Vanilla.
Almond extract.
Baked apples with cinnamon
The desert after a rain–sage, juniper, creosote and other desert plant smells come alive after even a little bit of rain and it smells wonderful.
Ya’know… I’ve never been to the desert. I’m intrigued.
A skunk, when it’s juust far enough away that you sniff the air and say “Is that a skunk?”
Some of them are edible things that taste a lot worse then they smell:
Vanilla
Coffee
I once drove through the pine forest in northern Nevada, right after ai severe thunderstorm. Lightning split so many trees, that it smelled like driving through a sawmill.
My favorite smell is walking into a grocery store where the meat counter makes its own in-house sausages and salami. Like Hoff’s Red Owl, in Brownsville, Wisconsin.
Isn’t it wonderful that I can conjure up a lot of these smells in my head?
The smell of coffee when you’re getting on an airplane.
My wife’s hair.
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Shodan
The top of my daughter’s head
Petrichor
Fresh-baked bread
Cedar
The books from Little Professor Book Company in the 1990s, when they had carafes of flavored coffee sitting out in the store, and its smell would get into the paper and make this dreamy-creamy coffee-cinnamon-wood pulp smell. Lord I miss that.
Wood burning
baking bread
cinnamon.
I love this thread and how it smells!
Stargazer lilies
Star jasmine
Freshly-made waffle cones at the Gibson Girl Ice Cream Parlor on Main Street in Disneyland
Lilacs
Pork, slow cooked all day
Motor oil
The fresh cut pine smell of a house being built
Burning fall leaves, from a distance
Cornbread
I get two different smells, one when it’s dry and a different (but still sage-y) one after a bit of rain. Maybe the humidity just makes my nose respond differently. I like both smells.
Something similar happens in mountainous pine forests.
Cinnamon
Baking yeast bread
Old, clean linen
Puppy breath
Light amount of garlic
Barbeque smoke
hardwood based campfire
-Freshly-popped popcorn
-Snickerdoodles, while being baked
-Lilacs
-The smell of the air just before it begins to rain
-Real lemonade
-Garlic and onions frying
-My house after being away a week or so.
Crisp cotton clothes freshly sun-dried.
Maple syrup
The distinctive “desert after the rain” is Creosote bush (at least out here).
It is a wonderful smell - combined with the rain-cleaned air, and the wet Earth, it’s delightful!