Craving a smell?!

[AnExParrot]

I'm 37w and haven't had any food cravings but in the last week I've had an overwhelming, weirdly strong craving for the smell of a particular facial cleansing product. It's quite an astringent smell (the product has alcohol, menthol and eucalyptus in it) and I cannot stop sniffing it!

I know this probably sounds mad. I don't want to drink the stuff (thank God!) but I could just sit there smelling it for ages.

Has anyone else craved a smell rather than a food? Please tell me I'm not the only one - I feel like a lunatic!

Not food or a smell, but I craved (and that really is the right word, it was a physical sensation) episodes of QI.
Predated Dave and the iPlayer too, so had to watch blurry YouTube videos.

I had no food cravings but I couldn’t stop smelling vicks. I was addicted to it. I even had a pot in my handbag and when I thought no one was looking I’d be sniffing!!

Yes! I did .... craved the smell of freshly cut wood, petrol and gloss paint

Spent a lot of time in petrol stations / B&Q where they cut wood and tried to not sniff gloss paint but I did because the need was too much not my best moment in time

God yes, for proper old school soap. It had to be the pink coloured Pearl brand and I used to sniff it constantly when I was at the end of my pregnancy with DS1.

Yes, I absolutely craved the smell of cowshit! Luckily I live in the countryside, I'd drop DS1 off at school every day to a field I knew was particularly pungent. I was praised by many for walking so much during the pregnancy... Little did they know I was pursuing cowpats as if they were crack...

Yes. Firefighters!

Firelighters even lol

I craved the smell of Olbas oil, I needed that to go to sleep .

Yes! I craved the smell of petrol too!

I craved the smell of moth balls with my eldest. I used to leave pouches of mothballs on the radiator. On my way home, the heating would come on and upon my entry I'd be welcomed by the smell. I couldn't get enough of it. It was like walking into heaven...

Thanks, ladies! I'm SO glad it's not just me!

My craving was the inside of old library books and libraries in general

Used to run in to get a good sniff as much as I could

It's usually linked to being low in Iron. I craved the smell of Harpic black toilet cleaner with my son. I even had two bottles in my bag on the labour ward and done the toilet there until my partner took it away as it was getting a bit over the top. By the time my son was born I was Anaemic

I'm 29 weeks and crave the smell of bleach! My OH loves it as I'm not usually the clean freak one but I will quite happily clean my bathroom and kitchen with flash (added bleach) all day. Also love swimming coz of the chlorine smell, and then smelling it on me after too... haven't had any food cravings though!!

Mine at the moment is yellow lenor fabric softener, only when it's been through the wash and is wet it doesn't smell the same if it's still in the bottle, I have the urge to suck the water out of the wet clothes too... very bizarre 😂

Yes, I craved the smell of tyres and Vanish stain removal powder. I could have happily licked either (but didn't!)

I craved the smell (not taste despite loving chocolate normally!) of when you open a new tin of quality streets at Christmas. It was a real nostalgic thing and not just the smell but the look of all the shiny wrappers. I wanted to inhale it and run my fingers through the chocolates. Sadly i didn't get to fulfil my craving but it lasted a couple of weeks and on my mind constantly.

Yes, bath sponges (it’s more common than you’d think) they had to be the right ‘type’ though. 2 years since my last pregnancy & the smell can still calm me down.

Milton sterilising fluid, or if that wasn't available, just regular bleach.

Ohh yes!! I craved kind of musty old plastered walls smell. Under the stairs, and weirdly the music corridor at my school!!
I used to get in about 5 minutes early each morning just to stand in the hallway for a good few minutes and inhale really deeply over and over again before anyone else got there.

Realised after about a week that there was CCTV at the end of the hall, that I'd been standing directly in front of! The site team must have thought I was possessed.

I had this. It's a form of pica

Fairy original washing up liquid

I can't sleep without lavender on my pillow if that counts :)

Yes! I polished my tables every day because I couldn't get enough of the smell of a certain furniture polish. I even considered spraying it on my clothes when I went to work so I could sniff at my leisure!

Hi just wondering if anyone has had craving to smell lenor unstoppages? .ost likely the blue ones? Omg I lit can't get enough. I'm 33 weeks pregnant and been the same since the start I will fill my sink up with boiling water and pour loads in so my house smells like it and will stand over the sink smelling it for a good while 😂 even been putting them in wax melts
Can't explain it oh and also trebor extra strong spearmint which are so hard to buy atm!!