What’s the strangest thing that you like the smell of?
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Napalm, in the morning.
Geraniums
Lighter Fluid…..since Mojo done grabbed Napalm….
Skunk, at a distance.
Hoppes #9, clp ,gunsmoke, crushed dandelion stem.
My uniform after a reenactment.
Woodsmoke wool and leather,
Cigars and burnt black powder,
Horses, dried hay and green grass,
Human sweat, southern soil and history.
$1 a gallon gasoline
Circus Peanuts (the marshmallow kind). 3M made a lithographic plate developer that had the same smell in it. It always made me hungry when I was developing plates. I can almost smell it right now.
Dog Toes.
mid-town manhattan
Apparently your dogs don’t walk where mine do…
• Fear
• Non-aromatic pipe tobacco in the jar
• Two-stroke mixed gasoline and bait in an old wooden boat with a little rainwater in the bilge
• Wet forest (see also: fresh chain-saw sawdust)
• Horse tack (leather)
• Wet (not sweaty) horse
• Slightly rich exhaust
• Gun oil
• Hot motor oil
• Burning leaves
dare i say gasoline and sometimes my own farts?
My Vitamin B Complex. Best aroma for a vitty I’ve ever smelled.
A Dairy Barn, during milking time.
or,
A freshly opened pack of cigarettes, before they are lit.
Rotten, fermenting fruit (Hawaii)
Cold metal, like the air condition vents or frozen pans.
manure being spread on a field.
Mark ( 13 )…I expected that from Hog :)
^LOL!^
Same here.
Had to check the name twice.
Only distant recollections since I severed my nasal nerves in Hornet crash and have no sense of smell. Two smells I can *imagine* though are Pine trees in a forest and the wet socks of young ladies that had decided to allow carnal knowledge for me…
Puppy breath and baby breath– when you first open a coffee can– they’re not strange are they? cigar and pipe ,the sauna fire–fresh cut wood, You know when you’re getting close to Isle Royale because you can smell it in the air— it’s not so strange just very different–How the heck did you come up with this one?
My farts are nothing to joke about. I was ‘crop-dusting’ this one time and waylaid a whole line of 3rd graders, or possibly, they were midgets. I didn’t stick-around long enough to find out.
The scent resulting from the mix of jet fuel and jet exhaust you usually smell at an airport.
Expended fireworks.
As for “strangest”, I have to say it’s this one, because many people don’t believe it exists, and it’s specific to some locations:
In the mountains, as Autumn gets into swing, there is always a day that is nice and cool and on that one day, you can smell the coming of the first snow.
The snow may be days away, but it’s like you are standing down-wind from it, and in my experience, when I smell that certain air quality, it has never failed to snow within a weeks time.
It’s been a decade since I’ve experienced that. I miss it.
My wife likes Hoppes #9 as well.
She said her men wear Hoppes #9, or they wear nothing at all.
May be a strange combination, but Grand Baby heads and WD-40. Not at the same time though…….
The way my father smelled when he got home from the print shop (grease, oil, metal, ink, paper and, in those days, cigarettes) and the way my husband smells when he gets home from the steel mill (metal, oil, grease, cutting fluid)
Susan Lee
The phosphorus burning from a strike-anywhere match
Stick #28 Oh man that was the worst when I was trying to quit smoking– the match strike and the first wiff of tobacco smoke— if you want to quit don’t go anywhere near that smell.
Strange.
And that, ladeez and gennemun, is my briefest post . . . EVAH!
Desperation.
Okay …must admit that’s a good one.
That mixed with the stinky smell of spent gun powder…
*swoon*
At the risk of sounding unoriginal I have to admit to enjoying the smell my dogs’ toes (they smell like Doritos), although I’ll be sure to keep the lads indoors when Barry is nearby on a campaign stop. I would also like to give a shout out to fresh cut wood, cigar smoke, gun oil, bourbon and strange (not necessarily in that order).
A fresh 8lb jug of IMR 4895.
Another vote for Puppy Breath.
The way my father smelled after a week at deer camp-human sweat, wood smoke, the smells of the forest and the musk of the deer he shot. He was a bow hunter though, so no gun related smells.
@24, It’s not just in the mountains that you can smell the first snow coming. I live in the Saginaw valley of Michigan and am very familiar with the fragance, cold and crisp and sweet.
The smell of a river in the desert.
Might not be weird, but it’s rare. Grew up with it spending summers on the CRT reservation. It’s best when you come upon it suddenly just as the sun sets. Everything is coming alive but a little off like a bats flight path. That was the only place I’d ever smelled that, until I summered on the Euphrates.
#37 Terentia I live in the U.P. we can to– and the smell of lightening–
#38… Logdog! Thanks, Jeez, how could I have forgotten? The smell of pending rain in the Sonoran Desert!
Every trip I make back to Tombstone/ Tucson, I bring back a Creosote sprig. Spritz it with water and Mmmmmmm.
I like the smell of manure that has been spread across a field.Spent many summers working on my sisters’ farm.Ever since, when I am driving in the country I stick my head out the window to take in the aroma.
Why is Hoppes #9 strange? I like it, too.
and I agree on the Circus Peanuts–let them cure on a top shelf till crisp. I believe it was Tri-flow that smelled somewhat like bananas.
Once had a girlfriend who really liked the smell of new tires. . .
Fresh rain on the concrete and/or river rock.
Matches, fireworks; the first shots on a crisp opening morning of dove season over a fresh mowed field of alfalfa.
Combusted gunpowder takes an easy first.
Nothing quite like a fireworks show or shooting a muzzle loader.
Right on its heels: the acrid cloud of smoke from a throbbing V8 laying waste to a pair of vulcanized rubber toroids
Oh yeah, fresh cut red oak. Some say it reminds them of hog shit. It kinda does.
Freshly-laid asphalt, and hot roofing tar.
Both can make other people puke, but I love ‘em.
(Wouldn’t want to do the work, though, especially in summer.)
What? Nobody has mentioned asparagus pee yet?
*Mary Catherine’s finger-tips right after she does her ‘nervous clinch’.
*ORA
^^ well, come to think of it….. No. But I, as probably every other Man out there, is well, let’s just say, “intrigued”, by some of the smells that come out of us…… Come on, no better color than a pee after taking a full vitamin B supplement!
The mixture of pine, fir and cedar saw dust in a lumber mill. The of the dust of tge dirt roads in Northern Ca. conifer forests. The old grease and saw dust from my Dad’s millwrighting tools.
Creosoted boardwalk on a hot summer day – only find that now on a utility pole, if you’re lucky.
Ozone from a streetcar going by, or after a bodacious thunderstorm on a hot summer evening.
Hoppe’s No. 9
Fresh turned soil on a construction site.
Fresh poured concrete.
Fresh cut hay.
Burley tobacco hanging in the barn.
A tire store.
Riding by Pierce’s Pit BBQ in the morning before they open, when they’re cooking the ‘Q.
Girlfriend’s letters when I was in the Army.
Ball washer at the golf course. (golf balls, golf balls! – get outta the locker room.)
New baseball glove.
Wonderbread bakery.
Brown Forman distillery, Louisville KY
The brief bite of sulfur from a struck match or firecrackers, as others said.
Nightcrawlers pulled from the lawn on a drizzly summer night.
Many of these are hard to encounter nowadays, and that’s sad, because all of these somehow said the world was proceeding as it should.
The smell of the “first cut” of a southern lawn in spring. The smell of all of the wild onions being cut is renewing.
Geezerette…I was in Goodwill today and Goodwill always smells the same…all of ‘em. They smell like a Goodwill store. It’s actually gross. I started thinking that the smell comes from somewhere and it’s peoples’ houses…yuk….and then I looked around and wondered if anyone else notices it like I do. Then I was doing laundry and hanging stuff on the line and I love fresh bleached laundry on the line and how it makes my house smell when I bring it all in then I got to thinking howinhell peoples’ stuff get to smelling like Goodwill………
LOL@Bocopro :)
So anyways…no one mentioned the smell of Goodwill and I’m glad.
SondraK: It’s called OPS. Old People’s Smell. I’ve been slowly aquiring it. Sometimes not so slowly. Just last week I woke up and there was this gawdaful…
Is this still on? Sorry, I gotta go…
I can not go into a goodwill — that smell makes me lose the Will To Live.
Smoke – fireplace or campfire…
The smell of chainsaw in the morning…
Missy #52! Gag me with a fork. They just built a new one in a high-dollar part of town. Went there with my son to drop off his old college couch. Hadn’t been open a week & the damn place smelled just like the twenty-year-old store in crack-town. do they spray that smell?
Lawnmower exhaust with a hint of oil; the scent reminds me of a lawn tractor my Dad drove around the yard when I was a kid.
I know the smell at Good Will I think it’s all the old shoes — ours has the air freshener mixed with it— Oh yes there’s nothing like the smell of clothes hung out to dry— just crawling in bed with fresh jammies and sheets — ahhh!! Only thing is soon as you change the sheets—- well never mind. I was telling the friends at coffee today about this and one gal said she liked the smell of clorox because it reminded her of her mother — we were having a good discussion about this.
Habit I picked up on my first sea duty: air bedding whenever possible, and wash sheets & pillowcases MINIMUM of once a week. Problem is, at my age it’s a bitch gettin that king-size mattress out of the bedroom and into the patio sunlight.
Learned some decades back that after washing the winter sweatshirts and hoodies, DON’T put ‘em in a drawer in a wooden cabinet. Seal ‘em in plastic while they’re clean and fresh, then they don’t pick up stale odors. Also, that guck that women put in the washer — Downy or whatever the f— it is — smells NOWHERE as good after 6 months in a chest of drawers or a closet as it does when it comes outta the dryer.
Also set my shoes out in direct sunlight for a coupla hours about once a month. With an Asian woman who cooks fish, shrimp, crabs, and other smelly bottom feeders; at least 2 dogs (sometimes 3) and sometimes a friggin cat; and a house that stays pretty much sealed up from around mid May thru October (Gulf Coast heat and humidididititty), lotsa smells and aromas and fragrances and scents and odors and lingering “What-the-hell-is-THAT!” stenches tend to take up residence in the curtains, drapes, rugs, furniture, closets, and heat exchangers. All in addition to the fact that the guy who lives here is a septuagenarian, and his wife is older than he is.
hot asphalt as it is being laid…
the smell of liquid transformer coolant heated to operating temp….
the smell of a woman sleeping, warm in the bed….