What weird smells do you like?

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Lighthearted!

what weird or unusual smells do you really like?!

I love petrol (not unusual I know but still!) and absolutely adore the smell of teabags. Not fruit or herbal tea, just typical breakfast teabags. I absolutely love them and when I was a child I used to sit with them at my nose and smell them so much (then when I blew my nose it was black and I thought it was hilarious) but even as an adult I adore the smell. I don’t really like the smell of tea, it’s just the teabags!

so, what unusual smells do you like?!

Yes! My pup’s feet smell like popcorn and I love it ❤️

Matches just after they've gone out, I love the smell of burnt matches.
The way pubs used to smell of stale beer and fags, miss it.

Vicks.

Locks and weirs. Mmm.

You used to get a sort of foam insert inside new zipper pencil cases, ones made of cheap plastic. I loved it.

I've never smoked but love when someone walks past with pipe or cigar (rare these days) must be outside though, it reminds me of childhood seaside holidays.

Horse shit 😬

Swimming pool chlorine
Dog paws
Cannabis
TCP antiseptic

Nail varnish
petrol
Creosote (one I bought a few years ago didn’t smell 😞)
New plastic
coal tar soap and pears soap
pine dettol
crumpets before the are toasted

Cigar smoke

such a lovely smell but the taste is very different to the smell

Both my dogs' paws ❤️.
Jeyes' Outdoor Cleaning Fluid ( reminds me of early childhood as my mum and nana worked in the Jeyes' factory and used to reek of the stuff but I loved it and they are now both long gone and it's a comforting smell)
Butterscotch Angel Delight (Original Source Shower gel Coco butter and Shea I think it is ,is just like it- again childhood)
Old Spice - reminds me of my late father .
Dettol - reminds me of being pregnant as had a craving for it.

Freshly struck matches
A brief whiff of ciggy smoke as I pass by
Builders putty
Wood shavings
Deep soil
Petrol
Traditional swimming baths
Nail polish
Magic markers
Aquariums when you open the lid
Greenhouses
Fresh tarmac
Garden bonfires (if only grass/wood is burning - no Vile plastic)
Calamine lotion

Firelighters and laundry detergent

Tomato plants... 🍅 My DH hates the smell but I adore it. Don't like eating raw tomatoes though.

Creosote. I could sniff that stuff all day lol!

I've never smoked and don't like that lingering cigarettte smell, but sometimes (rarely now) someone will walk past me smoking and I just love the smell.

Also agree with a freshly struck match, petrol, and dog paws. Also the smell of burning stubble in autumn.

My little dog's left ear

So many of these are great smells.

I also love the smell of the warm air that comes out of the hoover.

Shoe polish

Wood shavings and workshops, rubber - I used to have a pair of (scuba) fin retainers that I would chew 😳. Old style bad for you creosote, tarmac on a hot day, rain and after hot weather.

Petrol
Tar
Creostote
Permenant Marker

Ferrets.
I love the musky smell.
Now that is weird, right?

The plastic smell of blow up swim rings and inflatables (instantly reminds me of summer).

Cow poo!

Weirs! Yes but only since I had covid, they smell sort of almost sweet and musky like an expensive perfume.

Skin thats been in the sun. Reminds me of my mum. Its actually the smell of the skin burning. I used to sniff my arms a lot for comfort.

Still do and I'm in my 50s