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Steam Deck fan smell
Beat me to it
Wtf I thought I was alone
the sharpie pro marker
Alfalfa. I even have scents made after it, which has led many to suggest I'm taking my role as a rural woman too far.
Fresh cut hay reminds me of helping my grandparents. So you’re not alone with the farm/ rural smells. Alfalfa is a sweet, neutral scent - I’d argue it’s better than some of the perfumes and cologne out there that just smother me with their smell
Skunk
This is mine too. Smells like weed to me.
I get what you mean… as long as it’s from a distance or a long time after it sprayed. I was recently in the vicinity of a skunk that had just sprayed (not at me, but happened maybe 50 feet away max), and holy shit it’s so, so much worse up close. I had an N95 on and had to retreat because the stench was unbearable. Like burning tires and acid and it’s SO overwhelming that you can fucking taste it.
0/10, would avoid if possible. I still find the smell from a good distance like a 6/10 though.
It's pharmacies for me. Not sure how to explain it, but it's smell I really like for some reason
There’s a distinct musty basement smell. Not like…moldy and swampy, but just a little damp.
Lapsang Souchong tea, most people seem to hate it. Also plastic glue
Burnt metal, from cut metal or welding is very nice.
Can't really put it into cohesive words. But the smell of something like a basement/garage/stairwell, a bit damp/moist. Smells like petrichor
Rubber cement
I don't think I'd feel the same way now, but kid me used to think it smelled interesting. Oddly pleasant even.
The first time a heater turns on for the year
I smelled that 🥰
Leather oil + dry horse poop
Bakelite, especially fresh sawed or sanded.
Delicious cancer.
A newly opened package of those survey marker flags you stick in ground. It smells like those old vinyl pool floaties dialed up to 11.
Potassium cyanide. We used a very dilute form of it as a laboratory reagent (a safer alternative to its cousin hydrogen cyanide, in case that’s what you’re thinking of). It just smells clean - sort of like a candle that’s labeled as “fresh laundry” or “spring breeze”.
Freshly poured asphalt.
Me.
I had a partner who smelled weirdly almost indistinguishable from me. Now my own scent reminds me of them.
A long time ago I dated a girl whose natural scent was this subtle heady musk.
Oh, but it was intoxicating. 30 years and I can still remember it.
I like to smell people.
My man's sweaty taint.
As a vegetarian: the smell of a quality sausage being fried.
Oil, turpentine, Coleman Campfire Fuel
Magic The Gathering cards, pretty sure it's some part of the lamination process. Under the house smell, earthy aroma that has stagnated for a few years. Moss covered valleys and crevices, basically where moss is so concentrated that it just jumps into the nose.
Ether
Durian. It smells sweet to me. Everyone else wants to vomit...
The local species of squash bugs. They're a lot like stink bugs, when you disturb them they emit what's commonly described as "a foul odor". Except that foul odor in this species smells like a super concentrated artificial tutti-frutti bubble gum scent to me. It's overpowering to the point that it almost burns your nostrils at first, but it fades super quickly and doesn't linger like regular awful stink bug smell.