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

A horse’s breath when it comes in from grass. Although that’s feel as well. The soft muzzle as you take a deep breath. I’ve embarrassed myself with police horses at Badminton.

Lavender Zoflora

My DC

Blown out match or candle

Damp (a weird one I know!)

Fresh towels

Elbow grease spray

Washing powder

The green Radox shower gel

Tea tree

Nail varnish/nail varnish remover

Antiseptic stuff

The little wet patch of disinfectant they use to wipe your arm before inserting a needle. Would love to buy a bottle of that smell

New books (but strangely has to be a smooth type of paper, the grainy paper books aren't the same)

Polish spray

New carpets

Capret foam

Petrol

Antibacterial wipes

Pine stuff

Bleach (the tesco and Sainsbury's bleach smells the best)

Radox eucalyptus bubble bath

Vapour stuff

Paint

Coffee, ground of course.
Barbecue.
Coconut
BodyShop Moringa
A certain lemony smell which reminds me of a soap I bought the first time I went to France. Very evocative.
Fresh strawberries

Also, freshly aired cats!

The smell after it has been raining
Coffee
Roast dinners
Gucci Bamboo Perfume
Lenor fabric softener
Zoflora Linen Fresh

Fresh bread
Fresh sun drenched linen
Freshly cut grass
My husband (when he’s fresh)
Freshly felled trees
Fresh coffee
Freshly born baby
Freshly born puppies

Rain on a hot dusty summer day
Horses
Orange blossom
Coriander
A wood fire

Homegrown cucumbers & tomatoes
Horses & cows
Freshly cut grass
Sweet smell of home when I've been abroad somewhere hot and polluted
A tiny waft of cigarette smoke
BBQ
Old books

Dogs' paws
Horses
Coffee
Red wine
Babies' heads
New books

Lily of the valley
Neroli
A clean baby
A laundry

Geraniums
Night scented stocks
Freesias (Reminds me of my late Mum)
Cremola Cream (Reminds me of my Grandma)

Lilacs
Roses
Wisteria
Tulips
How washing smells after being dried in the sun. Apparently the smell is because the sunshine reacts with the washing powder

Method Soothing Rainstorm cleaner
I used to like Comfort Naturals Aloe Vera fabric conditioner but they discontinued it
Fairy fabric conditioner

Smell of a turf fire reminds me of childhood holidays to Ireland to see my dads family

Petrol
Leather
Bacon cooking
Tomato plants as they remind me of my grandad

Butter melting and browning

I've never smelt a horse but it keeps cropping up here!

My favourites are generally new things (a brand new house with new carpet, paint, fresh wood, brand new bits of furniture, off gassing plastics everywhere (!) or old historic buildings (that slightly musty loft smell, old wood, antiques, leather, old books etc.) but two random smells I love are the smell that isn’t mint in a box of tic tacs- a sort of vanilla smell but not quite- and the smell of a new hot water bottle the first few times you fill it.

Oranges
Clean sheets
Lilies
Violets
Cities after rain
Gorse blossom
Horses
Guinea pigs

@hermionegrange

Horse sniffing is recommended.

Nose to nose so you smell them and their breath. Lovely.

Vanilla
Petrol
Freshly cut grass
Barbecue on a summer evening
Rain on concrete
Christmas trees
Freshly baked bread
Coffee

Freshly laid tarmac
Creosote
The smell of the air on a summer morning before it gets hot
Vanilla
Strawberries on a hot day in a pick your own field - smells like hot jam!
My dog's fur after a bath
New car smell
Mown grass

Freshly cut grass
Freshly baked bread
When it's just rained after weeks of sun and you can smell the tarmac

Definitely not my children when they first wake up, they are still in nappies 😂🤢

I love the smell of Lemon.

I also love the smell of the tumble dryer hose and the smell of freshly hung washing on the clothes horse on a rainy day, makes the house smell lovely.

Petrol
New carpets
Tea Bags
Babies Heads

The smell of petrichor - hence the username!