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Why do some people find the smell of gasoline pleasant?

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Why do some people find the smell of gasoline pleasant?

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applemeat, I am glad I am not the only one who hates the smell of lavender. And it’s so popular these days, and people keep using it and thinking that everyone else MUST like it too… argh. wackybrit, you might be right — I always liked the smell of regular leaded gas, but rubber cement is a good smell too!

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For me, I’m sure it’s a childhood association. My father was a crew chief for a Top Fuel dragster when I was a wee tyke, and some of my first memories are from the drag strip. However, gasoline has smelled horrible since they took out the lead. Good ol’ 100-octane leaded premium was the best smell evar, next to nitromethane.

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another vote for a chemical reaction based on genetics. I almost gag at the smell of gasoline and have to be careful when filling the tank. Bizzarly when I taste mustard in anything It tastes to me like gasoline has been added to the food and again I react badly. Then there is the question of the effect of sniffing gasoline which I know some kids here in the UK get addicted too, a bit like glue-sniffing.

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I remember being quite young and getting a noseful at the gas station and being unable to figure out why, exactly, I liked that smell. No associations—not a car person, didn’t grow up around car people. Just, bam, that smells interesting. I was very much aware of my own confusion at the time, because the smell certainly wasn’t good, but I sure did like it.

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I like the small of gasoline, AND I LOVE the smell of skunk. (I’m glad I’m not alone on the latter, judging from the few mentions of skunk love above.) And I can’t stand the smell of lavender…which is considered a beautiful fragrance and made into sachets, soaps, etc. And although smelling IS a mentally evocative human sense, I don’t believe that my likes/dislikes are reinforced by pleasant associations. Why do I like skunk smell? Cause I just do. …And if anything, the accompanying association of skunk was not a pleasant one: Me as a child in the car on a country road, sniffing out the window, and my parents explaining that someone “must have ran over and killed a skunk.” (–sad!

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