Smells you aren’t supposed to like but do

[Soubriquet]

I’ll start with

bleach
petrol
fresh tar
permanent marker
creosote

Inner tubes. Mmmmm.

EBF baby poo...

Surgical spirit. I became very enthusiastic about hand sanitising with the stuff in 2020. I also love the smell of the timber stacked up outside our local builder’s merchants, I wind down my window to enjoy it whenever I’m passing.

Chlorine
Tar
Petrol
Dog paws and fur
Secondhand book shops

Your own babies poo before they are weaned

Dh could never understand why it didn’t bother me as he throughly gagged whilst changing nappies.

It doesn’t work when you start to introduce food though. It just reeks then

Trumps... But only my own!

Insulin smells amazing. I wish I could get an insulin smelling product for cleaning my house.

Manure! Fresh countryside!

Burning hair, when the lighter flame burns a bit higher than you expected it to! 😃

Pub smell. I don’t drink or smoke but the smell of beer and cigarettes, especially on a hot day 👌🏻

Bleach
Petrol
Bbq

Fresh manure while the farmer is muck spreading

Love the smell of insulin too! And I love how it's slightly pearly/sparkly

There is some sort of cookie/doughnut stall in my nearby shopping centre and every time I walk past it, the smell is EXACTLY like what my kids' nappies smelled like when they had only breastmilk. It's Proustian.

It also slightly nauseates me that people are queueing up to buy stuff from there

Rubber. It intensified so much when I was pregnant I used to drive to Halfords so I could hang around in there and inhale deeply 😂

Also love the smell of the inside of a new pair of rubber gloves 🤷‍♀️

Think lots of people like the smell of dogs paws though. Doesn’t make sense why they smell nice though given how often they stand in their own wee and poo!
Just checked Ddogs paws and smelling good today 😂

a struck match

Freshly spread manure. And printer's ink.

Oooh that's a vile one 🤮

Chlorine

I used to love the smell of my cat. Weird I know. She smelt like hay

Burnt toast

Yes!

I used to light matches and blow them out just to smell that smell.

And I would scratch the strike but because it smells nice

Cats. I think they smell lovely, like hay and wholemeal digestive biscuits. I can't go past a cat without burying my face in their fur and breathing in their beautiful smell. My children think I'm a bit embarrassing.

I think most of these are standard "favourite smells" except this one Also the smell of damp towels that have that faint mildewy smell and need a wash. 😧