Your favorite smell

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 3:30 pm

The neighbor's barbecue. For some reason, even the best steak cooked at my house never smells as good as that which wafts from afar.

Also, restaurants cooking lamb with garlic and rosemary. We have a lot of yuppie palaces around here that have wonderful ovens and cooking methods. Once again, they get the smell even if I have a great personal recipe.

Restaurant coffee. I used to play restaurants a lot, and the smell of the coffee brewing was a notable part of the experience. Something about the blend, the brewing temp, the equipment, I dunno....

That covers food smells, anyhoo.

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 5:47 pm

Puppies, horse barns and tobacco barns

oleorezinator · Post by **oleorezinator** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 11:19 pm

the odor from the region which is holyland.

amar · Post by **amar** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 12:37 am

oleorezinator wrote:the odor from the region which is holyland.

a church?

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 2:07 am

amar wrote:a church?

High church... smells like incense and candles.
Low church... smells like musty hymnbooks and Bibles.
Unitarian-Universalist church... encourages each individual to embrace her own pathway of fragrance.

Doug_Tipple · Post by **Doug_Tipple** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 8:55 am

Walden wrote: Unitarian-Universalist church... encourages each individual to embrace her own pathway of fragrance.

I have to say one good thing about the Unitarians, and that is that they offer us smell-sensitive individuals an escape area in the back of the room. If you happen to sit next to someone whose pathway to fragrance is clashing to your sensibility, merely smile, excuse yourself, and take a folding chair in the back of the room. I have had to do this on occasion with Darla, the state congresswoman who comes in late and always smells like she is working for a French perfume company.

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:15 am

Walden wrote:
amar wrote:a church?
High church... smells like incense and candles.
Low church... smells like musty hymnbooks and Bibles.
Unitarian-Universalist church... encourages each individual to embrace her own pathway of fragrance.

But to be a Unitarian you have to believe in one fragrance, at most.

Jennie · Post by **Jennie** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 4:05 pm

Has anyone ever smelled Labrador tea? Small, leathery leaves close to the ground, with a scent that is evergreeny and wild.

And mushrooms.

And spring kelp, when it's just blooming on the tide.

Jennie

scottielvr · Post by **scottielvr** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:25 pm

Wombat wrote:But to be a Unitarian you have to believe in one fragrance, at most.

Jennie wrote:.... spring kelp, when it's just blooming on the tide.

I've never smelled that, though I'd like to. I like the smell of konbu, though; is that close?

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 5:41 am

Wombat wrote:
Walden wrote:
amar wrote:a church?
High church... smells like incense and candles.
Low church... smells like musty hymnbooks and Bibles.
Unitarian-Universalist church... encourages each individual to embrace her own pathway of fragrance.
But to be a Unitarian you have to believe in one fragrance, at most.

And to be a Universalist you must realise that it doesn't matter what smell you like, in the end everyone will attain the greatest aroma.

Jennie · Post by **Jennie** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 6:51 pm

scottielvr wrote:
Jennie wrote:.... spring kelp, when it's just blooming on the tide.
I've never smelled that, though I'd like to. I like the smell of konbu, though; is that close?

I had to look up konbu. That's the sushi-wrap kind of stuff, right?

Ours is, I think, just about the same kind. Sometimes I dry it to eat it later. Spring kelp smells best because it's green and growing after your nose has been asleep all winter in the cold. It smells of salt and hope.

Oh. And honeysuckle. All you southeasterners know that one.
Jennie

Wormdiet · Post by **Wormdiet** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 9:41 am

Most of my favorites have been mentioned.

Oddly, the smell of curing tobacco (NOT burning cigarettes!)

The smell in your hands after you've harvested a real cristmas tree

The smell of new musical instruments:
New GHBs with leather bags have a very particular pleasant, smoky fragrance.

Rickenbacker guitars have a unique odor as well. Something about the lining of the case produces it.

I have heard that smell is the human sensation most strongly associated with memory, and I believe it. To this day a very particular perfume evokes flashbacks to a certain.. . . .event from my youth. Never mind

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 12:37 pm

The smell of the ocean is nice, and I feel like I have been missing out when I go there and experience it. Tidepools, that sorta thing. Sea breezes are a huge plus around here.

Oh yeah, the smell in a redwood grove is quite memorable too. When you are traveling on 101 North, the smell kicks in at the northernmost part of Mendocino county, above Leggett (you can experience it in isolated groves all the way down to Santa Cruz, but its more omnipresent up north). When you drive through the groves, it's wonderful and more so when you to stop at the cheezy tourist traps along the way for an ice cream and to look at the carved stuff. Lotsa chainsaw art these days up there. I have left instructions for me ashes to be scattered up there, perhaps at Founders Grove, but they'll have to sneak to do it 'cause its illegal.

suejnnhe · Post by **suejnnhe** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 8:28 am

Chinese five spice powder. Mmmmmm......

And bacon, fresh baked bread, and Thanksgiving Turkey

Non-food items include pine forests, wood smoke, fresh cut grass

rh · Post by rh » Fri Jan 27, 2006 2:36 pm

i love the smell of napalm in the morning...