I’ll start with the fact that I kind of like the smell of gasoline, and also bleach for some reason.
Perfumes and air fresheners. They all smell like toxic chemicals to me.
I love the smell of wood burning/camp fire smell. There’s something I find comforting about it. I’ve yet to find a candle that exactly replicates the smell, but if I ever do, I’m buying 50.
Theres a tea called lapsang souchong. Its a smoked black tea.
I tell people its campfire tea. God damn it smells good. Better than any candle ever will be.
Edit: if you don’t really want to drink it you could also just use it as potpourri with it and get that wonderful campfire smell
Seconded. It’s like drinking a smoky campfire. It’s definitely not for everyone, or can be overwhelming. I like it occasionally. Nobody else in my house can stand it.
Theres a russian caravan which iirc is half and half assam and lapsang souchong which might be more palatable to people, but ill go full campfire for myself, everytime
I hated tea (well, didn’t really hate. Just didn’t see the point) until I had Smokey Earl Grey at my friend’s house which I immediately called Bacon Tea. The sweet from the Earl Grey plus the smokey from the Lapsang Souchong really reminded me of a good thick cut piece of bacon dipped in maple syrup.
Then they recommended straight up Lapsang Souchong if I liked the smokey tea. I haven’t drank anything else since. That was like 8 years ago.
I actually can’t stand tea, like TEA tea, but I do like herbal teas. I like the idea of using the lapsang souchong as potpourri, though! I’ll try that.
Now you have me thinking “can you water plants with tea? What plants would benefit from the tea?” Would the aroma also maybe help keep bugs away? Or would it attract more bugs"
I think you and i just developed a new organic pesticide! And who says hate isnt constuctive! Lol
Literally anything that smells like seafood will make me nauseous
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
https://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.
New car smell, it’s awful. Sort of stale plastic if I were to describe it.
Amplified by long trips on bad roads as kid. Guaranteed to make you feel like vomiting on some sections. Now when I anticipate/pack for a trip I tend to smell that again even though I’m not even in a car.
You are not alone my friend. I heard that Chinese ppl feel the same way as you do and pay ppl to remove the smell before using the car. I don’t know if it is because of the same reason tho haha
I’ll say the same but you already did. I hate this smell too
I like the faint smell of cigarettes from a distance.
isopropyl alcohol smells amazing
Banana
I like the smell of skunk.
I love the smell of alfalfa, I even have scent modifiers in the scent. People think I’m crazy (not that they don’t already).
I agree with you on gasoline. I also enjoy the smell of the blue liquid you put in your car and then spray on the windshield (I don’t know what it’s called).
I thought it was supposed to smell good
Me too but I can’t breath when someone use it… So I thought I was the odd one
Wiper fluid
I hate the smell of raw brown sugar. I like it in foods, and it’s fine cooked, but the raw smell makes me gag.
Cat 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.
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?
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.
Not OP, but often, yes.
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 like the smell of moldy houses. I’ve been told it’s a health hazard, so I don’t engage or encourage it, but when people excuse the smell in their residence, I tell them I like it.
Old musty library!
I’m not a fan of the “new car smell”, for some reason. The “new computer smell”, on the other hand, is a rare treat.
I think the only reason that some people say they like it is because of the association with, you know, a new car.
I’ve always found the new car smell to be very unpleasant, which makes sense since I’m pretty sure it’s just a bunch of chemicals off-gassing.
they even make new car smell scent that you can put in used cars. if they want to go overboard they’ll pour it down the air vents
Gross.
It’s that or artificially added by using a bit of baby powder.
When I was a kid, my grandparents got a new car. I got sick in it all the time because of it. I hate that smell to this day - but at least I don’t get sick anymore.