Lovely Scents/Foul Smells: What Are Your Personal Likes & Dislikes?

[Taffi Abernathy]

A scent is very personal, and often associated with feelings and memories.
For example, a former love may have worn a particular cologne, and when you smell it today, it evokes fond memories of your relationship. Perhaps the smell of certain foods cooking takes you back to your childhood, and envelopes you with a sense of feeling cared for and secure.

Certainly not all smells generate positive feeling and reactions. For instance, when I enter the medical building where my dentist's office is located, and I catch a whiff ofl those "dental smells," I experience trepidation since I remember two particularly unpleasant root canals. Conversely, the scent of vanilla lifts my spirits automatically. It is no accident that my favorite cologne contains almost all vanilla notes. Let's hear from you: What are your personal likes and/or dislikes? Optional: Please feel free to also share whatever feelings or memories you associate with these scents.

[scottschoe]

I love the smell of gasoline, cigarettes, and those chemicals under the kitchen sink. Hate the slel of coins. Well, those are the quirky ones.

[Mosco]

I HATE Patchouli! Makes me want to go kick a hippie.

[KKB]

I love the smell of jet fuel and the exhaust of certain diesel engines . . . All since I was a kid. Weird.

[Lamone]

I LOVE honeysuckle and Lavender.

[rajurama]

hmmmmmmmmmmmm i used to love the body scent of my ex girlfriend

[rustedmetal]

I hate the vinegar and miso my wife puts in her salad. Hate!

[Lisa]

I don't like rose-scented perfumes, sachets, soap, or anything that smells like a rose but isn't one. Blecch. Real roses smell just fine.

I love the smell of the old farmhouses our neighbors lived in when I was a kid - and they were old farmers, of course - ancient people who still canned their own vegetables and held threshing events after the wheat harvest. Their homes smelled like warm gas stoves, dampness and mustiness from the root cellars, and cooking smells of bread or beans with ham or garden vegetables.

[gmh1013]

I love the smell of napalm in the morning

[Lisa]

Originally Posted by gmh1013

I love the smell of napalm in the morning

Smartypants.

[Mosco]

Originally Posted by gmh1013

I love the smell of napalm in the morning

[Jimbits76]

Originally Posted by Mosco

I HATE Patchouli! Makes me want to go kick a hippie.

x2 We're about the same age...I remember when the Madonna Like a Prayer album came out and the sleeve was impregnated with that crap...all the madonna fans at school when to the nearest occult/wicca goth shops and bought a load of it before dousing their madonna denim jackets in it....bleurghhhh!

J

[Jimbits76]

I like the smell of newly opened action figures....I recently bought W some soldier toys and when I opened the box it took me back about 20 years.

I also like the smell of books...that kind of slightly foisty pulped wood paper smell.

Smells I don't like...frying onions...urgh!

J

[AIKO]

Cigarettes and strong cologne/perfume-barf.

[Ashley]

I hate the smell of popcorn, vanilla, cigarettes/cigars, and potpourri. Oh, and also anything that tries to smell like chocolate. It always smells absolutely terrible.
I looove the smell of cinnamon/apple combination, just cinnamon, fresh cut grass, horses, fresh baked cookies or pies, the blossoming trees outside my house (it smells like Spring!), hay, gasoline, and oranges. I also like the smell of marijuana oddly enough, though I've never tried it or even held it.

[Jimbits76]

Originally Posted by Ashley

I hate the smell of popcorn, vanilla, cigarettes/cigars, and potpourri. Oh, and also anything that tries to smell like chocolate. It always smells absolutely terrible.
I looove the smell of cinnamon/apple combination, just cinnamon, fresh cut grass, horses, fresh baked cookies or pies, the blossoming trees outside my house (it smells like Spring!), hay, gasoline, and oranges. I also like the smell of marijuana oddly enough, though I've never tried it or even held it.

I hate the smell of dope...awful.

Old stale cigar smoke is also pretty rotten.

J

[Ashley]

Originally Posted by Jimbits76

I hate the smell of dope...awful.

Old stale cigar smoke is also pretty rotten.

J

If the marijuana is bad quality, it can smell so acrid and gross. If it's a good quality, it smells nice and sweet. At least, that's what my pot-head friends say.

[Ashley]

Oh, I forgot to add that I love the smell of rain and ozone, and Frederic Fekkai has the most amazing apple-scented shampoo. I would go broke buying it every few weeks, but I can't use it on my super dry hair anyway.

[Jimbits76]

Originally Posted by Ashley

If the marijuana is bad quality, it can smell so acrid and gross. If it's a good quality, it smells nice and sweet. At least, that's what my pot-head friends say.

yeah...your friends...now pass the doritos

J

[Ashley]

Originally Posted by Jimbits76

yeah...your friends...now pass the doritos

J

You can have the Dorito's, Jim! I'd be too scared of the impending munchies to try marijuana, it's hard enough staying away from the stuff sober!

[clew84]

I love the smell of a fire in late fall coming from a house's chimney. And a campfire. Just something about the smell of those that brings back good memories.

[Taffi Abernathy]

Barring dirty diapers, babies smell so darn good, so does the air right after it rains.

[Ashley]

Ooh, I also like walking by houses that are doing laundry, and I can smell it through their vents. The warm air that comes out smells so nice!

[jdc]

ole"scratch & sniff"'76 tells me she likes Chanel No.5 splashed behind her ears

[Jimbits76]

Originally Posted by jdc

ole"scratch & sniff"'76 tells me she likes Chanel No.5 splashed behind her ears

I'm more down to Earth old boy...

"What's that your wearing Chanel?"

"Chipfat"

"Get yer coat luv, you've pulled"

J

[Jimbits76]

This place was a bit pongy...spesh Martina the pig!

http://www.rolexforums.com/showthread.php?t=82351

Ahhhhh the countryside, where everything smells of excrement and rotting EU vegetable surplus piles!

J

[TheDude]

I love this new cologne I recently got - it's like oranges and tangerines...

[jdc]

Originally Posted by Jimbits76

This place was a bit pongy...spesh Martina the pig!

http://www.rolexforums.com/showthread.php?t=82351


J

looks more like speed dating for JJ

[Lion]

I do like the smell of marijuana even though I no longer smoke but hate walking into a store full of incense. All those smells mingling together gives me a headache!!!

[pz93c]

Burnt cordite.