Personally, I can't stand them. But I have some family members who love this stuff so it makes for some fairly easy shopping.

I hate most artificial smells so food products are a no for me too. I know lots of people that do like them though - just the other day a friend bought a 'french baguette' candle from Bath & Body Works and I had to stop myself from gagging when I smelled it.

I got someone bacon-scented hand sanitizer as a gag gift. He tried to use it while on a road trip once. It smelled like rotten meat and the smell would NOT come off, no matter how hard he washed his hands or scraped the skin. He was eventually pouring hot chocolate on his hands to try and scald the scent off!

I have a tangerine lip balm that I like but most of the lotions and candles are too much for me. The only candles I can stand are vanilla and maybe gingerbread. It's all on a sniff by sniff basis.

My gut reaction was HELL NO KEEP THAT NASTY PSEUDO-VANILLA STUFF AWAY FROM MY DELICATE OLFACTORY GLANDS, but then I realized I LOVE both my grapefruit shower gel and my lemon-rosemary kitchen hand soap, so I guess I am only in where citrus is involved. I want no part of any non-food product that smells like a baked good.

I like smelling it in the store or when a friend of mine (who loves this kind of thing) puts some lotion on, but I think the smell would become sickening after a short period.

I once bought a Demeter room spray named "Thunderstorm" which smelled amazing in the store and the first 10 minutes of using it were wonderful. After that, it began turning my stomach (even though it's not a food smell) and the smell lingered for days.

I can't stand the baked good smells in lotions or candles - vanilla frosting, cinnamon buns, caramel, etc. I can understand candles (though I'd rather just bake something that smells great) but I do not want to walk around smelling like some cheap cupcake. Vanilla and cinnamon smell the worst to me.

The scents mislead my brain and I can't stand that. :(

The ones I can stand tend to be on the more citrus-y/fresh: lemon, lemon verbena, etc.

If it's authentic, yes. In other words soap or whatever with real coconut, lavender and all that is lovely. Not artificial though. And aside from coconut, I prefer herbal scents, but not ones that are like actual foods.

It depends. Sometimes the artificial smells are too overpowering, but I found a lemon lip balm at Bath and Body Works that is wonderful.

I have the Philosophy Butterscotch body wash and I love it. You can smell it in the shower but it's not like I go around smelling like candy all day. It's just a nice, sweet way to wake up in the morning.

As a guy I'm not really a fan of food smells on non food stuff. With candles i prefer when they smell like non-food "fake" stuff with names like "morning rain" or "fresh cotton" etc. I have liked some of the herbal hand soaps that have basil or rosemary oils in them but any citrus or fruit notes basically make it smell like I just ate the fruit and haven't washed my hands yet!

food smelling beauty products??? eeeeew....

I'm only a fan of food/spice/herb scented stuff from Philosophy and Bliss (their lemon sage body butter is heavenly!). Typically the cheaper the product is the more artificial it smells. I won't turn down cheap lotion/soap/etc. though if it's unscented.

My biggest pet peeve is food scented anything in the bathroom. GROSS.

I will tolerate citrus scented handsoap in the kitchen, and cucumber bodywash. But that's about it.

There's an interesting anthropology paper in this non-food food-smelling items trend. Think of some of the food items in various trendy spa treatments; champagne, caviar, chocolate, sugar, fruit, etc. Many of these fall into one of two categories: caloric &/or comfort food (chocolate, sugar, cupcakes, butter, etc.), or posh and expensive food (champagne, caviar, etc.). Both categories represent things that people (women, generally) deny themselves; the former in order not to gain weight, and the latter due to expense. Instead, people buy the smell of the food, rather than ingesting it.

It depends on the specific scent but I personally enjoy them a lot more then the perfumey scents.

Artificial food smells absolutely gross me out. Candles, potpourri, toiletry items, "air freshener": I can't stay anywhere near them.

In these responses, I see a breakdown between naturally occurring fragrances (i.e. essential oils) and manufactured ones. For example, it's easy to get a citrus or herbal scent from the plant's own essential oils. Personally, I love adding essential oils to my homemade cleaning and toiletry products, and I tend to gravitate toward food-related oils (citrus, herbs, etc). But last time I checked, there's no "baguette" essential oil... Perhaps we collectively are expressing merely a preference for authentic vs. manufactured scents.

Can't stand it. Only food, should smell like food.

I am a "fan" of SOME food-scented Non-food items.
Especially the spice scented items.
Small "guest soaps" popped into a small cotton bag make great drawer fresheners, I also use them to hang from hangers in my wardrobe, my woolen winter coat smells of vanilla and cinnamon, warm winter scents.
I love my Green Apple shampoo, it makes a lousy shampoo but a great bathroom cleaner and the whole room smells crisp and fresh.
In my enterance way I have a collection of scented candles, I change them around each season with ringing the changes with scent and colour.
So I like Non-Food food scented products in the right scent and the suitable space.

It's a no for me, except for Yankee Candle Hazelnut Coffee candle.

Other than that, a genuine citrus scent is more tolerable than others for me.

I love food scented things! Mostly baked goods or produce like citrus. The Diamond Candles Cinnamon Bun scent is heavenly, and I love burning that all day. I can't make cinnamon buns all the time to have the scent, so burning the candle makes the house smell so cozy and inviting. Something about baked good scents is just comfy and pleasant!

I tend to like most fruit/vanilla scents. I just don't like the specific dessert scents like cupcake or chocolate cake or strawberry shortcake.

I like fake food smells, but seeing that shampoo next to actual food is grossing me out.

Okay, I admit it. I used that EXACT body wash in the picture, just this morning. And I love it. The truth is, I can only smell it in the shower, where it provides a spicy and pleasant wake-up scent for me, and then honestly I think the scent wear away before I even finish toweling off. But that's just me!

I like natural citrus and herb scents but fake cinnamon and butter smells are just gross. I'm lucky to work in an office where no one wears heavily scented products but a few weeks ago a sales rep dropped on some new chairs for us to try and she must have sprayed them with air freshener or something because they reeked of weird fake fruit/flowers smell. We had to leave the chairs in a store room for a week to air them out before we could sit in them.

I hate fake scents, but some products, especially citrus-scented ones, are made with real scent extracts or essential oils. Those I like, but I hate fake butter and fake vanilla smells.

Love apple and and peppermint and citrus though, mostly because it is cheaper for manufacturers to use the real thing than try to synthesize it in a lab. Unlike scents like vanilla and cinnamon, which are expensive.

I do love the smell of the Bon Ami dishsoap though - tangerine/bergamot and thyme? Divine. And I use my original peppermint Burt's Bees lipbalm daily.

mmmm...this is a really good post idea. strongly no (no!no!no!) on anything that is either meat-smelling, fish-smelling, or baked-goods smelling. vanilla is a definite no (because when i was in middle school, some girl kept spraying that ish and it was crazy offensive. i feel the same way about polo sport for men, thanks largely to this jock named brandon who sat behind me in math class).

yes on things like a clove/cinnamon/spiced candle (anthropologie, you know which ones i'm talking about. darn you.) and on lemon verbena counter sprays.

i got into soapmaking when chocolate scent was hard to find. now its everywhere but i still make my own

Many strong smells make me nauseous, in particular the fake food types and perfumes. Department store makeup areas and stores like Bath and Body Works give me a headache. Citrusy things tend to be okay, and my current soap is blackberry and coriander scented, but that spiced apple smell makes my stomach turn every time. Much prefer not to receive scented things, please. Big personal preference area.

NAY unless you know the person likes that particular product.

Some scents are accepted as being more than culinary (lemon, herbs) and I think are safe ground, but most "baking" scents (frosting, vanilla, chocolate) are heavier and pretty polarizing. For example, while I love chocolate, I really dislike goopy, melty chocolate, so when someone gave me a tub of cocoa lip balm -- bleh!

Remember though, that people with sensitive skin or allergies might appreciate getting a good organic lotion/candle/soap/whatever that has no additives in it. When I was undergoing radiation, someone gave me a bunch of products that had no extra anything in them, and it was so great because even innocuous additives can make the radiation burn your skin even worse.

I can't tolerate the sickly-sweet fruity/candy/vanilla scents. Venturing into the Yankee Candle shop can be a challenge! However, scents like lemon, mint, rosemary, etc., that are still "food related" I'm fine with. And if I couldn't find pine/balsam candles or scent sprays at Christmas down here where I can't find a balsam tree I would feel completely bereft!

I guess the bottom line for me is if it's a "sweet" scent my olfactory sensors pick that up as "UGH, cloying." But the "greener," or "fresher" scents make my little nose perk up and want more.

I like some, but I'm so picky on them that I'd want to buy them myself, not receive them as gifts. I have a solid perfume that's vanilla-flavoured that I love, and this amazing soap that's oatmeal and maple (and yes, it's in the bathroom, and YES, it's a damn sight better than any other smells that could be in there!), both from Lush, that I love. On the other hand, my aunt got me a vanilla and chocolate infuser thing, both smells that I adore, but this particular one made me gag.

So my full answer is yes, but I'm picky about it.

I have the Philosophy cinnamon buns body wash/shampoo and I love it. Same for crazy scented candles. I've been burning a pumpkin pie scented one all month, and I'm switching to a sugar cookie one soon. I've got a serious sweet tooth, so I wonder if that's a factor in whether people like the scents or not.