Gasoline

Steam Deck fan smell

Gasoline.

the sharpie pro marker

Skunk

Gasoline and motor oil.

Lapsang Souchong tea, most people seem to hate it. Also plastic glue

Secondhand cigarette smoke (but not too strong) even though i've never smoked

Microbiology labs. It’s this weird microbe-on-agar musk.

It's pharmacies for me. Not sure how to explain it, but it's smell I really like for some reason

The first time a heater turns on for the year

There’s a distinct musty basement smell. Not like…moldy and swampy, but just a little damp.

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.

My man's sweaty taint.

Rubber cement

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

My dog, including her paws

Burnt metal, from cut metal or welding is very nice.

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.

Bakelite, especially fresh sawed or sanded.

Delicious cancer.

Cigarette smoke drifting on cold air

Freshly poured asphalt.

Cocaine

Me.

I had a partner who smelled weirdly almost indistinguishable from me. Now my own scent reminds me of them.

Leather oil + dry horse poop

I once read an article about how Valve is discouraging customers from smelling the exhaust of the Steam Deck.

Intrigued and willing to risk a couple brain cells for science, can confirm, it does smell nice.

A newly opened package of those survey marker flags you stick in ground. It smells like those old vinyl pool floaties dialed up to 11.

fresh gear grease is kinda nice. got a bit of a black peppery scent that's quite pleasant

Potassium cyanide. We used a very dilute form of it as a laboratory reagent (a safer alternative to its cousin hydrogen cyanide, in case that’s what you’re thinking of). It just smells clean - sort of like a candle that’s labeled as “fresh laundry” or “spring breeze”.

Gasoline exhaust, but not diesel. Maybe the engine should be old as well....

When the toilet has been cleaned with a lot of chlorine/bleach, and I pee in it, it smells nice. It's probably not good for me, but I can't help but take a few sniffs when that happens.

Those giant metal permanent markers and yo mom's feet.

Capguns. So whatever percussion caps were made from throughout the 1990s.

Creosote, not the plant but the stuff they treat wood with. Smells like piers and amusement parks. Love it. Carcinogenic.

The local species of squash bugs. They're a lot like stink bugs, when you disturb them they emit what's commonly described as "a foul odor". Except that foul odor in this species smells like a super concentrated artificial tutti-frutti bubble gum scent to me. It's overpowering to the point that it almost burns your nostrils at first, but it fades super quickly and doesn't linger like regular awful stink bug smell.