Thread: Odd smells you like...

The Tabac smell debates got me thinking about "odd" smells. What are some of the "odd" smells you like? Smells that most others would consider to be less than pleasurable.

Here are a few of mine:

I've always genuinely enjoyed the smell of fresh skunk spray. Granted, I've never been sprayed directly, but road kill skunk has a sour, well, skunky smell I like. I actually find it odd that others I've talked to, my wife included find it offensive.

While Limburger cheese just smells like rotten farts to me, Stilton smells great.

Kim Chi. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

That's all I can think of for now.

Chris L

I like the smell smokeless powder makes when you burn it.


Mmmm .308 in the mornin'.

Agreed. That's a good smell too. Growing up I spent many a time sniffing freshly spent shells and cartridges.

Chris L

The smell of Hoppe's # 9 after a long day at the shooting range.

Ok...here we go

A Tire Store...
Manure. Theres something about the smell..reminds me of summer
Smell of Permed hair...Thanks to my grandmother :P
Cigar and Pipe Smoke
Smell of Burnt Ammo Cartridges


Theres many many more....

I like real person smell. I'm not talking "homeless guy that just rolled out of a dumpster" but a little perspiration is nice. I prefer a person's normal musk over a dousing of perfume and/or scented soaps/shampoos.

Manure, smoke coming out of a cartridge, sauerkraut, cooked sausages, vanilla, lilac and sambhar masala.

+1 on skunk. I got my shirt sprayed once while pulling one I trapped out of the barn. That was a little strong for my taste. But I take a deep breath when I smell skunk driving down the road. I suppose having them under the house, in the barn and under our school house, at different times as a kid, kind of made the smell grow on me. The smell actually makes me a little nostalgic.

Forgot to add Consort hairspray, Marlboro lights, day old percolator coffee grinds, and the smell of lake water. That would be like hanging out with my deceased uncle all over again. Just putting that down makes me miss him.

When I was a kid (before xerox photocopier machines) we would sniff the mimeograph test sheets from the teacher.

We also loved to ride our bicycles behind the mosquito spray fogger truck. We liked the smell, and we thought the fog cloud was cool.

There was an ice cream truck that would drive slowly through the neighborhood in the summer and sell to the kids. It had a loud speaker that played music so you could hear it coming. The old codger that drove the truck smoked cigars. He would open up the freezer door on the side of the truck and frosty fog would pour out and mix with the cigar smoke creating a memorable smell as we waited in line.