Your favourite smell

[StetsonHomburg]

I love the smell of: gunpowder in the morning
my almond shaving cream
new cars
fine tobacco in general
chocolate

Ah yes and the smell of Gunpowder and fresh Cuban cigars (I don't smoke them myself though)

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Creosote, of all things.

 

[olive bleu]

Wood shavings

The ocean, from my Dad's boat

Dried salt fish

The woods on a hot July day

Sheets, fresh off the line

My Grandfather's barn

 

[Dewhurst]

If you were going on a journey into space and could only take one smell with you, what would it be?

Brand new quality leather bound hardcover book with gold or sliver cover stamping, raised bands on the spine, decorated endpapers, smythe sewn signatures, cream colored quality milled paper, with page gilding, and a quality satin or silk ribbon marker (sewn in) smell would be my preference.

It's a complicated smell, but it is always wonderful.

Close runner-up: Jovan White Musk perfume.

 

[1961MJS]

Hi

In no particular order:

Fresh coffee (started drinking it at 3 with Grandma)
Chocolate Chip Cookies just out of the oven
Steak Grilling on a Charcoal fire
Mountain forest in the rain
fresh cut grass
Aviation fuel
burnt gun powder
Hoppe's #9
Honeysuckle
Oranges
Scotch
Wood shops, fresh cut lumber
New books (old ones too though)

Later

 

[Gil]

Fresh Cut Grass

I love the smell of fresh cut grass on Sunday morning. I usually get up early on Sundays and cut the back yard with my antique reel mower. It's cool and shady under the cherry tree and the mower makes the most wonderful skiff-skiff sounds as it combs through the grass.

 

[Undertow]

Yeah, I failed to throw that in my list - gunpowder brings a flood of good thoughts. Love that smell!

 

[StetsonHomburg]

I love the smell of fresh cut grass on Sunday morning. I usually get up early on Sundays and cut the back yard with my antique reel mower. It's cool and shady under the cherry tree and the mower makes the most wonderful skiff-skiff sounds as it combs through the grass.

You're making me wish I had one!

 

[Big_e]

I love the smell of a good cigar.
I love coffee being brewed anytime of the day.
I love the smell of honeysuckle.
I love the smell of new bicycle as you take it out of the box to assemble.
Ernest

 

[KY Gentleman]

Sawdust, wood smoke, fresh cut grass and coffee brewing.

 

[Brad Bowers]

Creosoted wood.

Brad

 

[Silver Dollar]

My favorite scent is when I open a brand new aircraft model kit for the first time and smell fresh styrene.

 

[Sweet Caroline]

MMMMM

MY favorite smell is a toss-up between fresh basil leaves and old bookstores Vanilla Chai tea is also a delicious scent.

 

[Silver Dollar]

Sweet Caroline, you just reminded me of something. One of the greatest scents I remember was opening a brand new medical book at the Barnes and Noble Book Store in New York City near NYUCD. There's nothing in the world like it.

 

[Honey Bee]

mmmm....the smell of a good cigar or pipe tobacco...thank you, papa, for leaving me that.
the smell of the first wood burning in the woodstove around October...however as cool as things have been this summer and the acorns already coming on, I may be smelling that in September!
the smell of an old cabin in the coolness of the morning
coffee brought to me in bed.

 

[HHISIII]

I'll second (or third or however many) gunpowder.

 

[TrenchGuy]

I personally like the smell of new clothes and tobacco(especially cigars).

 

[HepKitty]

in no particular order:

coffee
chocolate
baking bread
burning jet fuel (ok av gas too)
fresh baked cakes scones and cookies made with butter
vanilla
cinnamon
citrus fruits (like smelling my hands after zesting them)
wood fires on a cold night
forests of coniferous trees
horses
a&f for men
eternity for men
my favorite perfumes (cassini, paname de patou, and the old bottle of colors the new is nice too but the old one is better)
roses
jasmine
clean winter air in the mountains
heck, clean air in the mountains
basil
Italian parsley
dill
thyme
rosemary
the rocks at Paramount (yep that's a strange one)
oceans
vintage cars

 

[Miss Peach]

trader joe's green tea soap (nom nom nom)
my fella in his cary grant cologne (don't recall the name, but WOW)
the inside of a carved out pumpkin
OLD BOOKS (especially the old manuscripts, nothing like it).
the autumn smell (you know just what i mean)
my mom's old avon scented christmas ornaments from the 70s
sharpened pencils
my perfume, Chanel Mademoiselle

 

[Miss Peach]

I forgot....

Hot tea just poured and
Provence (you can't quantify the lavender-spice-sunlight-ancienté infused magic)

(aaaaand I can't choose just one)