The 20 Most Recognizable Smells
Submitted by litgeek on Mon, 11/23/2009 - 16:14
- This list was compiled by a Yale Study and cited by Crayola Crayons. I found it through the Wikipedia. My commentary is in bracket
- Coffee [best smell ever]
- Peanut butter
- Vicks VapoRub [ best part of getting sick ]
- Chocolate
- Wintergreen oil
- Baby powder [ am I the only one who thinks baby powder is nauseating?]
- Cigarette butts [ what's worse than stale cigarette butts? ]
- Mothballs
- Dry cat food [ someone was debating whether cat urine or dried cat food was worse--and I gotta put my vote down on dry cat food. Having cleaned up my share of both in my day, dry cat food is the only one that makes me want to vomit]
- Beer [ another smell that can be used to induce vomiting ]
- Ivory bar soap
- Juicy Fruit gum [ actually am not sure what this smells like anymore; it always gave me headaches as a kid ]
- Orange
- Cinnamon
- Lemon [ a favorite! ]
- Tuna
- Banana
- Crayola Crayons [ ah, childhood ]
- Cheese
- Bleach
Author Comments:
Commenters, please note, this is not a list of favorite smells, good smells, or bad smells, but ONLY of smells that are easily recognized. So you might hate the smell of a pig farm, but that doesn't mean necessarily you'd know what it was off the top of your head if you weren't staring right at it.
Interesting list. I'm surprised "farts" or "underarms" aren't up there... lol.
Good list, although I was a little disappointed to see that Sperm got stiffed.