Has anyone ever gotten high on the smell of food cooking? I'm smelling

[applegrove]

onions cooking from one of my neighbours in the building. I am loving it. Has to be one of my favourite smells along with roses, citrus, vanilla and coffee.

What are yours.

[WheelWalker]

1. Popcorn popping... mushrooms dry sauteing.

[Ocelot II]

2. Not my cooking!

And the smell of onions would make me Baking bread is another thing, though.

[applegrove]

3. Ahhhh! Bread cooking.

[Chainfire]

7. When I worked in Miami, our company did some contract work at a large commercial bakery,

that baked goods for brands like Little Debbie. While I like the smell of baking bread, that place did not smell pleasant.

[applegrove]

8. I once was walking through the streets of Paris at 4:30 to 5 AM helping out a

friend who had lost her purse (bus tour). There was a bakery on every street. You'd just get out of range of the wonderful smells of one bakery cooking croissants when the smell of the next one would hit you. Wonderful.

[MiHale]

4. First an answer...

Of course, the smells of a well prepared meal is mind blowing.

Fresh cut hay, pine wood, healthy soil, marigolds, first breath of morning after a heavy dew, so many…even WD-40.

[Wingus Dingus]

5. Got a cedar and orange mix going on in my diffuser this morning.

Citrus is probably my favorite group of scents.

[Chainfire]

6. Honeysuckle, Jasmine, Loquat are among the smells that I find intoxicating.

My wife despises the loquat blossoms...to each their own. As far as cooking, I too love the smell of frying onions too.

Just down the road from me is a marijuana processing plant. You can smell it, driving past, for a half mile in each direction. I find the smell is similar to that of a skunk. (Speaking of skunk, I don't mind that smell if it is in the distance on a foggy morning....) When the workers at the pot plant change shifts or go for a lunch break, and flood the local fast food joints, they smell disgusting. They carry a card that identifies them as pot employees to keep cops wrongly from busting them for DUIs.

[GenXer47]

9. mushrooms frying in butter

[Walleye]

10. I used to live on Ninth Avenue in Manhattan

There is at least one aroma of cooking for every taste and nationality. I used to ride my bike across town at lunchtime and when I got to the third Avenue restaurants the cooking onions got me very hungry

[electric_blue68]

18. Don't know how far back you go there (Ninth Ave) but I've sure missed The Ninth Ave Food...

Festival since Covid.

Though they must of cancelled it 2020, 2021, probably last year, too. Sigh.

I probably won't go if they have it. Or maybe I'll just go to the very top at 56th St get some sausage & peppers, and zeppolies

[Walleye]

19. I lived there in the 80s and that ninth Avenue food festival was quite the highlight of the year

[electric_blue68]

21. Ah! I started with fam & friends soon after it started. So a long time tradition for me! All the...

way to 42nd even to 40th St.

It's been a bunch of years but maybe I'll order a small Greek Easter bread from Posiden the Greek Bakery which I hope us still there

[Walleye]

23. 20 blocks every kind of nationality of food you can imagine. Great little Afghan restaurant

I used to drink a lot of beer back then easy enough to do in NYC

[RegulatedCapitalistD]

11. Every one who knows me...knows I am obsessed with Vanilla

Its pretty much the only fragrance I enjoy. I have a very sensitive sense of smell and taste...

I definitely do not like the smell of roses or lavender.

[applegrove]

12. I can't stand the smell of lavender. It gives me an automatic headache.

Yuck.

[RegulatedCapitalistD]

13. Same for me!

ewww!

[applegrove]

14. It is like cilantro. Either you love it or it tastes like soap. I don't have the gene

to enjoy lavender.

[electric_blue68]

22. I get the very faintest hint of soap but the greeness, and the tanginess over rides

it!

[debm55]

15. I love the smell of lavender

[Bayard]

16. Bread or cookies baking is pretty powerful

Along with the woods after its rained, the first fire in the woodstove in the fall, horse hair, and little puppy breath.

[highplainsdem]

17. Pumpkin pie.

[electric_blue68]

20. Garlic sauteing in olive oil, or butter. Bread baking. Fresh dark choc chip cookies out of the oven

A really good pizza out of a great pizza place. Indian food. Greek Lamb shesk kabob. Crisp green romaine lettuce. Guac!

Nature? Fresh cut grass - that chlorophyll waft says "Beautiful 🌳🌸🌳 Springtime is here!'

The delicate, yet subtlety rich smell of crab apple trees here in bloom (not yet) in parts of NYC parks & gardens.

Good soil after it rains.