A new nationwide study has revealed a list of Cardiff’s favourite fragrances, with some surprising results.
As well as Cardiff’s love for the smell of bacon frying (46 percent), freshly baked bread (45 percent) and freshly ground coffee (41 percent), the list also included petrol (24 percent) and sharpie pens (19 percent).
The research into fragrances, commissioned by vaping brand blu, also revealed that 19 percent of respondents adore the smell of sharpie pens, while 10 percent can’t get enough of the whiff of nail polish remover.
Also on the list of Cardiff’s favourite scents are the streets after a downpour (45 percent), fresh roses (41 percent) and vanilla (38 percent).
It seems that scents that remind us of our favourite times of year are particularly popular, with bonfires (20 percent), pine needles (19 percent) and fireworks (14 percent) all on the list. While sun cream (20 percent) evokes memories of happy holidays.
In fact, 74 percent of respondents in Cardiff believe that smells can transport them back to happy times in their life, like their childhoods, weddings and holidays.
The study also found that 78 percent said that scent had a really big impact on their mood, with 38 percent saying that they actively surrounded themselves with fragrances that calmed them or made them feel better.
And scents can also impact on love lives, with 41 percent of people claiming they wouldn’t have a second date with someone who wore perfume or aftershave that they didn’t like.
And you might want to hold off on applying that expensive scent before a date, as 74 percent said they’d rather be with someone who smelled of a freshly washed t-shirt than aftershave or perfume.
And 35 percent said that if someone is wearing a former partner’s scent they immediately think of their ex.
Colette Flowerdew-Kincaid, Digital Content Manager at blu: says “While the more obvious, conventional smells like bacon frying and freshly ground coffee have topped the list of favourites, what’s interesting to see is that Brits clearly have a love for some fairly weird smells too – particularly things like petrol and chlorine! But no matter what our favourite aroma might be, it’s great that some can take us back to happy memories like a holiday on the beach or help us feel more relaxed.”
Edinburgh and Stoke on Trent were the cities most appreciative of strange smells, where 30 percent of people said they liked unusual scents in each – compared to a national average of 28 percent.
BEST FRAGRANCES IN THE WORLD, ACCORDING TO CARDIFF
- Bacon frying 46%
- Freshly baked bread 45%
- The smell after a downpour/rain 45%
- Freshly ground coffee 41%
- The smell of roses 41%
- The scent of vanilla 39%
- The sea 38%
- Freshly cut grass 37%
- A cake baking in the oven 35%
- Roast beef 30%
- Freshly washed linen 28%
- Onions frying 28%
- Lavender 27%
- Freshly washed sheets 27%
- The smell of a new car 27%
- Petrol 24%
- Honeysuckle 24%
- Freshly squeezed lime 23%
- A baby’s head 23%
- Bubble gum 22%
- Melted chocolate 20%
- Bonfires 20%
- Sun cream 20%
- Pine needles 19%
- Garlic frying 19%
- Rosemary 19%
- Sharpie pens 19%
- Buttered popcorn 18%
- Freshly washed hair 18%
- Jasmine 18%
- Leather 16%
- A blown out match 15%
- Peanut butter 15%
- Fireworks 14%
- Marzipan 14%
- Thyme 12%
- Rain 11%
- Mulled wine 11%
- Almonds 11%
- New books 10%
- Nail polish remover 10%
- Deep heat 10%
- New tennis balls 8%
- Chlorine/the swimming pool 7%
- Stilton cheese 7%
- Fresh paint 7%
- Furniture polish 7%
- Wet dog 7%
- Coriander 5%
- Cigar smoke 5%
- Gin 4%
- Marmite 4%
- Varnish 3%
- Makeup remover wipes 3%
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