we live in the country, ususally with windows wide open, we have the Prarie smell from the habitually unmowed lawn. This week, however, we’re having, um, septic issues, so I’ll just leave it at that, if you don’t mind.
wring - I too live in the country, but the smells that usually drift in are a pleasant combination of the pig farm down the road, cow poop, horse poop, chicken poop, onions field, wheat, the occassional skunk, and the briny smell that floats off the Great Salt Lake when the wind is just right.
I would take these smells over the toxic city smells any day.
Freshly baked bread, fried chicken, and children…also fried
Nag Champa
Cigarette smoke and sandalwood or
cigarette smoke and vanilla or
cigarette smoke and jasmine or
cigarette smoke
Right now, mine smells like PineSol, Mulberry carpet deodorizer, and various and sundry other cleaning solutions. I just got off a mean cleaning-streak…way overdue.
I have roommates, so the smell of the house may vary, widely, from moment to moment, however, when it comes to my room in particular, well, this may seems kind of strange, but . . .
This is how I tell if it’s time to change the bed sheets:
When I walk into my bedroom, and it smells fresh, like clean laundry, that’s all great, grand, and good. When I walk into the bedroom and it smells, well, “lived in,” then it’s time to change the sheets. This usually occurs on what averages out to a weekly basis, or maybe a bit more often.
I do it this way because I love fresh, clean linen, and it doesn’t smell as good if it’s been sitting in the linen closet all week, so I wash fresh sheets each time I change them. It’s more work, but it smells so nice!
To make a long story short, my room normally smells like clean laundry/sheets.
The front entranceway smells like unwashed pork frying pan, and the bathroom smells like kitty litter to be changed. Meh.
I’m not sure what that smell is, but I’ll post again once I’ve found it. It is rather strong and pungent and I’m thinking it may be a combination of things. I have narrowed down the rooms it may be coming from, so I now know it’s not from the bedroom or living room. That just leaves all the other rooms. In the meantime, I have plenty of air freshener to hide the smell until I can find it in myself to put down the Playstation controller and clean.
There’s a Yankee Candle “Hearts and Flowers” tart in the tart thingie. So the kitchen and dining room smell like flowers.
The litter box is clean, for once. The rest of the house doesn’t smell like much of anything, cuz the AC’s on.
The front porch smells like dog. He has his own couch, and the weather’s been hot and muggy lately.
Oh, but the bedroom kinda smells like people. I can’t get hubby to put his dirty clothes in the hamper. Time for a candle in there. (I love Yankee Candles.)
Edwardina – I love your idea about putting freshly washed sheets on the bed instead of grabbing them out of the closet. I’m gonna start doing that.
Right now my house smells of onions. Just made a Spanish omelet for breakfast.
hehehe
http://www.gibbleguts.com/fartingdog/fartingdogs.html
As for my house… it smells like…
Eeeeww! - I better go do the dishes…
It really depends, usually it smells like whatever I am cook (as I cook quite a lot, using a lot of aromatics) but also my kitchen smells like a pumpkin spice candle when i’m not cooking. The livingsroom, like cinnamon (potpourri) the bedroom, like the fresh pines outside. The bathrooms, like lemony disinfectant.
Rum & cigars.
No seriously. Since all my money is going to university, I currently live with my parents sigh. My dad smokes those Old Port Colt cigars that are dipped in rum. I don’t smoke, but I do occasionally have one of them. They’re not bad.
[hijack] This thread reminds me of a true crime book that I read (I am a true crime addict), I forget the name.
TRUE STORY
There was a family, grandma, grandpa, daughters, grandkids, who all lived in this big old house. Grandma killed grandpa for the insurance money and stuffed his body in a closet at the back of the house. It wasn’t long before he started to get a little stinky and ripe. The family put air fresheners around the house and sprayed Lysol more often. When the cops finally made their discovery weeks and weeks later, the entire house was plastered with Stick-Ups - EVERYWHERE. Hundreds and hundreds of them!
It stunk like a combination of rotten grandpa meat, pine, and country garden.
Yummmy!!!
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Cigarettes, cats, and five acres of freshly mown grass. When the old man comes in from hot-rod heaven, it’ll smell like parts.
My future mother in laws house smells like old soup. Almost all old peoples houses do, don’t they?
My house smells like, smoky BBQ (my fiances latest fad). A lil’ musty due to my Shih-tzu. And freesia shampoo. (I have a little apartment, smells travel well)