What are your favorite smells?

[skygazer]

Lousy grammar, I know but "odors" always seems sort of unpleasant and "scents" makes me think of perfumes.

So - what kinds of things do you like the smell of?

I like the smell of autumn leaves
the sort of salty smell of an ocean breeze
the scent of freshly baked ... anything really but especially something with cinnamon
oddly, the smell of freshly laid tar
oh, and horse sweat

How about you?

[WinkyDink]

1. Shalimar; honeysuckle; the ocean; fresh basil; cinnamon; punkin pie!

[lazyriver]

82. The parking lot during the warm up before a Grateful Dead show...

An intoxicating indescribable medley of patchouli, fresh grilled veggie burritos and mystery meats, pot smoke, baking pavement, incense and sweaty hippies. Nothing quite like it and so sad it's gone.

[JVS]

2. Cocaine

;-)

[skygazer]

4. A subtle smell, that one

Obviously, a discriminating proboscis you have there. :P

[MissMillie]

3. citrus--mostly orange but also grapefruit

gardenia
beans baking in the oven
coffee

[Parche]

5. When Matcom Flatulates Boston Can Smell It For Days

:woohoo: :hi:

[Guava Jelly]

6. Coffee, warm pie,the skin of a beautiful woman

:)

[Seedersandleechers]

7. fresh paint, gasoline

and the sweat from my ex's thigh. (sorry if that's too graphic)

[FloridaJudy]

8. Sandalwood

Fresh cut grass.
Anything baking, especially garlic bread and pumpkin pie.
BBQ.
Christmas trees, though I'm not a Christian, but then neither are they.
Mulled cider.

I hate those fruity scents they seem to put in every hygiene product these days. Strawberry and kiwi. Grapefruit and melon. Pineapple and coconut. Peach and vanilla. I want to smell like a girl, not a fruit salad. Fresh fruit does smell wonderful, but those artificial scents don't even come close and I don't want my shampoo to come served in a cocktail glass with a little paper parasol.

[johnnie]

9. Right when fall starts getting cold..

..and the fireplaces get lit up.

[skygazer]

10. Oh, yeah - I like that one too

:)

[Pierre.Suave]

11. My Fiancee

has a smell like Vanilla. I am sure it is not natural, but she likes it and I love it (whatever it is) and everytime I smell it I think of her.

[Zavulon]

12. Fresh coffee grounds, that "Thanksgiving smell" of a turkey dinner being cooked, autumn leaves,

and brewery hops.

[Iggo]

13. A redhead...

...on a hot summer day...after...

[Arugula Latte]

14. Kitty fur, hay, vanilla, citrus, basil, and choc. chip cookies baking

are just a few...

I know "kitty fur" is weird, but I just love it when I kiss my kitties and inhale their kitty scent. They smell sooooo much better than dogs, and their fur is so much softer and nicer. :loveya:

[skygazer]

20. My husband loves to smell his kitty

Especially when he's just come in from outside. :)

[Kutjara]

15. Napalm in the morning.

It smells like... ah, who the hell am I kidding?

[jeff30997]

32. Doh!

That's what I wanted to say! Well I'll try to come with something else.:)

[undeterred]

16. wet dog

and giordano's pizza

[bertha katzenengel]

17. I swear, I'm not making this up. Sewage.

When I was a kid I'd ride my bike down the Santa Ana River Trail to the beach. Just about a mile from the beach, this smell would hit me. I never thought of it at all.

But now when I smell it, I get a pleasant rush of memory, of calm, safe times by myself on my bike, riding toward peace.

[skygazer]

22. Isn't it funny how scent stimulates memory

I sometimes catch a fleeting scent of algae in still water and it takes me right back to when I was a kid playing in the brook out back.

[fishwax]

57. I have a similar reaction to the smell of sulfur, which most find unpleasant

I used to visit Yellowstone a lot as a kid, and it brings back all kinds of great memories.

[lizziegrace]

18. Fallen leaves, burning leaves,

band-aids (the old kind), Youth Dew (reminds me of my mother-in-law), grilling food, baby powder, vanilla, pumpkin and wintergreen.

Oh, and the smell of a certain someone's hair when I get a hug, but that's only a memory now.

[Magrittes Pipe]

19. Her

[Tikki]

21. Black Cherry.......

Tikki

[lizerdbits]

23. Cinnamon and right after heavy summer rains

Even if it's still warm out after the rain I'll open my windows just to smell.

[old mark]

24. Ripe strawberries

preferably just picked.

A really, really good Italian restaurant.


Good coffee.


mark (Note they are all food)

[fizzgig]

25. freshly ground coffee

rain, lilac, fresh sweet basil, my boyfriend (when he doesn't smell like work, anyway) and nice, sticky...herb ;)

[Kali]

26. summer thunderstorm in the sonoran desert (creosote bushes)

meat cooking over real wood coals
fresh cut grass/hay
horse sweat (good one - you reminded me)
ocean
lavender
tomato vines
oh yeah bread IS a good one too

[Arkansas Granny]

27. Coffee brewing, bacon frying, fresh cut grass and a baby just out of the bathtub.

[valerief]

28. Popcorn. Vanilla. Clean air. nt

[Xipe Totec]

29. ...

[lightningandsnow]

30. Freshly baked cookies, cinnamon rolls, lavender,

Fruity scents, like watermelon or apple, mint, chocolate, the "Whoosh" shower jelly from Lush (it has kind of a citrusy scent), freshly cut grass, and my boyfriend. :)

[Phoonzang]

31. The rotting corpses of my enemies.

That and when it's about to rain.

[Xipe Totec]

34. My Brother!

any Aztec bloodlines in your family, perchance?


:rofl:

[Phoonzang]

36. No, I think it's the Cimmerian in me.

:evilgrin:

[OmahaBlueDog]

44. My dad's bread baking

Barbeque (sorry, vegans)

Mrs. OBD


.. and strangely, burning diesel fuel (I think I have latent desires to truck)

[Xipe Totec]

47. The smell of drilling mud & burning diesel

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

[OmahaBlueDog]

49. I responded in the wrong place, but it was worth it. Cool post, sir!

[Joe Fields]

63. Those are smells I'm quite familiar with.

[zanne]

42. Phoonzang--Is this you?

[FloridaJudy]

56. Nice post, Vlad

[jeff30997]

33. Digested beans.

It's the musical fruit you know.

[LibertyLover]

35. My 6 year old daughter

especially after a bath. And my dogs. I love burying my nose in their necks as I pet them.

[triguy46]

37. Napalm in the morning...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPXVGQnJm0w

[NV Whino]

38. Vanilla, lemon

Fresh-cut grass. Fresh-sawn wood. New kittens.

And... baking bread, a rain storm, wood fire in the winter (contained in a fireplace or stove). Freshly turned earth.

[CreekDog]

39. jasmine

[Xipe Totec]

46. That is Star Jasmine, if I'm not mistaken...

Jasmine in her hair, and roses in her cheeks...




Flor de la Canela (Cinnamon Flower):
http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=xlaJhC5IjH0

[begin_within]

40. Gardenias

[Xipe Totec]

45. You know your scents...

http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa0FM3n9vt4

[begin_within]

87. Thanks. I have a gardenia plant in a pot, but

it's not doing too well now. It lived for a year and gave me 6 or 7 flowers in June, but now it's shriveling up. I don't know what the secret to growing them is. The Carmelite monastery down the street from me has 6-foot bushes that are covered all summer with the flowers, so they will grow in this climate, but for some reason mine always die after a year.

[grasswire]

92. I've never had any success with a gardenia in a pot.

And I've never heard of anyone who did!

I had a hedge of them 'round my garage when I lived in SoCal. But I already loved them even before that time. My Connecticut yankee grandmother used to love them, and every time she would take me downtown we would stop at the flower stand and buy one for each of us to wear on our coats. Just a little corsage, but so festive! After I was grown and living a thousand miles away from her with a whole hedge of them, I filled a shoebox with them, some wet gauze around them, and sent them to her by overnight mail. Gardenias = not only gorgeous, but happy memories for me.

Maybe you oughta plant yours outside.

[grasswire]

71. have you ever smelled mock orange?

That's glorious, too.

[begin_within]

85. yes I have,

that's wonderful. Also the scent of an orange grove in full bloom on a warm spring night is intoxicating.

[zanne]

41. First drops of rain on hot summer pavement...

A bushel of apples, the smell of autumn leaves, Lilacs, Lily of the Valley, Honeysuckle, a real Christmas tree.

[NJmaverick]

43. Apple Pie

Banana nut bread, Pizza

[RedShoes]

48. honeysuckle, fresh cut grass, linens fresh off the clothing line on a sunny but windy day,

the back of a baby's neck, and my dog's frito-smelling paws. :hi:

[Wapsie B]

50. Locking

No Sex threads. :P

Fresh baked bread, the smell of a baseball park before a game, hot apple pie are just a few.

[Xipe Totec]

51. The smell of WD40 on a well oiled lock...

[Wapsie B]

53. Yeah something like that.

:rofl:

[parabellumklr]

52. Freshly fired shotgun shells, WD-40, frying Bacon

[ElsewheresDaughter]

54. approaching rain, orange blossoms and night blooming jasmine

[grasswire]

59. have you ever smelled night-scented stock?

oh my god.

[Aristus]

55. Sandlewood.

My great-aunt's house in Montgomery, Alabama always smelled of sandlewood.

Greatest scent in the world...

[grasswire]

58. gardenias, lilacs, toast, fresh lime

...old growth forest, Polo green, Hungary Water, 4711, fresh dill, espresso, and printers ink. Among a zillion other things. Oh, and spicy roses.

I, too, hate hate hate all the fruity shampoos and lotions and candles. YUCK!

I found a great lotion that smells faintly forest-y and I love it. Lubriderm's nourishing oat extract.

[Connonym]

68. mmm lilac

I love lilac best of all I think. But it makes me feel really melancholy, we get the scent for just a few weeks a year and I always think that every time I smell it is like a countdown to death. That doesn't really make any sense but I can't really explain it except to say that the awareness of it's limited quantity makes me savor it every year.

[AbbeyRoad]

60. cilantro, freshly mown grass, the library...

coffee, bacon frying, freshly baked bread & pies & cookies..., the air when it rains, burning leaves, honeysuckle, garlic, sauteed onions, fresh laundry, baseball gloves, vanilla, movie theather popcorn, mimeograph ink (old skool)

and many more

[GoddessOfGuinness]

61. Fresh thyme...

It reminds me of a retreat house I often visited in college. Thyme grew wild in a field across from the house.
Just thinking about it makes me want to go back there...

[elshiva]

67. What about the scent of anteaters?

[Joe Fields]

62. baby powder

[Joe Fields]

64. any type of majarani incense, but especially rose.

[UndertheOcean]

65. I like the smell of a shy woman

[Bennyboy]

66. Big greeen sticky kind bud....

Pre or post toked.

[FloridaJudy]

69. A brand-new box of crayons

And that mint-scented glue/paste they bought by the gallon in elementary school and that I haven't seen since. I think we first graders must have eaten it all.

[grasswire]

70. hahaha!

Do you also remember at school those brown paper tape dispensers that had a well of water? They had a funky smell of their own.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

72. Rain, Fresh cut Grass, Charcoal Burning, Coffee brewing ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFZcF4WIFkI


I wanna go outside in the rain
It may sound crazy
But I wanna go outside (go outside) in the rain

Now I, I think I'm gonna cry
And I, I don't want you to see me cry

I wanna go outside in the rain
It may sound crazy
But I wanna go outside in the rain

Once the rain starts fallin'
On my face (on my face)
You won't see (you won't see, ah)
A single trace (a single trace)

But the tears I'm cryin' (I'm cryin')
Because of you I'm cryin' (because of you)
Don't want you to see me cry
Let me go, let me go, let me go

(In the rain)

Once the sun comes out
And the rain is gone away
I know I'm gonna see
A better day

But right now I think I'm cryin' (I'm cryin')
Because of you I'm cryin' (because of you)
Don't want you to see me cry (I'm cryin')
Let me go, let me go, let me go

(Outside)
In the rain (in the rain)
It might sound crazy, but
It might sound crazy, but
But I wanna go outside in the rain
I wanna go outside (I wanna go outside)
I wanna go outside (in the rain)
It may sound crazy
I said, it may sound crazy, but
But I wanna go outside in the rain

I wanna go outside (I wanna go outside)
I wanna go outside (in the rain)
It may sound crazy
I said, it may sound crazy
But I wanna go outside in the rain

[Withywindle]

73. Cumin.

sandalwood.

The ocean.

Autumn leaves and wood smoke.

Hashish.

Gasoline.

Rain.

Male pheromones.

Mossy, ferny, piny woods.

Coffee brewing.

Bacon cooking.

Leather.

Indian or Thai food.

Snow.

My cat's stanky breath (it's foul but I love her so much.)

Frankincense, myrrh, copal (the real resins burning on charcoal, not the fake stuff)

Pipe smoke.

Honeysuckle at night.

Gingerbread.

[billyskank]

74. I like the smell of fresh tarmac too. It's not that odd.

Food-wise, my favourite smell is cumin seeds frying.

:hi:

[Enthusiast]

75. The aroma of a Northwoods lake

and pine needles under the trees.

When he was a child, my son was the only human being I knew that liked the odor of a freshly roadkilled skunk. I have no idea why. He is now 30 YO. I wonder if he still likes it.

[Rambis]

93. Lake

I get a whiff on our campus from the river and it always reminds me of being at the lake on vacation.

[Throckmorton]

76. Freshly mowed gas and Kerosene

The aromas I associated with my grandparents farm from my childhood.

[Indi Guy]

77. The aroma of coffee brewing while I'm waking up...

...the best

[Wetzelbill]

81. I said the same thing

Nothing like it. It makes my whole day.

[panhead1961]

78. Bacon - bacon - bacon

[Dr. Strange]

90. Mmmm, bacon.

[Xipe Totec]

96. Is she Kosher? nt

[Xipe Totec]

95. I Love the Smell of Bacon in the Morning. It smells like...

Hickory.

[Mrs. Venation]

79. The Fragrance of Rain in the Woods

reminds me of camping in the Great Smoky Mountains when I was a kid.

My mom's cornbread baking. My mouth waters just thinking about it.

Mimosa blossoms. My grandfather had a mimosa tree in his front yard, and the fragrance of those blossoms make me think of him (not like I don't think about him every day anyway).

Popcorn

My grandnephew:

Autumn leaves -- especially sassafras

[Wetzelbill]

80. Morning coffee!!!!

[mnhtnbb]

83. I love the smell of cook-outs from tailgating as we walk to football games.

Yeah! Season opener on Aug 30th for the Tar Heels against McNeese St (yeah, I had to look it up--it's in Louisiana)

[montanto]

84. Good Bud!!!1!!!!

:smoke:







What?

[SurfingAtWork]

86. The strong smell of ozone following a rainstorm in Arizona.

I also like the smell of Nag-Champa insense and vics vaporub... reminds me of my raving days way back in the day.

[ceile]

88. Perry Ellis 360, the first puff off a Camel Light

coffee, bacon, sauteed garlic and onions. crap, now I'm hungry....

[DarkTirade]

89. I like the kinds of smells you'll find in winter and fall themed candles. :)

Apple cinnamon, pumpkin, gingerbread, ect. Probably one of the main reasons I got into brewing mead. My first serious batch I made (that's still aging in the basement) is a winter themed one with cinnamon and molasses and ginger (and if I can find some, a bit of dried orange peel). The fall one I'm making is gonna be a cyser, part cider part mead, with lots of cinnamon and a bit of nutmeg in it. :)

[edbermac]

91. Napalm in the morning.

And fresh ground coffee beans. Not that freeze dried crap.

[Raffi Ella]

94. Tide Laundry detergent

Amazing Grace and Falling in Love perfumes by Philosophy

roses, lemon thyme, phlox, vanilla, milk chocolate, strawberries and the smell of lime and coconut together.

and food smells: steak grilling, ground beef browning in a pan with onions and garlic, walking into a chinese restaraunt...fresh baked cookies, cakes, pies. I also love the smell of hazelnut coffee creamer.

and beer - I don't so much like the taste of beer as I do the smell of it.


and the smell of my brown leather jacket.

[oregonjen]

97. Newborn babies and puppy breath!

I always like to smell my dogs breath, it calms me. Also, my husband, his smell makes me feel like home.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

98. Hotel air freshner

For numerous sentimental reasons.