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88. The creek in August, fresh cut hay, and a field of sweet corn in flower

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Tue Feb 26, 2019, 07:16 PM

Feb 2019

Laundry off the line, a new baby's head and a Basset's ear. To make just a few.

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What are some of your favorite aromas? [View all] MissMillie Feb 2019 OP

lavender and sage . stonecutter357 Feb 2019 #1

good pick on sage MissMillie Feb 2019 #3

How did I forget lavender? redwitch Feb 2019 #5

And rosemary! TexasBushwhacker Feb 2019 #108

Roses, vanilla, cinnamon lkinwi Feb 2019 #2

Chocolate chip cookies baking. redwitch Feb 2019 #4

hyacinths...the first spring flowers and we can grow them inside! samnsara Feb 2019 #6

I'm familiar w/ freesia MissMillie Feb 2019 #19

I have a hyacinth candle. Scarsdale Feb 2019 #64

Freesia, YES! elleng Feb 2019 #81

Mine are Ohiogal Feb 2019 #7

Freshly baked chocolate chip cookies after they come out of the oven... SWBTATTReg Feb 2019 #8

Only thing better...the smell of impeachment hearings in the morning!! InAbLuEsTaTe Feb 2019 #128

Hope so❣️ LakeArenal Feb 2019 #139

when i was young the girls all wore patchoulli oil rampartc Feb 2019 #9

Still have it. Great body spray at Indigo Wild. LakeArenal Feb 2019 #140

watch yourself, lake! rampartc Feb 2019 #142

Only in a flashback. 😳🤪🤫 LakeArenal Feb 2019 #146

lol rampartc Feb 2019 #153

Roasting green chile. BarbaRosa Feb 2019 #10

bread baking in the oven. nt Fresh_Start Feb 2019 #11

Fresh mown alfalfa. Sneederbunk Feb 2019 #12

I'm not familiar with that one. MissMillie Feb 2019 #18

real nostalgia handmade34 Feb 2019 #79

that smell after it rains logosoco Feb 2019 #13

post-rain outdoors... good call MissMillie Feb 2019 #17

oh yes! logosoco Feb 2019 #25

The word for that smell is bdtrppr6 Feb 2019 #39

I knew it had a name! logosoco Feb 2019 #47

crayons n/t deek Feb 2019 #117

Coffee TEB Feb 2019 #14

perked coffee is absolutely the best! MissMillie Feb 2019 #16

They do TEB Feb 2019 #20

I like the smell of fresh ground coffee Brother Buzz Feb 2019 #57

Pine and apples thegoose Feb 2019 #15

The exhaust from a clothes drier and talcum powder bif Feb 2019 #21

Cardamom; grilling or roasting meat, fish, poultry; pine; sex...to name a few LuvLoogie Feb 2019 #22

+10000. Me too!!! Pachamama Feb 2019 #52

Autumn leaves in the gutter with a small flame and aromatic smoke. cachukis Feb 2019 #23

Fresh baked bread and cinnamon rolls csziggy Feb 2019 #24

Summer rain on hot concrete. nt zanana1 Feb 2019 #26

Cedarwood iamateacher Feb 2019 #27

The smell of weed while walking in NYC... targetpractice Feb 2019 #28

Fresh popped popcorn, coffee, rain on a summer day OregonBlue Feb 2019 #29

popcorn--good one! (n/t) MissMillie Feb 2019 #31

Creme Brulee lark Feb 2019 #30

Creme Brulee is my fav dessert(n/t) MissMillie Feb 2019 #32

Yo yummy, my mouth is watering thinking about it. lark Feb 2019 #36

Mine too if it's chocolate cream brulee with a little cayenne pepper Sucha NastyWoman Feb 2019 #42

the best creme brulee I ever had MissMillie Feb 2019 #43

Honeybee hive on a warm Summer day. WheelWalker Feb 2019 #33

Almonds... Docreed2003 Feb 2019 #34

Kind of close -- benzaldehyde. ;) nt eppur_se_muova Feb 2019 #121

Ah, cool! Thanks! Docreed2003 Feb 2019 #131

Pine and fir trees Bayard Feb 2019 #35

leather--good one! (n/t) MissMillie Feb 2019 #44

Little puppy breath volstork Feb 2019 #106

Oh puppy breath! MontanaMama Feb 2019 #110

Since most of mine are already named ... I'll say ... Grandma & Grandpa's House mr_lebowski Feb 2019 #37

Cinnamon mainstreetonce Feb 2019 #38

Study from 70s found men were most aroused sexually by scent of cinnamon rolls baking Panich52 Feb 2019 #40

I'm really digging Nag Champa incense lately. Tobin S. Feb 2019 #41

I love Nag Champa too Lunabell Feb 2019 #53

Was on a bus tour of Europe. Out late one night in Paris when a pal left applegrove Feb 2019 #45

Bacon frying, whiskey, pipe tobacco, my farts Major Nikon Feb 2019 #46

Dad.....? Mazeltov Cocktail Feb 2019 #148

Does your dad's farts smell like potpourri? Major Nikon Feb 2019 #157

COCONUT JuJuYoshida Feb 2019 #48

Freshly cut grass. smirkymonkey Feb 2019 #49

A barn full of sheep Bantamfancier Feb 2019 #50

My wife's skin Glamrock Feb 2019 #51

Romantic! Bayard Feb 2019 #66

Wood-burning fire on a cold winter night Blue Owl Feb 2019 #54

Freshly fallen Black Walnuts... N_E_1 for Tennis Feb 2019 #55

Yeah! black walnuts + soil in spring + the smell of cold snow!! You lost me at bacon and skunk nt Kashkakat v.2.0 Feb 2019 #165

Fresh basil WestMichRad Feb 2019 #56

Foods: curry, ginger, bergamot, Rosemary. Polly Hennessey Feb 2019 #58

Mmmmm, bergamot! bullsnarfle Mar 2019 #168

Fresh coffee grounds, lilacs, eucalyptus, The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2019 #59

Old books... I like that! (n/t) MissMillie Feb 2019 #70

Oh yes! I forgot about the smell of old books! smirkymonkey Feb 2019 #94

Mountain rain madamesilverspurs Feb 2019 #60

The smell of old books is one of my favorites TeapotInATempest Feb 2019 #61

Many of the above, plus geranium. fierywoman Feb 2019 #62

So many listed already... LiberalLovinLug Feb 2019 #63

Lavender may be overrated Polly Hennessey Feb 2019 #65

That's nice LiberalLovinLug Feb 2019 #67

Yes!!!!! Lilac is my all time favorite, as well. sueh Feb 2019 #86

My absolute favorite floral scent! smirkymonkey Feb 2019 #95

I agree with you about lilacs Sanity Claws Mar 2019 #173

Fallen pine needles in the sunshine... (nt) petronius Feb 2019 #68

a favorite thing bariloche Feb 2019 #69

Freshly picked tomatoes, any fresh herbs, daffodils, lilac, roses, mowed grass, sarge43 Feb 2019 #71

Yes! Fresh, organic garden tomatoes! I grew up with a big garden so it reminds me smirkymonkey Feb 2019 #96

Paradise is always in a garden. n/t sarge43 Feb 2019 #101

blackberry blossoms smell so good happybird Feb 2019 #118

Lilac and gasoline, but not together elias7 Feb 2019 #72

I used to have to drive past acres of Orange groves OriginalGeek Feb 2019 #73

reminds me MissMillie Feb 2019 #75

Gasoline WiffenPoof Feb 2019 #74

Have you tried model airplane glue? Major Nikon Feb 2019 #93

My aunt loved the smell of gasoline when she was pregnant n/t TexasBushwhacker Feb 2019 #109

Citrus for me, too. LisaM Feb 2019 #76

Oooh, lilacs...... dawnie51 Feb 2019 #77

mint-- particularly peppermint and wintergreen crazycatlady Feb 2019 #78

Lilacs Soxfan58 Feb 2019 #80

Lilacs, Lily-of-the-valley, roses, fresh cut grass, early spring days LAS14 Feb 2019 #82

Lilacs Rebl2 Feb 2019 #83

Thanksgiving ! world wide wally Feb 2019 #84

The best aroma in the whole wide world Dem2theMax Feb 2019 #85

Dark roast coffee in the morning. nt Ferrets are Cool Feb 2019 #87

The creek in August, fresh cut hay, and a field of sweet corn in flower Deb Feb 2019 #88

Katsu Coffeeshop Amsterdam Amsterdammer Feb 2019 #89

Vanilla, pumpkin pie, kitty belly, lilac Capt. America Feb 2019 #90

Banana tree blossoms. I LOVE how ours smell when they bloom. CaptainTruth Feb 2019 #91

A tire shop. BHDem53 Feb 2019 #92

Puppy breath. BigmanPigman Feb 2019 #97

Oh yes, for the Win! Nothing like it. JudyM Feb 2019 #124

Rain on the desert. hunter Feb 2019 #98

eucalyptus, baked bread, after it rains ailsagirl Feb 2019 #99

California sin semilla. Iggo Feb 2019 #100

Mushrooms in the woods. The sea, and seaweed. BlancheSplanchnik Feb 2019 #102

Many but here are my tops Malikshah Feb 2019 #103

Citrus volstork Feb 2019 #104

Rosemary. C_U_L8R Feb 2019 #105

Rosemary! MontanaMama Feb 2019 #111

The lilacs outside my open window in spring badhair77 Feb 2019 #107

Star jasmine ornotna Feb 2019 #112

Ditto fluid! klook Feb 2019 #113

Or those fat black markers with the metal casing. happybird Feb 2019 #119

Oh yeah, baby klook Feb 2019 #133

Detonated gun powder. creeksneakers2 Feb 2019 #114

Real gunpowder? The acrid smell of sulphur? JustABozoOnThisBus Feb 2019 #137

Its not for everybody creeksneakers2 Feb 2019 #166

I don't have a functional sense of smell TrogL Feb 2019 #115

sawdust deek Feb 2019 #116

Most of mine are food related lillypaddle Feb 2019 #120

(you're asking the guy with the sense of smell of a brick?.....) lastlib Feb 2019 #122

3,4-dibromo-2-thienaldehyde. Smells like chewing gum. eppur_se_muova Feb 2019 #123

Honeysuckle flowers are just heaven. JudyM Feb 2019 #125

Lestoil and fresh asphalt. brokephibroke Feb 2019 #126

Vanilla and Almond. TDale313 Feb 2019 #127

fire yeah. but cedar, bergamot, pine, fresh coffee beans. tobacco in the store. pansypoo53219 Feb 2019 #129

I love the smell of vanilla. It's probably my favorite scent/aroma. Lemons would also be high on amywalk Feb 2019 #130

Sweet grass and my down feather pillow NightWatcher Feb 2019 #132

Aaaa, the smell of 2-stroke premix in the morning when Hotler Feb 2019 #134

Napalm, in the morning. JustABozoOnThisBus Feb 2019 #135

popcorn, right before it completes popping benld74 Feb 2019 #136

Dark Fired Tobacco "firing" in the barn dem in texas Feb 2019 #138

Tobacco Barns. Only people from SW Kentucky will get this yellowdogintexas Feb 2019 #141

The smell of head shops back in the hippie days...lemon, in particular. Honeycombe8 Feb 2019 #143

A cottonseed mill gives off the most wonderful smell only out in the boonies flying_wahini Feb 2019 #144

That raspberry?/cherry? air freshener they use in department store bathrooms. Tikki Feb 2019 #145

Republican tears after they lose in 2020. IrishEyes Feb 2019 #147

Bread baking, turkey roasting Danmel Feb 2019 #149

Apple, Plum, Chockecherry blossoms!!! bluestarone Feb 2019 #150

At the moment I'm on a roll with GOP flopsweat... TygrBright Feb 2019 #151

Lavender, Sage, Smell of Rain storm, Peach, Eucalyptus Thomas Hurt Feb 2019 #152

Ponderosa pines at the Grand Canyon last summer, lilacs, roses, rain, clothes that were dried on the Kashkakat v.2.0 Feb 2019 #154

In nature: freshly-picked violets; At home: freshly-baked bread catbyte Feb 2019 #155

Scents are so evocative - there was a lovely scent I noticed while walking around New Orleans Kashkakat v.2.0 Feb 2019 #156

Years ago I was about to board a flight from Florida Danascot Feb 2019 #158

Everything after kicking the smoking habit Ahpook Feb 2019 #159

fresh cut limes. brushing against Rosemary. crushing a handful of basil. NRaleighLiberal Feb 2019 #160

High desert sage after a thunderstorm. defacto7 Feb 2019 #161

YES I know of what you speak.... last summer was my first trip to Utah/Nevada/AZ nt Kashkakat v.2.0 Feb 2019 #164

Sizzling bacon and eggs... and perfectly browned toast. NurseJackie Feb 2019 #162

My list includes: Niagara Feb 2019 #163

In summer, local aspen trees. akraven Mar 2019 #167

Cuban cigar smoke, mesquite wood fires, Cajun cooking. (nt) Paladin Mar 2019 #169

Ionized air after a close lightning storm FailureToCommunicate Mar 2019 #170

The nape of Jeannie's neck. panader0 Mar 2019 #171

Rain proud patriot Mar 2019 #172

Datura blooming along Colorado River in Utah randr Mar 2019 #174