WEIRD SMELLS PEOPLE LIKE

(January, 2023) Reddit asked: “What’s a weird smell you’re willing to admit you like?” Some of the responses:
– “The ‘old book’ smell.”
– “New book pages.”
– “That odor you get when you enter a hotel with a pool.”
– “Tarmac. And when it rains on tarmac.”
– “The vacuum cleaner smell, you know when the bag needs to be changed”
– “The smell of beach balls, clear umbrellas, swim floaties, inflatable pools, whatever that plastic is.”
– “I would purposely go into Woolworths as a child, just to smell the raincoats.”
– “The smell in art supply stores, which I’m sure is just a combination of various chemicals.”
– “Are armpits weird?”
– “Fresh tennis balls.”
– “Fog from fog machines.”
– “Dirt.”
– “My old shed. Loved that shed. Really smelled of shed, and sheddy things.”
– “Fireworks smoke.”
– “Aviation fuel. Jet exhaust is even better.”
– “Skunk smell doesn’t bother me.”
– “My cat’s breath. It smells like sandpaper kisses.”
– “My dog’s paws.”
* Oh, I’m sorry – this is a list of fetishes.
* Wow. Nobody mentioned crisp new $100 bills.
* Old book smell? New book pages? Are that many people reading actual books?
* Yeah, I just took a sniff of my Kindle. Nothing there at all.
* Folks, if you smell aviation fuel, run away as fast as you can.
* I think it’s great that so many of these things are smells of things that are poisoning the earth.
* PHONE TOPIC: So? What’s the weird smell that you like?