Oh, and that "fresh" smell you get after summer rain.
Frying bacon
The smell of chocolate from the Nestle factory in York when the winds in the right direction.
And this one's a bit weird. I like the smell of my cat (most of the time). Not that I go around sniffing cats or anything pervy like that.
Yes the new car smell is all the adhesives, vinyls, carpets and rubbers mixed up together. The problem is that synthetic molecules don't exist that give the same odours in a usable, safe or stable way. Most new car smells end up being leathery accords, which perfumers can do.
That distinctive smell of rain is petrichor, a well-recognised phenomenon. You can predict rain approaching from miles away when you recognise petrichor.
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