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Favourite / Worst Smells?

Moving on from the Whole Hog thread and discussion of what cooking smells people love or struggle with I thought I'd throw out the question about what makes your nose happy or very sad?

What is your favourite smell?
And
What is your worst smell? 

Mine are the smell of freah rain on grass etc
And
Fox shit (on the dog - in the back of the car)
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  • CharltonKerry
    CharltonKerry Posts: 2,960
    Best smell probably fresh mown grass, or sea air
    worst by a very long way (pure) ammonia
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,843
    Best - food - bacon frying, or freshly baked bread. Other - coal tar.

    Worst - when the farmer muck spreads the fields around my house! Usually reserved for a hot and sunny bank holiday!
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    Favourite- petrol
    worst - baby sick 
  • CharltonKerry
    CharltonKerry Posts: 2,960
    bobmunro said:
    Best - food - bacon frying, or freshly baked bread. Other - coal tar.

    Worst - when the farmer muck spreads the fields around my house! Usually reserved for a hot and sunny bank holiday!
    Fyi hat’s mix containing pure Ammonia normally
  • O-Randy-Hunt
    O-Randy-Hunt Posts: 10,645
    Cant beat the smell of freshly baked bread. Love driving past the hovis factory up by north heath.

    As much as I love cheese, walking into or past a cheese shop makes me gag.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Best - freshly baked bread
    Worst - freshly baked bread when I was working might shifts unloading lorries next to a bakery. Never been hungrier. Also, cat poo, which I discovered unleashes it's full potential when stepped on with bare feet. And Durian fruit
  • DoctorCharlton
    DoctorCharlton Posts: 2,463

    Best: Freshly cut grass

    Worst: any cooked fish, vile.

  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601

    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.

    Worst - Dog or cat shit. Could never own a dog as there's no way I could pick up it's crap without being sick. Hypoid gear oil has an awful sulphur like odour. I always manage to get it all over me when changing the oil in my diff.

  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    Best, freshly baked bread.                                             Worst, Millwall supporters
  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 6,673
    Best: Love the smell after it has rained on a hot day, also love the smell of petrol

    Worst: The flowers that smell like cat piss (Valerian?) and the smell of sick is enough to make me sick
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  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,193
    Yeah summer rain is a good shout Pelling. 

    Although I’d go for the smell of a Christmas cracker after it’s been pulled (or a party popper/ cap gun).  

    Worst: my old house mate used to microwave Admiral’s Pie for dinner. It’s one of the many reasons I hated that housemate.  
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,855
    Best - rain when it hits hot tarmac, closely followed by mown grass, aviation fuel and personal farts.
    Worst - Other peoples sick
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    Best Grass & Fresh baked bread.
    worst walking past a Lush Soap store.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    An early morning dewey field in the countryside, with fresh air next to some pretty woodland. That start of the day smell you might experience when camping.
    I agree doggie doings on your shoe when you get in the car is rank.
  • fadgadget
    fadgadget Posts: 1,391
    Best- The glue they use in the shoe menders and Tar they  used to mend the roads back in the 70`s

    Worst - The smell of Parma Violets , just makes me want to gag 
  • AllHailTheHen
    AllHailTheHen Posts: 3,063
    Worst smell is bullshit. Unfortunately being a Charlton fan that smell is everywhere lately 
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,892

    Used to love the smell in the air at a speedway track.

    Stale piss in a men's public toilet is not a favourite.

  • One of the worst smells used to come from the factory's in lower Charlton, always used to be at its worst about 4pm on a sunday, especially in the summer.

    Made Charlton Park stink. 

    This is going back 35 years though mind. 
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    Macronate said:

    Used to love the smell in the air at a speedway track.

    Stale piss in a men's public toilet is not a favourite.

    You probably ought to stop hanging around in them to be honest.
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,246
    Best - 2 stroke engines, petrol, fresh cut grass, rain, barbecues, fireworks, pub smell, deep heat, hemp hand cream, conifer trees, fried garlic, bacon frying, roast beef cooking. Football smell, a mixture of cigarette smoke, burgers, horse shit, cut grass and deep heat

    Worst - cat urine, fox shit, other peoples shit, bad breath, ammonia, tar, burnt out clutches, burning rubber, bonfires, slurry, train smell, gloss paint, rotting chicken, burned plastic. 

    A new one, wheel cleaner. The ones that react to brake dust and grime. Dragons blood, trolls breath that type of thing. They stink 
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  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,979
    Best - Tom Ford aftershave. I dunno what he puts in it but I could eat myself when I put it on.

    Worst - Gone off milk. That shit stays in your nostrils for days.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,979
    fadgadget said:
    Best- The glue they use in the shoe menders and Tar they  used to mend the roads back in the 70`s

    Worst - The smell of Parma Violets , just makes me want to gag 
    Love Palma Violets, probably my favourite sweet.
  • Taxi_Lad
    Taxi_Lad Posts: 3,767
    Lost my sense of smell years ago. This thread is discriminatory 😡
  • Daarrzzetbum
    Daarrzzetbum Posts: 1,236
    Best - freshly baked bread
    Worst  - rotting dear carcass after road kill 
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    Best : my mums cooking, walking in my parents house and my mums cooking always smells amazing (probably psychological)

    Worst : chloroform, gives me a sore arse


  • Best - Freshly brewed coffee

    Worst - Chloroform.  I always wake up very sore (and usually a few hours later) whenever I smell it.

  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    A shout out for the smell of a bumper car/dodgems rink.
  • Anna_Kissed
    Anna_Kissed Posts: 3,302
    Best - Tom Ford aftershave. I dunno what he puts in it but I could eat myself when I put it on.

    Worst - Gone off milk. That shit stays in your nostrils for days.
    Tried Soya?
    Tip: By mouth. Not nose.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,843
    Best - Tom Ford aftershave. I dunno what he puts in it but I could eat myself when I put it on.

    Worst - Gone off milk. That shit stays in your nostrils for days.
    Tried Soya?
    Tip: By mouth. Not nose.

    Taste is somewhere between 70-90% smell.

    Try tasting something whilst pinching your nose closed - it will be, to all intents and purposes, tasteless.
  • boggzy
    boggzy Posts: 3,595
    Best: Rain on hot concrete/tarmac.
    Worst: Erith.