weird smells you love

baker's yeast

smelly cheese

nattou

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Petrol
Tar
Human sweat

The blood of my enemies

Wet paint (oddly appealing though dangerous to linger over)

Also, will second baker's yeast

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hardware stores
play-doh
the glossy paper in magazines

Oh god playdoh yes

that smell when it first starts raining. dirty pavement I guess..

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wd-40 otm

aloe hand sanitizer

straight angostura bitters - probably not weird to love that, but it is a weird smell

wd-40 otm

― bagging area (map), Thursday, August 18, 2016 8:31 PM (6 minutes ago)

Yes!

If it's not too intense, I like the smell of skunk spray.

for some reason i enjoy the smell of the print shop at work which smells like the old wrestling room at my high school for some reason. not after it was full of sweaty dudes, but when you first walked in. just mats and...i dunno a vague musk?

dog paws

one I just discovered yesterday: thickish cardboard slightly singed after being cut by laser

dog paws are a good smell. nearly all dog smells (except farts) are good smells.

and its been a long time since i done sniffed it, but mimeograph ink was a favorite once upon the early '80s.

Some, but not all, subway systems.

the ozone-esque aroma that comes from a guitar amplifier

a just-opened can of tennis balls

I could linger in cigar shop humidifier rooms all day. And I don't even like cigar smoke.

poppers

Isopropyl rubbing alcohol.

Fumes given off by soldiering flux and burning plastic.

Used bookstore.

pubs that used to smell of smoke and beer
when i used to be able to smell me smelling of smoke and beer after a night out

one person in particular (you've probably never smelled them but trust me it's great)

hardware stores otm

tennis balls too

nearly all dog smells (except farts) are good smells.

dogs (and cats) smell terrible imo

pritt stick

fresh copies off a copy machine

body odor sometimes depending on it

Solvents in general.

I had never given it any conscious consideration before this thread but I do indeed enjoy the smell of WD-40.

Action figures fresh out the package. I'm guessing the aroma is some mostly toxic mix of paint and plastic.

Paraffin.

Lighter fluid

... you get the picture.

There's a specific ink/paper combination that I love. I've noticed it throughout my life, but there was a big reawakening when Blackalicious's Nia album was released and I caught a whiff of the liner notes. There was a day or two where I carried it around in my backpack with me trying to get my friends to smell it. No one else was impressed though.

Matches, just struck.

Presto Magix

... I am not an arsonist, honest.... though burning stuff generally smells good too.

Solvents in general.

― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Friday, August 19, 2016 2:38 PM (53 minutes ago)

Yeah, basically.

Also like books/old books/fresh print smells but I thought that was pretty common?

Everybody else who I showed that lyrics book to thought I was a kook for saying it, but I get that it's not particularly weird.

Yeah, there are totally particular ink & paper stock (& probably occasionally paper coating) combinations that smell great. I've noticed this on LP sleeves and a variety of periodicals and books. I went to a bunch of antique stores last weekend and I swear I spent half the time smelling various printed materials.

poppers

― Tom Watson in a fedora (Noodle Vague), Friday, 19 August 2016 06:24 (8 hours ago) Permalink

high 5!

the smell of new gibson guitars - a delightful kinda chocolatey-vanilla scent

Also like books/old books/fresh print smells but I thought that was pretty common?

― emil.y, Friday, August 19, 2016 9:33 AM (42 minutes ago)

Yeah, not sure that falls under weird smells.

Back 25 years ago or so I bought a coffee table book about beer, and I swear it smelled like hops. There wasn't any "hey we added hop scent to the printing process!" gimmick, just a happy accident. It went to Goodwill in last year's book purge.

Pianos

petrol
dry ice/fake smoke
new car smell

just before it rains
while it's raining
just after it stops raining
WD-40 of course
solder

+1 to solder.

Does lead-free solder smell the same? And is it the solder or the flux or the combo of the two?

some more from me but that may not be particularly weird:

cd booklets - yes! open a brand new cd and it was a particular type of ink

instruments - nice quality instruments made of wood like pianos and guitars. i had a classical guitar that had the most beautiful smell i have ever smelled, and it made me feel at home and at peace. it broke my heart that i had to sell it

when i went to japan i opened many goodies, like snacks or just little packages in general that smelled nice. i guess a mix of plastic and paint/ink

i hate the smell of milk, but there is a particular brand here that i find i really love the smell of. the brand is heritage and it smells nice

wet, decaying vegetation. been raining nights lately and the fan in my window makes the room like a jungle floor.

cosign on ink/paper combinations; i am a major connoisseur. you find the oddest correspondances. when i read a book i smell it probably every two minutes, like a fetishist.

there are many different cd liner smells -- but not that many.

old wooden buildings the good ones have a musty, oldentimes smell that is like old books but not the same

i love it. my grandma played tennis when i was a kid, and the club rooms were always old turn of the century wooden meeting hall places. the smell reminds me of urns, cups of tea & meat-paste sandwiches

box of crayons

Swimming pools.

all surviving silent film actors except Baby Peggy
most supercentenarians
gluons
the E ring of Saturn (smells like Lysol and farts)
128kbps MP3s
train tracks
Crocs

famunda

The E Ring is the second outermost ring and is extremely wide; it consists of many tiny (micron and sub-micron) particles of water ice with silicates, carbon dioxide and ammonia

Lysol may not be so far off

car air conditioner after it rains
pine-sol
brand new scotch brite sponge
bleach

fresh rubber. eg brand new mouse pads

cosign on pianos! loved the old wood smell of mine as a kid.

Firelighters, otherwise tom d otm