# What is your Favorite...... Smell? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 9, 2000, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-smell/32585 "2000-09-09T06:25:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2000, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-smell/32585/21 "2000-09-09T19:00:30Z")
Cedar, or that “pine tree” or “Christmas Tree” smell. I once had a sachet of cedar (I think it was) and I used to pull it out and just _sniff_ it. I’d always have a strong “flashback” that took me back to the mountains every time. I also special order these bath soaps from a little shop in Ferndale CA. The scent is called “Redwood Moss”. Mmmm…the same kind of smell. ---
**Author:** ![Anti\_Pro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Anti\_Pro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anti_Pro)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2000, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-smell/32585/22 "2000-09-09T19:07:45Z")
I came into the thread thinking, \* any smell \* and some people took it that way, and others went with perfumes, so, for the perfume, I LOVE ‘Cinnabar’ by Estee Lauder. As for just aromas: cinnamon, vanilla, pumpkin spice, baking bread, roses, and whatever those Christmas bags at JC Penneys have in them! ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2000, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-smell/32585/23 "2000-09-09T19:21:27Z")
[hijack] Anti Pro I **love** your sig. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![SoMoMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@SoMoMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoMoMom)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2000, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-smell/32585/24 "2000-09-09T19:49:21Z")
Mmmmmmm, chooooooocalaaaaaate. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2000, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-smell/32585/25 "2000-09-09T20:03:58Z")
Bergamot. The main ingredient in Twinings Earl Grey Tea. ---
**Author:** ![Anti\_Pro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Anti\_Pro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anti_Pro)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2000, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-smell/32585/26 "2000-09-09T21:58:28Z")
- Thanks, Spidy!! I’ve always admired your cool webs too! \* ---
**Author:** ![jjjfishe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jjjfishe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjjfishe)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2000, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-smell/32585/27 "2000-09-09T23:00:44Z")
coconut…it reminds me of the beach ---
**Author:** ![Adriatic\_Ionian\_AEgean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Adriatic\_Ionian\_AEgean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Adriatic_Ionian_AEgean)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2000, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-smell/32585/28 "2000-09-09T23:46:02Z")
If you think my attitude stinks, you should smell my underwear. ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2000, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-smell/32585/29 "2000-09-10T00:33:33Z")
My favorite smells are vanilla, blueberry and freesia. I burn candles with those aromas in my home, and the combination smells heavenly to me. Wish I could find a perfume with that combination. I wear Clinique Aromatics Elixir perfume, and people are always telling me how good I smell, so I guess it works well with my body chemistry. It is pretty strong, so I use very little. On the topic of your mom’s perfume-about 6 months after my mom died, while I was still pretty actively torn up by her absence, one day this woman walked into my office. I had this wonderful feeling of peace and safety sort of waft over me. When she came by again, I realized that she was wearing “White Shoulders” perfume, which my mom always wore when I was a kidling. It is amazing to me how much smells take you back to wherever you were and whomever was wearing them when you first smelled them. I associate both good and bad things with different aromas. ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2000, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-smell/32585/30 "2000-09-10T00:56:12Z")
I love the smell of napalm in the morning. ( well someone had to say it.) ---
**Author:** ![henbin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4af34b/32.png) [@henbin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/henbin)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2000, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-smell/32585/31 "2000-09-10T01:41:26Z")
I’m fond of fresh lilac in a sachet. I have a bush in my yard. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2000, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-smell/32585/32 "2000-09-10T01:46:15Z")
The smell of bacon frying over a birch log campfire makes me drool. I despise patchouli. It smells like someone hasn’t bathed in the last month. I guess I prefer my women (and there’s _so_ many) scentless, or just very lightly perfumed. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2000, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-smell/32585/33 "2000-09-10T01:47:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by aha \* > \*\*I love the smell of napalm in the morning. > ( well someone had to say it.) \*\* 😛 You’re the second person on this thread to say that. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2000, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-smell/32585/34 "2000-09-10T02:18:30Z")
People posting so many good smells (mostly) - wish I had a scratch-and-sniff screen. Perfum: I wear Chanel No. 5 (short spritz under the clothes). Natural odors: Top on my list is the smell of sagebrush after a good rain (from living in Idaho). Also orange blossoms (from my childhood in southern California). ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2000, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-smell/32585/35 "2000-09-10T03:05:51Z")
I _love_ the smell of a rich vanilla candle. Or really, Victoria’s Secret Vanilla Lace body spray and/or lotion is puh-retty sweet (no pun intended) as well. Yup. I like vanilla. I also adore candles that are apple-cinnamon (or just cinnamon) scented. Hmm. I seem to like food smells. Particularly baking smells…yum! As far as perfume goes, I like Clinique’s “Happy.” I usually wear that or Victoria’s Secret “Pear Glace” body spray. Ooh, ooh, I also like Bath and Body Works’ “Sun Ripened Raspberry.” Yup. I like food. And apparently, how it smells. ---
**Author:** ![JoltSucker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@JoltSucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoltSucker)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2000, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-smell/32585/36 "2000-09-10T03:06:14Z")
The smell of sex. ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2000, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-smell/32585/37 "2000-09-10T05:54:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Homer \* > \*\*farrtss are my favorite as long ias it’s not a horrible thing that kills your horses or grandma. \*\* Oh, man. Don’t remember doing that. Colognes for men: Polo Sport Armani Gio Tommy A&F Woods –Tim ---
**Author:** ![Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6de8d8/32.png) [@Kilgore\_Trout\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilgore_Trout_1)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2000, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-smell/32585/38 "2000-09-10T06:29:09Z")
> [@](#): > > I despise patchouli. It smells like someone hasn’t bathed in the last month. i have been fortunate enough to smell both of these over and over again. and no, they are not even close. ---
**Author:** ![Stormi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Stormi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stormi)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2000, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-smell/32585/39 "2000-09-10T08:00:03Z")
Jovan white musk for men. If my husband wears that, he is quarenteed to get some lovin’ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2000, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-smell/32585/40 "2000-09-10T10:30:32Z")
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