Your favourite smell

[Diamondback]

Good food and drinks, good fuels (preferably high-octane, avgas or Jet-A), old book, and the peculiar mix of gunpowder and sweat after shooting a marathon 1000-round training-session. Oh, and Hoppe's #9 gun-cleaning fluid.

 

[Rats Riley]

New leather. Like from a jacket or a new holster.

I also love that vintage care smell...If you have one you know what I mean. It's not the musty boathouse smell or the fake p-leather of many newer cars. But rather that smell of old chrome and great memories

 

[Kiri]

• Freshly mown grass.
• Baby's breath.

Sounds weird, I know, but if you've ever had a baby sibling, or are I mom, I think you know what I mean. Perhaps that's why there's a flower called babies breath.

 

[Rats Riley]

• Freshly mown grass.
• Baby's breath.

Sounds weird, I know, but if you've ever had a baby sibling, or are I mom, I think you know what I mean. Perhaps that's why there's a flower called babies breath.

That is true...nothing like the smell of a clean little snuggly when they're sleeping on you.

But man do they grow up fast!!

I will also add the smell of bacon and eggs in the morning!!!:whip:

 

[Bustercat]

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

+1 for gunpowder. Especially choking clouds of black powder or 777.

 

[Mugwump]

Sooo, am I the only kid at heart that loves the smell of a fresh box of crayons? Honestly, I love the smell, which makes stationery / school supply store clerks think I'm crazy as I take surrupticious (sp?) sniffs of all those lovely boxes... lol I would take that out into space with me any old time!

I like too many things previously posted to list them again, but even though pipe tobacco is listed, I prefer the Cherry Blend.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Can't mention them here, as they tend to be far from PG-rated.


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[swinggal]

Bwhhaaaa!

 

[Professor]

Smells that take me back, those are the best. Leaded gasoline, though I've not smelled it in perhaps twenty years, was always a favorite.

 

[Fletch]

strong coffee
wood smoke
good quality cigar smoke
baking bread
ozonated air-dried laundry
fresh-mown grass
grilling beef
lilacs in bloom
mohair or bedford cord upholstery in an old sedan
fresh lumber and/or concrete
the layers of wax on an old dance floor
my Good Wear Doniger A-2 jacket
waterproofing on saxophone pads
cocoa butter
my cat's ruff
Cashmere Bouquet

 

[Wally_Hood]

Thanksgiving dinner cooking

 

[Danny Ocean]

Thanksgiving dinner cooking

In no particular order, the following are on my list:

1. The sea.
2. Cinnamon spice.
3. Fresh cotton sheets.
4. Freshly cooked bread & fresh "real" coffee.
5. Castrol "R" racing oil.
6. Leather car interiors.
7. Fresh rain in a pine forest.
8. Coriander & Basil.
9. Bacon grilling (goes with the fresh bread!)
10. The inside of a cigar humidor.

 

[Katzenjammer]

Night-blooming jasmine.

 

[PrairieSunrise]

Fresh baked bread.
Babies.
Brewing coffee.
Wood smoke.
Bacon
Fresh cut grass
Summer thunderstorm

ETA:
I forgot a couple!

Corn fields at dusk.
Machine shops.

 

[Land-O-LakesGal]

babies
fresh baked cookies
Bacon
lilac
star gazer lilies
lily of the valley
that earthy smell after a rain
air dried laundry
cocoa bean mulch

 

[Mr Vim]

My favorite smell was the combination of odors that collected inside my Grandfather's tool shed.

He kept his rider mower there, his prize possession, he loved yard work, took pride in his lawn. So there was always the smell of fresh cut grass.

He was also a tinkerer, so the smell of oil was always present for what part he needed to work on for the mower or a power tool.

He was a habitual pipe smoker, the tobacco he favored was rich, with just a slight hint of cherry.

These combined to form a wonderful tapestry, I can still smell them today.

 

[jdbenson]

C is for cookie, that's good enough for me...

I used to work down the road from the Keebler factory. I always rolled down my car window on the way to work, just in case they were baking shortbread that morning. The smell of warm shortbread on a cool autumn morning is the best.

 

[Wally_Hood]

I used to work down the road from the Keebler factory. I always rolled down my car window on the way to work, just in case they were baking shortbread that morning. The smell of warm shortbread on a cool autumn morning is the best.

Ah, yes, the fragance of the Keebler elves, stoking the three-story high ovens, pushing the ore carts filled with dough, and then, at the end of the shift, the smell of toasted pixie dust as they skipped through the forest to that big, cozy tree. Sorry, but my memories tend to get jumbled up...

 

[kiltie]

Uhm.... I don't know that I could ever get it down to just one...



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When you are all alone and laugh out loud at something, that's when you know it's funny. THIS is funny.

 

[John in Covina]

The sense of smell is tightly connected to memory and has links to our lives in ways we sometimes don't even notice. The smell of a loved one that has passed on when you handle their clothes. The smell of the wooden box that holds those old photographs. The smell of those special meals that mom made that were from the old country.

I like the smell of a newly mown lawn.
The smell of when it just starts to rain, not a favorite but it jumps out at me.
Most roses.
Toast toasting in the toaster.
Christmas cookies baking.