Like most, I prefer vanilla based lotions. Although I have a blackberry vanilla one from B&BW that is awesome as well. Even my perfume that I have to order online (Lutece) has the slight vanilla with it. Candles, I'm in love with the fresh linen ones. Makes the house smell like you just laundered it. On guys, I prefer more earthy than anything. Although he's currently wearing Victorinox, which is awesome as well.
Man here. One of my favorite smells is freshly made coffee, not so much because I'm looking forward to the taste (although that's an added boon) but because I have such strong memories connected to it. It reminds me of the early Sunday afternoons of my childhood when my family made an effort to sit down together. We'd switch the various sections of the Sunday paper back and forth, talk about the week that had gone and drink coffee. One whiff of it and I get an instant flashback. It means safety and togetherness for me. As for smells that I dislike, vanilla is pretty high on the list. It's one of the top warning signs about women when worn as a perfume; it means they're girls, not women. It's simple, plain and comes out of super markets and inevitably the women fit that bill, possibly with an added touch of childishness. I still remember the German girl that lived across the hall from me when I went as an exchange student to France. We were 14 years old and she'd bring a stuffed animal with her to fuck. Afterwards she'd suck her thumb. She reeked of vanilla.
-Not just gunpowder in general, but Vihtavuori powder. It's the stuff used in Lapua rimfire ammunition. Smells like victory (literally). Hoppe's #9 is another default for gun owners. -Walnut dust. My shop reeks of it after I work on walnut riflestocks and I love it. Too bad it's toxic (I have to wear a respirator when I work). Interestingly enough, the smell of green (black) walnuts gives me pounding headaches. -"Old machine shop" smell. It's the greasy, metallic smell that hits you when you walk into an old tool shop. -Fresh-cut alfalfa -Scotch. It tastes good, and I'll be damned if the scent isn't just as good as the taste. -Really fresh asphalt. I worked for my hometown's street department for a summer. Somehow, after hucking hundreds of tons of the shit, I like the smell. -Ely, Minnesota. The town has an aroma that is a perfect blend of diesel fumes and the coniferous forest that surrounds it. The only thing I can really relate it to is the smell that you get by stuffing an entire spruce or cedar tree into a brush chipper.
That's a great smell. I think it's part of the reason I bought so many Magic cards. Other good ones: Coffee Vanilla Cinnamon rolls Waffle cones being made Bakeries Anything being cooked in butter Gardens and healthy earth Acoustic guitars, especially classical ones The ocean. The worst: Artificial strawberry or grape scent Durian Aaaaand, I'm a man.
I'm a guy. Tigi makes a shampoo and conditioner my wife uses that smells like Oatmeal and Honey. It is the best smelling stuff on earth.
Im a guy. The smells I like the most is a fresh shit spread field, Hoppes #9, Cam 2 Racing Fuel and the smell after you cut down a few trees, just the smell of the sawdust, bar oil and 2 stroke fumes reminds me of home.
Bacon frying in the pan, Ozone before the storm, vanilla, Smoldering wood, Burning paper, Oil after a service. And I almost forgot but cracking a Bundy rum stubby and the rum vapour that comes out the top straight after is almost enough to make me lose my shit, I love that stuff.
I'm a girl. Vanilla (pretty much all of my lotions and perfumes are vanilla) Leather jackets Snow (not snow itself, but that smell that the air gets right before it's going to snow) The morning after a spring rainstorm Pipe tobacco (reminds me of my great-grandfather in his rocking chair telling me stories when I was a kid) New Car Eucalyptus - Specifically - I lived in California for a few years when I was younger and our house had eucalyptus trees all around it. When it rained at night, the next morning the air just smelled like rain and eucalyptus. It was a great smell. Campfires Bread baking the smell of cooking garlic There is also this great aromatherapy oil that my step-father burns in his yoga studio called Egyptian Musk that smells fantastic. Kind of like cinnamon-apple but with some more exotic spice in there. It makes me feel so relaxed.
The cheap ass, fake version of Calvin Klein's Obsession (or the real thing) always makes me think of a girlfriend I had at 16 or so. A cheerleader with body issues (is there any other kind?) that I met at church camp and dated long distance for several months. Back before email was common, we sent letters every week or so. Anyway, that was the scent I was wearing at the time, and when we left camp, she asked me for a shirt drenched in that scent, so she could sleep with it. Ah, Tiffany Cruze. Such a hot mess.
Guy here, nearly all of these have been mentioned because they smell damn good: burning wood/campfires gunpowder the ocean white gas/gasoline/diesel/napalm whisky pine leather fresh tobacco
I am a guy Tire stores, home depot (any other home improvement store), Cigar shops, cigarette when first lit hate the smell after, new cars, leather jackets, the little bbq stand next to my work.. Fresh rain on pavement and of course vanilla. My list is huge and didn't mention them all.
I'm male. When it comes to the smell on other girls I just like the typical fruity soap and perfume smells. I don't have a particular favorite. I just like girls that smell like they should. As for other smells I like Burnt matches Burning cigarettes Smell after the rain in summer Fresh cut grass Cooking pizza That's all I can come up with for now. edit: Shaving cream
This is very important to me; while I do like the smell of gasoline, uncatalyzed gasoline exhaust fumes just rock my world. And yes, some of that factor is probably because they are getting me a little high as I'm breathing them. I can tell if a (gasoline burning) car has catalytic converters or not just by the smell of the exhaust fumes or if it's running rich/lean/has a badly misfiring cylinder. Same thing with gunpowder; it doesn't have an overpowering smell that hits you in the face when it hasn't been burned, but after it has, oh baby. I 'll take out a freshly fired shotgun shell, put it to my nose and inhale, and my eyes roll back in my head a little bit. Also, like Zyron said, I love the smell of good weed (before it has been burned/smoked!). Even though I haven't smoked marijuana for years, whenever one of my friends scores, I always ask to smell the goods. However, once they spark up, I leave the room because I don't want that smell on me. Edit: As far as smells on women go, THE LESS PERFUME SHE IS WEARING THE BETTER!!! As long as she has decent personal hygeine, I'm cool. FUCK YOU ADVERTISING INDUSTRY FOR MAKING WOMEN THINK THAT THEY ARE SOCIAL LEPERS IF THEY AREN'T WEARING "X" FRAGRANCE.There are few things as off-putting as when you start kissing on a woman's neck, and you are greeted by the bitter flavor of whatever stink-cover she is wearing. Spoiler I mean really, kissing on a woman's neck is the easiest way to get a girl from "We're only going to make-out," to "give me that throbbing meat cannon NOW!"
Grass after a rain shower. Open flame barbecue smell. I have propane, but that one stands out. Pot. It (reasonably) irritates many, but I find it to be the freshest, cleanest smell in the world. New car smell. I've loved it since I was a kid. Pine. Campfire. Absolute vapourized sex. Sweet fruit smell on a woman. Purrrrrrrrrr. Cigars. Good, imported ones have a smooth musk. All those amazing smells that hit you when you go to the ballpark or a when you hit the footbal tailgate.
That wet salty slightly fishy smell that you can even feel in the air from the ocean. I would totally buy into Kramer's "The Ocean" perfume.