Funny you say that because I specially like the smell of gasoline, kind of like smell of glue or diesel exhaust. I know, kind of weird but I know a lot of other people who are in the same boat.
There's a relevant line from the book "Generation X" about gasoline: "Isn't the smell of gasoline great? Close your eyes and inhale. So clean. It smells like the future."
(The 1991 book "Generation X" is what popularized the term "Generation X", for those who didn't know there was a book.)
I've heard but cannot verify that eating more potassium will make it smell bad again. That is, that a mineral deficiency may cause some things to smell good that otherwise wouldn't.
I know someone who had an intensely positive reaction to wet, musky smells (think basements, dirt, old carpets, that sort of thing). Their doctor put them on vitamins for a separate issue and the attraction went completely away.
Funny how seemingly unrelated stuff tells you something as fundamental as this about someone. I wonder what other deep secrets about our lives we're exposing that we're completely unaware of by just being ourselves.
