What are your favorite smells?

[lightningandsnow]

I really like calgon pear caramel bodyspreay. I know people probably shouldn't smell like food. - but I actually really enjoy smelling like banoffee pie.

Also, I love the smell of wine. Also, herbs like rosemary and mint.

[Sugar Smack]

1. I love the smell of coffee, rain hitting the pavement,

light musk, Clinique Aromatics Elixhir, kitty's forehead when she's been soaking up sun, faint traces of gasoline on a person's clothes, croissants baking.

[Omphaloskepsis]

2. Citrus and garlic.

But not together.

[Inchworm]

3. Diesel exaust, babies, clean hair on a woman

woman, leaves burning, fresh warm laundry, my puppy's paws.

:hi:

[Xipe Totec]

76. ...

The smell of drilling mud and burning diesel.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4878604&mesg_id=4888777

[Inchworm]

80. Same reason here

My dad was a truck driver.

It also reminds me of my Navy stint working around jets.

:hug:

[Xipe Totec]

81. My other favorite is orange blossoms

which remind me of home.

:hi:

[Mojambo]

4. New tires. n/t

[Sugar Smack]

18. I don't know why, but tires kind of freak me out, the smell, I mean.

It could have something to do with when I hiked up Mont Martre in Paris, and hiked down the WRONG SIDE afterward. On one side (Left Bank) it was all croissants and baguettes and bicycles and poodles, on the other, it was all tire stores and gas stations and carpet retailers.

See? It's just me.:)

[TZ]

5. I really like to swim so the smell of bleach/chlorine

is something I like. That probably explains me then..too much bleach sniffing...:crazy:

[dropkickpa]

8. Damn, we are weird!!

[dropkickpa]

6. I like coffee, cinnamon,

cedar, and the smell of chlorine - bleach, pool chlorine, I just really like them, likely due to scent memory from all the time I spent at the pool as a kid. I also like the smell of many sunblocks (NOT the coconut scented ones) for the same reason.

[MonkeyFunk]

7. I can't resist sniffing Play-dough

[lightningandsnow]

10. I thought I was the only one who did that!

At least when I was younger - I really liked the smell of it.

[TZ]

13. actually I liked the smell

and uh..the taste too....:D

[Sugar Smack]

11. Crayons!! w00t!

:woohoo: Are you old enough to remember the smell of mimeograph paper? I am.

[MonkeyFunk]

29. oh hell yeah

the first thing we ALL did in school was sniff the dittos that were just handed out.

[Sugar Smack]

33. *lol*---> that's the smell of "purple" for me.

:rofl:

[Inchworm]

14. me too!

I sometimes nab a lil piece and eat it too. I screwed up on some pizza dough last week and it tasted just like playdough! I let it ride.

:rofl:

[Heidi]

9. Freshly-cut grass, laundry dried on the line in the sun, sandalwood.

But no vanilla. I just can't abide it. It gives me a headache and makes me barfy. :puke:

[Omphaloskepsis]

17. A am also a fan of freshly cut grass.

And check your PM's in a few minutes if you can..

[Heidi]

27. Done.

:hug:

[Omphaloskepsis]

31. Ahh.. Thank you.

I will send it out Monday. If I had went with my gut it would have ended up in Mongolia.

Give CMW a High Five!

[Heidi]

37. Ha!

First, I read "Magnolia" and was all :wtf: ?????????????????

I will give CMW a H5 when he's done doin' dishes. :7 Now, I'm goin' upstairs, puttin' on my flannel kitty-print PJs and watchin' "The Life of David Gale" for the jillionth time. (I'm learning stuff from it. Seriously.)

:hug:

[Adsos Letter]

12. "The smell of Napalm in the morning...reminds me of...victory..."

I kid, I kid...

(flame Robert Duvall for getting inside my head!) :D

[Sugar Smack]

15. I kind of like the smell of money.

:hide: You know, paper money.

[knitter4democracy]

16. Basil and rosemary.

Lemon and lavendar. I love the classics from the kitchen. :)

[av8rdave]

19. Fresh cut cilantro. Black cavendish tobacco

I don't smoke, but that stuff smells like a cake baking in the oven.

[Sugar Smack]

21. Is there a particular gene that reacts well/ badly to cilantro?

I think I read somewhere there is.

[MonkeyFunk]

26. I would think so

Stuff tastes like soap to me, but others tell me it's refreshingly delicious.

[Sugar Smack]

30. SOAP!

Me too. How is that possible, I wonder? My own BROTHER loves the stuff. He ordered it on our pizza and I could-not-for-the-life-of-me stop cussing him out.

:D We have a cilantro difference, bro & I.

[av8rdave]

41. I don't know...I hadn't heard that before, but I do know that some people react to various spices,

So that well could be.

L LOVE cooking with fresh cilantro. I use in my salsa, in my black bean soup, when I roast chicken. I must be one of those that react well to it!

[mcscajun]

49. Yup. There's no middle ground with cilantro. Either you like it or you Really Don't

And it's genetic. I think it tastes like soap, as do most who can't stand it.

[FloridaJudy]

57. It *is* genetic

Certain people - called "supertasters" - react badly to tastes/smells that other people find pleasant. Foods that we find mildly spicy are unbearably hot to them. Stuff that we perceive as pleasantly astringent is revoltingly bitter to them.

Fascinating article on the subject here:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=bitter-could-be-better

[mcscajun]

60. Thanks for sharing that .

Now...if there's an article out there that explains why I and others aren't repelled by the not-too-near odor of skunk... :shrug:

[bicentennial_baby]

Ha! Same here!!

:wow:

Doesn't bother me one whit... :crazy:

[bicentennial_baby]

66. Wow, that explains so much about me!

:wow:

Thank you so much! :hi:

[Maraya1969]

72. I can't stand cilantro. It makes me almost ill to smell of taste. Same

with green and red peppers and pimentos. Ir really blows my mind to see someone eating a green onion fresh after it's been cut.

There must be something akin to each of these things but I don't know what it is.

[Sugar Smack]

74. Pimientos make me retch, & I eat EVERYTHING in sight

except those & cilantro.

[bicentennial_baby]

50. Yes, there is...

I have it...Smells/tastes like soap. :puke:

I'm lucky though, I've read that for some people it smells like rotting flesh :scared:

Can't touch the stuff. x(

[Sugar Smack]

55. But, but...if my BROTHER ended up liking it

why is it undeniably certain I'll smack him in la face with the cilantro pizza? I know.

I think it's great that you're this well-schooled foodie & you can't do cilantro. I hear it's the spice du jour. :loveya:

[bicentennial_baby]

61. It can be limiting at times...

I just leave it out when I encounter it in a recipe... :)

And you're correct, it's very en vogue, at the moment. :eyes:

:loveya:

[begin_within]

68. I love cilantro, but my sister hates it. Go figure.

[Tikki]

20. California Scents' 'Coronado Cherry'.....

I wear Tabu cologne...I like that scent, also.




Tikki

[Lavender Brown]

22. Chocolate, coffee (even though I don't drink it), peaches, vanilla

lilacs, lilies of the valley. it's mostly food smells for me too.

[begin_within]

67. Coffee and bacon are two things that smell good but taste bad.

[Bennyboy]

23. The Diggity Dank!

Really good pot!

[seemunkee]

24. Hops and babie heads

[ronnykmarshall]

25. Cilantro

[SKKY]

28. Coffee, Coco by Chanel, and a fresh cut fairway...

[east texas lib]

32. My personal favorite...

Hoppes #9

[lost-in-nj]

34. Jasmine and honeysuckle

Coffee
the Thanksgiving turkey cooking
and

chocolate

I like alot more but these are the top 5


lost

[TZ]

35. Honeysuckle is wonderful

Not nearly enough around here to make me happy though.x(

[DarkTirade]

36. It's a tossup between the smell

of winter/fall spices... cinnamon, nutmeg, ect... or the smell of a loved one as you hold them close.

[LeftyMom]

38. Afterglow.

[Fleshdancer]

39. limes, fresh cilantro, red wine...

my husband's after shave, fajitas, coffee, Origins ginger body wash, sandalwood, Thanksgiving dinner.

Interesting question AspieGrrl. I never thought about it before.

[WinkyDink]

40. Shalimar, cinnamon, lilac blossoms, basil.

[livetohike]

42. Gardenias, orange blossoms, roses, a campfire,

chaparrel, locust trees in bloom, pine woods, cedar trees, cherry pipe tobacco....so many to list :-)

[KitchenWitch]

43. Lavendar, Coffee, Bacon

[ThatsMyBarack]

44. Some yarns I knit with.

Some of them have kind of a nice, woody stink to them. ;)

[RoadRage]

45. The Ocean & Rainstorms...

Nothing smells better the fresh nature.. i love it!

For Perfume - I like Cool water for her, very fresh & clean smelling!

[Oeditpus Rex]

46. Pla-Doh™

[Aristus]

47. Sandalwood.

Reminds me of the smells of the parlor in my great-aunt's house in Montgomery, Alabama.

[bettyellen]

48. coppertone lotion. shoe polish.

[mcscajun]

51. Heavy on the organics, here.

Coffee - although I can't stand the taste. Inhaling coffee aroma is good for you, though. The flavonoids are airborne and you can get the benefit from inhaling.

Frying bacon.

Someone peeling an orange.

New-mown grass.

An Evergreen forest -- I call it "green air".

Woodsmoke.

Lilacs.

The heavy negative ion smell of air in a rainstorm.

Honeysuckle in bloom.

Fall "rot" in a forest.

A slightly sweaty man in a flannel shirt. OMG. :evilgrin:

And an odd one (there are some of us out there who like this...but NOT up close and personal) Skunk.

[Mugu]

52. I can't think of any odors that I really like. Most I just tolerate.

The smell of a corn field after the farmer has sprayed pig shit on it, my dog after irritating a skunk, or on open bottle of lavender, it's all the same to me. My GF knows that if she has used any perfumed products recently to just call, don't stop by.

I literally can't sleep if there is a bar of Irish Spring soap in the house, or if my bed linen has been stored in a wooden drawer for any length of time. I ripped the cedar panels out of my closet days after moving in because I couldn't stand the smell on my clothes. Some people use dryer sheets to keep deer out of their garden, that's fine, just don't bring them inside.

If you've been in a Pier I Imports in the last few hours kindly stay downwind. And if I ever run into the jerk that decided that scented candles was a good idea...

Regards, Mugu

[Donk Yore]

53. I'm Smell-Blind

(reference to a recent movie)

[sniffa]

54. feet

:D

[Fire Walk With Me]

56. Rose, Lilly of the Valley, Rosemary, Jasmine, rain-damp earth, rain evaporating from cement,

freshly cut grass, mint, red wine high in tannin, freshly-brewed beer such as Hefeweizen, and each of the women that I have been in love with, up and down their entirety.

Many types of Indian food as well. What perfect synthesis they are.

Edit: Cilantro, sandalwood, sometimes the burst of sulfur of a just-lit match...

[fizzgig]

58. my cat, pearl

she's got this nice, earthy smell to her and she rarely stinks. rain. good coffee. the inside of my dad's car.

[FloridaJudy]

59. Fresh fruit

Not the revoltingly sweet "fruit" scents they seem to add to every cosmetic and household product these days, but real apples, cantaloupes, peaches, strawberries. Can anyone remember how wonderful Winesap apples used to smell? I haven't seen them in the supermarket in years.

Sandalwood, roses and violets.

Woodsmoke in autumn.

Garlic, basil and rosemary. Ginger and lemongrass. A good garam masala.

Fresh bread, particularly sour dough and onion rye.

I think I must have been a dog in a previous life.

[PollyH]

62. Smells

Lilacs, Mimosa, Violets, fresh ginger, curry powder, my Golden Retrievers when they come back from the groomers.

[zingaro]

63. sawdust, sandalwood, nag champa, Red Door, lemons,

my kids. I used to love the way my cat smelled when he was still alive.

I'm very smell conscious and have inherited my mom's Super Sniffer. Memories generally have an associative smell.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

64. Freshly-mown grass, the ocean, the "crisp" smell/sense in fall and winter, gingerbread,

some fruits.

:)

[begin_within]

65. An orange grove on a warm spring night. Also gardenias and the women's cologne "Opium"

[PassingFair]

69. Coffee, cigarettes....

oranges.

[carly denise pt deux]

70. chocolate, vanilla, the air after a rain shower, a freshly cut alfalfa field

Play Doh
coppertone oil
Blue Jeans perfume from the 1970's
Gee your hair smells terrific

CArly

[cordelia]

71. Freshly cut watermelon

Hyacinths, gardenias, freshly mown grass.

My Mom's house.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

73. lavendar. jasmine, coriander, cumin and lisa.

[zabet]

75. The smell of ionized air

after a lightening storm.
Fresh cut grass, the smell
of fat lighter wood, honeysuckle,
bacon frying, and for the hippie
in me, patchouli and sandalwood.
Last but not least, the smell of
sweet herbage, maryjane.

[fortyfeetunder]

77. lavender, citrus, forest, fresh jasmine,mint

right now I have a cold and can't smell anything!!!

[BrotherBuzz]

78. Roasting coffee, fermenting wine, and tidal marshes at low tide

[triguy46]

79. Magic Marker.

[applegrove]

82. Coffee, Vanillla, oranges.