Used to love the smell of creosote as a kid when Dad was coating his fence panels and wooden stakes in the stuff in our back yard. It was a very big yard with chicken pens and dog kennels all over the place but he always used creosote on his timber for preservation. Guess the smell wasn’t for eveyone though, bit like Marmite although I don’t advise you drink creosote or put in in your cheese sandwiches.