What weird smells do you like?

[Candyflossforbreakfast]

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?!

I have one dog's paws smell of popcorn and the other of biscuits LOVE IT we like to guess the dog with our eyes closed.....

Musky old churches, second hand book shops, cows, slightly sweaty male pits, tomato plants , my little cats head when he's been in the sun

I absolutely love this smell, again I think it reminds me of childhood and going to Sunday School and church fetes in the musty old church hall

Tar, petrol, newly lit cigarettes (in fresh air only), paper, dog and my kids' scalps when they're sleeping.

Bleach!

Yes, petrol (or - think someone told me it's actually Benzine, which is in the petrol???) - yummy. Also creosote (carcinogenic, but hey) and timber in general - pine resin, that sort of thing.

The smell of nice quality printed books in the middle (not pulp paperbacks - they don't have a smell). New leather.

Camembert! But I'm a pariah in my family for this. Baking bread.

Mown grass, the earth in Spring, and after summer rain; obviously many, many flowers, plus that old tom-cat smell you get with home-grown tomatoes. The damp, green smell of florists. Chrysanthemums,
which lots of people don't like.

New car smell (never had a new car, but I've smelt it in my richer friends' cars). Woodsmoke and the smell of candles when they're extinguished - childhood birthdays etc. Hardware shops (wood, paint, polish??? Not sure.)

Don't like the smell of a butcher's shop or artificial scents which literally get up my nose. Changing rooms...ugh.

So many.

Sawn wood, gorgeous, rubber, very comforting, and cigars, reminds me of childhood Christmases.

I was born in the 1950's and my older brother told me that I used to have a rubber sheet under my cot sheet to protect the mattress, so that explains my need to sniff rubber bands and hot water bottles!

That is weird. Ferrets absolutely honk!

Exhause fumes! My sweaty feet when I was still working, I'd take my shoes off in the car and sometimes wound up with more shoes in the car than in the house, the children used to gag!

Autumn countryside bonfires.

Petrol, but specifically the smell of partially burnt petrol from something classic, inefficient and v8-ey. The petrol exhaust plus a whiff of unburned fuel is just delicious.

Petrol fumes, some rubber (or is it the glue?), black market pens, musty underground/tube smell. I never get to smell any of that anymore.

Definitely petrol but also that smell when you go into a hardware store, the mix of wood and paint. Also the smell of new clothes.

Hot horse and leather
Stables
Sheep
Cows
The smell of blown out match.
Dogs'ears and paws

I love matches. DH lights a candle and calls me for a sniff of the match

Books, pamphlets catalogues etc
Fresh coffee
The sea
Mint
New carpet
Sizzling garlic
Freshly dug wet earth
Newly cut grass

Breastfed baby poo

horses. Horses and their poo - but a horse I could (and do) just throw my arms around and inhale. Also their fly spray and hoof oil mnmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

petrol but that’s not unusual

the breath of a puppy Labrador - smells like coffee biscuits

Does the smell differ between sexes?
I had cuddles with a female ferret a while back, and she smelt musky but also sweet. I actually kept smelling my top for ages after. It was lovely.

Steam, from the kettle, iron, a pan
boiling (with just water) or the hot tap. Rain on hot concrete.

Petrol, cat food, dh armpits when he gets home from work

Yorkshire smells like the London Underground <considers moving>

I’ve not noticed this has a smell that makes you feel cold I don’t know what the smell is but it’s a smell. Experienced it in Germany too

Horses (reminds me of childhood)
nivea cream (reminds me of early teenage years )
nail polish remover
paper
my sons hair when it needs a wash !
frying mushrooms even though I hate mushrooms

Cathedrals/churches/bookshops - probably not weird

Trains moving around in a station is it the smell of diesel?

Aircraft fuel - used to live near Gatwick - makes me shiver with memories of going on a plane

Ooh and I quite l Iike the smell of beer and fag smoke - reminds me of being young.

Cigar smoke

Pipe smoke

I've never smoked myself though!

And plastic covers on text books you got at school

School mince