'My boyfriend's armpits': 20+ Smelly smells that smell smelly but everyone secretly enjoys

Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor

Oct 17, 2023 8:00 PM EDT

Smells can evoke the strongest memories in the human brain. Weirdly enough, and even though it's a human's weakest sense, a smell can make you have the heaviest flashbacks and the strongest emotional response to something. For example, if you grew up somewhere that gets summer rains but now you live in the desert, you might feel nostalgic when that wet-asphalt smell hits your nose. But what about the weirder smells ? The ones that might actually just be gross. Does anyone really like the smell of body odor, fish food, or a stinky dog ? Maybe they would if it made them relive some kind of wonderful memory.

Scroll onward to read about some of the weirdest hate-to-love smells that we all secretly enjoy. So prepare your nasal cavity for some memory-invoking smelly smells that smell smelly. Next up on the agenda, scroll through some memes that the European mind simply cannot comprehend.