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Honesty time, I'll go first
Methyl Mercaptan (gas smell) - I actually quite like this
Newborn poop (breastfed). Smells mostly like burning rubber?!?
Roofing tar/Tarmac
Squash concentrate straight from the bottle. The really small ones.
Swarfega, the old green goopy version.
Honesty time, I'll go first
Methyl Mercaptan (gas smell) - I actually quite like this
Newborn poop (breastfed). Smells mostly like burning rubber?!?
Roofing tar/Tarmac
Squash concentrate straight from the bottle. The really small ones.
All of these, bar the poop?!
Nope, failing on this one. If I like it why shouldn't I? Some things might not be approved of by others but how would I know without a smells and tastes you shouldn't like first ? I could guess but that might get me a ban or assume people don't like the taste and smell of chocolate because I love cycling past the Lindt chocolate factory where I used to work when they're roasting.
GT85 absolutely ruined my skin. Highly unrecommended
Castrol R might not be many left on here have heard or smelt it, Brut from 40 years ago and not forgotten uhu glue
Thought of one: cyanide, which is the same as... .
Castrol R
The smell of Cradley Heathens speedway on a Saturday evening.
For me though it's burnt clutches and 2 stroke smoke that makes your eyes sting.
Closely followed by mud burnt onto disc brake calipers and rotors.
If I like it why shouldn't I?
Because sometimes they're really bad for you. I love the smell of electrical soldering, but it's super bad for you.
Household emulsion paint, mmmm, yummmy.
Oh and, I used to buy artists orange cadmium aqueous dispersion paint (pigment in water, for mixing with acrylic mediums), the smell of that made me want to drink it, it was gorgeous!
Tastes... sprouts?
Tarmac
Technically hot bitumen is the main constituent here, but thanks for capitalising the generic nameas a brand. PM me your bank details, and I'll ask Simone in the Marketing Team to send you a tenner 🤣
For the record, I'm completely with you on the smell of that too.
I only came to this thread to see how long it would take someone to say...
The ex
>the ex
Gaaaaah!
I was recently in a room with a woman who was the same age as an ex and wore the same perfume, which I don't think I have smelled in 20 years.
Some neurons fired...
Hot bitumen gives me to boak.
I like the smell of construction resins (hilti and rawl r-kem, I'm looking at you), metal angle gridings
Cigarettes/smoke. When I was a kid most of the extended family smoked, it's a fond memory, weirdly.
Cigars even more evocative. Grandpa smoked a pipe, but if my dad went away with the RAF, he'd bring Grandpa some cigars through duty free. Grandpa smoking a cigar meant dad was home.
My own farts.
Copydex
Humbrol balsa cement
Evostik
This is beginning to sound like I've got a bit of a problem 🤣
The smell of the cows in the milking parlour at work.
Kids are like farts. Your own are great, other people's are horrible.
But in a similar vein, I find the aroma of my poo (sampled at normal seated height) gives me a useful feedback on my health. At present I'm at the tail end (pun inevitable) of a bit of winter flu and I can guage when I'm free from it
But Castrol R...ooh.
Diethyl ether. Love the smell obviously in small doses.
Good smell: JetA1 - Reminds me of places that make me happy, specifically dropzones.
Good taste: Salmiaki and other salty lakris.
Bad smell: You know what? I can't immediately think of one. Other than maybe the smell of overly hot engine/clutch with no obvious cause and the probability of a large bill from the mechanic.
Bad taste: Unleaded, mainly because of that time I had to change the tank on my Fiat Panda and needed to siphon it before taken it off.
Clag from a Hymek 🤓
Another vote for Castrol R but I'm a similar vein the smell of 2 stroke
Decay
They say good beef and good cheese smells like bad feet. My feet are non pongy, but maybe its from being used to the smell of meat maturing.
No issues with countryside smells either.
And smoke. No not that kind, although ... I mean wood smoke. When you've spend a few days around a camp fire and you and your clothing reek of it.
I really like the smell when hoovering. I mean it's literally dust and dirt but for some reason I like it!!...
Eau de GT85 of course
I genuinely considered trying to develope a candle range called Mandles.
One of the smells was gt85.
I even got as far as googling what the perfume they use was 🤣
Then i remembered candles can get to the absolute ****
The solventy smell of the pages of a brand new book.
The musty smell of the pages of an old book.
My own farts.
I just popped in to see how many posts it would be before someone posted this.
I'm a bit ambivalent about this. It's nice to lay down a real nuclear grade fart and sit there all proud of what you have birthed into the world, but when you go out of the room and come back 10 minutes later and gag on the stench, it does give you a fresh perspective on how other people must feel about your talent.
We use a cell media called SDM-79. Everyone in the lab wrinkle their noses in disgust when it's being made up, but I love it. I smell fresh cut rhubarb, but everyone else says it gives off a yeast/ beefy odour. They're all weirdos.
I've heard some fun stories on Chemist channels... Fluorine compounds etc
Oh, another petrochemical one: cross-channel ferries. The car decks have a unique smell. Well I mean other ships might smell like that, I've never been on any other kind.
Anyone else like the smell of epoxy resin?
Cocaine
Having worked with Creosote, I agree it's nice for about a minute. Then it gets stuck in my nostrils for hours and gives me the worst headaches (much like cocaine!)
Plumbing solvent cement. Deliciously toxic.
Putoline warming on the stove, the hot oily smell reminds me of steam trains
The smell of whisky is so much better than the taste of it, a wee tip for Xmas or new year is to buy a tub of mackies ice cream let it soften to workable then add some whisky whisk it up then re freeze tastes amazing
I was caught sniffing my own bellybutton at school. Was it so wrong? 😬
(via a finger, I might add) (my OWN finger) (jeez!)
I was caught sniffing my own bellybutton at school. Was it so wrong?
(via a finger, I might add) (my OWN finger) (jeez!)
What did it smell like?
Cocaine
The only thing I like about going to the Dentist, is the Coke-like smell.
Petrol being pumped and two-stroke being combusted.
My balls.
Can't remember, getting caught put me off for life.
C'mon. For the sake of science, just one little dab. Do it for the children.
Glue. I remember being in a woodwork class when very young and the teacher saw me sniffing it and took it off me in a pretty robust way. I had no idea why. Got home and told my parents and they explained why.
It was a one time event.
This is hilarious
Blood (smell)
and Blood (taste)
New tyres.
Smells like bike shops*
*Or as I call it a well spent teenage era
Modern bike shops just don't hit the same
I love the smell of...
1) Evo Stick Contact Adhesive - my Dad used to use it and I have some great memories
2) Warm engine smell - similar to the above. It's about time spent with my Dad (I think)
3) Castrol R and Nitromethane model engine fuel smoke - RC model helicopters were a hobby of mine for a while
4) Horse/Cow 5h1t - years of farming created a lot of good memories associated with this
5) Sheep Dip - same reason as above
Back when smoking was allowed in pubs...walk past a pub on a Saturday lunchtime and the fans are pumping out a heady combination of old beer and smoke. Loved that.
Hand-rolled cigarette smoke wafting past your nose in the wind down at the beach.
Horse manure. It reminds me of mucking out the stables as a child. Also gathering dung from my field when I owned a pony.
The oily metallic smell of a proper garage or workshop. Could sit and breathe it in all day.
When I was younger I loved the smell my mum's car made in the garage when it started up. Not the same since they've taken lead out of petrol. Probably explains a few things 😁
Oh yeah the contact adhesive, agreed.
Petrol fumes.
A new magazine - Singletrackworld especially.
Fresh cut grass.
Old school travelling fairgrounds. Diesel fumes, candy floss and vomit!
My dad's Erinmore Mixture pipe tobacco when I was a nipper.
Brut 33 from when I was about 13 and every auntie and uncle bought it for me at Christmas in the form of soap (on a rope), talc and deodorant. See also Hai Karate and Old Spice! Minging really, but very evocative of a time and place.
tert-Butyldimethylsilyl chloride. It's like the essence of an earthy/grassy smell, but hydrolyses in your lungs to form hydrochloric acid.
Paraffin. I think because as a kid we'd have a paraffin heater hissing away on the landing during winters (pre-central heating). Quite comforting. I like a meths burner in a tent porch for the same reason, even if it does sometimes make your eyes water.
Solvents as many above (when I was at uni there was an "ether" lab with shielded lighting, no flames etc, plus not great ventilation - it was magic), also roofing/road tar and Castrol R (putoline in the same group as all them for me).
I also like the sort of fruity smell you seem to get on cold winter days around cattle farms - actually no idea what it is, silage maybe (or cold cowshite)?
I really like the smell of burning hair
Cellulose dope - many hours in the loft as a teenager building model aircraft. Possibly explains why I was always happy 😀
Also later in life spray painting cars with cellulose paint - lovely.
That's Xylene or Toulene isn't it? Pear drops, nasally.
(No smoking)
Nope, failing on this one. If I like it why shouldn't I?
I agree. It's a bit like that "disproportionately angry" thread. Things that make me really angry deserve to. Smells I like I can't see any reason why I shouldn't.
Smells I like I can't see any reason why I shouldn't
A few reasons for not smelling too much Xylene/Toluene:
Post-It Notes.
Warm electronics.
Cocaine failing that nail varnish remover
I'll bite : Organic Fuego Loco Hash. Circa 45% thc & riddled with terpenes. Smells just like transmission fluid, really chill high. I could use it as a smelling salt.
Not seen Tipex mentioned yet
Agree on gt85, warm electronics.
The greasy smell out of pub kitchen vents
Donner kebab
Another new book smeller here.