And there are plenty of us I sniff all kinds of guns; different oils, different wood, different bullet lubes. An old friend of mine has guns that have a very distinct smell, he has a lot of old tetra-gun and Break-free oil, that smells different from the ones we get today. He often smells the same way himself.
Opened a bottle of Webley oil that came with a tomahawk yesterday, it does not smell like the 70's and 80's webleys.
Maybe its an aging/curing process that is needed?