To think it smells nice?

[ThePoorWeeDonkey]

I really love the smell of petrol. My DH thinks I'm mad (because poisonous etc). I think tar smells nice too. Am I the only one?
Share your unusual smell choices with me....

Burnt matches
Coal tar
Jeyes fluid
New babies

@HansSolo22

Christmas crackers - nothing like sticking your nose right on for a good whiff of a freshly popped cracker

Yes! Crackers smell amazing. What is it??

Sawdust also smells good and the mystery collection of smells that makes up my dad’s workshop including wood, solvent, damp and who knows what.

I like the smell of nail varnish too.

Another rubber lover. When I was a kid in Australia there was a shop that sold rubber goods (no, not like that). I’d make any excuse to go in and sniff. Mac does a perfume that smells of rubber (purple top)
Old fashioned coal tar soap.

Any farm smell. Even manure. Reminds me of home.

Old-fashioned hardware shops
Bleach
Ultraviolet light on dust
Hamsters
Sun-dried bedlinen

I love the smell of old books and old churches.

Chlorine - love the smell of it on my skin after swimming.
Tar makes me feel really ill.

I crave smells, chlorine, new shoes smells, bleach, baby bath. It usually gets worse when my iron levels are low.

@duckme

And the old gloss paint, the higher the VOC, the better.

High VOC you say , get a whiff of this , it'll knock your socks off .

Its great paint to use and has a very high tough gloss but by god it stinks !
www.amazon.co.uk/Leyland-Trade-264604-Gloss-Brilliant/dp/B004IU9220/ref=sr_1_36?crid=1AB06WOI8S7AQ&keywords=white+gloss+paint+1+litre&sprefix=layland+white+gloss+paint%2Caps%2C83&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&qid=1647548614&sr=8-36

When I was pregnant I used to sniff a tin of shoe polish (the hard stuff). Lovely!

My dogs fur.Adult dog smells of digestives the pup smells like baby lotion

The smell of damp soil is divine.

Inside a new plastic pencil case

@MintyGreenDream & @XenoBitch

Absolutely with both, slightly cheesy warm bread smell of my Labradors. Heaven

The smell of how pubs used to be. Nicotine in the air, spilt lager and a hint of B.O. Love it!

I thought this was going to be about scented sanitary towels

I'll keep my humourless feminist rant to myself then

As you were

@Longingforatikihut

Any farm smell. Even manure. Reminds me of home.

I really hope you lived in the countryside!

I love the smell of my cat's breath and have been known to have a good sniff after he yawns.

Linseed oil / putty
fresh plastered walls
tarmac
night scented stock ( flowers )
I dont like the smell of a lot of other flowers though , particularly orchids and hyacinths .

Creosote. Not the stuff used now, but what was used decades ago, probably carcinogenic, but it was the smell of Summer.

I have been told I am strange as I love the smell of horse manure. I moved from London to a Village and my house backs onto fields. Not sure why I love the smell.
Nothing to do with the thread but when I Popped to the fish and chip shop earlier a huge tractor was parked outside. Still getting use to living in the country 10 years on.

When I was pregnant with DD2 I could have worked as at forecourt attendant - I craved the smell of petrol! Have always loved the creosote, paint, marker pen type smells!

Creosote on a hot summers day, ahh, heaven.

New carpet and carpet shops.

Tomato plants in a hot green house.

Very old fashioned magic marker pens (they came in a little glass jar when I was at primary school).

Imperial leather talcum powder.

I love the smell of wooden sheds.

I used to love the smell of a new catalogue.

Underground train station platforms.