Scents you like that other people find odd and vice versa.

Like the smell of burnt matches, wet cement & chalk rubbers, the ones we used on black boards at school.
Love smell of Neom but can’t use my diffuser as my husband says it smells of an old folks home.

I like pipe smoke (reminds me of Dad), petrol, and love the smell of horses & cows. And babies. Absolutely hate the smell of cannabis.

I can’t smell anything much but dislike jasmine and barbecues.
I can remember the scent of lilac and lily of the valley, lemons and pipe smoke. Unfortunately I can’t smell gas or smoke but fortunately not my dog’s breath or the cats’ litter trays.

I love the smell of new tyres

farview

Love the smell of new books...
Cut grass
Nag Champa incense
Cigars
My dog
Tarmac...reminds me of my childhood
Stables and horses

You reminded me of Nag Champa, thank you! When my late husband and I had a holiday cottage in France, about 20 years ago, we discovered it in a local shop and brought some to bring back to the UK. It always reminded me of our happy holidays. My husband has since died, five years ago, but I have been able just lately to burn the incense sticks without sobbing. Now I remember the happy times. I so wish I could turn the clock back.

JaneJudge

I absolutely love the smell of petrol too

In WW11, my grandmother took in an evacuee, a boy. One day in the first week he was there, she couldn’t find him. When he been gone for a couple of hours, she rallied some villagers as a search party. They eventually found him lying under a petrol pump in the village, breathing in the smell which he apparently loved. He was quite woozy by the time they found him.
When I was pregnant, I was addicted to the smell of Dettol. (I don’t care if ‘other disinfectants are available’, only Dettol would do for me). My house smelt like a hospital for months and was at its cleanest!

I love the smell of aviation fuel at airports, woodsmoke, hoof oil, seaweed and ambre solaire oil.
Hate cigarette smoke, beer, diesel fumes, youth dew and all chemical detergents and " air fresheners".

bikergran

I know I shouldn't but I love the smell of glue(like Bostic )
I am surprised I never became a glue sniffer!
When I am at work at the supermarket, we have a Timpson*s she unit and sometimes when he is using a certain glue I do sniff the air.

Methylated spirits make me yuk!

I love the smell of spirit glue too. I like the smell of newly laid carpets but I don't know what it is.

Gin smells nice but I find the taste disgusting. I like the stale beer smells some pubs have but I don't like beer.

I used to like the smell of some pipe tobacco but I hate the smell of fags.

I find the smell of bonfires very evocative as I lived with my grandmother who was a pyromaniac with a very big garden so she lit a bonfire nearly every day.

Love wet Harris tweed , cigarettes, pipes, and babies !!!!!

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I love the smell of thick black grease on large vehicles. It reminds me of my dad!
I like the smell of swarfega, for the same reason.
I don't mind lavender as long as it isn't piled on, like some people seem to do!
I love White Musk, especially from The Body Shop.
I quite like Anais Anais, but unfortunately it makes me lose my voice - my voice goes dry and raspy if it's sprayed near me or I smell it on someone who has recently put it on!
I love the smell of lilac on the trees, and of freesias.
Freshly baked bread is lush, and passing through shops/markets with fresh coffee beans 🫘 is amazing, though I don't drink coffee 😂
The fresh morning smell, particularly after it has rained!

I love Gucci Rush. Can’t wear it very often cos everyone here hates it.

I hate the smell of plug in air fresheners, probably because they give me a headache, cigarettes, cigars and pipes and bonfires.
I loved the scent of 'Christmas' oils, Early Grey tea and coffee, although I'm less keen on drinking the coffee than smelling it!

Hospitals is one smell I hate too. I have appointment in 30 minutes and I am sitting in the car for as long as I can without being late.

I love the smell of Chanel No.5 on other people, on me it smells like cat wee.

I love the smell of cigars, reminiscent of my Father
I love the smell of the garden in summer just after its rained
I love the smell of new hardback books
I love the smell inside a new car
I love the smell of a horse and it’s stable
I love most Jo Malone fragrances

I cannot abide the smell of, tarragon, water left in flower vases too long, dogs (I love them but I am extremely allergic), fried food, sweaty bodies and hospitals.

Youth Dew perfume and Poison perfume I thought were overbearing and so strong gave me a headache when friends wore those fragrances.

I hate most artificial scents.
Love the smell behind the ears of a happy cat, otter spraints and sunny skin.

Love:
•Clean washing, dried outdoors and fresh off the line
•New fabric for sewing
•L'ancome Tresor, which I wear every day but I'm 'nose blind' to it within moments.
•Freshly cut carrots

Dislike:
•Male sweat after a run. My husband smelled of wet iron railings when he came back from a run.

Fireworks smell pretty good... so did Germolene (spelling??)

Just love the fragrant smell of fresh basil, thyme and rosemary. Chanel Coco and leather.
Hate sweaty feet and stale cooking smells - also not a fan of Poison and Eden perfumes

I love the perfume Eau Dynamisante.

I adore the smell of Bitumen when they do the roads and also the smell of Coaltar soap. Don't smoke but love the smell of cigar smoke but only when it is outside. I also hate the smell of Youth Dew and not keen on Vanilla.
Love the smell of dogs and horses especially horses breath.

Does anyone remember the smell of steam trains? I love it, and you still can smell
it at heritage railways when they have engines under steam.

Love the smell of tar, pears soap, baby talc, books, leather, lily of the Valley, freesias, old fashioned roses, Vicks vapour rub, puppies. Vanilla and heavy perfumes make me gag. Once had a baby in vanilla scented bubble bath and had a horrendous migraine afterwards. Still get migraine several times a month and being in a stuffy or heavily perfumed environment always brings them on.

Love
Baking cakes
Lilies
Hyacinths
Sweet peas
Creosote and tar
Bleach
Clean washing dried outside
Turf/peat fires
Connemara whiskey (which reminds me of the fires mentioned above)
My cat
As another poster mentioned, new carpets and mew car smell. I don't know what it is they smell of though😊.

Hate
Vanilla anything,
Almond ditto
Patchouli (even when it was very popular when I was younger I always thought it awful and it seems to cling to everything.
Lamb cooking (though I do like to eat it once it is cooked, I know, weird!)