So cybertronians do have a sense of smell right?
After a few days of being stranded in space and doing physical activity, I can only imagine what kind of football locker room nightmare Jazz’s cockpit must smell like. Dude needs a shower bad and I doubt the mecha program packed any soap with his emergency rations.
The good news is Jazz would most likely be the only one bothered by that. Body Oder only smells unpleasant to us because that’s our brains way of telling us to stay away from something hazardous to our health, like disease or spoiled food.
So to Prowl or other Cybertronians, Jazz just generally smells strongly of organic material. Something largely neutral, akin to if you met someone who really smells like penny’s for whatever reason.
So what would smell “bad” to a cybertronian?
Probably things analogous to festering wounds or tainted body fluids. Rust is likely at the top of the list followed by stuff like soldering fumes, paint stripper, dirty oil and burning coolant.
In conclusion, Jazz smells fine, but Ratchet smells like ASS.
Deadlock, holding up Ratchet: “Stinky.”
Ratchet: “Put me down.”
Deadlock, swaying him back and forth through the air: “Stinky bastard man.”
Ratchet: “Put me down or so help me god I will make you meet him.”
LMAO
Oh. Yep. I haven't thought about that before hahahajyjgkgod
On the other hand. I imagine some kinds of engineering smells would be considered tasty. Like. You know how in Animated they often drink oil? I think that old oil would smell bad but fresh one would probably make Deadlock hungry hehe



















