Your favorite smell

Tiff · Post by **Tiff** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:12 am

mmm...

cut grass (reminds me of summer), the smell when its just rained...which i smell frequently so its good that i like it!,
the smell of glastonbury...the whole town has the most wonderful smell...

flanum · Post by **flanum** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:37 am

*Standing outside the cobblestone in dublin on a spring evening with the smell of the Guinness brewery wafting down.
*A newly tarred road.
*Tea tree.
*Turf fire.
*Burnt out 3-phase motors on weekday evening(overtime for me)!
*New money ink(i work in the currency production centre!)!
*Horses.
*Jackdaws(they smell peculiarly sweet?).
*Wild garlic.
*fishy smell from a creel.
*Fresh meat(i.e a butchers shop!).
*new car.
*fresh sweat from a charming girl.
*extract fans from ouside a boozer when you are walking past.
*trains.(trains and train stations smell the same all over the world).
*Skunkweed from a distance!
*Joop!

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:37 am

Mine have been mentioned already I guess:

new-mown lawn
coffee
rain first hitting sidewalk---I don't know what makes the smell though
fresh air---I can't really smell anything in it, that's why I like it
vanilla
pretty much any fragrant flower
pretty clean human or animal
inside of barns

flanum · Post by **flanum** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:39 am

*oh and old books/librarys!

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 12:06 pm

Hey! Doug said favorite SMELL. Singular. Smell, not smells. He didn't say make a list of everything you've ever smelled in your life that turned you on.

If I'd realized we were going to do THAT, then I would have given you a longer list. Much longer.

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 12:32 pm

Henke wrote:A 25 year old Highland Park, slightly diluted with Highland spring water. Now that's a smell to die for

I can't argue with this, but for a close contender grow some basil in your garden, pick a few leaves, crush them in your hands, cup your hands and stick your nose in. Positively org*smic!

Steve

amar · Post by **amar** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 2:07 pm

chopped onions fried in butter.

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 2:54 pm

amar wrote:chopped onions fried in butter.

Well yeah, that too...especially when you've just added the garlic...

Steve

scottielvr · Post by **scottielvr** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 2:59 pm

Woodsmoke.
Cinnamon.
Gardenias (can't grow them outdoors here...<sigh>)
Coffee, strong, hot and fresh.
Puppies.

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 6:16 pm

dubhlinn wrote:Roses, new born babies and good black Guinness.

Slan,
D.

Yes, both my children were homebirths and the smell of the new born babes and their mother was a life changing event for me. Supplanted roses and gardenia and frangipani for life.

I am trying to make a homebirth scented incense for use in pre natal chanting classes. It will be very very expensive.

I also agree with lambchop (I mean the poster - not the smell of the cut

)

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 6:24 pm

coffee and boxwood.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 6:27 pm

missy wrote:(did you know no one has come up with the perfect strawberry yet? It's way too complicated).

Yes, I'd noticed. Nothing like the real thing.

Sliabh Luachra · Post by **Sliabh Luachra** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 8:22 pm

Coffee, fresh ground.

Wild mushrooms, shallots, and taragon sauteeing in butter.

Puppies.

Patchouli.

Used book stores.

Mark

fyffer · Post by **fyffer** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 9:02 pm

Hands down,
Lilac.

Seconded closely by Lavender.

I like to rub the fresh blossoms on my hands and rub my hands on my mustache so I smell it longer.

Oh wait -- that was oversharing wasn't it ....

thirdfipple · Post by **thirdfipple** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 9:36 pm

along with my beagles

libraries; old, cavernous, filled with original volumes for the past 100 years