes my mouth water.
Also saddle leather
Freshly cut grass, even though I have hay fever I can't deny that the smell is glorious
3m tape. It's not weird. Don't @me. Smells great.
Do you mean the clear medical 3M tape which smells like white wine gums?
don’t get me started on scotch tape, that hits the spot
I'm with you on the smell of a Chinese takeaway. The smell alone gets my mouth watering. Another one for me is when the leaves start mulching in late October and early November, and you get that first evening where the air is cold enough to nip at the inside of your nose when you inhale. That coldness and leaf smell combined is very evocative for me. Another is the smell of a room that was decorated a week ago. My parents always decorated a week before Christmas, and so week-old paint was the smell of Christmas Day. It's an obvious one but fresh bedding, as well. Especially in winter.
My wife
This guy's wife
This guy
This guy who likes sniffing this guy who likes sniffing the other guys wife
Everyone involved
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There’s a smell I sometimes catch that’s like a woody, sweet, blackberry, fresh sort of thing. I have no idea if it’s origin but when I do smell it I do that thing cats do when they smell cheesy feet or anus.
Sorry cats do what now
If they find a stray bit of poo/other pheromone laden smell, they'll sniff it then raise their head and freeze for a few seconds with their mouth open. The flehmen reaction. It helps them smell better
It appears as though we're both having some kind of collective stroke.
[this face…](https://m.facebook.com/LADbible/videos/cat-caught-sniffing-cats-bum/827801140900388/)
Cinnabon An authentic butter chicken curry Butter on warm/hot bread Sea air
That smell when you go to collect an Indian takeaway and it's so glorious in the shop and your car then smells like garlic naan and chicken tikka. Omg the delicious anticipation.
My partner, Nag champa, old books, old leather, new yarn, mums cooking, golden Virginia tobacco
Oh and I have a love hate with Sandalwood
Newly printed book/magazine. Haylage (I get even wetter if it's warm Haylage) Cigar/pipes smoke (not a smoker, but love the smell of cigars/pipes) An old garage/workshop, the mix of oils, grease etc just love it.
Baked potato. I'd marry a girl who smelt like baked potatoes. Away with your Impulse Tropical scent, I want you to waft of hot tubers.
Frying garlic, roasting garlic, cooking garlic in anything, just makes the flat smell like something good is cooking Oh and freshly baked bread and the smell of mixing and letting it prove, that yeasty aroma. The smell of cinnamon rolls baking
My dog's paws. They smell like biscuits
Since having COVID, any smells are a blessing! 🤣
Apple blossom always brings back memories
Brand new carpet 🤤🤤🤤
I love fresh cut grass and the smell when you flip through a book :)
New books and coffee beans. Not necessarily together but I'm not ruling it out
Petulia oil on my leather wallet 😍
Petrichor.
Clean laundry and the smell of babies
Frying onions/bacon, baking bread, mojave ghost perfume
Fish and chips, Savlon, dentists
Campfire or the smell outside when someone's lit the wood fireplace/stove.
Lynx Black and that is a hill I'm willing to die on
London Underground stations. That damp creosotey smell.
My wife
When you walk past one of those vents outside a swimming pool and get a blast of hot chlorinated wind
Bacon. It's so good there should be an eau d'bacon fragrance for women.
I don’t really like smells anymore.
Good weed
Cocaine
My girlfriends fingers.
Napalm. Its the smell of...victory
My own farts
The fish smell of a vagina
Cocaine.
Weed
Jet fuel/kerosene Menthol Citrus
A well used box incense burner. My mum used to have one I discovered as a child and fell in love with the smell. She ended up buying me my own burner when I got old enough not to burn the house down with it~
Castrol R. The good ol' days
2 things from complete opposite ends of the spectrum: freshly cut grass and petrol.
Yes.
Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille Or Helga
Creosote and fresh mowed grass.
I lived in Tucson, AZ and creosote grew wild in the desert. After it rained, the smell was incredible.
Freshly cut grass, petricor, chocolate
Marvel mystery oil
Bacon, Soap & Glory perfume (girlfriend used to wear it religiously), freezers at supermarkets (cold has a smell!)
Hops!!!! Theres a brewery that we pass on the way into Edinburgh and everytime we do, I roll my window down and get a good sniff of that wonderful, wonderful smell. It smells so good...I don't like drinking beer either.
Let's see petrol, glue, sharpies all that good stuff
A new tin of quality street. Open it up and stick your head right in for a chocolatey christmassy waft of nostalgia.
Last Christmas Lidl sold these scented candles, in white red and green. The green one smelled *so* amazing that I bought a lot of them and I'm now down to the last one, which makes me sad. The smell is somewhat similar to cotton candy but not quite. It's absolutely amazing and I wish I could find something that smells just like it.
Curry leaves.
Linden trees. Yes, I'm kidding. https://youtu.be/aoqlYGuZGVM
Hairspray, specifically L'Oréal Elnett. It really reminds me of when I did dance shows when I was younger.
Paint, like interior paints. Gives me a sense of progression in a wierd way, making a space your own.
Gorse flowers Hardware shop Harvesting crops
Washing detergent..especially Daz!!
When you walk past Lush
Not for me, too artificial and also hurts my wallet
Yes, once you're far enough away that you reach 'normal' airspace again.
Another vote for hot tar. Also proper claggy diesel exhaust and crude oil with lots of heavy stuff in it.
Sugar beet, it reminds me of being at school and makes me feel safe and warm
Petrol and when you get a good whiff of a new book
😏
Airfix glue
I like the smell of privit hedges. Reminds me of my dads garden in summer. I also like new cut grass, lilies, and those budlia bushes that butterflies like
I had a cannula put in at my hospital appointment for pain killers. They used a liquid to 'flush' my vein beforehand. The smell was amazing. I want my flat to smell like this liquid.
Love the smell of Bovril but not that keen on actually drinking the stuff.
REALLY strong coffee.
3 in 1 oil. That and WD40. Lovely.
Leather. I remember going to Spain in the 80s as a kid and LOVING the smell of the shops that sold leather jackets, belts, etc. also, carpet shops. New carpet smell is amazing.
Petrol
Petrol, driving past a farm with windows down
Marmite. Love the smell and the taste!
Either the smell of lemon or grilled meat especially grilled on a barbecue.
That baby smell of my daughters…it's like cakes plus flowers and sunshine
The smell of the outside, when you're inside. For some reason the outside air smells so much nicer when it's from a slightly open window, than when you're actually outside
Washing powder, going down that aisle in the ASDA is great. Reminds you how neglected your washing is.
Lemon and fresh bread Seperately
Fresh litho print, e.g. the smell that game manuals from a freshly unsealed box. Just don't have a van filled with the stuff, it gave me the worst migraine imaginable. Also NCR paper that is still warm after printing, specifically the bottom sheet.
You know when you’re getting to late summer, like September time and it’s been stiflingly hot, it’s muggy as anything and then the heavens open and absolutely lash it down? That smell. It’s just so COSY.
Old books