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What are your top 3 favourite smells?

147 replies

Coffeebiscuitsrepeat · 06/06/2020 17:51

I'll kick things off:

Chimney smoke
Tomato vines
Indian food

😍

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OhSoSickOfIt · 06/06/2020 17:54

Soap & Glory Clean on me shower gel
Freshly baked brownies
Fox & Ivy (tesco) Topaz and Amber room spray

Swingoutsistersledge2 · 06/06/2020 17:55

Washing after it has been dried on the line in the sun.

My dogs biscuit feet.

Molten Brown's Gingerlilly bubble bath.

DoorKnobber · 06/06/2020 17:57

Yellow Gorse flowers in summer
Pine trees in summer
Clean bedding

Coffeebiscuitsrepeat · 06/06/2020 17:57

Dog's biscuit feet? That's a new one!!

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thenightsky · 06/06/2020 17:58

Bayliss & Harding Black Pepper and Sage hand cream.
Badedas shower gel.
New leather.

APurpleSquirrel · 06/06/2020 18:00

Neroli (Orange blossom)

Chocolate

Basil

Drogonssmile · 06/06/2020 18:01

@Swingoutsistersledge2 my cats paws also smell like biscuits so I know what you mean!

Mine are

Freesias
The earthy hot tarmac smell after a rain shower on a hot day
Bedding that's newly washed and been dried on the line

Chicchicchicchiclana · 06/06/2020 18:01

Tomato plants in a hot green house

Horses

Patchouli based perfumes

InTheShadowOfTheMushroomCloud · 06/06/2020 18:02

New baby head....I love a good sniff
My DHs arm pits ...yup
Cake baking

Elieza · 06/06/2020 18:03

Burning wood.

Too hard to choose a second or third though!

PS dog biscuit feet and honey ears is a whole topic on its own. Grin

Ipadipod · 06/06/2020 18:03

The smell of the earth when walking through the woods.

Stables

Molasses- you can smell it as you go through the Blackwall tunnel.

Swingoutsistersledge2 · 06/06/2020 18:04

@Coffeebuscuitsrepeat. Oops that should of said Paws 😊

Livingthecovidaloca · 06/06/2020 18:04

Milton Brown’s Black Pepper shower gel on DH
Warm fig trees
Tuberose

Coffeebiscuitsrepeat · 06/06/2020 18:04

These are all so dreamy - I wish I could bottle them up!

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Lolimax · 06/06/2020 18:06

Warm freshly cut grass
Babies
Any cake cooking in the oven

PeskyRooks · 06/06/2020 18:06

Baby's head
Bonfires
Baking bread

Coffeebiscuitsrepeat · 06/06/2020 18:06

@Drogonssmile I just found the rain smell in a candle: haeckels.co.uk/product/pluviophile-rain-candle-mycelium/#:~:text=The%20Haeckels%20Rain%20Candle.,the%20gods%20in%20Greek%20mythology.&text=This%20candle%20gives%20an%20approx.

I'm almost tempted... But £55!

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elephantoverthehill · 06/06/2020 18:09

Creosote
Sweet peas
Somebody else's cigarette smoke

SoMuchToBits · 06/06/2020 18:09

That seaside smell
Freshly laundered clothes dried outside on a line
The smell of a well used tea cosy

Coffeebiscuitsrepeat · 06/06/2020 18:09

@ipadipod - I will have a good sniff next time I'm through the Blackwall. I wonder why it smells of molasses?!

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Mintjulia · 06/06/2020 18:09

Bonfires
Freshly cut Hawthorne
Davidoff Cool Water

Ipadipod · 06/06/2020 18:11

Coffeebiscuitsrepeat I think there used to be a dog biscuit factory nearby , me and my dad loved the smell.

Ooopsijustsnarted · 06/06/2020 18:11

You know that smell when it hasn't rained for weeks and it's been hot, then it pours down 😍

I am quite partial to scented nappy bags 🤣

Pears soap

Aposterhasnoname · 06/06/2020 18:12

Petrol, puppies, bananas.

Yeah, I’m weird.

Nihiloxica · 06/06/2020 18:13

Creosote
Petrol
Line-dried washing