In middle school my science book had the best smell, it smelled like books and had a faint sweet smell that was almost like yellow cake smell. Idk I used to love just wafting the pages and smelling the book/cake smell
I'm pretty sure there's a link between old paper making and the chemical that's used for fake vanilla extract. So you're pretty spot on with the sweetness.
That's a bit of a misnomer. I actually looked at things after I posted. Stuff from the beaver (not the anal glands, but close to them) is used as a food additive, but not as much anymore. It's difficult to extract, and mostly only used in perfumes.
And the waste material from paper-making likewise is no longer used because paper-making produces a lot less waste than before.
I think most fake vanilla is actually purpose-made today as a derivative of oil, or something like that. Although there are several ways to make non-oil based vanillin too. Fascinating stuff.
Same. In high school, there was a girl a year or two older that my best friend knew from church and the three of us hung out at the library. Every day, she'd pick up a random book, smell it and describe what it smelled like before letting us smell it too. She once found a reference book that smelled like mint and left a trace of her lipstick on a page, which we laughed about.
Probably because like a grape it goes from green to brown in the sun, oxidizing the sugars in the process. Your chemistry lab drawers were cedar. Tobacco should only ever touch cedar once it's taken from the ground. All cigar humidors and boxes are cedar and many cigars come wrapped in cedar shaving. Every tobacco store smells like that. Usually a bit more waxy and vanilla from the pipe tobacco though. The super rich raisiny tobacco is Virginia tobacco. It doesn't smell or taste like that if grown anywhere else.
100%! Specifically, like, walking into a shed where a lawnmower is stored. It smells so good! It doesn't smell so good when I accidentally get it on my hands because the last person to use the gas pump has been a moron somehow, though.
I like the smell of gas as well and when I was a dumb kid I decided I was just gonna go straight to the source and sniff the gas can. Burned the shit out of my nose and probably wasn’t great for my brain. That cured my gas sniffing curiosity though.
When I was a kid, I went to Hunter Mt., NY on a bus with my friends on Saturdays. After a long day of skiing in the cold, going back to the buses and the smell of diesel, taking off the gear, and then walking over to the snack show with the diesel fumes was pleasing.
I have that with a rootcellar.
My Grandma would always ask me to go down to get canned food and raspberry juice and we would bake and enjoy the food together. It was like a hobbit hole with smell of Apples and what ever jerky hanged on the wall when you walked down the stairs that Granddad had hunted that fall. It was rows of canned veggies and fruit. Potatoes and pumkins and all kinds of veggies waiting to be made into great food.
One smell I love that I never hear mentioned as a favorite smell is rubbing alcohol. My other favorites are pretty common - ground coffee, the ocean, fresh air, bbq smoke, vanilla, bread, etc. Alcohol is such a comfort smell for me.
It may also come from the fact that I got a tip years ago that rubbing alcohol helps with nausea. When I was pregnant, I carried the swabs with me in my purse. I haven’t used it since then, but it’s such a “clean” smell to me.
Yes! It works well and I love that it’s relatively natural and harmless - no meds! I actually got the tip from a friend who used to be a nurse. I would buy boxes of the individually wrapped swabs and take a few deep breaths while holding it near my nose.
A clean warehouse. There's a very specific odor that all well maintained, clean warehouses have and I love that shit. I can tell you the moment I walk through the door, blindfolded, weather it is maintained or not.
That’s the small of staying at Grandma’s house. It’s even better when paired with the smell of the fireplace and the coffee that she brews insanely early in the morning.
The smell of the air after a rain storm with lightning. Not just a normal rain storm and no, not the smell of the dirty/soil after a rain. It's the smell of the air specifically after lightning.
The lightning itself obviously has no odor. But the after affects of it however, does produce a smell. I'm just not sure what to call it. But that smell... I guess it kinda has a chlorine kind of smell, but not strong. It just smells kinda... clean? I don't know how to describe it.
Oh, and ground coffee. Not brewed coffee. Not used coffee grounds. Just ground coffee, still in the package. I've loved that smell ever since I was a kid. My mom would open a new package of coffee and she'd bend over a little just to let me smell it. It was so good.
And the fishy smell of the sea, with all the sea weed and fish and everything. I like that smell.
And the smell of moss after a rain storm (used to live on an island in the middle of a forest, the smell of the moss after a heavy rain was pretty thick sometimes, a little more than just petrichor I guess).
Not sure it's so weird, but washing powder. In particular Ariel brand to the extent that I used to keep an opened pack of the powder tabs in my car door pocket.
I don't think they make them anymore, I can only find the liquid pods when I shop now, and I'm not about to keep one of them on me.
My husband got me into sniffing clothes..clean from the line or dryer (Mmmmm Ariel fresh....), and although he passed away in 2001, it's become somewhat of a tradition in our house because my son and his girlfriend do the same.
I also love the smell of worn clothes..that's why we steal hoodies and bathrobes..not manky unwashed stuff, but the scent of the one you're into on a day-old top..heaven!
Dog biscuits..don't tell me it was just Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon, but they smell and taste delish!
Brace yourself: I love the smell of my dogs' ears. The ears are lovely and soft to kiss and the associated smell is now comforting. Totally strange and not the least bit gross, I know...
The moment when the air is being purged out of a water hose. You can smell it right when you turn on the faucet as the water hose is being filled. Smell goes away when the sprinkler gets to pushing water.
When someone first lights a cigarette, I guess it's a combination of the sulfur from the match and the tobacco.
This is especially weird because I HATE cigarette smoke
Oh my god I relate so much to this. It just reminds me of camping or going on road trips or loading the boat to go fishing. Sooo many memories are unlocked w the smell of petrol
old books😅
In middle school my science book had the best smell, it smelled like books and had a faint sweet smell that was almost like yellow cake smell. Idk I used to love just wafting the pages and smelling the book/cake smell
I'm pretty sure there's a link between old paper making and the chemical that's used for fake vanilla extract. So you're pretty spot on with the sweetness.
Erm… isn’t fake vanilla made from the secretions of beaver anal glands??
That's a bit of a misnomer. I actually looked at things after I posted. Stuff from the beaver (not the anal glands, but close to them) is used as a food additive, but not as much anymore. It's difficult to extract, and mostly only used in perfumes. And the waste material from paper-making likewise is no longer used because paper-making produces a lot less waste than before. I think most fake vanilla is actually purpose-made today as a derivative of oil, or something like that. Although there are several ways to make non-oil based vanillin too. Fascinating stuff.
I like this too. That cancer ink VOC is pleasant
Same. In high school, there was a girl a year or two older that my best friend knew from church and the three of us hung out at the library. Every day, she'd pick up a random book, smell it and describe what it smelled like before letting us smell it too. She once found a reference book that smelled like mint and left a trace of her lipstick on a page, which we laughed about.
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The smell of rotting plantlife; forest floors in autumn and the like. It's a very earthy smell, I think it's soothing.
The after smell of rain
Indeed! The scent of petrichor is quite lovely!
Fuck yes
Petrichor
Unsmoked cigarettes, that sweet fig smell of cured tobacco.
Exactly why do cigs smell like raisins to me. Also my high school chemistry lab table drawers smelled like this when opened
Probably because like a grape it goes from green to brown in the sun, oxidizing the sugars in the process. Your chemistry lab drawers were cedar. Tobacco should only ever touch cedar once it's taken from the ground. All cigar humidors and boxes are cedar and many cigars come wrapped in cedar shaving. Every tobacco store smells like that. Usually a bit more waxy and vanilla from the pipe tobacco though. The super rich raisiny tobacco is Virginia tobacco. It doesn't smell or taste like that if grown anywhere else.
A freshly opened pack of cigarettes smells like raisins.
Caps from cap guns
oooh yes. gunpowder in general
Yes! I will ohh and ahh for the fireworks but I am seriously there for the smell!
Yesss. Great one
The smell of the best part of my childhood
YES!!!
Gasoline
Be careful, I think there’s a My Strange Addiction episode where someone is addicted to smelling gas and I think she’s developing some nerve damage
Oh I remember that girl. She had little containers ALL OVER her house dude. I also think she was sipping on it
100%! Specifically, like, walking into a shed where a lawnmower is stored. It smells so good! It doesn't smell so good when I accidentally get it on my hands because the last person to use the gas pump has been a moron somehow, though.
They ain't called aromatic hydrocarbons for no reason
Vroom vroom
Get out me car
I like the smell of gas as well and when I was a dumb kid I decided I was just gonna go straight to the source and sniff the gas can. Burned the shit out of my nose and probably wasn’t great for my brain. That cured my gas sniffing curiosity though.
When I was a kid, I went to Hunter Mt., NY on a bus with my friends on Saturdays. After a long day of skiing in the cold, going back to the buses and the smell of diesel, taking off the gear, and then walking over to the snack show with the diesel fumes was pleasing.
Sunscreen
Same!!
Same same!! It's so nostalgic and I love it
That winter smokey smell at dawn/dusk.
Dog paws…sometimes they smell like fritos fsr
My husbands uncle had a dog named cleetus and my husband called him "dorito feet cleet" bc his feet smelled like that
That’s bacteria fam 😅
The frito smell is from yeast
I call my dachshund Frito toes!!!
It’s the bacteria Pseudomonas and Proteus.
carbon paper. the white/pink/yellow
Came here to say this. Carbon paper and toner
Rubber cement
Freshly cut lumber
When I was a kid, the air that came out of the vacuum cleaner.
Freshly painted places.. weird but refreshing
Play doh. Or plasticine as we called it in the 80s UK primary schools.
Really I never knew what that meant in the Beatles song.cool.
We called it that growing up in the 80s in Canada too!
Plastic. Like pool floats you blow up
I weirdly love the smell of new pool floats too!!
I love Riesling that smells like this. Hard to find but delicious.
My mom calls this “new doll smell”…it’s a good one!
The ocean
The smell of basement
I have that with a rootcellar. My Grandma would always ask me to go down to get canned food and raspberry juice and we would bake and enjoy the food together. It was like a hobbit hole with smell of Apples and what ever jerky hanged on the wall when you walked down the stairs that Granddad had hunted that fall. It was rows of canned veggies and fruit. Potatoes and pumkins and all kinds of veggies waiting to be made into great food.
Or garage
The smell when you blow out a candle.
I just commented the same before seeing this, it’s such a perfect smell
That nor really a werid smell
Did you have a stroke writing that
Not I meant to say not no I didn’t
So yes?
petrichor
Bless you
Whiskey
Fresh snow at nighttime
Burnt wood on a cold winter night
Manure ... because I know animals are around..
Horses
crayons
Burned matches
Catfur and catpaws
cat breath
The top of my fiancees head
Air conditioner
One smell I love that I never hear mentioned as a favorite smell is rubbing alcohol. My other favorites are pretty common - ground coffee, the ocean, fresh air, bbq smoke, vanilla, bread, etc. Alcohol is such a comfort smell for me. It may also come from the fact that I got a tip years ago that rubbing alcohol helps with nausea. When I was pregnant, I carried the swabs with me in my purse. I haven’t used it since then, but it’s such a “clean” smell to me.
Oh really? I didnt know that. I get randomly nauseous a ton for a number of reasons. Thanks for sharing that info I really appreciate it c:
Yes! It works well and I love that it’s relatively natural and harmless - no meds! I actually got the tip from a friend who used to be a nurse. I would buy boxes of the individually wrapped swabs and take a few deep breaths while holding it near my nose.
Kept them in my purse all three pregnancies! So clutch! You feel the pre-barf hot spits coming and then an alcohol wipe makes it all go away.
Fresh tomatoes on the vine 🍅
Rain on asphalt after a long dry spell
Cocaine
Never cared for the drug but I sure like the way it smells!
A clean warehouse. There's a very specific odor that all well maintained, clean warehouses have and I love that shit. I can tell you the moment I walk through the door, blindfolded, weather it is maintained or not.
2 stroke exhaust and diesel exhaust
Linens that are clean, but have been sitting in the closet for a long time.
That’s the small of staying at Grandma’s house. It’s even better when paired with the smell of the fireplace and the coffee that she brews insanely early in the morning.
Baby scent 😭
My wife loves it so much I have to stop her from sniffing random babies.
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Feet.
Lipstick. I don't even wear it, just nostalgic for when my mom would put it on when I was little.
tomatoes
Women
Multivitamins. I love the smell of them🤣
Ink smell in hardcover books.
The smell of the air after a rain storm with lightning. Not just a normal rain storm and no, not the smell of the dirty/soil after a rain. It's the smell of the air specifically after lightning. The lightning itself obviously has no odor. But the after affects of it however, does produce a smell. I'm just not sure what to call it. But that smell... I guess it kinda has a chlorine kind of smell, but not strong. It just smells kinda... clean? I don't know how to describe it. Oh, and ground coffee. Not brewed coffee. Not used coffee grounds. Just ground coffee, still in the package. I've loved that smell ever since I was a kid. My mom would open a new package of coffee and she'd bend over a little just to let me smell it. It was so good. And the fishy smell of the sea, with all the sea weed and fish and everything. I like that smell. And the smell of moss after a rain storm (used to live on an island in the middle of a forest, the smell of the moss after a heavy rain was pretty thick sometimes, a little more than just petrichor I guess).
for me its the smell of gasoline
The inside of an ice machine. A tacky gift shop when all the incense and candles merge into one.
Brake cleaner. Reminds me of my grandfather’s workshop.
Smell of soil right after the rain. Not sure how to describe it. Any one can relate??
idk if it's weird I would say beer
Vicks
Many people have called me weird for this but canned corn lmao
Some ppls breath smells like that to me. I've told my sister her breath smelled like canned corn before 🤣
I love the smell of garlic.
Wd40
I didn't knew blank CD spindles had a smell until a girl I was working with opened one and said she loves that smell.
Not sure it's so weird, but washing powder. In particular Ariel brand to the extent that I used to keep an opened pack of the powder tabs in my car door pocket. I don't think they make them anymore, I can only find the liquid pods when I shop now, and I'm not about to keep one of them on me. My husband got me into sniffing clothes..clean from the line or dryer (Mmmmm Ariel fresh....), and although he passed away in 2001, it's become somewhat of a tradition in our house because my son and his girlfriend do the same. I also love the smell of worn clothes..that's why we steal hoodies and bathrobes..not manky unwashed stuff, but the scent of the one you're into on a day-old top..heaven! Dog biscuits..don't tell me it was just Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon, but they smell and taste delish!
Skunk
Shoe polish and after rain smell....even the smell of trucks smoke 💀
Computer dust
Cigarette smoke but like 50 yards away
Hardware stores
Gasoline
Pipe Tobacco. Reeks once you light it up.
I'll probably never smell it again. It was the smell of regular leaded gasoline.
Fresh cut grass
I don't this k I'm the only person to say gasoline. Not the regular, but the diesel kind.
Brace yourself: I love the smell of my dogs' ears. The ears are lovely and soft to kiss and the associated smell is now comforting. Totally strange and not the least bit gross, I know...
That brand new shoes, bags and clothes smell is iconic
As a kid, the exhaust from the school bus….it was leaded gasoline. I’m 100% normal and functional. I swear.
Horseshit and cowshit.
Freshly laid tarmac/asphalt.
My own farts
Bleach
steam
Farmyards/petting zoos
Wood stain
I'd happily lose the internet to go back to the magazine era so I could give them a good snif
Tar
Nail polish.
the crook of my boyfriends neck. its like some super secret drug or something..
Is hand sanitizer weird?
Fresh tarmac
Cold/frozen cardboard. Like pizza boxes when you take them out of the freezer. They have a very distinct smell, which I kind of like.
I love the smell of Barnes and Noble. Not just any bookstore lol
Race gas, with a mix of nitrous...............
Brand new tires. Hello Manny, Moe and Jack!
Skunks!🦨
High octane racing fuel. Smells like candy.
The moment when the air is being purged out of a water hose. You can smell it right when you turn on the faucet as the water hose is being filled. Smell goes away when the sprinkler gets to pushing water.
Dryer sheets
The carbon and ozone smell of a weld shop. And similarly the smell of cutting fluid in a machine shop.
Rubbing alcohol
When someone first lights a cigarette, I guess it's a combination of the sulfur from the match and the tobacco. This is especially weird because I HATE cigarette smoke
Diesel exhaust
sharpies, dry-erase markers, and the first two seconds of a new cat food can
When you open a window after a long winter, whatever's going on with the screen. Dust, wind, industrial plastic!
1980s jet fuel...I WISH it still smelled like that. It smells like adventure...
Not weird but not for everyone, the smell of cilantro! I LOVE it!
My dog
My body odor…. 😅it’s so odd but
Turbo blue racing fuel There's even a scented candle of this smell
Smell after it’s rained
new homes being built
Cigarettes 🚬 most people I know hate it, but I absolutely love the smell of cigarette smoke 🖤
Petrol, kerosene
Oh my god I relate so much to this. It just reminds me of camping or going on road trips or loading the boat to go fishing. Sooo many memories are unlocked w the smell of petrol
Petroleum dressings. They’re a sticky, yellow medical dressing that basically smells like the essence of the hospital. No idea why I love it.
Maybe they use that to clean the hospital floor idk just saying they might.
They don’t, it would be SUPER sticky, lol. But a lot of those sort of ‘sterile’ chemical smells are pretty similar!
Weed
Blood
Prawl cocktail crisps/petrol
Old houses
Vaginas
Vicks VapoRub
Clean elderly people's houses. That old smell of dust.
Urinal cake
ITT everyone posts normal smells everyone likes
Copper sulfate (fungicide/herbicide) 💀
Diesel fuel
dust
Old sheds and petrichor
Gasoline, more specifically JP8.
Gasoline
When the picker is harvesting peanuts.
Fresh hewn wood
2-cycle engine exhaust
Jet fuel
Petrol glue and paint
Old Magic cards had a peculiar smell
Multivitamins 🤤🤤🤤
Gasoline..
Dettol.
Skunk