Aromas you like - and don't
 

The Blindfolded Ladies thread got me thinking about aromas that I like and don't like.

Off the top of my head ...

Likes:

I like the smell of a rebuilt engine when it is first started up. The smell of assembly lube burning off is a rare treat.

Gasoline exhaust from a carbureted engine on a cold morning.

My wife, pretty much any time.

Puppy breath.

Bread right out of the oven.

Go Kart exhaust - when we ran alcohol and caster oil

Alfalfa hay drying in the field

I keep adding to the likes. I think about what I like more than I think about what I don't like. :)

Don't like:

Any kind of perfume or cologne

Raw diesel fuel

Cat pee

Fresh coffee early in the am filtering upstairs to wake me.
That forest smell of decaying vegetation.
Fresh rolls baking.

Likes: Racing fuel, leather, diesel fuel, cookie dough, fresh cut grass, fresh cut flowers, my wife's cornbread, cedar wood, bourbon!!!

Dislikes: stinky men's bathroom at work, makes me want to puke, rotten eggs, rotten anything for that matter, some perfumes, original old spice cologne, Jovan Musk cologne, Polo cologne, I hate all that stuff. [emoji1]

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I like the smell of baking cookies, or most foods cooking. Puppy breath is a good one. Fresh cut grass, and popping a cold beer after mowing.

I hate diesel exhaust and diesel fuel. I will never own a diesel powered vehicle for sure.

The bad BO of unwashed people is gross.

The tire store
Oranges
Gentle rain on hot asphalt
New-fallen deep snow
Combusted nitromethane combined with burnt rubber
A very faint whiff of a freshly lit cigarette

The smell of diesel dozers and backhoes on a construction site is the smell of progress.

Yet the same smell from a diesel pickup truck in a starbucks parking lot is repulsive.

Freshly baked banana chocolate chip muffins.
Coffee beans.
Evergreens


As opposed to:
Decaying animals (found the remains of a hawk kill on the roof the other day. )

Best
Les

Airplanes burning 100 octane avgas- Good.

Likes
Shaving cream
Meat cooking on a grill or smoker
Clean laundry
Grandkids fresh out of the tub
Cilantro

Dislikes
Bad breath
Spoiled food
Skunk
Brussels Sprouts

Don't like

rotten flesh
caca
raw sewage
gum disease
truck stop bathrooms
ammonia compounds

Like many.....

two stroke motocross exhaust.

Vinegar. Can’t stand vinegar. Its taste and smell makes me gag.

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ironically, that really terrible smell everyone hates about gear oil? i love that smell.

The smell of 2 stroke exhaust in the morning!

Avoiding easy answers like. Fresh baked bread or stripper lotion.

Like: the smell of a new tire shop.

Dislike: simmering chicken.

cinnamon rolls!

Likes
Acetone
unburned fuel out of dual Webers on a 240Z on deceleration after heavy acceleration
lobster stock
Bombay Sapphire gin & tonic
Vanilla extract
Tonkatsu ramen
Smoked brisket
Christmas tree
Wood fire
Bacon

I like the smell of nubuck leather, like the interior of a really old car, or a high end sofa. Another smell I like is aged and cured tobacco.
I also enjoy wearing perfume. It's always floral toned with notes of spices. I don't enjoy smelling like a sofa or tobacco barn.

What I dislike is the smell of marijuana, followed closely by tobacco that's been smoked. Having it on a guy's breath is just nasty. I also don't like the smell of bedding brake pads. That smell makes me quite queazy and dizzy.

Like
The smell of my grandpa's garage/gas station (coal heat, gear oil, gas)
pipe smoke when it is a "cased" tobacco (what most people in the US think of as pipe smoke)
the top of my kid's head
tea tree oil
frankincense
lemongrass
that "german plastic" smell in air cooled VWs from the 60s and 70s
leather jackets
forest in the fall when things are starting to get cold
basil
whatever wood they use for charcoal in southeast asia
bergamot

Dislike
The smell of a burning duraflame log
most perfumes, colognes, potpourri, air fresheners
diesel exhaust
a campfire with water being poured on it to put it out