Capguns. So whatever percussion caps were made from throughout the 1990s.
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Lapsang Souchong tea, most people seem to hate it. Also plastic glue
It’s pharmacies for me. Not sure how to explain it, but it’s smell I really like for some reason
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
Gasoline
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.
Ether
Gasoline exhaust, but not diesel. Maybe the engine should be old as well…
Cigarette smoke drifting on cold air
Freshly poured asphalt.
Microbiology labs. It’s this weird microbe-on-agar musk.
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.
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!
Steam Deck fan smell
Beat me to it
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.
Wtf I thought I was alone
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.
Secondhand cigarette smoke (but not too strong) even though i’ve never smoked
