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Which aroma or smell makes you go Aaaah?

93 replies

Raera · 16/04/2019 20:52

Mine are sniffing the bottle of toasted sesame oil, just love it!
And then Barbour wax jacket smell makes me feel I'm cuddling up to my lovely DH on a cold day.

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Mydollymolly · 17/04/2019 17:09

Fresh coffee and pipe smoke.

AventaRizon · 17/04/2019 17:12

Newly baked bread
A just-opened jar of coffee
The air outside just after a thunderstorm
Bluebells
That crushed grass smell you get in a marquee

RoseMartha · 17/04/2019 17:14

Summer rain
Freshly baked bread
Early morning west country air
Fresh laundry

BlueMerchant · 17/04/2019 17:14

Bonfires
Old churches
Incense
Monsoon Wild lagoon perfume ( feel like I'm 16 again)
Hot Doughnut van at the fair
Avon 'Pink' bubble bath ( my childhood)

chewbacca83 · 17/04/2019 20:02

Laundry that's been dried on the line. Fresh bread. My husband's neck, my baby boys hair, sea air, my favourite perfume.

PavoReal · 17/04/2019 22:47

Petrol
Industrial Rubber flooring
The inside of a new car

I’m struggling to think of something not chemical so I’ll just press post now.

longwayoff · 17/04/2019 23:26

Roasting coffee beans, frying bacon, bread in the oven.

mathanxiety · 17/04/2019 23:42

Beeswax polish
Sandalwood soap, perfume
Lemons
Fresh coffee even though I do not drink coffee
Earl Grey tea
Lavender
Freshly baked yeast bread
Incense - can't wait for Easter
Mud after rain on a hot day
Tomato plants (I have a Jo Malone candle called Green Tomato Leaf that is wonderful)
Greenhouses
Fresh peaches
Lily of the Valley
Jasmine blossoms
Roses
Cedarwood
Pine trees, Christmas trees

AfterSchoolWorry · 17/04/2019 23:43

Watermelon. Most gorgeous smell ever! 🍉🍉🍉

SecretWitch · 17/04/2019 23:50

CopperTone sun cream
Freshly cut Lilacs
Cotton tee shirts warmed by the sun
Freshly brewed coffee
My husbands arm pits, must be his deodorant

LuckyMarmiteLover · 17/04/2019 23:51

Lavender
Rosemary
Cut grass
❤️

iwannalendyoumycoat · 17/04/2019 23:55

Newly cut/planed wood
Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille
Tayto cheese and onion crisps
My children....even though they are now grown ups!

Inthemane · 18/04/2019 00:02

Bohemia candle by Byredo (rosemary, rum, opopanax, vanilla)
Cinnamon buns
Cat fur on a cold winter day
My best friend's Neroli Portofino scent (only on her)
Escalators on the tube
New and old books
Dried fruit stored in glass jars
Leaves and soil after the rain
My grandmother's quilts hanging in the garden to dry on a sunny day in the Mid West
Chestnuts roasting in barrels on London streets (rare smell these days)
Cardamom tea
Honeysuckle
Shoe polish on leather shoes
Dubonnet
Old fashioned lipstick in a metal case
The inside of a very ripe watermelon

Bunnylady53 · 18/04/2019 00:22

Lovely thread.
Roses, especially after rain
Certain aftershaves - I don’t always know what they are but my God I could just jump the guy wearing one of them!
Coco Chanel perfume
Alien perfume
The Cornish sea air
Fish & Chips
Christmassy smells like cloves & cinnamon
That wonderful musty smell of tomatoes in a greenhouse
Night stocks
Lily of the Valley
Biscuity skin after being on the sun
Coconut
The Chinese takeaway you can smell in a local Co- Op carpark
Fresh mown grass
Basil
Vanilla
Coconut
Old bookshops
Sawn wood
Leather
Coffee ( although I hate the taste!)
Steak on the barbie
Tar in the sunshine
Melting chocolate
Another vote for the fairground smell, especially fried onions!
Frying bacon
Loads more food smells

Bravelurker · 18/04/2019 00:22

Petrol, petrol fumes
Car paint

If newborns babies heads smelt of these I would have become a midwife Grin

Bunnylady53 · 18/04/2019 00:23

In the sun obviously not on it!!

mathanxiety · 18/04/2019 02:44

YYY to Imperial Leather soap.

Al2O3 · 18/04/2019 04:24

Storms
Night scented stock
Rain on hot summer pavements
Cut wood

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