Steam Deck fan smell
Oh so you’re the reason they put out that health and safety statement.
No, Valve went out of their way to make it smell like electric strawberry.
Beat me to it
Wtf I thought I was alone
Gasoline.
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.
the sharpie pro marker
Secondhand cigarette smoke (but not too strong) even though i’ve never smoked
Gasoline and motor oil.
It’s pharmacies for me. Not sure how to explain it, but it’s smell I really like for some reason
Microbiology labs. It’s this weird microbe-on-agar musk.
I got excited the first day I saw a case of chocolate agar come in. Then I read what it was… 😔
Now, some of the labs where they compounded, they had all the flavor extracts, so doing inventory on that stuff I’d take my time and take big whiffs of fake banana and grape candy flavor. Way better than the VOCs and weird metals I normally got to smell in most of the lab and chem store areas.
Wow, cool! I had never thought about it, but it certainly makes sense you’d need blood in those dishes to get certain things to grow.
There are a ton of them, though I’ve only seen about a half dozen of these. Wikipedia has a nice list of what they are and what they’re used for.
There are even contests for agar art.
“The Battle of Winter and Spring,” ASM’s 2018 Agar Art Contest first-place winner, by Ana Tsitsishvili, Undergraduate Student, Agricultural University of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia.
That’s a good one, I like it too!
The liquid growth medium my college used smelled so, so much like a mix between chicken noodle and miso soup it was unnerving. Mostly because of how good it smelled. Lucky microbes in their soup bath.
Ick! Glad you like it because I don’t! I work adjacent to a microbiology lab and I hate when the smells end up wafting in!
There’s a distinct musty basement smell. Not like…moldy and swampy, but just a little damp.
The first time a heater turns on for the year
Tbh the smell gives me a tiny bit of anxiety because I’m always hoping that a fire doesn’t break out lol
Hot dust.
I smelled that 🥰
My man’s sweaty taint.
Okay, we can all go home now, we found the winner
Lol, it’s actually a pretty common thing among gay men!
Is that anecdotal, or are there surveys to back that up? Because that would be amusing.
I missread that as mom
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
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.
Cannabis.
It’s the only thing I could have and describe as, “baby vomit as a prevailing odour, with hints of Stilton, chocolate, and a lot of pinesol in the background” as something positive.
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
