What's a smell you love that's odd/unusual?

[junipoor]

For example, for me it's

freshly laid carpets,

rubber rings, anything smelling of armbands of floats etc

Antiseptic

Euthamol toothpaste (love the taste)

Petrol (when I open the little hole for petrol I have a quick sniff )

The smell of my dog when he's wet, gorgeous!

Germoline - mmm! It smells like root beer tastes and I love that as well.
Perming lotion in old fashioneded hairdressers. Reminds me of my mum and nana.
In a similar vein but not a 'weird' smell but I really love Elnett hairspray. It makes me feel like a grown up lady when I wear it.

Petrol

I like petrol and also creosote. I remember my dad painting the garden fence with creosote and thinking it smelled so delicious I wanted to go out and lick it.

I also like the smell of damp face flannels. So does my 7 year old (unprompted).

I love the smell of tar. When I was little I had whooping cough, and my Dad boiled up a pot of tar in his shed which I had to sit and breathe in. I get really excited when I see roadworks

Creosote here too. I have fond memories of hot summer holidays with loads of people creosoting their fences!

Very light BO in a lover's armpit 🤣

Another fan of creosote and tar here too.

Musty old books
Churches
Wintergreen muscle rub

It’s weird that everyone says things like petrol and permanent markers when asked this question. It can’t be that weird if the majority of people like it

Savlon - I open the tube just to smell it 😅.

Some types of old plastic when they start to get a bit brittle and are probably degrading slightly. I don't know which plastic it is, I just know the smell when I smell it. One of the kids old dolls smells of if, and the bathroom window frame does . It's similar to a BO smell, but the nice kind.

Cordite
Creosote on a hot fence in summer
Castrol-R racing oil
Both new and old books
The unique oily diesel smell of Tanks ( yup as in the Army etc)
Detol

Linseed oil, takes me back to the art room at my old school.

I love the smell of hairspray too

And Savlon! And paint, I always want to have a sneaky lick of paint. Did it once... I was pregnant And I had to ban myself from going near it because I liked the taste

I also like sniffing flannels, and towels, love a good chew on a wet flannel... I'm very sensory for an otherwise nondescript person

Bleach. I had nightmare grouting in the shower in my last house and was forever having to blast it with spray bleach, I grew to love the smell of it.

The smell of tinsel and pine trees/needles. Just reminds me of Christmas.

Freshly cut grass reminds me of lazy summer days...

No to petrol. It makes me feel sick and gives me an instant headache.
Yes to tar. As kids we used to sit for hours messing with melted tar in the road. We used wooden sticks. Was a great activity.

Mouldy leaves in the woods in autumn

My partner's armpits, before deoderant I like to lift up his arms and steal a sniff - it's a strange one and he finds it hilarious.

I love sniffing the cats paws and their ears

The old Elastoplast plasters of the 80s. Heaven!

Petrol. Absolutely love it.
Opening a packet of Gillette disposable razors. I have to inhale the smell.
The cardboard used for paper towels. Lovely !
Newly sawed sawdust. Best whilst still warm.
Firefighters (but I no longer use the chemical ones - I miss that smell).

The stuff they clean floors with in hospitals and schools.

Pavements just after it's rained

Wild garlic

I love the smell of rain on a warm day.

And my dogs cheeks.

Vicks vaporub is up high on my list too, it reminds me of my mother who liked eating it, she averaged at least a tub per day