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Most air fresheners have flowery scents. Women like them, we suppose.
How about air fresheners with scents that men like ?
"Steam Locomotive" - Coal, steam, hot oil and metal.
"Racetrack" - Fuel, hot tyres, hot oil and metal, tarmac.
"Aviation" - comes in 2 flavours:
Classic -
High octane petrol, dope, leather, castor oil
Techno - Jet kerosene, hot metal, warm electronics
"Guy Fawkes" -Woodsmoke, fireworks, (over) baked potatoes, treacle toffee.
"Wargames" - nitro powder smoke, crushed vegetation, tea, biscuits, napalm (Oh, we love the smell if napalm in the morning).
Ionic Breeze
http://www.epinions...589D-3A449629-prod3
No filter to change? Yay! [reensure, Jun 13 2002]
WWF Air freshener
http://www.sasserdi...esheners/index.html
Sadly, it doesn't say what it smells like, and probably doesn't actually smell like sweaty athlete. [pottedstu, Jun 13 2002, last modified Oct 21 2004]
The scent of german women
http://www.smellmeand.com
[mylodon, Nov 03 2008]
Fancy Man Perfume
http://www.basenotes.net/ID26120268.html
This smells like a garage that someone spritzed vanilla into. [mylodon, Nov 03 2008]
Can you spot the soldier?
http://www.foxnews....08_iraq_soldier.jpg
A keen eye serves the insurgent as well, [UnaBubba] [MikeD, Nov 03 2008]
Manly Sewing Machine
Manly_20Sewing_20Machine
[hippo, Nov 24 2010]
Hoppe's #9 Nitro Powder Solvent air freshener
http://www.outdoorl...-no-9-air-freshener
Looks like they got the same idea. [lurch, Nov 24 2010]
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Don't they smell the same? |
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It's that cheesy, fishy smell that turns me on. |
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If you can't stand 360•, join the war on aroma. (see link) |
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I'm not being funny, but my favourite smell in the world is the smell of bicycle shops - try it, you'll never look back. |
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How about 'Essence of Uhu' for glue-sniffers? |
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"Home Depot" (trademarked, I know, but think of the marketing tie-in). There's lumber, machine oil, vague hint of paint fumes, and the particular smell of the power tools section - wow! |
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Quarterbaker: Ooooh, Home Depot .... yes ! When we're stateside we visit Home Depot and cry inconsolaby over all the 110V 60Hz power tools and the kit that's too darned big to go in our hand luggage. |
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Blissmiss: Duct tape ? Now that brings back a few happy memories .... |
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We thought of another couple - the smell of freshly unpacked PC kit (Quick, nurse, the screens !), and "New Car" although we know they already make that one for giving pre-owned vehicles that "new car" smell ...... |
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Cofee! Liked by almost all? |
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sawmill, Hammond organ, cigar, leather, books, winter... and other extinct or endangered species. |
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I'm told that he is pleasantly fragrant. |
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[po] heh
Creosote - actually I know someone who has purposely made their shed smell of creosote. |
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I like "warm electronics" idea. All this low temperature surface-mount stuff they make these days doesn't smell nearly as good as the old seventies tellys with the hot circuit boards. |
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Do you mean the smell of solder flux or burning dust? |
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WD40 - it's already in an aerosol. Just find some way to remove the oil and solvent and keep the more volatile chemicals. |
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I must say, the aroma of recently detonated military-grade high-explosives has always made me swoon. That and burnt black powder. [+] |
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[hippo] - I think the smell was 70% burning dust, 20% solder flux, 10% sweat of underpaid Japanese worker and 100% "School is over for the day, I have a hot chocolate and Rainbow is on in five mins". |
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Magic purple smoke. [LIST ALERT!] |
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Week old sweat socks. Hey [UB] you could use it in the
Socketorium and bring in the jocks. |
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A P-51 kicking over in the air race pit. |
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Rain and diesel exhaust (the streets of London) |
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Rancid grease stink embedded in the furniture of most any house in East Palo Alto where I grew up, (except mine) and the mudflats down the street in summer. (You had to be there to get that one) |
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"Safe and Sane" brand fireworks. |
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For a guy, a good smell doesn't necessarily need to smell good. |
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[doc]=GENIUS: //...a good smell doesn't necessarily need to smell good...// |
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The exhaust from a nitromethane burning top fuel dragster or funnycar... I'll take a dozen, thank you. Here, have an eight year old bun: [+] |
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//For a guy, a good smell doesn't necessarily need to
smell good.// |
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We all know this to be true, but it also shouldn't be
an intrinsically bad smell, either. No one would want
a 'Puke-Scented Air Freshener' would they? It would
make you puke. |
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"Choking on one's own vomit ? Whoever would have thought of choking on someone else's ?" |
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I've wondered this myself [8th]. |
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//Whoever would have thought of choking on someone else's
?// Someone who has done CPR without a mask. |
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...with a baking bagel undertone, of coarse. |
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I thought this would be about an air freshener that smelled like a popular tourist spot on the northeast of Sydney Harbour. |
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// popular tourist spot on the northeast of Sydney Harbour // |
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The spot the tourists go to to commit suicide when they've had enough of Australia (i.e. about 7 seconds exposure) ? |
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One of my favorites is "Surplus Store". A bit like new car, but with some old canvas and new-boot-sole mixed in. |
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FYI I actually bought some new car scent and it is outstanding! |
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I'm a man of simple tastes...
Brewery yeast.
Hot, vinegary chips. |
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EP90 gear oil. Not that it particularly appeals to me, but my wife loves it..... |
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I see I have already commented on the glorious smell of recently detonated plastic explosives. |
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//Rain and diesel exhaust (the streets of London) //
There's a separate idea here: "the Scent of the City" - room smellies for the homesick. |
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"Fire in the Hole!"
"Fire in the Hole!"
"Fire in the Hole!" |
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The snap and hiss of the fuze ignitor: A prelude. |
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In a split second, the full orchestra will play today's magnum opus. |
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A flash of light, a ground-shaking "WOMP" that rends the air with a hemispherical expansion of pure force, that jars the body and shakes the soul. |
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The walk down-range is business. |
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Eyes scan the pummeled ground of the blast site for UXO. |
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The area is safe, and business gives way to pleasure as I kneel beside the crater. |
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I lay my hand reverently on the pulverized soil, feeling the residual warmth of the violent reaction that has taken place here. |
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I scoop up a handful of the powdered earth, bringing it up to my nose to inhale the dizzyingly sweet scent of destruction. |
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Eyes roll back in reverie. |
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So concludes the song of the explosive. |
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Just found the gun-cleaning solvent air freshener in the <link>. That's what I want for Christmas. |
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Or maybe you just use a weaker blend over there. |
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[+] napalm in the morning? |
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[MikeD] Well *somebody* around here ought to congratulate
you on a nice piece of blank verse. Only other war poet I
ever read was Sigfried Sassoon, who, of course, had a rather
different sensibility. |
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I just LOVE the smell of diesel exhaust in the morning! |
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A river, first thing in the morning. Or last thing on a summer evening. (Dammit, why can't we use the word "twilight" any more?) |
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[MikeD], that was beautiful. But manly. |
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I went to replenish hair freshener the other day. It's not that I terribly mind smelling like a kiwi or a banana or fresh laundry, but the salesperson looked positively lost when I asked for "something more in the diesel or 'magic smoke' range". |
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Ah yes, another one of those "try to give it a bun, already
did" moments. |
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This is no joke, I'd absolutely buy all of these. Even as a gag
joke this is an awesome idea. |
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According to an unrepresentatively small female focus group*, some of the fragrances mentioned in the idea would be considered very acceptable as after-shave scents for men. |
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* The group was small**, not the female. |
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// "something more in the diesel or 'magic smoke' range". // |
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Two more solid product ideas there. |
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I like them all. Except diesel, that literally nauseates me. |
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