# \*sniff\* **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 7, 2003, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff/159663 "2003-03-07T05:22:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Standup\_Karmic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Standup\_Karmic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Standup_Karmic)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff/159663/1 "2003-03-07T05:22:31Z")
If there’s anything that smells better and more refreshing than cilantro, I don’t know what it is. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff/159663/2 "2003-03-07T05:30:24Z")
Fresh cut grass. ---
**Author:** ![Standup\_Karmic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Standup\_Karmic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Standup_Karmic)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff/159663/3 "2003-03-07T05:34:55Z")
I don’t know what that is. ---
**Author:** ![Rockford](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac8455/32.png) [@Rockford](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rockford)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff/159663/4 "2003-03-07T05:36:33Z")
Tar. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff/159663/5 "2003-03-07T05:40:29Z")
Four day dead rats. In a puddle of urine. With mint frosting. Actually, I like lemon zest. ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff/159663/6 "2003-03-07T06:04:17Z")
Garlic. I’m serious. ---
**Author:** ![Standup\_Karmic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Standup\_Karmic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Standup_Karmic)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff/159663/7 "2003-03-07T06:10:18Z")
But would you shower with soap that smelled of it? ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff/159663/8 "2003-03-07T06:10:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Morkfromork \* > \*\*I don’t know what that is. \*\* No, no, he means grass like the stuff they play baseball on. We’re allowed to discuss that here. 😉 And I’ll have to cast my vote for the same. And oranges. Mmmmmm… orange grass… ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff/159663/9 "2003-03-07T06:26:05Z")
Try putting cilantro in your chili. Ummm! ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff/159663/10 "2003-03-07T09:06:32Z")
Wet pavement tiles after it’s been dry for a long time, and it’s just starting to rain. The smell of fresh bread coming out of a bakery at 4 AM as I’m walking home from a night on the town. Smelling fresh bread whilst walking on freshly rained-on pavement tiles. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff/159663/11 "2003-03-07T10:47:38Z")
Honeysuckle. Mmmmm. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff/159663/12 "2003-03-07T10:52:23Z")
**Coldfire** , I’m with you on post-drought wet pavement; I thought I was the only one. It smalles like _nostalgia_ somehow. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff/159663/13 "2003-03-07T10:59:46Z")
Yeah! Exactly! Couldn’t have said it better. Nostalgia, that’s exactly what it smells like. ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff/159663/14 "2003-03-07T11:46:57Z")
Maybe not refreshing, but I love these smells… Old books. Musty, hints of ancient wisdom, brings to mind old, comfortable bookshops with tabbycats on the shelves and a single window letting in a few rays of sunlight (of which there are, sadly, very few in Taiwan.) Other people’s hair after they’ve washed it. Especially my best friend’s hair. She has this special watermelon shampoo that smells _so good_… My SO 🙂 He has this distinctive can’t-quite-put-your-finger-on-it warm comfortable smell. I second fresh bread and freshly cut grass, too. Mmm… ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff/159663/15 "2003-03-07T12:19:51Z")
freshly bathed babies in clean PJs Fresh cut grass Summer rain Brownies in the oven ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff/159663/16 "2003-03-07T12:26:20Z")
Fresh poured concrete. Or asphalt. Tripler Yeah, I’m an engineer. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Honeydew\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e19b73/32.png) [@Honeydew\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honeydew_1)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff/159663/17 "2003-03-07T12:40:54Z")
Ohhhhhhhh the bread and the baby thing oh yes!!! Toast - reminds me when I was ill and my Mum would bring toast in bed 😃 Men outta the shower with good aftershave on. Freshly brewed coffee. ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff/159663/18 "2003-03-07T12:52:01Z")
success ---
**Author:** ![Jessity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jessity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jessity)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff/159663/19 "2003-03-07T12:59:48Z")
Freshly showered men with just the scent of soap on their skin. Sawdust. Bed sheets that have been dried outside on the clothesline on a sunny day. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff/159663/20 "2003-03-07T13:03:40Z")
> [@](#): > > It smalles like nostalgia somehow. Nostalgia smells like _crushed worms_? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sniff/159663.md?page=2)