Things that don't seem right

Sawdust time! 

I’m too self conscious to munch popcorn. It has to be a little ice cream tub. Totally silent. Not that I’ve been to the cinema in an age 

Yes, and even though I rinsed for ages I had to replace the first tea I made with a other as it even tasted of that smell. 

Very wise! 

I don't like the strongly flowery perfumed washing up liquid. It feels like putting perfume on dishes.

Do you also think the smell is incredibly close to that of a male public lav?

Do you have any other smells that "upset" you (apart from all the "normal" ones - I mean, who likes the smell of vomit or dogs "doings" (as my grandparents used to call it) ?

The smell of popcorn makes me feel nauseous as well!

Mariusz said:

I didn't make it to the toilet

I imagine that in that moment you must have wanted the ground to swallow you up? Throwing up is never pleasant, but I consider it acutely embarrassing when done in public with witnesses. Fortunately, I have only been in that situation once, way back when I must have been about 4 or 5 years old, and was sick in the school hall at lunchtime. What a delightful thing to happen when the other children were eating.  

I feel like that in an instant when I smell indian incense, something that supposed to kill bad smells. to me it does the opposite, and I'm running to the toilet,

once in a supermarket a man passed by me, and he had that smell on his clothes, I didn't make it to the toilet

Cue the laughter. For some inexplicable reason, I now feel the urge to dash to my bathroom and hang my head over the toilet bowl. Mushroom & Lavender aftershave! Eww!

I am grateful for your special accommodation/adjustments for my curious needs and limitations - and to return the courtesy, I promise never to wear my "Mushrooms and Lavender" aftershave around you ?!

Somehow, I can't eat popcorn like an actual competent person - I always end up looking like a a kind of popcorn yeti, with bits of the grotty stuff stuck to my teeth, nose, hair etc. But then, popcorn does tend to annoyingly stick. It's awful.

Note to self: Never eat popcorn anywhere within the vicinity of Number. 

Needless to say, the cinema always smells like it is full of incontinent people to me!  It's also a particularly rubbish superpower, but one that always amazes people when hours have past since "the deed" and yet I can state with absolute authority "Who's been eating popcorn."  A cross between fee-phi-pho-fum and Red Ridinghood's porridge chronicles !

I can't imagine how horrible that must be for you. The only smells that tend to cause me major issues are the smell of mushrooms and lavender.

Popcorn is the smell that "turns" me.  It smells of public urinals to me and my sense of smell for the scent is extremely acute - unfortunately !  Several hours after someone has consumed it in the room, I know it has been eaten there.

I'm not a fan of apple fragranced products either, so you are not alone. I must admit that if I'm tempted to buy a fragranced product that I've not purchased before, I'll make a point of smelling the fragrance (if I'm able to do so).

Lol.  I also love the smell of germoline.  Maybe that's because it reminds me of root beer!

Glitter said:

it reminds me of summer days in the garden.

....walking around after my mum had patched up a badly grazed knee with a generous splattering of Germoline = me too !!

I'm going to upset you all by saying I love root beer.  But then I spent some of my formative years in the USA and devoured plenty of root beer flavour ice lollies which we called Popsicles.  I have no idea how to explain the flavour of it except that it reminds me of summer days in the garden.

Conversely, we had a lot of fun making our American friends taste marmite and watching their expressions of disgust. 

I think often it's just a case of what flavours you're used to.