# Poll: The smell of freshly cut grass **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 12, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-smell-of-freshly-cut-grass/433287 "2008-01-12T15:36:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-smell-of-freshly-cut-grass/433287/1 "2008-01-12T15:36:23Z")
I find this smell highly appealing - verging on arounsing. An innformal polling of coworkers found that most thought the scent at least agreeable if not appealing. Only one person that I asked was indifferent about the scent. The cologne “Fahrenheit” strongly reminds me of this scent as well. What do you think? ---
**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-smell-of-freshly-cut-grass/433287/2 "2008-01-12T15:59:16Z")
I love it, through “arousing” is a little strong. Don’t know anything about the cologne “Fahrenheit.” Why not just roll around in the fresh-mown grass instead? Ah, summer! ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-smell-of-freshly-cut-grass/433287/3 "2008-01-12T16:03:09Z")
I love the smell of fresh-mown grass. It’s as lovely as the smell of top-quality first-cutting hay when you break the bale open and get that burst of grassy-goodness aroma as you separate the flakes and toss them to the horses eagerly salivating for What? ---
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-smell-of-freshly-cut-grass/433287/4 "2008-01-12T17:04:08Z")
I don’t know about “arousing” but I loves me the smell of freshly cut grass. I have a perfume of it, even. Add in some horse manure lightly wafting over it … that is one of the most glorious smells ever. It instantly transports me to a balmy spring day on some English estate. Yum. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-smell-of-freshly-cut-grass/433287/5 "2008-01-12T17:19:33Z")
Freshly cut grass–one of my favourite scents in the whole wide world! It’s hard to resist the urge to roll around on it, like a dog on a dead fish. Dead fish, not so much a favourite odour. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-smell-of-freshly-cut-grass/433287/6 "2008-01-12T18:28:10Z")
Grass? Wait… that’s that green stuff that I vaguely remember from when I used to live back East, right? Ah, yes, I used to like the smell when it was cut. Haven’t smelled it in years, though. ---
**Author:** ![Yag\_Rannavach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/858c86/32.png) [@Yag\_Rannavach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yag_Rannavach)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-smell-of-freshly-cut-grass/433287/7 "2008-01-12T18:53:02Z")
I _hate_ the smell of cut grass. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-smell-of-freshly-cut-grass/433287/8 "2008-01-12T19:06:59Z")
It’s reminiscent of watermelon to me. ---
**Author:** ![Ms.Pumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@Ms.Pumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms.Pumpkin)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-smell-of-freshly-cut-grass/433287/9 "2008-01-12T19:49:54Z")
I love that smell, just not the same way you do. To me it’s _the_ smell of my early childhood summers, and going to my grandparent’s house in the country and playing in the fields with my cousins(and maybe the dog) until it got dark out… The city version is the smell of the pavement getting wet when it first starts to rain during a thunderstorm. ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-smell-of-freshly-cut-grass/433287/10 "2008-01-12T20:25:05Z")
I like it because it means its warm enough outside that the grass has grown long enough to mow. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-smell-of-freshly-cut-grass/433287/11 "2008-01-12T20:31:18Z")
I love that smell. It’s somehow better when it’s been cut with a gas-powered mower, though. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-smell-of-freshly-cut-grass/433287/12 "2008-01-12T21:16:09Z")
[QUOTE=Sal Ammoniac] I love it, through “arousing” is a little strong. Don’t know anything about the cologne “Fahrenheit.” Why not just roll around in the fresh-mown grass instead? Ah, summer! [/QUOTE] Yes, indeed. But I really want to know where Beans, Cod as shown on your post, is located. Or are located. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-smell-of-freshly-cut-grass/433287/13 "2008-01-12T21:35:10Z")
Yes, it reminds me of summer in my youth. But cut grass also gives me very bad hay fever and I have trouble breathing. So also no. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-smell-of-freshly-cut-grass/433287/14 "2008-01-12T22:42:38Z")
It’s a Hun gas attack! Put your masks on, men! ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-smell-of-freshly-cut-grass/433287/15 "2008-01-12T23:15:57Z")
The smell of freshly mown grass is filling the air all around me at the moment. The Sunday morning lawn mower brigade are all hard at it, before it gets too hot. I do quite like the smell though. It’s just the noise that I can’t stand. ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-smell-of-freshly-cut-grass/433287/16 "2008-01-12T23:17:58Z")
I actually hate it. It smells so repellant to me - not BAD, exactly, but ‘something which should not be in my lungs’ - that my throat shuts down and I can’t even breathe when it’s strong. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-smell-of-freshly-cut-grass/433287/17 "2008-01-12T23:35:00Z")
I love the smell. It reminds me of baseball. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-smell-of-freshly-cut-grass/433287/18 "2008-01-13T00:37:27Z")
Fresh cut grass and new mown hay take me back to happier times. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-smell-of-freshly-cut-grass/433287/19 "2008-01-13T03:43:07Z")
Freaking love it. Years later I’m still kicking myself for not buying a bar of soap with that scent, when surely the soap would be long gone by now (and I can’t find it at the store I saw it at). ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2008, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-smell-of-freshly-cut-grass/433287/20 "2008-01-13T04:33:31Z")
[QUOTE=Jake] Yes, indeed. But I really want to know where Beans, Cod as shown on your post, is located. Or are located. [/QUOTE] _clears throat_ To Boston, the Hub of the Universe, The home of the bean and the cod, Where Cabot speaks only to Lowell And Lowell speaks only to God. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-smell-of-freshly-cut-grass/433287.md?page=2)