You know you're wearing too much perfume when....

[R_Lefebvre]

...you're driving down the road with your window down, and the guy on the bike behind you can smell it.

Holy cow!

I've heard many times about how much better riding a bike is to driving, because you're so much more aware of your environment. But I wasn't expecting THAT!

 

[Mr. Leary]

Of course. You can smell perfume, whether someone has a bag of trash in the bed of their pickup, whether they are smoking a cigarette or cigar, etc. You can also smell a carburated vehicle from about 1/4 mile behind it...

 

[High Center]

How about the smell of cigarettes mixed with cheap perfume? It tells a story all its own.

The most common smell however is:
Coolant.
I can smell coolant more than anything while I'm commuting on my DRZ. In spite of knowing its the idling behemoths all around me- it scares me everytime. Especially since I took the fan off to fit the "e" Acerbies tank...

 

[RedDog]

Around here it's these sky high pimp trucks that never leave town. They usually have exhaust pipes a medium sized dog could sleep in and the required black "semi style" exhaust cloud when they walk on it. The look and smell has to say "diesel" in capital letters I suppose. It all says erectile difficulties to me. Our office manager's Jetta TDI lends almost no sign (or smell) that it's a diesel.