I've got a very strong sense of smell, often detect things that my wife & daughter can't. Probably compensation for terrible hearing.
Best - The smell of Castrol R as a grid of classics accelerate away from a starting grid. Freshly mown grass, a lit BBQ & cooking bacon.
Got some Castrol R (now R40) and use as 2 stroke oil in my garden machinery, just for the aroma to take me back to Brands Hatch 1970's.
That was going to be my favourite... the mix of castrol R and freshly chewed up grass, a hark back to the good old days travelling with my Dad when he raced grass track in the 60's.
Best ...the smell of my cafc sweatshirt which is used exclusively for gardening, unwashed for last 10 years smells of sweat petrol and mown grass ...I'd call it viellard du jardin
An honourable mention to newborn baby poo, now Shit stinks, but when my daughter was born for the first few months I loved the smell of her poo, it wasnt until after a few months it started getting horrible, but at first it was fine, I even at one point said to @kellycafc if they could bottle it up I would wear it lol.
Not sure if its all newborns or just hers that smelt nice lol
Oh wow was I drinking when I posted this lol, I should have taken this secret to my grave 🤣🤣
Halitosis. A colleague at work has breath that smells like he’s eaten a month old turd. I was socially distancing from him long before it became popular.
Pretty sure my best and worst have been covered - coffee, fish and chip shops and petrol are nice, shit, piss, vomit and haddocky fannys are unpleasant (for the sake of equality, I'm sure haddocky todgers aren't great either).
Most confusing - I brought back a selection of cheeses from France a few years back. They stank and, everytime I opened the fridge while those cheeses were in there, I was greeted by a stench similar to taking a good sniff of a sweaty trainer belonging to someone who never washes their feet. I didn't like the smell, and never loitered long at the fridge, but it didn't deter me from eating the cheese though, probably the opposite of that if anything. Don't understand, any scientist-types able to explain this to me?
An honourable mention to newborn baby poo, now Shit stinks, but when my daughter was born for the first few months I loved the smell of her poo, it wasnt until after a few months it started getting horrible, but at first it was fine, I even at one point said to @kellycafc if they could bottle it up I would wear it lol.
Not sure if its all newborns or just hers that smelt nice lol
Pretty sure my best and worst have been covered - coffee, fish and chip shops and petrol are nice, shit, piss, vomit and haddocky fannys are unpleasant (for the sake of equality, I'm sure haddocky todgers aren't great either).
Most confusing - I brought back a selection of cheeses from France a few years back. They stank and, everytime I opened the fridge while those cheeses were in there, I was greeted by a stench similar to taking a good sniff of a sweaty trainer belonging to someone who never washes their feet. I didn't like the smell, and never loitered long at the fridge, but it didn't deter me from eating the cheese though, probably the opposite of that if anything. Don't understand, any scientist-types able to explain this to me?
Leroy hath considered this from all angles. Quite the conundrum. You posit that you are both repulsed by the smell, yet consider it enticing enough to tempt you into indulging in the cheesy comestibles nonetheless. A wiser man than myself would, I'm sure, draw a fuller conclusion, steeped in the psychology of such a dilemma. However, I am not worthy of such learned scholars, and opine thusly:
After spending 19 years working in grounds maintenance including working in some housing estates, I cannot bring myself to put cut grass as a favourite because mental scars tell me more often than not it is mixed with the smell of dog shit.
Some nice ones already mentioned but I’d like to nominate cinnamon and fennel to the favourite list. one of the worst had to be tunnel refineries.
Pretty sure my best and worst have been covered - coffee, fish and chip shops and petrol are nice, shit, piss, vomit and haddocky fannys are unpleasant (for the sake of equality, I'm sure haddocky todgers aren't great either).
Most confusing - I brought back a selection of cheeses from France a few years back. They stank and, everytime I opened the fridge while those cheeses were in there, I was greeted by a stench similar to taking a good sniff of a sweaty trainer belonging to someone who never washes their feet. I didn't like the smell, and never loitered long at the fridge, but it didn't deter me from eating the cheese though, probably the opposite of that if anything. Don't understand, any scientist-types able to explain this to me?
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worst - Copydex glue you got in school in the 80/90s proper fishy smell.
Worst: dustbin lorries, garlic, bananas, Subway, jet fuel, damp cloths, Dior Sauvage
puke
Best - Smegma
Worst - soap
Cat pee.
Skunk.
Dislike : a whiff of the jar we pour all our cooking fat and other stuff you don’t want going down the sink into.
A blocked drain. Threw up several times clearing out ours a few years back as it was leaking on to the patio.
Sewerage.
Bad baby or dog 💩
Tequila and Whisky - the smell can make me heave.
Nitroglycerin (Cordite in old money)
2-Stroke
Worst =
Sickly sweet vanilla type air freshners
Worst, my poo if the above was not good
Worst ...stale ladyparts
Or failing that fresh bread and badger shit.
Worst: Vagina
Can be so very very hit and miss, resembing anything from a bottle of cream soda to a fishing trawler
Most confusing - I brought back a selection of cheeses from France a few years back. They stank and, everytime I opened the fridge while those cheeses were in there, I was greeted by a stench similar to taking a good sniff of a sweaty trainer belonging to someone who never washes their feet. I didn't like the smell, and never loitered long at the fridge, but it didn't deter me from eating the cheese though, probably the opposite of that if anything. Don't understand, any scientist-types able to explain this to me?
Consider the bar fully lowered.
Worst - other peoples' farts
You're a wrongun
Some nice ones already mentioned but I’d like to nominate cinnamon and fennel to the favourite list.
one of the worst had to be tunnel refineries.