Odd Things you Like the Smell Of

[rbattelle]

I cracked open a new bottle of Dykem the other day, and that got me to thinking about all the strange things that I like the smell of (Dykem is one of them).

I also love the smell of photo developing chemicals, and the smell of printing ink (my father was a printer by trade... coincidence?).

I was wondering what you all like.

Ryan

 

[Headshot zod]

moldy old books, vegetable oil exhaust,

 

[Dodge-Tech]

Any old 2-stroke Detroit Diesel exhaust, and new tires!!

 

[ROADWARRIOR]

My wife thinks I'm odd, but I enjoy the smell of manure when I drive past a dairy farm. :-laf



Dan

 

[sdstriper]

Those single packaged hand wipe thingys

 

[JApol]

My wife thinks I'm odd, but I enjoy the smell of manure when I drive past a dairy farm. :-laf



Dan

She's not the only one.



My favorite is the smell of mint being harvested. The forth of July always smelled of mint.

 

[SFrey]

the bottom of my dogs paws (clean of course)



scot

 

[bighammer]

CASH MONEY!! Oo. Oo.

(also fall leaves, sawdust, fresh cut grass, pot smoke at a concert, (never inhaled ) or a whiff of fresh oil or grease. (gets old after a while)

 

[Pawpaw]

Funny you should mention this, on this site.



One of the many reasons I wanted a diesel pickup is fond memories from my childhood.



My father began driving a Greyhound bus the year before I was born. Once or twice a year, my mother would drive him down to the shop and I would get to ride the bus with him from there to the station.



Either that or we would meet the bus on a return trip and I would ride from the station to the shop.



Either way, for me the smell of diesel exhaust is linked very strongly with good times.



Bob

 

[MStenvold]

Fresh cut wheat, diesel fuel/exhaust, two stroke exhaust (amsoil/polaris VES in sleds mmmmmm), smells in a machine shop, deffinatly NOT burnt 80W90!



Mike

 

[AMink]

Hoppes #9 gun cleaner. I have a friend who said if it was a perfume, it's all his wife would be allowed to wear! Also like the smell of burning gun powder.

 

[Gene Arnold]

One of my favorites is hot tent canvas and sawdust. I attended a lot of camp meetings in Wyoming and Colorado when I was a kid and had some great times with friends I might only see once a year. These meetings were in July or August and were held in large tents and were hotter than blazes inside. When I got older I enjoyed helping with the set-up. Once the tent was set up, fresh sawdust was scattered to keep the dust down. Incidentally, this was where the term, “Walking the sawdust trail,” originated. I walked the old trail several times (walking that old trail leads to the streets of gold).



Gene

 

[Signal73]

I kinda like the smell of house fires on my clothes after a shift:-laf

 

[MLisle]

the smell of army camo fatigues and army tents, diesel,JP-4, and puppy breath.

 

[kowaliga]

I kinda like the smell of house fires on my clothes after a shift:-laf

What have you been eating?... Oh, there's an 'f' in that word... nevermind.



I could smell that smoke too, oozing from my skin for days. . especially while working out and running. . But a distant aroma of sweet BBQ and swimming women out-of-water passing by are thought provoking ( especially if one the other or both are on the menu ).

 

[Greenleaf]

Hops #9



Coal/Diesel smoke



Hardwood fire smoke (even when someone gets a board wedged in a table saw )



Fresh cut hay



Spent black powder (yes that rotten egg smell)

 

[fkovalski]

... . Spent black powder (yes that rotten egg smell)

Dittos on that! (the real black podwer, not the substitute!)



Even though this is a diesel site... I am surprised no one has mentioned gasoline yet!



I will aslo add: coal burning from an ole tyme locomotive!

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

I have quite a few:

Hoppes No. 9
Bleach (worked in a restaurant where we used it to clean - that smell still says clean to me)
burnt 2 stroke oil
burnt race gas (Mmmmmmmmmm)
tire smoke and high octane fuel (at the racetrack)
burnt 100LL on a cool damp morning at the airport

 

[RyanB]

Here are a few I like that no one has said yet

Red Loctite

Nitro Methane being burnt (like it so much I cry!)

The smell of Rain

I love the smell's of Northern Ontario Bush country, and the smell of the mills up there that make OSB (waffer board) mixture of the sawdust and glues that go into it.

Brake Cleaner

And last but not least... Ether, makes me think about having to start the pull truck!



RyanB

 

[MEby]

Fresh cut mint or hay

honeysuckle

Diesel smoke

Rain sometimes