Is it normal...the smell of someones house

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My friends house reaks of lotion and month old semen. terrible combination really :/

I do that all the time. Occasionally I get a waft of something and am reminded of a house from my childhood. My aunt's house always smelled like pine and breakfast cereal and my grandmother's lavender and mentholated soap.

What's really weird is if you go on holiday for two weeks, you notice your own house has a smell too, when you get back.

Yea. I do the same. Clean homes, of course.

The olfactory sense is among the more powerful in us, especially when it comes to being a memory-trigger. Semi recent studies into smells have almost definitely linked smell with deja-vu; that sense we've been somewhere before, or done something before, even if we know we haven't.

For example: There might be a smell memory of "grandma's house" locked away in memory, and when we enter another building, perhaps we pick this up, and it feels like we've been there before, even though we can't articulate why. Make sense?

Anyhow. Smell's crucial for us, and I smell things constantly. Uh, clean things, to be sure. :P

I can't stand the smell of other people's houses to be completely honest. I feel dirty the whole entire time.

^ ha!
I love coming back from vacations to smell my home. So weird. But it's the scent other people link me to. It's almost comforting to know you have your own smell.

I moved to a new region when I was 16 and the new house smelled of other people. It wasn't bad, just not mine. The house never felt like home because of this alien smell. 10 years later, it still smelled of a strange family.

Once I went into a house that was very old and bright and sunny and it smelled like lemon and vanilla and I always wondered how that came about.maybe it was the furniture polish?

Totally normal. Some homes have a nice unique scent and others...GET THE FUCK OUTTA THERE..lol.

I love the smell of my bestfriend's house. Its hard to describe but I find it comforting :)

Totally normal. The first time I ever went into a Bath and Body Works, I found it smelled just like my aunts house, which carried fond memories :) Or a certain lavender/mentholated smell like someone mentioned earlier reminds me of my great grandmas house. And again, like someone else said, walking into your own home after you've been gone on vacation is great too :)
I personally like the smell of hotel rooms..haha

^^^ I love the smell of hotel rooms too! I like the smell of other peoples houses also. Not the smoky nasty kind but like clean and just smelly good. Everytime I walk into my neighbors house it always smells good like cinnamon...I always tell her I love the smell of her house. She's never seemed weirded out or anything..I think its pretty common.

I'm always paranoid that my house smells. I often wonder if others can smell anything offensive. I've even asked friends if they can smell anything bad, but they usually say no. But, of coarse I think they're just being polite. I guess all I can do is clean as much as I can.


BTW, have any of you IIN readers ever come across this carpet cleaner powder stuff? I swear to God, IT SMELL LIKE CAT PISS! I smelled it in houses that have NO ANIMALS. It's an extremely, flowery perfumed carpet cleaning powder that really annoys me.

It makes me enjoy yet another similarity humans have to wild animals.

A few years ago when I was househunting with my then 7yr old son, he would like or reject a house based solely on its smell.

yes i know many friends/relatives house smells, its fun and its perfectly normal! ^^

I'll bet your house smells like rat shit and my grandmas ass