Bacon vs. Baby: Who Wins the Smell Test? - Neatorama

The scintillating smell of yummy, oh-so-delicious bacon or the faint smell of throw-up? Well, duh! No wonder we prefer the smell of bacon to newborn baby, according to a survey of thousands of Brits by OnePoll:

TOP 20 SMELLS WHICH MAKE BRITS HAPPY
1. Freshly baked bread
2. Clean sheets
3. Freshly mown grass
4. Fresh flowers
5. Freshly ground coffee
6. Fresh air after rain fall
7. Vanilla
8. Chocolate
9. Fish and chips
10. Bacon frying
11. Roast dinner
12. Babies
13. Lemon zest
14. Lavender
15. Petrol
16. Apple and blackberry crumble in the oven
17. A freshly lit match
18. Roses
19. Party poppers
20. Rubber tyres

Freshly lit match? Petrol? Rubber tires? What's up with that?! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6741635/Men-prefer-smell-of-bacon-to-babies.html

The babies, petrol and tyres made me lol.

The rest makes sense though.

I'm a Brit btw.

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Yeah, I think I can go for all of these, except babies, not really a fan of the smell. When I was a kid petrol (gasoline) smelled better than it does today.

What I really love that isn't on here is brand new vinyl, like a shower curtain, or cheap beach ball. Though I heard that smell is carcinogenic, but I don't care, love it.

I also love rubbing alcohol.

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Diesel fumes on a spring morning. Sorry - it brings back memories of happy narrowboat holidays taken during Easter holidays.

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I LOVE the smell of matches. It's the red phosphorous, I think (yellow phosphorous melts faces), and it's the same smell as on July 4th after everyone has lit their fireworks. It's a very nice smell.

I can't account for petrol or the smell of rubber tires, however. I don't really care for those smells.

And I would put bacon above vanilla (even as a vegetarian!).

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Oooh, and let me add, new electronics. I'm not sure what that smell is. I've heard it's some kind of glue, but it wears off as you use the electronics. The first thing I do with a new DVD is open up the case and fold it over my nose. I've always been fond of electronics.

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Interesting how many of the items contain the adjective "fresh."

I like the smell of gasoline (petrol, whatever) too. Also the smell of wet pavement when it's just started raining after a dry spell, and the smell of gunpowder.

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No old book smell? I'm surprised that they haven’t made a perfume that smells like freshly baked bread yet. I would so want to date a woman that smells like a bakery that just opened up in the morning.

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I love the smell of petrol and always have, as well as the smell of tire rubber. It's probably why I'm such a gearhead now and ended up marrying one.

On this list, I like it all, except I would trade baby smell for puppy smell, party poppers for a new puzzle book smell, and roses for acetone. Weird, but hey... ya like what ya like.

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Wet cement after a rainfall does it for me as well...which might explain why I love the smell of damp parking garages in the winter.

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I'm quite relieved to read that list, actually. I've always thought that I was a weirdo because I love the smell of petrol. I also like the smell of tyres and new rubber boots :D But I also like the smell of kittens and puppies, fresh baked bread and so on.

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I could agree with pretty much all of these EXCEPT for the "Fresh Mown Grass." That smell literally makes me nauseous. I think this may come from being crammed in a stifling hot elementary school classroom and having to smell the grass through the windows as it was being cut. (I'm getting sick just thinking about it.)

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A faint smell of burning coal.

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Also a light touch of cigar or pipe in the air, cigarette for that matter, it must be a light though.

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Oh and dimestorenovel above has it dead on with the wet cement smell.

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Seaweed at low tide, working harbors, fishing piers.

Popcorn!

Diesel exhaust mixed with fast-food fumes.

Pubs.

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I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...

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Baby smell is good, but even better is a baby's breath.

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Where's the old people smell?

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Best smell in the world is Puppy Breath... THE... BEST... EVER

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You younglings will likely never know the smell of a freshly opened cassette tape from a store. Whenever I'd buy a new one, the first thing I'd do was bury my nose into the label/holder. Heaven.

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gasoline smells great so long as they leave out that ethanol crap which ruins the smell. There is almost no gas station that has pure gas anymore and the smell is just horrible now.

I love the smell of fresh vinyl or plastic. Like those packages that have new floats for a pool.

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What's a party popper?

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It's about what memories it invokes... At a recent tour of an aircraft collection, the first thing our tour guide said on entering the hangar was "Ah, that wonderful smell!" All us pilots nodded our heads.

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Never have I smelled anything as divine as my own brand new babies. There is something so powerful in the scent on their heads the first 2 weeks. It must be nature's way of helping a mother bond because I don't think anyone else's babies necessarily smell good.

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Gauldar, I see you mention old book smell, I prefer the smell of new books or freshly printed brochures and magazines.

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How about cinnamon or Christmas trees?

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When I was a little kid, I had a friend who used to run up behind trucks and inhale deeply when they accelerated away.

I thought it was weird as hell, but I guess a lot of people like that smell. :)

My personal top two smells are probably fresh cut grass and the air after a rain storm.

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New sneakers! Used to love the stockroom at athletic shoe stores. Every time I open a box of new ones... Ahhhhh! TMI?

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