@blaineg Not to mention when science looked at air fresheners and perfumes, even with the “organic” kind they found cancer causing stuff in almost all of them, most over the safe level. Since they aren’t regulated the same way as food and drugs it’s harder to get this cleaned up (just look at roundup, for instance).
@blaineg@chienfou@Kidsandliz@yakkoTDI I worked briefly at a place that pasted up and printed rural telephone directories (a job that’s totally obsolete now!) This one ad salesman - you knew he was in the building as soon as he showed up, and the smell of his obnoxious cologne would linger all day.
@AZnatural1 I like to get the cinnamon brooms at the grocery store this time of year. They don’t keep their scent for very long though. Since the price went up, they aren’t worth it anymore.
I won’t go in a Publix grocery store this time of year because they always have lots of those cinnamon brooms at the door. Instantly triggers an excruciating migraine.
I hate all stores that have large collections of those migraine brooms by the front door.
Funny thing is, I like the smell (in moderation) and love the flavour of cinnamon (again in moderation, I get sores all over the inside of my mouth if I eat too much)…
Those brooms, especially in mass, are my kryptonite.
@kittykat9180 I think it’s more an intolerance than an allergy because I can, and do, eat cinnamon in small amounts. Its only when I have a lot that it impacts me.
@kittykat9180@OnionSoup Opiods - do they make you itch? I was prescribed Norco once and just couldn’t take the itching. Luckily others haven’t done that to me.
Vanilla, always Vanilla scented candles. My favorite is Christmas cookie, next to vanilla cupcake or even vanilla bean. I like other scents but thems the best for my nose holes. HATE pine, cinnamon, and flower’s.
@chienfou Hah - I imagine you know the smell of ambulance pretty well.
I saw it for a moment as the best scent for ambivalence. Still thinking about that one.
Something baking. Folks may protest, but to me, that is fundamentally different from something cooking. I love cooking smells, but baking smells are universally welcomable, especially something like croissants, which wind up smelling like warm butter and browning pastry.
It depends on what kind of ambiance you want to invoke. For an old-fashioned Christmas, probably evergreens, yeast bread, and apple spice. For a Halloween scare house, I would want the essence of decaying newspapers, mold, and eau de dead rat.
@blaineg@macromeh I saw castor bean plants for sale in a local nursery this summer. They’re beautiful but I was kind of shocked that they can sell them like that!
@OnionSoup Did you have some special experience in a swimming pool?? @kittykat9180 I had a boss who liked the smell of skunks too!
And then there’s the people who like the smell of gasoline (ugggghhhh.)
@kittykat9180@Kyeh I’ve had no experience in a swimming pool to make me be so attracted to chlorine.
One of my kid’s friends loved the smell of gasoline. The mother of that kid told an amusing story once, about how the kid was telling a stranger how much he loved it when his “Mom got gas” (referring to filling up the car or course but that’s not what it sounded like at the time).
The smell of …
@yakkoTDI … Silence…
/giphy the sound of silence
@Euniceandrich @yakkoTDI
No scent. I’d rather not have my air polluted by perfume that stinks.
@Kidsandliz
@blaineg Not to mention when science looked at air fresheners and perfumes, even with the “organic” kind they found cancer causing stuff in almost all of them, most over the safe level. Since they aren’t regulated the same way as food and drugs it’s harder to get this cleaned up (just look at roundup, for instance).
@blaineg @Kidsandliz I love the perfume so thick that when I get in an empty elevator I can still taste it.
@blaineg @Kidsandliz @yakkoTDI
Hmmm…odd choice for an air freshener or perfume
@Kidsandliz @yakkoTDI There used to be a woman at work that could knock you over from 20-30 feet away. I pitied her coworkers.
@blaineg @chienfou @yakkoTDI
You use roundup perfume to weed out the people you don’t want to interact with.
@blaineg @Kidsandliz @yakkoTDI
That would definitely work for me!
@blaineg @chienfou @Kidsandliz @yakkoTDI I worked briefly at a place that pasted up and printed rural telephone directories (a job that’s totally obsolete now!) This one ad salesman - you knew he was in the building as soon as he showed up, and the smell of his obnoxious cologne would linger all day.
@Kyeh
We had a wax roller for paste up of a newsletter we produced back in the mid 80’s… it may still be around in a closet somewhere…
@chienfou Cool! It was kind of a fun job - but of course nobody does it that way anymore.
Nag Champa
The ocean breeze and just after a summer rain.
@hchavers I can’t remember an ocean breeze that I found pleasant, but I’m 100% with you on rain.
@hchavers Yep. The only scents I like are things with names like Ocean Cotton Breeze Sea Mountain Rain.
@hchavers @kostia “Sea Mountain”, tell me more.
@blaineg @hchavers Bath and Body Works calls it something like Blue Beach Outside Shore Zephyr Sand Mountain Dew”
Cinnamon……
@AZnatural1 I like to get the cinnamon brooms at the grocery store this time of year. They don’t keep their scent for very long though. Since the price went up, they aren’t worth it anymore.
@AZnatural1 @kittykat9180 I don’t dislike the smell of cinnamon, but cinnamon dislikes me.
I won’t go in a Publix grocery store this time of year because they always have lots of those cinnamon brooms at the door. Instantly triggers an excruciating migraine.
I hate all stores that have large collections of those migraine brooms by the front door.
Funny thing is, I like the smell (in moderation) and love the flavour of cinnamon (again in moderation, I get sores all over the inside of my mouth if I eat too much)…
Those brooms, especially in mass, are my kryptonite.
@OnionSoup
Aww, sad face.
I feel bad for those with allergies. My only known allergy is opioids/narcotics, which sucks when serious pain is involved.
@kittykat9180 I think it’s more an intolerance than an allergy because I can, and do, eat cinnamon in small amounts. Its only when I have a lot that it impacts me.
@kittykat9180 @OnionSoup Opiods - do they make you itch? I was prescribed Norco once and just couldn’t take the itching. Luckily others haven’t done that to me.
@Kyeh itching, rash, blisters, and nausea that prohibits any kind of normal functioning.
@kittykat9180 Oh, that’s really awful. I hope you stay well!
Vanilla, always Vanilla scented candles. My favorite is Christmas cookie, next to vanilla cupcake or even vanilla bean. I like other scents but thems the best for my nose holes. HATE pine, cinnamon, and flower’s.
@stolicat That’s genuinely hilarious!
@Kyeh @stolicat when cats find an odor interesting they often open their mouth like that.
@Kidsandliz @stolicat Yeah, I know - “Flehmen response.” Other animals do it too. But this cat also looks horrified!
@Kidsandliz @Kyeh @stolicat “interesting” isn’t always “enjoyable”
@heartny
Is that a meh product?
@heartny
@chienfou No, it’s not a meh product, but it should be. Found it on Etsy. I’m a little concerned about what Instant Regret actually smells like.
@blaineg @heartny
Sort of like:
Everyone has a purpose in life. Some people’s purpose is to set a bad example…
Wow. My first thought was… Disinfectant.
But then I realized the poll topic said AMBIANCE… not AMBULANCE…
@chienfou Hah - I imagine you know the smell of ambulance pretty well.
I saw it for a moment as the best scent for ambivalence. Still thinking about that one.
@chienfou @Kyeh
Ah, the eau de meh.
@chienfou @macromeh
Isn’t that more the best scent for indifference?
@chienfou @Kyeh
Tomehto
Tomahto
@chienfou the amusing thing is, I had the same exact thought.
Pine. But it’s best when it’s actual pine trees, preferably a forest of them.
@blaineg YES!!!
@blaineg @Kyeh Or enough of them to make the bicycle ride smell better.
Something baking. Folks may protest, but to me, that is fundamentally different from something cooking. I love cooking smells, but baking smells are universally welcomable, especially something like croissants, which wind up smelling like warm butter and browning pastry.
@jitc No argument from me! They ARE different.
It depends on what kind of ambiance you want to invoke. For an old-fashioned Christmas, probably evergreens, yeast bread, and apple spice. For a Halloween scare house, I would want the essence of decaying newspapers, mold, and eau de dead rat.
@rockblossom I had eau de dead rat in my basement once. It was haunting, for sure.
2-stroke racing oil. Mmmm, castor beans!
@blaineg racing or ricin?
@macromeh Take your pick.
@blaineg @macromeh I saw castor bean plants for sale in a local nursery this summer. They’re beautiful but I was kind of shocked that they can sell them like that!
Thymes “Frasier Fir”. Love it.
@romellex Me too - all year long.
Weirdly… Chlorine, it, um, has quite an unusual effect on me that I can’t explain.
@OnionSoup, I had a friend in HS who liked the smell of skunks.
@OnionSoup Did you have some special experience in a swimming pool??
@kittykat9180 I had a boss who liked the smell of skunks too!
And then there’s the people who like the smell of gasoline (ugggghhhh.)
@kittykat9180 @Kyeh I’ve had no experience in a swimming pool to make me be so attracted to chlorine.
One of my kid’s friends loved the smell of gasoline. The mother of that kid told an amusing story once, about how the kid was telling a stranger how much he loved it when his “Mom got gas” (referring to filling up the car or course but that’s not what it sounded like at the time).
@kittykat9180 @OnionSoup
@OnionSoup took me a second to realize you meant bleach and not chloroform.