What are your favourite smells?

[Geekster1963]

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.

Coriander leaves
Orange
Rhubarb

DS's head
'Cricket' (blend of freshly mown grass, wood and leather)
A newly lit fag
Sauvignon blanc
Horses

Coffee
Cut grass
Sheep

The smell of homegrown tomatoes when you open the greenhouse door in summer. Leaves of the curry plant. Seaside saltiness and ozone.

I love that baby smell. Luckily friend has a new born so I get some good sniffs!
DS is 14 but still love his smell when he is all clean and showered before the onslaught of lynx
Disinfectant - the really strong industrial one
Woodsmoke
Pine forests

My cats head
Green houses
Sea air
Dh's t shirts if he has been wearing them (& not got too sweaty in them!)
Chickens - parents own hens. A clean hen smells lovely!

Lavender
Fresia
Lemon
freshly made coffee

new born baby smell
vanilla
coffee
sea air
cinnamon
coconut
bonfires/fireworks
leather
Fahrenheit aftershave
lit pumpkins
Christmas trees
frankincense
patchouli
nag champa

I used to love the smell of my cat! Gross but I loved him.

I love the smell of my 11 month old son. Especially when he needs a bath.

A peat fire (in Ireland)
Any citrus
Verbena
Horses
coffee brewing
JM Lime basil and Mandarin
My cats
Not my dog (stinky even when freshly washed!)

My cat when he’s been outside all day. We live up in the mountains and so he comes home smelling like fresh air and pine trees and adventure

My DH works shifts and if he leaves very early, I roll onto his side of his bed and snuggle his pillow which always smells lovely. Once he came back for his forgotten phone and caught me

Petrichor (I just want an excuse to use that word, I learnt it on MN )

Sandalwood essential oil. Lots of essential oils actually. Lime, May Chang, mandarin etc.

Paint thinner Petrol. Hot tarmac. Rubber, like plimsoll soles. Lots of these seem a bit embarrassing!

New tennis balls
Loads of ones already mentioned, clean washing, petrol, DD

Mechanics

Rosemary
Creosote
yeast
Bacon cooking (even tho im a vegan)
Sweating onions

Cucumber
Cut grass
Sun cream
Coriander, basil, thyme
Summer fruits
Lemon
Coffee
Wood smoke
Danish oil
Roses
Ginger & ginger cake, biscuits fresh from the oven
Proper fresh bread
Woods and moss, the damp and bouncy kind and pine forests
The sea
The smell of outside on family who've just come into house
On holiday, warm evening strolls past restaurants next to the sea.

Nice thread OP! This has cheered me up

Silage
My dogs paws and behind his ears (smells biscuity)
Horses.... especially their muzzle
Wet tarmac on a hot day
Home..... as in where I grew up. Every time we go to NZ to visit my family I open the car window fully as we enter the small village where home is, so I can get the build up of the smell. By the time I get to my family's farm I am in heaven. I grew up on a fairly remote coastal farm near a forest, Its hard to describe but it's a mix of all smells that create such a unique, warm, welcoming scent.

When I was little I had whooping cough and my dad boiled up some tar in his garden shed to help me try and breathe easier. I've always loved the smell.

And rain and a good thunderstorm after a scorching hot day. Love the way it releases the fresh air when it's been really stifling.

Fresh nutmeg
Cardamom
Vanilla
Rosemary
Pine forests
The combination of fresh air and stone on fell walks in the Lake District where I live

YY to creosote!

Saddle soap
Patchouli oil
Jasmine in hot countries

Bonfires
One of the Sure deodorants reminds me of a holiday as a teen
Rain on a dry road.

There's a fair amount of head sniffing going on on this thread. You weirdos .

A freshly opened pack of post-it notes is my all time favourite smell.

YY to saddle soap