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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.
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
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!)
