Based off of this thread, I started thinking about my favorite smells. There are certain scents that make me just feel good:
Sawdust
Burning leaves in the fall
The air after a thunderstorm
Warm pumpkin pie
Roast turkey fresh from the oven
A new leather coat
Sautéed onions and garlic
My wife when she is fresh from the shower. She uses unscented soap and her shampoo has a mild lavender scent, but mostly it is just her.
A baby’s head. The combination of baby shampoo and that new born baby scent is so relaxing it just makes me smile.
Steaks on a charcoal grill (have you noticed a lot of my favorites are food related?)
New car
Baby powder
Freshly mown grass
Evergreen trees and boughs at Christmas (but it sucks because I’m allergic to it!)
The incense they burn in Catholic masses (wish I could remember what it’s called. It’s been about a century since I was an altar boy)
Most Christian incenses have frankincense as a base.
the above-mentioned incense.
rose and lavender
woodsmoke
my g/f
the smell of clean babies
Wilson’s Best SP snuff
McChrystal’s Original and Genuine snuff
unscented pipe tobacco smoke, whether virginia- or oriental-based
cigarette smoke
new tires
Jannat ul-Firdaus attar
rubbing alcohol
the smell that hits you when you first walk into a tobacconist’s
Cinnamon baked goods
Freshly mowed grass
Something cooking that contains garlic
Popcorn
Freshly dug soil
Salt air at the beach
Smoke from a fireplace
Freshly fallen wet snow
Diesel exhaust
Burning leaves
Purple mimeographs
Baking bread
Pipe tobacco
Fired gunpowder
Freshly mown hay
Newly sawn wood
Maple smoke
A dog’s paws
Salt air at the beach
Steaming lobsters and clams
Newly turned earth
Cinnamon
Apple—fresh apple, baked apples with cinnamon, apple cider, etc.
Pizza
Sunday dinner at mom’s. Or grandma’s.
Pumpkin pie
(Boy, am I hungry this afternoon or what?)
Burning leaves (I had a candle called “Harvest” once that had a hint of burning leaves in it. It was the best candle ever.)
Freshly mowed grass
Pine trees
Swimming pool
Clean laundry, especially clean sheets when you get into bed the first time after washing them.
As a young lad, I found that there was a scent that some women would wear at parties that would occasionally drive me to madness. I was desperate to know what it was and at one dorm party, I finally broke through my shyness enough to ask.
“Excuse me,” I blushed, “But your perfume is Fantastic! I Really want to buy my girlfriend a bottle. Please tell me what perfume you are wearing. What’s it’s name…?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” she replied cooley. “I’m not wearing any perfume.”
My husband
Wood smoke
Pipe tobacco
Wet cement, especially Spring-smelling rain in the city
New books
The incense/cloves cigarettes/alcohol smell of my favourite nightclub
The smell of home- laundry soap, lavender, baking bread, food cooking
I mean, I can tell from the top of the stairs at work who’s in the basement. I know the scent of everyone’s cologne, perfume, or shampoo. It’s not something that anyone ever discusses, but I can’t be the only one.
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