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To ask what weird smells other people like?

192 replies

BuddhaLove · 10/10/2018 22:36

My fella thinks I'm weird because I like to go in the garden and smell the damp wood on the shed.
If we are in the petrol station I open my passenger door and inhale as deep as I can which he says is embarrassing because I do it so obviously.
I love the smell of the pink stuff that car bumpers are patched up with aswell.
Also dogs when they've been in the rain.

Don't know how he can talk and say I'm a freak when he sits and enjoys the smell of his own farts.

Anyone else like weird smells that other people would find strange or just me?

OP posts:
ReginaPhalangee · 11/10/2018 05:32

Wood smoke in the early autumn air

pinkmagic1 · 11/10/2018 05:35

Horses and also the smell of a tack room. That smell of leather and horse mixed is just the best.

adaline · 11/10/2018 06:31

Petrol
My dogs ears (they smell like biscuits)
Freshly cut grass
Rain on hot tarmac
Bonfires
Just-blown-out candles

mumtothebabes123 · 11/10/2018 06:53

My baby's poo
Breastfed and Only until they start solids
It's sweet and i just love the smell 😲

Bambamrubblesmum · 11/10/2018 07:13

When its early summer and you go out early in the morning, the mixture of grass, dew and sunlight smells just amazing.
New tarmac
Cooking onions in olive oil

This thread has made me smile just thinking about smells - does that make me weird Grin

Kattyy · 11/10/2018 07:17

Puppy breath
Candles when you blow them out
Fresh sawdust

SpawnChorus · 11/10/2018 07:29

Plastic book covers (when new).

LakieLady · 11/10/2018 07:29

The gunpowder smell when a firework has just gone off.

The whiff of bitter orange when you open a jar of Frank Cooper's marmalade. Some other marmalades have a good smell, but Frank Cooper's is the best.

glitterystuff · 11/10/2018 07:36

Can't believe I'm gonna say this but - my own wee. Only when fresh though.

It always smells sweet (no I'm not diabetic).

I first realised I liked it when I had to give a doctors sample.

I know, I'm deranged...

Confused
glitterystuff · 11/10/2018 07:40

Oh yeah, and besides my own wee, I like that weird smell that comes from ladybirds.

Of course I also like creosote/tarmac, warm printing machines, glossy magazines, and a bunch of other stuff people have said, but I thought I'd bring something new to the list. Wink

Thatstheendofmytether · 11/10/2018 07:53

Don't worry glittery stuff most people like the smell of their own farts 😂 that's just as bad.

QueenOfMyWorld · 11/10/2018 07:56

My dogs subtle doggy biscuity smell,rain,diesel,

gettofuckthrees · 11/10/2018 08:31

We have a roll of disposable tourniquets in work. They are blue rubber and smell like heaven.
Also, saddle soap and polo mints being eaten by a horse. I can't stand the sound of chewing but I don't mind a horse with a polo Confused

Chocolatecoffeeaddict · 11/10/2018 08:38

I love the smell of the train station. Not sure what it is but it's like a mixture of bleach and rubber.
I love new carpets too.

LongSummerDays · 11/10/2018 08:47

Wood smoke, bleach, tar, sesame oil, fresh bread, washing powder.

MysteriesOfTheOrganism · 11/10/2018 08:55

The inside of a garden shed: a smell of timber mixing with faint old garden scents (grass clippings on the lawnmower, earth on garden tools) and the general scent of dust, dryness and stillness.

justwantedalaugh · 11/10/2018 08:58

ClemHFandango

With you on the dog paws! Mine smell of Cheezy Wotsits (the dog's that is!).

justwantedalaugh · 11/10/2018 08:59

Certain plastics. Love the smell of ping-pong balls.

justwantedalaugh · 11/10/2018 08:59

Cigars. I don't smoke and never have though.

Tursiopstruncatus · 11/10/2018 09:06

Swarfega
Freshly printed Banda sheets
Those plastic keyboard templates that used to come with software in the 80s/early 90s

Notquiteagandt · 11/10/2018 15:18

Tomato plants in the sun or a greenhouse
My dogs ears
Pencil lead
Fresh cut grass
Bonfires
The varnish my dad used on his flies for fly fishing.
Chlorine and smell of a swimming pool
Face powder that talcy smell

Charmatt · 11/10/2018 15:22

Rape seed plants in the fields in spring. My daughter thinks I'm weird, but I can't get enough of it!

GraceMarks · 11/10/2018 15:25

That Polytar shampoo for people with eczema and psoriasis. I was prescribed it when I had scalp acne as a teenager and I absolutely loved the smell - think it's coal tar or something.

SerenDippitty · 11/10/2018 15:27

Back in pre digital photography days, the smell of new film when I opened the canister it came in.

iklboo · 11/10/2018 15:42

The old marker pens you had to use in a ventilated room
Hot tar
Creosote
Diesel
Xylene
Medical alcohol

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