Smells

"Okay, either there's a horny dirty hippy girl in there, or a week old catfish, either way, it's eatin' time!"

Did you guys know they don't have skunks in France? My working theory is that they all scampered away when they realized nothing could penetrate the strong cheese and cigarette smoke

BURN MOTHERFUCKER BURN

-- caitlin oh no

admittedly this happens to me. My breath can be fine, but when I sneeze (and I do huge loud sneezes) occasionally some icky smell comes from deep within and I don't know why or where from. Luckily when I'm about to sneeze I try to remove myself from people's general vicinity.

this thread died a premature death, just like clove cigarettes

RIP one of my favorite smells
miss u already and i haven't smelled you in years

i also miss original formula pert plus and original formula lever 2000.

what are your favorite extinct smells? i have more, i'm sure, but mostly i would like to talk about smells.

I bought like a MC Shy D tape online and opened it, and got that fresh cassette tape smell. Haven't smelled that in 15 fucken years. Took me back.

my dog's reeky breath didn't smell good by anyone's standards, but now that he's gone i miss it.

extinct smells

ugh the clove cigarette smell made me wanna hurl, good riddance

time to be more positive harbl
what smells do you like

haha
i was just thinking i miss the smell of a dishwasher!

i also like the smells of basements and thunderstorms

If the smell of a dishwasher is the only thing you miss about a dishwasher then you have just blown my mind.

leather car seats in a really old car

a purse i had in high school that smelled like coty loose powder + musty attic + laura ashley perfume + mold

I am so the voyeur here.

i take a deep breath whenever i walk into my bathroom because it smells slightly musty + lavender-soap + open window

xp - now i feel like this belongs on iltmi

we're just some people talkin' bout smells

I don't have a sense of smell ;_;

is why

look at all these kids opening their crimmus presents

oh no! were you born without one?

SMELLS LIKE WEE

oh i think i knew that abbott. i'm sorry. i should have known.

ha no man my mom forgets and she made me so you're cool

let's continue to talk about smells

glue on the back of stamps

white vinegar

i have some in a spray bottle to clean with and whenever i clean i want salt&vinegar chips

Amanda, was that Laura Ashley perfume L'Eau? Because I remember that stuff.

The earthy, dark, slightly laundry-influenced smell of my parents' basement.

Huh, no I think it was just LAURA or ASHLEY or something like that. I looooved really flowery perfumes when I was a kid. I was a scent menace.

Clove cigarettes, cigars, too-much-perfume—it all pisses me off. It's a personal-space intrusion.

Like over-loud conversations. LOOK AT ME LISTEN TO ME SMELL ME

fuck off.

geez
i wasn't that much of a menace

I do agree with you about cigars, though

Oh! I didn't mean you! I meant BAD PEOPLE.

grumps out of the way, I LOVE Bain de Soleil orange gelee smell.

Oh man I love Vitabath green flavor
reminds me of my grandma

also -- smell of clinique lipstick

melting wax

Smell of A&D ointment. Also the diaper rash stuff...
zinc oxide stuff...what's it called..
DESITIN!!!!!!!!!

that stuff has a very distinct smell

oh yeah i love that smell

oh man, the smell of new parenthood

Baby bottoms!

If I had some Desitin I'd huff it right now.

WD-40 - they should make an aftershave that smells like WD-40, probably sell really well.

oh yeah.

I mean, forget that Lynx, Axxe, Brut, Chas, and Hai Karate stuff, smelling like a Stermey Archer three speed gearbox is where it's at.

+ teeny bit of sweat

oh yeah i love WD-40 and any grease smell

um except bacon grease and the like

ohhh the greasemonkey smell is the best ever. that faint smell on rough hands is awes.

pressed powder! the old-fashioned kind my grandma used with a powder puff.

also the smell of REALLY old lipstick. Like grandma used to use that she bought in the 50's and never had to replace because she only used it twice a year.

heck...the smell of my grandma. (The good the smells. Her farts were pretty gross.)

i still have my very first tube of lipstick because the smell reminds me so much of that time. i have a lot of old makeup, come to think of it. i never use it, but i can't bear to throw it away.

:( hoardin'

That overheating soldering iron and flux smell.

have you ever noticed that people's houses smell like those people? that is, that certain people, have a 'smell'. I always noticed this with family friends and relatives, or close friends. s'weird.

Yeah, totally.

It's even weirder when you go away on holiday for a week, then come back to your house and it smells funny, but you realise that's what it smells like all the time.

OH yeah, I remember several people with very strong smells. I always thought maybe it was their heads, like they had very strong smelling scalps or something.

You just reminded me that in kindergarten I never wanted to stand in classroom lines behind boys because I was sure their hair smelled worse than girls' hair.

I like the smell of Shalimar and White Diamonds perfume, but only when worn by my Mum when I'm very small. In fact, I love the memory of how my mum smelled when she was going out somewhere special: perfume, makeup, powder...and then she would leave us each with a lipstick 'bruise' on our cheek. sigh.

Just realized how awfully similar that story sounds to creepy Malan on Project Runway deciding to be a designer after "watching his Mummy get dressed in her fancy clothes."

facepalm.

pine-sol

http://www.wpbf.com/r/25853470/detail.html

In a study of men ages 18 to 64, 40 aromas were tested to determine which arouses men the most. The smell of pumpkin pie topped ladies' fragrances.

thought this quote was particularly funny

"Every odor we tested aroused the participants," said Hirsch.

you don't say

shoe polish

Solvents. Gasoline. Varnish. Printing inks. Love this shit.

Really gasoline more than anything else in the world.

The smell of a backseat from a 1990 Ford Colt

or was it a Dodge?

why do the movies/CDs from the library smell like a homeless person's ass?

have not noticed this problem with books

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mudmudmudmudmudmudmudmudmudmudmudmud
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the smell of your house when all the windows are open on a spring day

OTM!!!!!

a purse i had in high school that smelled like coty loose powder

Sleepy + skimming + dirty glasses made that look like "cooty louse powder."

Also, I lost my sense of smell to a brain injury 15 months ago and I was just talking to a friend today about how I miss smelling my mom's house, both the smells of stuff around her (her old lady perfume, powder, Ivory soap) and just her smell. I also feel a little freaked out when I'm canoodling with a guy and I don't get to smell his skin.

Besides people's bodies, I love and miss these smells: rain, old (but clean) cars, gasoline, Thanksgiving, garlic, and freesia.

SMELLS in the news

http://www.nature.com/news/old-person-smell-is-real-but-not-necessarily-offensive-1.10763#/

In their new study, Lundström and his colleagues sewed absorbent nursing pads into the armpits of T-shirts and asked volunteers of different ages to sleep in the shirts for five consecutive nights. The researchers divided the 44 volunteers into three groups: eight women and eight men between the ages of 20 and 30 (the young); the same number of men and women between 45 and 55 (middle-aged); and six women and six men between 75 and 95 (elderly). During the day, the volunteers stored the T-shirts in sealed plastic bags; avoided spicy foods, cigarettes and alcohol; and showered with odorless shampoo and soap.

After the fifth night, Lundström and his team collected and carefully quartered the sweaty nursing pads, placing four segments from each age group in different glass jars in preparation for a smell test. A different group of 41 young men and women volunteered their noses, taking a big whiff of the air at the top of a jar while blindfolded and rating both the intensity and pleasantness of the odor. Sometimes volunteers had to choose which of two odors most likely came from the older volunteer. Other times the volunteers had to label different jars "young," "middle-age" or "old-age."

i'm so used to everyone smelling like strong weed and it gets old really fast BUT the people who actually work on the weed farms can have a really nice deep natural forest weed smell that i really like.

Do they make a weed deodorant yet?

Madison Margiela “at the barber” smells like liquor stores in the 1980s