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Best and Worst Smells and Scents

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Mike-O
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Ah, the summer is here. Great smells and scents floating in the air all around us. But with the heat also the worst stanks rise to the surface and tickle your nasal cavities the wrong way.

My favorite scent, as I once again noticed, is the smell of freshly cut grass, it's very endearing. A close second would be the fresh scent of a mixed forest just after a swift summer rainstorm.

The worst smell I can think of is rotten fish. When I was younger we thought it would be fun to stick some coarse fish or fish entrails into a hollow pipe at the edge of the pier and close it with a makeshift lid. After about three months of baking under one of the hottest summer suns in recent memory, we decided to check out how the fish were holding up. I still have nightmares about that stench. A runner-up would be the now-moldy wool socks that had been jammed at the bottom of my backpack for nearly two weeks in the army.


So what are your favorite and not-so-favorite smells? It could be anything - dandelions, your childhood home, your balls or vagoo, anything. Just choose the best and worst with runner-ups if you must!

May 23 2012 11:38AM
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powderdrunkie
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I like the smell of gas fumes.

I hate the smell of my neighbors septic being pumped.
May 23 2012 11:40AM
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PON3
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Best: Fresh baked cookies

Worst: When you go down on a girl that isn't quite ripe if you know what I mean
May 23 2012 11:41AM
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Bateman
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I chuckled.


Best: i love the smell of girls wearing a nice perfume. bluenames should know what i mean. Kinda stupid answer but you should get me.

Worst: fertilizer smell..
May 23 2012 11:43AM
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stizzle
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Take your pick....

http://www.mandleco.com/

May 23 2012 11:56AM
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Backyard.Skier
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vanilla is probably one of the best scents IMO
May 23 2012 11:57AM
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Ski_the_east01
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yes. I saw the title of this thread and its the first thing that came to mind...by far my favorite

on a related note, yankee candle just came out with man scent candles

The riding mower is definitely the best, man town and 2x4 unfortunately smell like shit...first down is decent

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May 23 2012 11:58AM
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PopsicleStand
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good: suntan oil and ocean breeze and clam shack all mixed together

bad: new blacktop and bobcat exhaust on a 100 degree day
May 23 2012 12:02PM
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Laurent.
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BEST:
Freshly ground high quality coffee.
Damp woods after a spring rain, or especially after a thunderstorm.
Baking Bread.
"New" stuff smell, cars, books, shoes..etc..
Freshly cut grass.

WORST:
Burning cat poop.
Five pounds of raw shrimp (or any other fishy matter) left in a vacation home over the winter.
The fluid excreted by a dog’s anal glands (I will never be a vet).
May 23 2012 12:03PM
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Mike-O
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Yankee Candle, Man Candle... seems like there's a market for this stuff haha.
May 23 2012 12:03PM
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Spic-N-SpaN
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I lost
May 23 2012 12:11PM
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steezbox
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Best smell: The smell of steak or hamburgers cooking on a barbecue in the summer evening.

Worst: Garbage that has been sitting outside for too long
May 23 2012 12:21PM
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CluckaChuck
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Best: Fresh cut grass for sure
Worst: Spoiled milk heating up in the sun
May 23 2012 12:24PM
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theabortionator
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Best = your farts

Worst = Everyone elses farts
May 23 2012 12:26PM
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CluckaChuck
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hahahahaha so true
May 23 2012 12:28PM
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Relish_man
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Best: Tennis balls, tire rubber, freshly cut grass

Worst: sweaty ballsacks
May 23 2012 12:32PM
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Jib-Ninja
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Best : Victorias secret Very sexy or something like that

Worst : Rotton Potatoe.
May 23 2012 12:34PM
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doitbig
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best smell:  the ocean, early morning golf (cut grass x10), good "vaggo"

worst:  don't really have one

May 23 2012 12:36PM
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Bodhisattva_
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Some chronic sweet purple ganja
Not just any weed but that candy sweet dank if you know what I am talking about. Specifically Berry White.
May 23 2012 12:45PM
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jblaski
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Best:
-Something only farm kids know about....fresh chopped silage! Favorite smell in the whole world.
-Fresh cut grass (I work golf course maintenance)
-Snowmobile exhaust
-Fresh cut 2x4

Worst:
-Diesel exhaust
May 23 2012 12:54PM
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SkierX
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Worst - Landfills on hot summer days. I've been subjected to it once in my life and I am making it a point for it to be the ONLY time in my life. I doubt there is anything worse.
May 23 2012 1:02PM
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sleazy
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This! and gasoline.

worst: that gross hardcore asian house smell. (don't mean to offend anyone)

May 23 2012 1:03PM
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Mike-O
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A garbage dump, right? It's definitely something else.
May 23 2012 1:05PM
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SkierX
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Yeah. I'm talking about going into the belly of the beast to the incinerator as well. It does not get more vile than that.
May 23 2012 1:07PM
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doitbig
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I change my worst to water treatment center.  Whomevers idea it was to lure a bunch of elementary school children into a giant oven that burns human fecal matter and claim it as a "feild trip" was an evil, evil man.

May 23 2012 1:10PM
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RileyZap
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Best: fresh baked bread. Worst: Puke
May 23 2012 1:21PM
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Bittner
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cant forget about skunk roadkill.
May 23 2012 1:25PM
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bdarb207
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Yesterday I was walking my roommates dog with mine and we walked near a pile of random dog shit. He bent down and literally smeared his face and neck in it. Grossest thing I have ever seen/smelt. Fucking dog.
May 23 2012 1:32PM
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kamron_708
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Best: new BMW scent
May 23 2012 1:37PM
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act.resist
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Best: newly blooming lavender Worst: elementary school busses
May 23 2012 1:45PM
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Anathema
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best: a chick's hair when she comes out of the shower

worst: when you fart under your bed sheets on a hot night and lift the top up 10 minutes later


honorable mention: there's an icecream place in montreal that i used to always go to that smells like heaven. it's cold inside, and when you open the door you get a fresh breeze and can only smell delicious flavors of ice cream and candy.
May 23 2012 1:51PM
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monkatizer
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best:
-2 cycle gas/ exhaust
-boat motor exhaust
-fresh cut grass
-pizza

Worst:
-bad smelling puss
May 23 2012 1:53PM
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Mike-O
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So kids, basically?
May 23 2012 2:00PM
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Bar_Down
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best: towels/bed sheets fresh out of the laundry worst: when i opened our trash can to find a bunch of maggots and rotten shit
May 23 2012 2:06PM
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Relish_man
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Forgot this even though it pretty much tops my list of disgusting smells:
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FISH SAUCE
May 23 2012 2:08PM
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TACO-DOG.exe
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the inside of a tire tube smells terrible.
May 23 2012 2:11PM
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Corin
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Best
Freshly grinded quality coffee
Freshly baked Swedish cinnamon rolls (bullar ftw!)
That girls perfume
New shoes
The sea

Worst
Puke
Rotten eggs
Moldy stuff

Sidenotes
I don't really like the smell of freshly cut grass. It reminds me to much of summer and troubled times.

Also freshly is a funny word.
May 23 2012 2:12PM
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teleRADo
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Best:
-when the Lilac outside my house blooms in spring
-driving past the Oroweat bakery on Evans & I-25 at like 1am because thats when they bake.
-nice leather
-meat on a grill
-dryers

Worst:
-elementary school bathrooms (especially in summer)
-puke (also one of my least favorite SOUNDS)
-old sperry topsiders
May 23 2012 2:17PM
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PopsicleStand
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Fresh picked basil out of my garden
May 23 2012 2:31PM
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RickAstley
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Best:
-My girlfriends hair
-Mint from my garden
-Onions and garlic frying in butter

Worst:
-Sour milk
May 23 2012 2:35PM
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snwbrdmilf
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Best - the scent of someone you haven't seen in a while. And fresh mint.

Worst - cat litter - ugh
May 23 2012 2:37PM
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act.resist
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well, yes and no. because the bus itself is usually really old so the seats start to smell bad from both the kids and the fact that there this weird leather blend and old foam then the diesel from the bus creates a horrid stench that mixes with the smells of all the unwashed/gaseous kids on the bus. and the fact that no one ever picks up there trash doesn't help.

riding the bus was probably the worst part of school for me

May 23 2012 2:39PM
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SirCharles
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BEST
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WORST
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inb4 animal rights shitstorm
May 23 2012 2:46PM
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EastCoast.
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yesss!
May 23 2012 2:50PM
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Poems
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Best- Ballsweat Worst- gasoline
May 23 2012 2:51PM
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SkiThe603
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the smell of summer when sitting by my pool smoking a bowl
May 23 2012 2:51PM
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Bateman
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May 23 2012 2:57PM
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errrka
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That's unfortunate. If you didn't notice, you are now SURROUNDED by construction at work. It's ruining my bike ride to classes
May 23 2012 3:00PM
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eastcoastplanker
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best- race gas worst- septic tanks
May 23 2012 3:01PM
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Mike-O
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Was it a good old yellow bus we see all the time in movies? But I get it.
May 23 2012 3:01PM
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PASKIINGSUCKS
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Best: BBQ chicken smoke sneaking out of the grill, campfire scent stuck to my clothes, sex and sweat in perfect harmony, 2 stroke dirtbike smoke.

Worst: Rotting roadkill flesh, Burning food(the second you realize you've fucked up), stagnant salt or brackish water.
May 23 2012 3:07PM
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