Smells you like/dislike ?

[dazwalsh]

Promised Land said:

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.

Never a sewer only pllunging the heck out of a gulley thats bad enough.

Worst for me was being called out by a tenant with a blocked toilet, no amount of work at the toilet end yielded results so had to remove the exterior soil stack at the t section, and the entire contents of the pipe gushed all over me, the wall, my ladders, and out fell a dirty kids nappy onto my forearm.

I put a serious amount of detol in a bath when I got home and lay in it, then showered. It was foul. Binned my clothes.

[motco]

cobra kid said:

Like - Minge

Dislike - Minge

It's good fresh, but left to fester, it's abominable...

[davhill]

motco said:

It's good fresh, but left to fester, it's abominable...

A bomb in a bull? Tick, tick, tick, moo, bang.

[ben5575]

Likes:

Fresh basil
Jasmine on holiday as you're walking out to dinner on a warm night
Fresh freesias at 8pm at night
To lower the tone and in line with post 3, post jog, sweaty clunge as long as it was showered pre jog
Tiger Balm (red, green or yellow)
Cordite
Fresh rain/thunderstorms
Bergamot
Christmas trees
Wild garlic and ferns
Bonfires
Zippo lighters
Leaded petrol
Avgas
Hot brake discs/pads on a track day
Creosote
Tarmac
Burning rubber
Cut grass
Tobacco smoke (ex smoker) and freshly opened packets of fags
Baby oil/powder
New car
Coffee/bread/donuts/oranges/limes/the usual
Prada Amber pour homme
Fresh cut wood

Dislikes

Anything foul, dead, off, rotting etc

[alorotom]

motco said:

It's good fresh, but left to fester, it's abominable...

Hmmmm set me thinking ... so where does disco pussy feature in hat spectrum as I'd argue probably good but you need to have had a skinful first! (Much like a kebab .. donner rather than Donna )

[mybrainhurts]

fttm said:

Castrol R .

Yes..

And previous generation tarmac being laid...

[oddball1313]

Best smell in whole world is the protective oil Kitagawa put on their chucks - it's like that old oily dusty smell like you get in old cars and tank museums but multiplied 10 times over, it's heavenly. Honourable mention to cut grass, Castrol R and a good quality Joss stick.

Worst
Apart the usual standing water, BO, bad breath etc. Beef and Tomato pot noodle makes me want to gag, I dread to think what it tastes like. Nam Pla is pretty grim but a Thai curry without just isn't right without it. Department store perfume sections are vile as well

[mybrainhurts]

FFS, don't let techiedave see this thread.

He'll come barrelling in, extolling the virtues of something buried deep within Diane Abbott...

:heave:

[mybrainhurts]

Napalm in the morning...

[Ziplobb]

A just fired paper cased Eley Impax 12 bore cartridge

[ben5575]

Forgot to add caps, as in cap gun caps after you've fired them.

Seeing as I'm half way through an episode of the walking dead, I'm going to pretend I didn't read the diane abbott reference...

[schmalex]

I can't stand the smell of apples. Just being near one that someone's taken a bite out of makes me heave. Hideous, evil things

[DaveGoddard]

alfie2244 said:

Castrol R 2 stroke mmmmmmmmmmmmm

This. Nothing better, apart from freshly baked bread or frying bacon (preferably together).

Worst - tomato puree. I don't like tomatoes anyway but the smell of raw puree fresh from its tube makes me heave.

[DaveGoddard]

Promised Land said:

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

At Birmingham Airport you have to walk through the duty free shopping area to get to the departure lounge - it's like walking into a solid wall of sickly sweet disgusting multi-mixed perfumes. Makes my eyes water.

[Europa1]

mybrainhurts said:

Napalm in the morning...

You are 5ohMustang in disguise and I claim my £5.

[Dagnir]

The nape of a beautiful woman's neck?

[AC43]

Hate; the smell of other people's dogs.

They honk.

(I'm looking at you, yes you, the owner of that rank spaniel that was sitting next to me in my favourite pub in London enjoying a pint and some food after cycling round Hampstead Heath with the kids).

Thanks to your dog arriving at the same time as my food I nearly honked.

Christ knows what your car/flat house/smells like.

Like; 2 stroke.

[vikingaero]

Lush stores. That cheap artificial overpowering acrid smell as you walk past. I'm surprised Environmental Health prosecute takeaways yet allow Lush to get away with it.

[mybrainhurts]

Europa1 said:

mybrainhurts said:

Napalm in the morning...

You are 5ohMustang in disguise and I claim my £5.

I knew it would cost me. Bugger.

[mybrainhurts]

Not too keen on the smell of a fresh sick bucket.

Can't dodge the damn' things since Tony Blair crawled out of the woodwork.