Take a whiff outta this list!

Fun fact: people can detect at least one trillion distinct scents (It’s true! We Googled this)! Not only is Smell one of the most powerful senses, it is also the most primal and layered sense where it can elicit an ultra-wide variation of emotion depending how your particular nose detects a scent.   So join Tuong La and Stink Sniffers Angus MacDonald, Samantha Leggatt, and Leslie Cserepy as they waft the best aromas into their noses and rank Top 5 Smells!

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Ground Rules

• This one’s pretty basic but it has to be smell (duh) that you can smell through your nose
• It has to be a distinct smell and not an “idea’ /”feeling” /or “concept” of a smell (ie The smell of Freedom).
• That’s it.

*Spoilers* Below is our Top 5 list from this episode as well as our own personal unordered  lists.

Group Top 5

5. Leather

4. Forrest & Woods

3. Movie Theater Popcorn

2. Freshly Brewed Coffee

1. Mysterious BBQ Food (ie: that smell when you are walking and you get a whiff from your neighbor cooking “something” from their BBQ)

Tuong’s List

• Freshly Brewed Coffee
• Ocean Breeze/Sea Breeze
• Mystery BBQ Food
• Cookies Out of the Oven
• Steak
• Phở restaurant
• Bacon
• New Car Smell
• Pizza
• Roast Beef
• Turkey
• Smell after Heavy Rain
• Cold Mountain Air
• A Fresh Baby
• Christmas Tree
• Cannabis Weed
• Natury Forrest
• Smell of a Loved One (someone familiar)
• Fresh Cut Flowers

Angus’s List

• Campfires
• Movie Theater Popccorn (Aka MTP)
• Cinnamon Buns in the Oven
• Cocaine??
• Strawberries
• Bananas
• Weed
• Your Home Smell
• Freshly Cut Grass
• Forrest After Rain
• Just Cleaned Public Bathroom (first one in after it’s been cleaned)
• Roast Turkey

Sam’s List

• Books
• Woods and Forrest
• Garlic and Onion Sau·téd
• Hot Apple Cider
• Baking Bread
• Sage
• Bacon
• Red Wine
• Weed
• Lilacs
• Cilantro
• Rosemary
• Rain After a Thunderstorm

Leslie’s List

• Leather
• Outside of a KFC
• Gasoline
• Taxi Cab Smell
• Fresh Lumber
• Fresh Dough Being Prepared
• Eucalyptis
• Gravy
• Weed
• Vanilla
• Magic Marker
• Coconut
• Apple Pie
• Lemon
• Garlic Powder
• Nemat – Amber Perfume Oil
• Fresh Laundry
• Smell when you walk into the bathroom after someone just took a shower