Diesel - not sniffing the container, but smelling burnt diesel in the air. Also the slightly putrid smell of a creek after it rains and all the gunk has been moved around and the sun has been blasting it and you can almost chew on the odour, it's that thick. I rather like that.
Magic The Gathering cards, pretty sure it's some part of the lamination process.
Under the house smell, earthy aroma that has stagnated for a few years.
Moss covered valleys and crevices, basically where moss is so concentrated that it just jumps into the nose.
I get what you mean… as long as it’s from a distance or a long time after it sprayed. I was recently in the vicinity of a skunk that had just sprayed (not at me, but happened maybe 50 feet away max), and holy shit it’s so, so much worse up close. I had an N95 on and had to retreat because the stench was unbearable. Like burning tires and acid and it’s SO overwhelming that you can fucking taste it.
0/10, would avoid if possible. I still find the smell from a good distance like a 6/10 though.
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.
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.
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
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.
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”.
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.
Stinky tofu. I know it's supposed to smell like an open sewer or other such insulting comparisons, but to me it smells like a delicious meal about to land.
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.
Xylene. I think it's maybe used as a paint thinner in some cases? I work in a lab where it is used daily in fairly large quantities (although not for thinning paint). I love it. Highly toxic tho lol.