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What are your favourite smells?

73 replies

Geekster1963 · 08/01/2019 09:46

I love the smell of my six year old DD especially her hair, I don't like it when it's just been washed as it doesn't smell of her. I can tell when she's unwell from her smell.

I also love the smell of smoke from bonfires or domestic coal or wood burning stoves, they remind me of childhood for some reason and being comfortable and happy.

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AnnabelleLecter · 08/01/2019 09:53

Vanilla
Lemongrass
Coffee

Endofrelationship · 08/01/2019 10:14

Fireworks
DSs sweaty sleeping head (but not whilst he is awake oddly).
The first aroma of a newly opened instant coffee jar.

vampirethriller · 08/01/2019 12:52

Bonfires
Fresh lavender
Clean laundry
Oranges
Obsession perfume
Violets

zen1 · 08/01/2019 12:54

Straw
That smell in March or April when Spring is in the air
Play doh
Washing that’s been dried outside

ShoesJerry · 08/01/2019 16:28

Tinsel
Tarmac on a hot day when it's just rained
Petrol
Cut grass

Tentomidnight · 08/01/2019 16:30

Rosemary
Freshly washed bedding
The smell of summer evenings when all the surfaces are warm
The christmas tree

Disfordarkchocolate · 08/01/2019 16:31

Husband
Cake
Bergamot
Roses

DogMamma · 08/01/2019 16:35

Husband
DSS..sometimes he is hitting puberty so doesnt often smell that nice dirty little git.
My dogs heads
Coffee
Freshly washed bedding
A fresh mug if tea
Proper brewed coffee
Vanilla
Garden sweatpea Yankee candle
The sea air

Sitranced · 08/01/2019 16:40

Bonfires
lemon verbena
Moroccan hash
Honey jasmine
Chai

Mulberryandthyme · 08/01/2019 16:45

My pony's muzzle

Bezalelle · 08/01/2019 16:56

Weirdo alert:

My cat's breath.

DogMamma · 08/01/2019 17:02

@Sitranced Moroccan hash I didn't have the balls to put that on my list....but guilty!

MeetOnTheledge · 08/01/2019 17:02

Lime, when you first cut into one.
Bed linen that's been line dried (no scented laundry products).
Freshly cut grass
Salty sea air

Effendi · 08/01/2019 17:08

Petrol
Cut grass
Hay
My cats fur
Horses
My Dad

guffaux · 08/01/2019 17:09

love citrus smells - favourites are
lemon
bergamot
grapefruit
orange

also herbs;
rosemary
thyme
mint

others;
puppy
night-scented stock, (when just a hint is caught as you go into the garden on an evening)
gorse
heather

DP- in general, also he has a very brief 'hit' of musk immediately after ...err ..intimacy.. that is quite heady Blush

guffaux · 08/01/2019 17:10

oddly, my mother's smell makes me heave Confused

WhatHaveIFound · 08/01/2019 17:11

Fireworks
Freshly baked bread

huuskymam · 08/01/2019 17:11

This may sound a bit weird, but I love the smell of soldering iron. And the local popcorn factory smells delicious.

BobbinThreadbare123 · 08/01/2019 17:13

Any citrus
Cut grass
Geosmin
Figs
Cypress or piney smells (I blame MN for leading me to bloody Nesti Dante soaps)
Old Spice

OneStepMoreFun · 08/01/2019 17:15

The top of my DCs heads
Freshly sliced lemons
Freshly cut grass
Flowering shrubs such as Daphne, jasmine and roses in summer when they release their scents
New paper - fresh notebooks or newly printed books
Sheets dried on the line.
Fresh coffee.

I also love the smell of petrol but it makes me feel a bit sick.

SauvingnonBlanketyBlanc · 08/01/2019 17:16

Ds
Firework/bonfire
Diesel
Fresh bread
Cut grass
Outside after it's rained

OhMyGodTheyKilledKenny · 08/01/2019 17:21

Newly opened bag of coffee beans or ground coffee
Bergamot
A match that's just been lit and also when it's just been extinguished

Dowser · 08/01/2019 17:21

Rose, jasmine, sweet orange

louderthan · 08/01/2019 17:27

Creosote
Woodsmoke
Horses
Roses
Dior Sauvage
Fresh limes
New shoe leather

Angelinthenight · 08/01/2019 18:00

Coconut
Clean washing
When u go into our holister store it smells so nice same smell everytime
Christmas dinner
Heated mulled wine
When i was younger it was my fave teddy that my dad got me when i was born still have it ,im 40 this year and it still has the same smell