What Do You Love/Hate the Smell of?

[Moonface]

I'm watching an episode of Cutthroat Kitchen right now and they're having to make a cake, and it just made me think of how much I miss the smell of my mum baking cakes all the time. ;w;

So what smells do you folks love or hate?

Perhaps you have a weird one like I do where I love the smell you get in the air at a gas/petrol station. My mum hates that smell but I could sniff that shit all day.

[Mr EliteL]

Yay, I don't like the smell at petrol stations either. Well fuel anyway.

Baking does give a good smell, especially cakes. Ah, chocolate fudge cake...

Sliced onions I seem to really like, so if I am filling the "Stir Fry end" we call it on Produce which includes sliced onions, not so much the red sliced onions though, I have to catch a whiff of a pack. Even better is if I'm filling the sliced onion section of the shelf and have to handle multiple packs.

[Moonface]

I'm not a fan of onions as a smell generally.

I hate the smell of coffee too. Just someone being near me with a drink from like Starbucks or something is bad enough.

[Kyng]

I've always hated the smell of canteens and buffets. Not sure what it is: maybe all the different smells of various ingredients just clashing.

On the other hand... just about any combination of fruit and chocolate makes a wonderful smell !

[ShiraNoMai]

I love the smell of cooked/cooking onions. Oh, and garlic. The chemicals released in the cooking process are so aromatic and absolutely mouth-watering. You just know a good meal's comin' when you smell'em cookin'

Contrasting to Moony's take, I adore the smell of coffee. It reminds me of mornings at home cuz my parents would drink it every morning. Peaceful. I hate the taste of coffee, though. Can't get me to drink the stuff no matter what you put in it

[Moonface]

...chocolate makes a wonderful smell !

Ah, something else I recall disliking the smell of actually. For as much as I like chocolate, the smell of it tends to be overwhelming to me when going into a store that sells a lot of it, and if you're planning on heating it up in any fashion I will beg to leave the room entirely. The smell of melting chocolate is probably one of my most disliked smells, up there with when my mum would boil milk on the stove for whatever reason it was.