Smells you like/dislike ?

[motco]

That smell, and it could be any smell nice or not, that suddenly transports me to a place I had almost forgotten from many years ago. It happens only very occasionally but when it does it is like magic! The only human sense that cannot be recorded, unlike sight and sound and taste and touch, is smell so all smells are 'real' and 'live'. They are so evocative.

[Dog Star]

Dislike....

BO (or just dirty people in general)
Fish cooking in house
Cannabis - makes me barf
Farts

What really gets my back up is if people have something and thrust it under my nose going "smell this" - don't care if it's nice or awful, I get upset about that.

[Europa1]

Love the smell of petrol and freshly laid tarmac.

Also love leaf tea.

And Daisy by Marc Jacobs on a girl.

[S11Steve]

I lost my sense of smell about 20 years ago after a significant head injury.

I miss smells, good or bad.

I can only get the occasional taste of things in the back of my throat, which sometimes is not a great thing when you drive past a pig farm in summer....

[Dr Doofenshmirtz]

Like:
Old valve radiograms
Fresh cut grass
Creosote
Castrol R
New tarmac

Dislike:
Air freshener sprays
That doggy smell in people's houses
Second hand car from a smoker
Decaying dead animals

[guindilias]

csd19 said:

And not a huge number of pussy sniffers either...

I always think that cats smell like frankfurters...

[Fluffsri]

Dislike

Aniseed
Stale petrol
BO
Tinned tuna
Cinnabon

Like
Castrol R
Tarmac
Creosote
Someone has said it, weed smoke, don't touch the stuff but smells nice
Fresh rain
GT85
Bananas
Dr Pepper

[Echo66]

The whiff from under the patio I only laid a few weeks ago......

[V8Matthew]

Like

Hamsters - they smell of warm sawdust.
Dogs - not the 'dog smell' but if you get a clean, short haired dog they smell a bit like basmati rice,
Petrol or diesel.
Cut grass.
Stuffing trumps (my own)
Slow cooked food when you walk in the house.

Dislike

Sweaty football shirts in pubs/trains
The smell of warm lager on trains
Bad breath
Stale piss
Public toilets that smell of a combination of disinfectant and st.
When your clothes go foisty because they haven't dried quick enough

[Zod]

Good:
petrol
orange zest
lemon zest
good wine (so many different good aromas)
roast chicken
babies (not the nappy area)
coffee beans freshly roasted
leather
sandalwood
a good cigar (hardly ever smoke them any more)
aeroplane fuel
sun cream
log fires
cedar wood
baking bread
baking cake
jasmine
rosemary

Bad:
pig muck
the loo after a serious visit by one of my kids
dog st (especially after someone has trodden in it)
drains
rotten meat or fish
skunk cannabis
cigarette smoke
cigarette breath
bad BO
bad breath
cheap perfume/deodorant

[Pebbles167]

Love:

The smell of some of my ex girlfriends when they sweat
Chocolate
Hot mulled wine
Takeaway food
2 Stroke smoke
Guys wearing decent aftershave
Baking cookies/cakes
My stupid caramel e liquid
Contact cleaner

Hate:

The smell of some of my ex girlfriends when they sweat
st, of any description
Cheese (although i like it)
Clothes that have stayed damp before drying
Diesel smoke
Overly strong cinnamon
Dead animals, people, plants
My bitter nextdoor neighbour and her house, that bh

[GrizzlyBear]

Like:
Freshly baked bread
Freshly sawn wood
Curry

Dislikes:
Other people
Diesel fumes
Cooking omelette

[Promised Land]

dazwalsh said:

Hates:
Ever unscrewed the U Bend on a sink or shower? eurgh
Ever removed a toilet and got a whiff of the open soil stack? double eurgh with some retching thrown in.

Have you ever had to rod a blocked sewer? Then you know what a bad spell is especially if you're rodding it from the blocked end so the rods come back out coated up, done that four times now. Cotton buds or wipes are always the culprit.

Walking through the perfume dept of a store is a hate for me, all those scents infused together, disgusting.

Likes, speedway fuel, newly painted and carpeted rooms, fresh cut grass shortly followed by a rain shower.

[OldSkoolRS]

motco said:

That smell, and it could be any smell nice or not, that suddenly transports me to a place I had almost forgotten from many years ago. It happens only very occasionally but when it does it is like magic! The only human sense that cannot be recorded, unlike sight and sound and taste and touch, is smell so all smells are 'real' and 'live'. They are so evocative.

I know exactly what you mean; there is a smell that I don't even know what it is that takes me back to being in my first classroom at primary school; crayons or pencils, something like that but can never quite place it. Another smell (some kind of floor cleaning product I think) that reminds me of the local shop I used to go in with my Mum before I even went to school.

The strangest one for me though was a time I was working outside on a car when I smelt pipe smoke. I looked around and not a soul in sight (and my car wasn't on fire either . It was probably in my mind though as my Grandad had just passed away and he was the only person I knew who smoked a pipe. It still raises the hairs on the back of my neck if I smell pipe smoke these days.

[WindyCommon]

Hub said:

...I don't like the smell of rice cakes...

Agreed. Vile.

[dfen5]

Like:
Ozone (Tig welding). Extracted but get the odd whiff.
Unlit cigarettes (I don't smoke)
Barley hay fresh from being cut


Dislike.
Popped capacitors, anything burnt from an electrical fire. Again harmful and avoided but sometimes that smell lingers.

[SunnyD]

I LOVE the smell of coffee - but hate the actual drink, or anything coffee flavoured. Does anyone else experience that with coffee (or anything else)? Or just me?
Love the smell of smoke from a log fire
Petrol
Toasted scones (if you've never had a toasted scone before, you're missing out)
Blowing out a match

Hate
The smell of my hands after using the communal boxing gloves at MMA
Bananas (even though I quite like bananas...!?)

[J4CKO]

SunnyD said:

I LOVE the smell of coffee - but hate the actual drink, or anything coffee flavoured. Does anyone else experience that with coffee (or anything else)? Or just me?
Love the smell of smoke from a log fire
Petrol
Toasted scones (if you've never had a toasted scone before, you're missing out)
Blowing out a match

Hate
The smell of my hands after using the communal boxing gloves at MMA
Bananas (even though I quite like bananas...!?)

I love the smell and taste of coffee but anything coffee flavoured is generally disgusting, I would buy Revels if they put a pea or something , instead of the coffee on.

[cobra kid]

Like - Minge

Dislike - Minge

[SunnyD]

J4CKO said:

SunnyD said:

I LOVE the smell of coffee - but hate the actual drink, or anything coffee flavoured. Does anyone else experience that with coffee (or anything else)? Or just me?
Love the smell of smoke from a log fire
Petrol
Toasted scones (if you've never had a toasted scone before, you're missing out)
Blowing out a match

Hate
The smell of my hands after using the communal boxing gloves at MMA
Bananas (even though I quite like bananas...!?)

I love the smell and taste of coffee but anything coffee flavoured is generally disgusting, I would buy Revels if they put a pea or something , instead of the coffee on.

There's a coffee flavoured Revel?! The 'fondant' filled Revels all taste the same to me.