# OMG groovy smell **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 27, 2004, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-groovy-smell/242328 "2004-04-27T19:09:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bimble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@Bimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bimble)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-groovy-smell/242328/21 "2004-04-28T13:23:44Z")
Mmmmmm… Driving to one of my various places of work, there is a brewery by the side of the road and the lovely malty smell from it ALWAYS reminds me of a breakfast cereal that used to be my FAVE when I was a wee kiddie growing up in South Africa! (Any South Africans on the board? Remember ProNutro [sp]? I used to LOVE that!!) And fresh bread: I have a bread maker at home and the smell of lovely hot fresh bread (esp my raisin and cinnamon loaves) make me go positively gooey eyed!! Curry, nearly forgot curry! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-groovy-smell/242328/22 "2004-04-28T16:36:17Z")
The scents of honeysuckle and wisteria mean “home” to me. The sides of the little country road leading out to the house I grew up in are rife with honeysuckle, and there’s a big wisteria arbor in the yard. You could smell the flowers even with the windows up and the vents closed. When I came in exhausted, late at night, the scent meant that I could rest soon. I miss it–I sometimes time my visits home to make sure I’m there when they’re blooming. ---
**Author:** ![curly\_chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@curly\_chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curly_chick)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-groovy-smell/242328/23 "2004-04-28T16:51:57Z")
I live round the corner from a yeast factory. (I can’t think that _factory_ is the right word, but it’s a place which grows yeast and sells it) Depending on which way the wind is blowing, and which species of yeast they are dealing with, by the time I get to work, I am either ravenously hungry, because of the bready smell or slightly tiddly from the beery smell! ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-groovy-smell/242328/24 "2004-04-28T17:02:51Z")
Lilacs! There’s a lilac bush right outside the front door of my apartment building, and it takes me back to Saskatchewan when I was growing up. There were lilacs all over, but on one block nearly every house had two or three, and one had the yard nearly full. Out here in the Vancouver area they’re not nearly as common, but at work we’d get horse barns, sewage, or fresh-cut lumber, depending on the wind. At home I sometimes get a whiff of skunk from the woods half a mile away - quite nice as long as it’s faint. ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-groovy-smell/242328/25 "2004-04-28T17:04:26Z")
The sweet smell of orange blossoms on the tree…aah, Spring is here. Driving past the King’s Hawaiian Bread factory on the 405 freeway on my way to work in Los Angeles. Almost makes it worth being up before the sun. ---
**Author:** ![MissGypsy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@MissGypsy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissGypsy)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-groovy-smell/242328/26 "2004-04-28T18:00:28Z")
I used to drive past a potato chip factory on my way to work. It caused a major munchie attack. The folks at the convenience store look at you funny when you stop in for a bag of potato chips every day at 7:30 a.m. ---
**Author:** ![Airblairxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Airblairxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airblairxxx)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-groovy-smell/242328/27 "2004-04-28T19:42:12Z")
Driving from the Bay Area to LA meant I’d take 152 through Gilroy to get to I-5. Gilroy, California . . . The Garlic Capitol Of The World. There is a garlic processing plant right by the road. Mmm, mmm, good. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-groovy-smell/242328/28 "2004-04-28T19:50:58Z")
**cabdude** , was that the Weston’s factory at Camperdown? To think the bloody yuppies that moved in and “gentrified” the suburb complained about the smell! I like underground railways’ smell. Also, the mix of salt water and diesel fuel you get at the quay. Certain books smell unbelievably wonderful too. The interior of cars built before about 1975. Steam locomotives. Newly spent gunpowder. ---
**Author:** ![nocturnal\_tick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nocturnal\_tick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nocturnal_tick)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-groovy-smell/242328/29 "2004-04-28T20:20:28Z")
> [@TheLoadedDog](#): > > I like underground railways’ smell You’ve obviously never been in the London Underground. _mmmmmm, urine._ This is when you know you have a place on the boards, when someone starts a thread based on one of your own. I’m so proud. 😃 My favourite smell has to be at the moment a shop in Norwich that sells smelly soaps. Just as I walk past to go to the mall, I catch a whiff. I wouldn’t go in though, just so I don’t disappoint myself with what I would find. ---
**Author:** ![Engel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/53a042/32.png) [@Engel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engel)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-groovy-smell/242328/30 "2004-04-28T21:17:20Z")
I work in downtown Chicago, just north of the river. When the weather conditions are right the whole area smells like brownies because of the Blommer chocolate factory! There’s nothing better, when you’re dragging your butt into work, than coming up out of the stinky El station into a chocolate-scented breeze. 😃 Engel ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-groovy-smell/242328/31 "2004-04-28T21:57:18Z")
My grandmother used to live just down the street from the McCormick plant in Dundalk (East Baltimore). I used to love going to visit her just for the smells. ---
**Author:** ![lightingtool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/57b2e6/32.png) [@lightingtool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lightingtool)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-groovy-smell/242328/32 "2004-04-28T23:37:12Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > If you time it right, when you drive down the 210 Freeway in Irwindale, you can catch the aroma of malt and hops from the Miller Brewery. > > Lovely smell. Crap beer, but a lovely smell. That’s exactly what I was going to post. Can’t stand the beer, but it sure smells good when they make it. ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2004, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-groovy-smell/242328/33 "2004-04-28T23:57:12Z")
I’ve only ever visited there, but the whole town of Hershey, PA, really _does_ smell like chocolate. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-groovy-smell/242328.md?page=1)