Vanilla is the most popular scent globally, according to a team of international experts.
Research carried out on 235 people from nine different cultures found that the spice was the most pleasant smell.
Rose, Lavender, Cloves and Peaches complete the top five.
Subjects were presented with distilled smells in vials and asked to rate how pleasant they were.
Peaches was ranked second on the list followed by Lavender.
Researchers believe that the reason that people prefer sweeter smells is because in our primal pasts it would help us detect what foods were edible and what were not.
Vanilla is often accused of being a boring or middle of the road scent but because of its inoffensive qualities.
However, scent-scientists believe it is Vanilla's soft smell that led to its broad popularity.
