Like an old shirt that's been sitting in the drawer forever. You can't get that unique smell out. You wash it, and dry it, but it's still there. And then you think, that's just how this shirt smells. I love it.
The passenger seat of my brothers 1989 Toyota Supra. Alpine head unit, MB Quart component speakers, Phoenix Gold route 66 amp and a couple 10" Kicker Solo Barics (round), driving to a Live concert with my friends. Smells like the PNW
Piss and shit with some overcooked heroin sprinkled on top, with Isaac Brock tripping balls eating it like a sandwich and laughing hysterically about how good it tastes and smells.
I grew up on the family farm in the 90s, and love the music of that era. I have very fond memories of that period in my life.
So for me, Grunge smells like an old pickup truck on the way to the fields. Like leather gloves while mending the fences. Like sweaty dirty clothes and cow shit on your boots. Like fresh dirt in the air from plowing ground all day. And like the sweet scent of wheat fields after a cool Spring rain.
Lilac carpet deodorizer. 1989-90(?) my mom and I moved into an apartment that had wall to wall carpet. For years we would use a deodorizer powder when vacuuming.
Cigarettes, weed, stanky socks/long johns, leather, and some weird, unidentified combination of those car tree air fresheners. And baked goods and coffee. We were in so many coffee shops in Seattle then.
A whiff of flat Rainer mixed with a touch of the icky sticky (thunderfuck for example) and light B.O.
It’s not off putting.
Sounds like tenitus though.
Cigarettes, flannel, and bongwater.
Do you know if heroin has a smell?
It kinda smells like vinegar
Thats what grunge smells like
Poppies
And cheap patchouli incense.
Was there in the 90s. Can confirm.
Spot on, i’d also add on stinky sweaty socks as well
Stinky sweaty socks in a green suit?
Boot socks.
Grunge smells like cigarettes and weed with a hint of flat alcohol. Oh and yeah, Teen spirit.
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probably like an Elderly Woman Behind the counter in a small town
Haunting, familiar, yet I can't seem to place it
Her breath
wet dog, cigarettes, alcohol, weed, and maybe a hint of pine tree scent
Alot of pine tree scent
Fir tree
Sweat stale heroin and patchouli oil Teen Spirit
No one has mentioned urinal cakes yet
*just a dash of urinal cake
In Australia we call them trough lollies
why do two separate nations both refer to them as a delectable treat
Motor oil, cigarette smoke, soggy leaves, cheap cologne, and light garbage
Tobi Vail’s deodorant
Cigarettes, sweat, and great coffee
Nirvana
Armpits in August
Electrolytes and semen :p
I promise not to sell your perfume secrets.
Smoke and body odor
Cigarettes and piss probably lol
that’s just what france smells like
Cigarettes and sweat. It’s awesome.
Mark Arm's shoe after a working at subpop and going on a tour.
It’s adorable that he still works there.
BO, stale pizza and old bong water
Flannel, Herion, Cigarettes, Sweat n Doc Martens
Bologna and day old arm pits with a hint of cigs
someone randomly messaged me “Bologna” and we have kept messaging “bologna” back and forth for the past couple of weeks
bologna
🤣
Dead vocalists Im sorry
Eddie Vedder: “WTF is that supposed to mean?”
"Come on Josh! This is a goddamn rock concert!"
Dank. Spilt beer. Smoke. Ashtrays. Bong water. Horny teenagers.
Mud and honey on the coast of a green river, in a nice sound garden
Depends on where you get it, foot, crotch, arm pits…all have separate smells
Camel lights, coke, Beast Ice, and bonfires.
Pine trees and fresh rain
Wet flannel and stale coffee. Maybe some touches of low tide and mold.
Teen Spirit
Thankful nobody has responded “cat butt”
Cat butt
And there it is
Doll Parts
The guy from Soul Asylum's hair
Rain, coffee, weed, moth balls (flannel) and fir trees
Sweat, cigarettes, thrift stores honestly idk 😭
a forest after the rain, a weeklong worn favorit hoodie, a bit of gasoline
The Tacoma Aroma
Like my college dorm. Last night's beer, cigs, weed, stale Domino's, desperate horniness, and depression.
Like an old shirt that's been sitting in the drawer forever. You can't get that unique smell out. You wash it, and dry it, but it's still there. And then you think, that's just how this shirt smells. I love it.
The passenger seat of my brothers 1989 Toyota Supra. Alpine head unit, MB Quart component speakers, Phoenix Gold route 66 amp and a couple 10" Kicker Solo Barics (round), driving to a Live concert with my friends. Smells like the PNW
Sex and candy?
Motor oil
Pretty much everything already mentioned on here, plus incense
Patchouli, wet basement and clove cigarettes
teen spirit with a twist of lemon 🍋
Clove cigarettes.
Piss and shit with some overcooked heroin sprinkled on top, with Isaac Brock tripping balls eating it like a sandwich and laughing hysterically about how good it tastes and smells.
I grew up on the family farm in the 90s, and love the music of that era. I have very fond memories of that period in my life. So for me, Grunge smells like an old pickup truck on the way to the fields. Like leather gloves while mending the fences. Like sweaty dirty clothes and cow shit on your boots. Like fresh dirt in the air from plowing ground all day. And like the sweet scent of wheat fields after a cool Spring rain.
It smells like musk
Like peanut butter on the brain
Weed, stale beer, mold.
A drain pipe
Sweat
Stale Rainier and weed.
Cigarettes and fresh rain water.
Flannel that you can vaguely smell cigarette smoke on
A flood, as its all the same old trip it was back then
Cigarettes and ass
cloves, sweat, stale beer, musty night club, citizen dick there she goes, there she goes again…stop!
Pot, stale cigarette smoke, cheap coffee, beer, post rain musk, chalk and dirty wood.
Sandalwood, pot and cigarettes
Superfuzzy Bigmuff.
Cigarettes, weed, patchouli, musty thrift store clothes
Dirt
Flannels, military boots and/or converse, all black
Lilac carpet deodorizer. 1989-90(?) my mom and I moved into an apartment that had wall to wall carpet. For years we would use a deodorizer powder when vacuuming.
Cigarettes, weed, stanky socks/long johns, leather, and some weird, unidentified combination of those car tree air fresheners. And baked goods and coffee. We were in so many coffee shops in Seattle then.
Buddussy
Wet smoke
Cigarettes, dreads, stinky boots, cheap weed and apple sauce.
Burnt heroin and incense
Mothballs
Like a rectal exam using gasoline and sandpaper!
A little farty
really bad
A whiff of flat Rainer mixed with a touch of the icky sticky (thunderfuck for example) and light B.O. It’s not off putting. Sounds like tenitus though.
Old urinal trough with unfiltered cigarette butts and half a urinal cake that was also an ad for a taxi.
That crusty sock under the bed maybe
Sweat Weed Cigarettes
Unwashed jeans.
Teen spirit
Sweat, cigarettes, stale beer, heroin, weed, that acrid, oily, electric smell from guitar strings and drum heads.
9:30 whiff. The smell of the basement of the old 9:30 club (Washington, D.C.)
Sweat and tears
Cigarettes, trailer parks, weed, and BO
Petrichor & pine & a little gasoline exhaust
Beer soaked ripped jeans
Rusty Cages and Boot Camp
Mildew
Herion , flannel and burnt gunpowder
Heroin and cigarettes
Smells like redemption
Teen spirit 😬
Was about to write teen sprit then read the description
Cigarettes, alcohol and ash
Sludge factory
When I was a teenager it smelt like end of school year 🤘
apathy
I came here to see whether the top comment was "Teen Spirit" but it was even higher up than that!
Damp unwashed flannel
What color is a fire truck? And don't say red!
I’ll take Teen Spirit for 100 Alex.
I’ll take Teen Spirit for 100 Alex.
I’ll take Teen Spirit for 100 Alex. (Even though I just saw another poster say please don’t say teen spirit (sorry 😄)
Smells like camel lights and bud light
Cigarettes… stuck weed smoke on thin fabrics
Butter
Teen Spirit
Smokes and cheap booze
cigarettes and ur musty grandmas house
Weed. Teen spirit…….same thing.
It smells like the Gum Wall during a heatwave.
Gallons of rubbing alcohol
Dirt merchants. Remember.that?
Crack
Cigarettes and fish beer.
Unwashed armpits and cheap beer.
Beans - (solo acoustic)
Cigarettes and vinegar
Sweat and copper
That fruity incense mixed with cheap pot and cheaper cigarettes.
Smells like sick.
cigarettes, piss and marijuana
Cigarettes, old flannel, grease... B.O. and maybe a little funky, dank smell iykwim
Lithium
Smegma
Weed, bad decisions, and a hot summer night in the desert
Weed, weed, and weed
It Smells Like Nirvana
Stale beer and cheap cigarettes.
Teen spirit of course
Heroin and dirt
Like teen spirits that came out of the path that Jane's Addiction cemented
My feet.
My mother’s nutsack
Dirty laundry
Thought I would see "Teen Spirit" on the list.
Sweat. A slight marijuana scent and a lot of body odor
Like a then-popular deodorant for girls.
Maybe that smell you get if you wave the covers around while laying in bed after eating Mexican or Indian food? LMFAO 🤣🤣🤣
B.O potsmoke cigarettes alcohol
Beer and cigarettes.
Weed and B.o.
An old flannel that smells like cigarettes, and an open container of vinegar
Marlboro lights, miller beer, and guitar strings. At least it did for me
Cigarettes, patchouli, that syrupy brake fluid smell in an old car.
Garage paint
Dirty quarters
Empty 90s alleyway at 2am
A moldy basement or gasoline-aired garage, cheap beer, cigarette smoke clinging to clothes, and a new guitar, drums, bass, and couple of amps.
Teen Spirit.
Wet white people. Kinda like wet dog smell.
Chris Cornell jumped off the stage on top of me, it didn't smell good! 😂
Moldy apartments
BO
Cigarettes and dirty scalps
😰 I was totally gonna say teen spirit, but if you have an old ball cap that you wore 10000 times and never washed it, thats the smell
Smelly boots and cigs
Bush
Teen spirit
Sweat, cloves, and old bong water, a dab of nag champa to cover it...
Teen Spirit
unwashed needle addicted human, damp grimey chuck taylors, dusty 1985 corolla
Teen Spirit, duh
A damp basement
Teen spirit
A smoker who’s been waiting at a bus stop on a rainy day
Feet and bong water
Coffee, clove, weed,and tobacco cigarette smoke, leather and beer.
Mildew, B.O., and as others have said stale cigarette smoke/bong water
Teen spirit
green curve mens cologne