Why DOES petrol smell nice?

[kwerk]

I can't think of any reason why it should, but it does. In fact a lot of hydrocarbons smell nice like marker pens. Although some of them smell really quite terrible like alkyd-based paint.

 

[Biohazard]

Because you're a ******* junkie kwerk?

Glue sniffing is for cool kids.

 

[kwerk]

Because you're a ******* junkie kwerk?

Glue sniffing is for cool kids.

I think you're confused again, I'm not from scotland.

 

[JonJ678]

I read on a website that petrol only smells nice to people with brain damage. True story.

 

['Harry]

I think you're confused again, I'm not from scotland.

Lolkwerk

 

[doofer]

It should smell like the Queen's foo-foo the price of the ****ing stuff.

 

[Shayper]

I think you're confused again, I'm not from scotland.

I've heard somewhere that enjoying custard and the smell of petrol are somehow related. I don't know why, how or if it's even true, but I love custard and the smell of petrol is amazing.

 

[Wizzfizz]

I think you're confused again, I'm not from scotland.

Lol good come back

 

[Mickie]

would you like the smell of petrol if it was pored over you and it set a light ?

or if you were knocked over by a car and the last sensation was the smell of petrol..


i only like the smell because of what it can conjur up, some pretty good memories at track days/car shows

 

[Hades]

I'm with Kwerk on this one. I love the smell of it and strangely my daughter loves the smell too.

 

[Biohazard]

I think you're confused again, I'm not from scotland.

And still wrestling with those racial stereotypes..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2012/jul/02/drug-use-map-world

It would appear Scotland's junkies have went a bit up the social ladder...

 

[Tombo]

Smells lovely.

 

[Biohazard]

would you like the smell of petrol if it was pored over you and it set a light ?

or if you were knocked over by a car and the last sensation was the smell of petrol..


i only like the smell because of what it can conjur up, some pretty good memories at track days/car shows

There's something not quite right about you either tbh..

 

[Mickie]

There's something not quite right about you either tbh..

just trying to point out that it could just be psychological..

nice input into the thread though, well done.. really helps people understand the cause..

 

[Kanifee]

you two need to get a room

Kwerk, your a closet sniffer!

 

[Biohazard]

just trying to point out that it could just be psychological..

nice input into the thread though, well done.. really helps people understand the cause..

It's psychophysics, and I'm sure someone will explain exactly why and which receptors in our little heads go all crazy when we sniff stuff we shouldn't.

Petrol sniffing isn't a cause I give up lightly you know.

 

[CliffyBiro]

I think you're confused again, I'm not from scotland.

lol

 

[Biohazard]

^ when did you move?

The irony of course being the highest problem drug prevalence as a percentage of population share in the UK is London..

 

[Rich_L]

Probably the aromatic hydrocarbons like benzene have a distinctive sweet smell which is quite pleasant - in marker pens it is xylene, nail polish it is toluene etc. As for why it's 'nice' it could be anything from mental association to just liking the 'sweet' smell.

Similar thing being the fruity smell of esters when you make them in chem lab.

 

[platypus]

I think you're confused again, I'm not from scotland.

Oh you didn't .