TomassciDo you have any smell you like/dislike even though most people don't?
u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)I’ll start with the fact that I kind of like the smell of gasoline,
That is not nearly unpopular.
For me, pure Isopropyl alcohol (as in not part of some product). Reminds me of doctor’s office when I was a kid, and I like it.
EmpricornThere’s literally an Outkast song called “Gasoline” about it!
🎵 “Don’t everybody like the smell of gasoline…” 🎶
robolemmyI love the smell of bleach.
Absolutely hate the stench of coffee. About the only thing worse is coffee with vanilla in it. Disgusting.
For me, coffee is okay, and I love vanilla, so I’ll have to disagree here
Ooh, I was struggling to come up with one but you helped me think of one: vanilla-scented anything is gross in my opinion. Real vanilla is fine but the synthetic stuff is nasty. Unfortunately for me, all of my friends seemed to love vanilla-scented candles and lotions and I couldn’t escape it as a teen and college student. Bleh.
The Ramen DutchmanAh yes I hate the smell of coffee, thanks for reminding me of that!
Stuff smells like cigarettes to me!
Same for the gasoline. It’s not as uncommon to like it as you might think
Vinegar smell makes me want to vomit and it’s used in every fecking fish n chips place. blergh
BOMBSYou would hate my house. I clean with straight vinegar since it’s antibacterial and food. I’m cleaning with something that I can eat rather than toxic cleaners.
DominusOfMegadeusGeraniums
antlionBrush up against one and you’re assaulted - it’s like skunk spray in the plant kingdom.
apfelwoiSchoppenA bagel covered in cheese and toasted is a heinous smell.
I love the smell of mothballs
(⬤ᴥ⬤)where are you finding moths big enough you can smell their balls?
Hahahahahahahaha
Spent gunpowder smells absolutely lovely
LOVE black powder. Whatever’s in my AR-15 shells is foul though. No other round bothers me. .22LR, .22MAG, .380. .45, any given shotgun shell, no problem. Every .223 round smells awful.
Anyone know what that might be?
Dunno. I’ve mostly fired 7.62 NATO
AppoxoLove the smell of new years eve.
Nothing better than spent firework shells.
Nothing better than spent firework shells.
Toes♀Pool water, I really like the smell of it.
Love the smell of pool water!!
dohpaz42Sorry to be the one to break it to you, but…
Chloramines result from the combination of chlorine disinfectants and the perspiration, cosmetics, and urine that enter pools on the bodies of swimmers.
tooclose104I smelled pure liquid chlorine up close for the first time and it is what I associate as the pool smell.
snooggumsI also like the smell of gasoline and bleach, most likely from the association with riding dirt bikes and swimming as a kid. Fuel for the bike and bleach to clean the tshirts before going for a swim in the public pool!
pelyaCat piss does not smell particularly bad to me.
Maybe it’s toxoplasma speaking.
I have cats, but they mostly pee where they’re supposed to.
The icky cat pee smell happens when they pee on things not designed for cat pee, and then those things aren’t adequately washed. E.g., suitcases, clothes, curtains, backpacks.
So, someone in my position might not think cat pee smells terrible, except I’ve been to houses where the cats weren’t as well-behaved, and those houses stank.
When my wife and I were house-hunting, one of the houses we disqualified solely for the cat pee smell.
Yea I’m not a fan of them but cat piss and shit smells don’t disgust me at all. I can eat in the kitchen after my cat had a shit on the other side of the room, no problem.
As you say, could be the toxoplasma.
MacedWindowI know some people like the after rain smell but I despise it. Makes me think Im surrounded by dead worms
QuarterSwedeI grew up in a post-Soviet European suburb where almost everyone kept some kind of farm animal. The smell of chicken manure gives me the good kind of nostalgia.
On the negative side, both the smell and taste of strawberries is offensively generic.
I am absolutely repulsed by the smell of cucumbers
I was just thinking yesterday that for a somewhat tasteless vegetable consisting mostly of water they do have a pretty strong odor.
fresh printed business cards from an actual printing press, with ink.
Eggshell with Romalian type
Oh jeez, next we’re going to hear about how underrated Huey Lewis is.
Just axe murder me and get it over with.
That’s an interesting one. When I was a child I liked the smell of new books and magazines. They had a rather pleasant odor. But since a couple of years now fresh-printed things smell just awful. I think the ingredients of the ink or the paper have been changed.
Can’t do microwave popcorn. Gives me a migraine. Traditionally popped popcorn like in those little trolleys or whatever? A-OK.
Not a fan of sandalwood
In college, I worked at a little aerospace manufacturing place running an NC milling machine, and I really like the smell of the cutting oil/lubricant they spray on the rotating cutters. I now work in software engineering at a company that makes rocket engines, and I like walking through the shop and smelling that smell.
pixeltreeYeah, I can still smell the lubricant we used in our high school machine shop. It was water based and we called it blue juice
Literally anything seafood
Most seafood doesn’t get me too badly, though I still don’t like it. Cooking shrimp, on the other hand, makes it hurt to breathe for some reason. Not the same as nausea, but it still sucks.
Sounds like you're allergic to shrimp.
Nauseated. Though as an American I’m about ready to give up on this crusade. Nauseous means you make others want to vomit.
Both are technically correct
Still bugs me though
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nauseous
They’ve even got a special note for people like you:
Those who insist that nauseous can properly be used only to mean “causing nausea” and that its later “affected with nausea” meaning is an error for nauseated are mistaken. Current evidence shows these facts: nauseous is most frequently used to mean physically affected with nausea, usually after a linking verb such as feel or become; figurative use is quite a bit less frequent. Use of nauseous to mean “causing nausea or disgust” is much more often figurative than literal, and this use appears to be losing ground to nauseating. Nauseated is used more widely than nauseous when referring to being affected with nausea.
Eucalyptus. Makes my asthmas flair up badly. Strong enough and it closes my airway. No Vicks vaporub for me. Obviously it’s not a smell I like.
Cologne or perfume on a human. Stop. It’s not nice, I don’t want to smell you.
But we all have a scent, would you prefer natural smell to perfume?
Not OP, but often, yes.
Also not OP, but without a doubt yes every time. I’ve don’t think I’ve ever noticed the natural smell of a human being other than myself as a negative smell. OTOH, someone who is fresh out of the shower and used something like a strongly scented shampoo should quarantine themselves for at least a bit before doing something like getting on a bus.
Overall I agree but I’ve been much too close to some people who haven’t bathed in a while and that is an unpleasant smell.
If it’s something you have to be intimately close to smell it’s nice, if you sit down at the table next to me and I can smell it that’s rough
I love the smell of first time firing up a brand new toaster. I’ve only experienced this like 3 times in my life but it’s immediately recognizeable and very pleasant smell. Some protective oil on the coils I assume.
Another is suede or something similar. I can’t quite pinpoint the exact source of it but I remember my cousin’s doll house having this kind of “electric” smell to it and now few years back I bought this used leather jacket that smells quite similar.
Also the battery compartment of most remotes.
Call me Lenny/LeniI love the smell of alfalfa, I even have scent modifiers in the scent. People think I’m crazy (not that they don’t already).