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Not that I'm getting bored behind the desk or anything... 😉

What is your favorite smell you experience everyday and which one you can barely stand? I don't mean any extreme stuff you can face from time to time, but something that is a part of your regular day.

I love: the smell of ground coffee jar being opened.

I hate: the smell of tea with milk...

Your turn 8)


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 1:54 pm
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I love: the smell of freshly ground coffee

I hate: the [url= http://www.cooksinfo.com/instant-coffee ]scent[/url] of coffee that is injected to instant coffee at packaging

/STWstandardresponse

😉


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 1:57 pm
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GOOD
GT85.
Fresh cut grass.

BAD
Fresh dog egg wrapped around your tyre/frame/Camelbak


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 1:57 pm
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WD40 i like, gearbox oil I hate. The stuff I put in my van over the weekend was particularly puke inducing.


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 1:58 pm
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Love: freshly grilled bacon

Hate: Dead rat under your floorboards


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 1:58 pm
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Good: The 10 minutes after a shower of rain in the summer

Bad: Any air freshener spray or hanging scented thing


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 2:00 pm
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good, riding through rapeseed fields.
bad, bleach in the sink.


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 2:01 pm
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Wombat - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor

Good - freshly bathed baby 🙂
Bad - Not so fresh baby 🙂


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 2:02 pm
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Woody, thanks for that, I always felt it should have a name


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 2:05 pm
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Good: Bonfires,BBQ's and babys, though not all in the same place at the same time.

Bad: Kettle Descaler, Peanut Butter, Anything tobacco related.


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 2:09 pm
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Good: Autoglym leather care and interior cleaner, my farts
Bad: Someone else's farts


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 2:13 pm
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Might be over thinking this but imagine you could trick someome into thinking they were smelling their own fart when in fact they were smelling someone else's. Would they still enjoy it?


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 2:18 pm
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Good: My Border Collie girl's feet when shes been sleeping
Bad: Her neuclear parp farts


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 2:21 pm
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Good: The smell of Hot bitumen,reminds me of my childhood.
Bad:Tomato Ketchup,makes me retch.


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 2:35 pm
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Good: Napalm (especially first thing in the morning)
Bad: Stuff with vinegar in it.


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 2:39 pm
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Bare in mind that I work in a lab.

Love: Acetates
Hate: Thiols

The former smells like pear drops the latter like something died.


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 2:43 pm
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Every day good...

Fresh ground coffee
The smell of air that comes out of an inner tube.
GT85

Everyday bad...

Smokey old coaches/ school buses.
Several day old BO.


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 2:44 pm
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Another good: Freshly opened tennis balls tin.


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 2:47 pm
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love
- Karma Cream from the Lush shop (my g/f convinced me that this was her natural odour and I actually believed her for the first coupla months)
- Cannabis (can't stand the effects though)

hate
- morning breath
- anxiety


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 2:52 pm
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Good-not so every day ,two stroke fuel used in speedway bikes.
Good -a brewery on a brew day.
Bad- tinned tuna
Bad -shitey nappies.


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 2:52 pm
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Good: Morning after rain.

Bad: Restaurants with poor ventilation.


 
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Good - The smell the Gaggia has when it hits just the right temp.....


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 2:53 pm
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Good - old diesel cars/vans, reminds me of ice cream.
Bad - Decomposing deer or badgers.

Good: My Border Collie girl's feet when shes been sleeping

You've been sniffing your dog's feet at various times to understand when they smell the best?


 
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Good - petrol engines, if they have a squirt of Castrol R in them, then x100

Bad - diesel engines


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 3:03 pm
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Good: Magazine print.

Bad: KFC


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 3:05 pm
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You've been sniffing your dog's feet at various times to understand when they smell the best?

Yes!

Her feet smell like Doritos, or Digestive biscuits when she's been asleep. When she's not been asleep, there's no smell - except a faint whiff of dirt.


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 3:14 pm
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Good: crushed quartz, squidgy black, air after a short shower, hay, solder.

Bad: dredging, soap bar, fried kidneys, cat or dog breath.


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 3:56 pm
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fried kidneys

Oh god. Mistakenly cooked up some Kidney Cake for the dogs. <Wretch>


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 4:06 pm
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Good - casserole cooking especially coming into the house after a cold MTB ride
Bad - the Lynx miasma that toxically crawls downstairs as my teenage son gets dressed


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 4:10 pm
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Good: fresh brewed coffee.
Bad: woman spray.

Some women in my office like to occasionally spray themselves with some soft of chemically produced 'body spray' in the office, makes me gag. Thinking of sending an email round to ask everyone to spray themselves in the bog rather than at their desk, how would they feel if I farted at my desk? some women seem obsessed with cleaniness and smelling of something, isn't it enough not to smell of anything?


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 4:22 pm
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good: freshly baked bread, freshly brewed coffee, mashing in the malted barley
bad: boiling the hops


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 4:27 pm
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Good: Germolene Antiseptic Cream, box of plasters, wet pine forest, wood camp fire.

Bad: Poisoned rat under the floor in my office, farmer spreading slurry in fields ALL AROUND MY HOUSE, smell of sick and diesel fumes combined on a rough ferry crossing.


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 4:35 pm
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Some women in my office like to occasionally spray themselves with some soft of chemically produced 'body spray' in the office, makes me gag

We have a couple like that.We decided to fight back with the great smell of Brut.

Good - the smells of the woods as you ride through on a damp day
Bad - the diesel fumes coming out of passing cars


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 4:53 pm
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Good, dope, and 2 stroke.
Bad, dog farts.


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 5:31 pm
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Good: Playdoh, GT85, Fresh Bread

Bad:Finding mouldy food in a pan, having to take the lid off and scrape it out into the bin!


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 5:36 pm
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Love - car screen wash...Gt85.....nail varnish
Hate - Play Doh..... Ummm dog poo??


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 5:37 pm
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Great: Racing cars bikes etc, steam engines, old aeroplanes, door open at 1200ft over freshly cut fields, land rovers, new tyres, fresh bread, fresh coffee, fresh trails, edge of a clean sea, just below some Rapids when kayaking, kippers on an open fire (almost all fish on an open fire), fresh garlic underfoot when trail running. Most early mornings!

Bad: dead (rotting )things, burnt flesh hair etc. Running/biking on main roads. Most cities


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 5:53 pm
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My childrens skin when they have been in the sun with sun cream on.
My daughters hair when she uses Coconut shampoo 🙂
Morning coffee
Fiery Jack or any other embrocation we used to rub on our legs before cross country races, reminds me of so many races.

Bad:
My dogs farts
Cigarettes 🙁


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 6:34 pm
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Good..expensive shoe shops
Bad...deep fat friers.


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 6:43 pm
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Good: Jennings brewery.

Bad: Burnt hair when welding.


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 7:07 pm
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love: bread baking, coffee, that smell of ferns when it's early summer in the woods, the woods, fresh sweat 😳 coconut shower wash

hate: lenor, cottage cheese, petrol


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 7:14 pm
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Good:
Fresh bread
Fresh coffee
Other peoples fish and chips
Wild garlic
Roast lamb

Bad:
Cigarettes
Most artificial "scents"


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 7:48 pm
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Love: Fish
Hate: Fishy


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 7:58 pm
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Good: the smell of Autumn in the woods (I really missed this when I lived in Oz)
Bad: yesterday's booze on someone's breath ('n' fags, even worse)


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 8:08 pm
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Good: The first pot of coffee from the stovetop espresso maker, followed by the smell of toast

Bad: Eggy farts from the vile beast that is my eat-everything-in-the-undergrowth Springer Spaniel, constant bloody air freshener things distributed around the house by my wife. Admittedly they are marginally better than Ted's stinky emissions, but on their own, they are awful.

Those are the daily ones. GT85 is a bit of an acquired scent though. I had some on my fingers from doing some work on the van yesterday and got some on my 'tache. Kept smelling it all yesterday evening. Wasn't too unpleasant I guess.


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 8:19 pm
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Good :WD40, Magic Markers

Bad: Someone else's Vimto/Tizer burp.


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 8:23 pm
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Good: new carpet, clean babies.
Bad: cauliflower cooking, rotting roadkill


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 8:27 pm
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oh just remembered, Elnett on GHDs


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 8:28 pm
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Good = Freshly laid hot tarmac
Bad = Cigarette smoke on clothing


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 8:45 pm
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Good - and not around anymore - 4 star petrol.

Bad - eggs, make me feel sick


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 8:45 pm
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Proper old 4 star was awesome. Unleaded is horrible. Mind you, modern diesel is bad as well.


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 8:59 pm
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Good- fresh air, fresh bread, laundrettes, lovely ladies.
Bad - road fumes, bad breath, tramps,


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 9:10 pm
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G - new inner tubes
B - air from the vent round the back of any takeaway or pub kitchen
BB - pub toilets in the morning


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 9:18 pm
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Good - fish and chip shop
Bad - blocked drain


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 10:36 pm
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Good : Castrol R , Roast Chestnuts, Southern Comfort

Bad : Diesel Exhaust , Bleach, Skydrol ( Aircraft Hydraulic fluid)


 
Posted : 16/02/2015 10:58 pm

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