An old garage that has boats and other gasoline and two stroke engines stored. Gotta be slightly musty.
An old garage that has boats and other gasoline and two stroke engines stored. Gotta be slightly musty.
Honing oil.
Farm grade diesel fuel and 2 stroke exhaust.
What about that Gasgacinch stuff. Smell like the rail bed cork material for model railroad tracks?
So I hear,... Napalm in the morning
What's interesting is how we react to different smells with our emotional responses.
I remember our neurology Professor explaining how there is no synaptic connection between the nasal receptors for smell and the part of the brain that processes the signal. That's unique to all of the other sensory input to the brain. Think of it as a direct connection, with no relays.
From Psychology Today, January 12, 2015
Incoming smells are first processed by the olfactory bulb, which starts inside the nose and runs along the bottom of the brain. The olfactory bulb has direct connections to two brain areas that are strongly implicated in emotion and memory: the amygdala and hippocampus.
joey48442 said:Suprf1y said:
Quick start AKA ether - My childhood and all the junk we worked on back then. I love me some ether
There is nothing quite like a man in the depths of an ether binge.
We were just outside Barstow when the drugs took hold
Old British cars. I was walking through a parking lot a few years ago, and smelled that unmistakable aroma of damp leather, petrol, oil and musty cardboard. Looking around I spotted a chrome bumper MGB one row over.
Blendzall 
The taste of loctite is not bad.
travellering said:Tap magic smoking off a large diameter tap in steel.
I’m with you on this one.
A whiff of Stale old gasoline that dripped out of a project car when the summer heat pressurized whatever crusty compartment still had something resembling liquid fuel in it. That one made me smile several times without even realizing I had smelled anything. It took a random stop next to the car in the perfect mid day conditions to realize what was going on.
fasted58 said:Blendzall
Nothing says "racecar" to me like a little castor oil burnt with methanol!
The powdered rosin they used to put down at the local roundy round track,
I'd put freshly tarred road up there as well.
travellering said:Bicycle tire and tube rubber. Smells like every bike shop I used to drool over parts in...
I work at a hose shop - lots and lots of awesome smelling rubber. The downside is the cutting of large hoses smokes the place up and can get nasty. We have a high amount of cigarette smokers.
Sometimes manufacturers put a cinnamon smell in Viton rubber so you can tell it apart from the cheaper neoprene rubber.
"RevRico" and "mtn" touched on it. My garage has a very specific scent, especially in summer, and I'd love to bottle it.
A guy in high school machine shop loved the smell of the oil in the EDM machine - maybe similar to 80W90?
Grtechguy said:2 stroke exhaust.
I have at least a dozen 2 stroke oils in my shop, have stopped by a competitors pit to ask what oil they're running and bought a liter of oil just so I could find out what it smells like at 32-1
It's a hobby not an obsession
Ok, I'll be the one....
Harbor Freight...
One of the best smells on Earth.
Datsun310Guy said:A guy in high school machine shop loved the smell of the oil in the EDM machine - maybe similar to 80W90?
Yes I agree. I love how diff oil smells.
Trans_Maro said:Ok, I'll be the one....
Harbor Freight...
Best answer
I love the smell of a freshly opened pack of Mr. Twisters. Other plastic lures don't have the same smell.
Combine that smell with the smell of the woods and water at dawn and I'm giddy.
Appleseed said:One of the best smells on Earth.
That’s funny. I know a lot of people who love it, but I can’t stand it. Smells like electronic bananas to me
Solvents in general.
grinding fumes.
way back when... Castrol synthetic race oil.
In reply to NOHOME :
I'm a grinder, by trade (centerless). The smell of grinding chrome is pretty good. Aluminum is kinda wierd. Titanium is unpleasant.
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