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

Anything Christmassy like cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, orange, spiced apple, pine

Most of the above, plus puppies. Puppies smell amazing.

Hay for rabbits/small pets. Definitely a yummy fresh smell.

Oh yes definitely Christmassy spices!

Patchouli
Horses
Apple pie

I always sniff at the green bit on the top of a tomato.When I was a child my grandad grew them in his greenhouse and the smell reminds me of him

My husband just out of the shower.

My mums house although slightly less now my dad has gone. He always smelt so good.

The smell of cooking cake, especially my daughters favourite ginger cake.

Stocks. I adore them and can smell them a mile off.

Hot cars

Breweries, the aroma of toasted malt & hops is absolutely wonderful. The seaside.
Surgical spirit.
The British countryside in autumn.
Jet-A1 kerosene. The smell of work and holidays.
Fresh vanilla pods.

I hate the smell of flowers, roses are the worst. Awful smell.

Swimming-pool chlorine
The sea
Wet grass
Another +1 for horses
Cats
My DC
Baking bread
Coffee
Pine woods
Coconut
Campfires
Old books

Woodsmoke
Horses
Ex boyfriend's sweaty tops
Gunpowder

When walking, that first waft of spring blossom that you weren't expecting after there being nothing all winter...

Blown out matches.

Fresh washing, my dogs fur, garlic bread, cinnamon type candles near Xmas time

New cars or new carpets, bookshops (new or old- hence the user name), chlorine, freshly chopped wood, freshly cut grass

My Grandaughter when she hugs me.
My Husband, only he smells like him.

Whisky.
Christmas
Clean sheets.
Petrichor.

My sons hair, especially if it hasn’t been washed in a few days.

Fresh tobacco.

My boyfriends armpits in the morning/his sweat.

My cats toes.

Baking bread and yeasty beer

Warming winter spices at Christmas apart from cloves which reminds me of bad toothache

Coconuty sun cream

I like threads like these, makes a change from some of the aggressive, argumentative ones!

I love the smell of....

My baby
Honeysuckle
Fresh donuts
The smell of the heat on holiday
Fresh coffee
The outdoors first thing in the morning
Fresh cut grass
That smell of flowers you get for a few seconds when you go for a walk
Cottage pie cooking in the oven!

Coal fire
Creosote

Those are my favourite. Lots of others which i think is nice.

Sweet peas
Linen
Tarmac
A waft of cigarette smoke
Petrol
Coal tar soap

Rain
Toast
Petrol
Percolating coffee
Wild garlic as I drive to the local hill walk, pre-lockdown

Also, when I've been working a 12hr nursing home shift, there's nothing quite like the first lungful of fresh air at home time. Not that our place stinks, far from it, there's just something about it. Maybe it's more the smell of freedom 😂

Rain on warm concrete
Fresh sawdust
Baking with cinnamon in it
Baking with apple and cinnamon in it
Miami Glow by J.Lo - reminds me of the best shower ever using the cheapest Duty Free toiletry set I could find, after a ridiculously delayed flight
Any 'ocean' or 'beach' type scented candle
The smell of our local library when I was younger - the deeply polished wood, the books, the dog-eared library cards
My cats' fur when they deign to tolerate a big soppy cuddle