What are your favourite smells?

[hermionegrange]

I love the smell...
when you go outside after it has been raining
When you enter a house and there's a roast cooking
My children first thing in the morning when they wake up

Yesterday I washed and line dried my bedding, then put the freshly aired bedding straight onto the bed. It smelled divine when I put my head on the pillow.

Also, percolating coffee.

Fresh cut grass, bluebells, the smell in the woods after rain and horses.

Garlic cooking.

My cat's fur when he's been asleep.

Aviation Kerosene. It's bloody lovely wafting through the air.

(I live near BAE)

Horses are a good one. I love the smell of a farm too

Fresh wild wind
Slightly burnt toast
Coffee
The woods after rain

The smell when you get off a plane in a hot country.
Walking past a laundromat
Roasting beef
The sea

Fish and chips
The smoke after you blow out a match
Vanilla
Donuts

The seaside, heady concoction of the sea, warm sand, sun lotion, faint whiff of fag smoke and fish and chips; if only they could bottle it.
Soap
Baking bread
Tea

Rain on hot tarmac or concrete
Freesias
Sweetpeas
The smell of a horses neck just under the mane
Proper match being struck , the Swan Vesta ones on the sandpaper (none of your safety match smells)
The fur of a tiny guinea-pig
My DC when they were little (lumping great adults , not so much )

Garlic cooking.
Salt and vinegar chips on the beach.
Orange.
Lavender (as long as it’s not really overpowering).
Mens aftershave.
Sweetpeas.
Vicks vapour.
Sun cream.
Incense.

I used to love the smell of my cat’s fur too (he died last year but I found it so comforting when we were cuddling)

Smell of the earth when it rains after a hot spell. Clothes after they've dried on the washing line.

creosote
petrol
cold fresh air
jasmine

I love this post! 🥰

Lavender oil
Lilies
Angel perfume

Pink lilies
Fresh basil
The smell of my herbs and spices cupboard.
Honey suckle
Hyacinth

The smell of a new(ish) car -strangely after not sitting in my car for weeks, I sat in it the other day and I could smell that new smell. My car is 4 years old.

Definitely rain on hot concrete
Smell of the sea
Lilies, honeysuckle and Night Scented stocks
Freshly cut lemons
The smell of coffee granules when you first crack the seal of the jar
A blown out match
Freshly cut grass

Oh yes the smell of the heat and planes when you get off a plane on holiday... I wonder how long it will be until we smell that again

All of the above plus frankincense resin in my oil burner.
The smell of rain on hot ground in summer is known as Petrichor

Fresh basil
The smell of my son mixed with suncream
The smell of DHs neck 🤣

I also like that musty smell in garages

Cucumber. So fresh and lovely!

Curries cooking.

Grapefruit and other citrusy fragrances.

Newly cut grass.

Babies’ milky smell.

Nivea sun lotion.
Baking bread.
Freshly cut grass.
Diesel.
Dh and ds skin smell.
Creed Aventus.
Fresh mint.

Freesias
Stargazer lilies
Spent matches
Coffee beans
Toast
Penhaligon’s Bluebell
This Works scented candles
Soil
Tomato plants
Christmas spices

wet dust from pavements after summer rain
small baby's head
mushrooms sauteing
blown-out candles
pipe tobacco
may blossom
freesias? possibly. granny's house, anyway (this one is purely nostalgia)

Smoke
Leather
Petrol
Behind my horses ears when they're warm from the sun!
Dogs paws

Ohhhh @pinkarsedfly I love the freesia fragrance. But none of them seem as intense now as they were in my youth where you would get a proper full nose of loveliness. Might be because I only ever smell them in supermarkets.