What are your top 3 favourite smells?

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I'll kick things off:

Chimney smoke
Tomato vines
Indian food

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Sweet peas, freshly cut grass, Crabtree and Evelyn Jojoba soap.

Shearers Frankincense & myrrh candle
Penhaligons Oud de Nil
Autumn

Damn it, freshly cut grass beats line-dried washing.

That earthy smell when it rains after a dry spell is actually called petrichor (I discovered this when it was a question on University Challenge ) it's my favourite smell and is something to do with gas being released from earth.

I also love the smell of wet wool (like when you handwash a woollen jumper)

Karma fragrance by LUSH cosmetics
Barbecues
Onions and garlic cooking in a frying pan

Lilac - just so fresh and spring like.
Roses - love to stick my nose right in!
My children’s necks - a good snuffle while we’re cuddling.

Fresh laundry
Peaches
New books

Hot water bottles (when hot), tarmac, new born puppies.

Oh yes, Pipandmum Crabtree and Evelyn Jojoba oil soap/ body wash. Very sad that's no longer available.

But I feel like fresh laundry and newborn baby smell deserves a mention!

Fresh washing, horses and puppy breath!

I've never actually smelled a newborn baby. Stupid question... But what do they smell like?!

Arran Aromatics After the Rain range. God it's lush.

Cigars (remind me of my grandpa)

Apple pie baking in the oven.

@Coffeebiscuitsrepeat I can't describe what they actually smell like, all I can say is it's just so lovely and you can't stop smelling them!

Coffee
Petrol
Angel perfume

Warm fudge, wild gorse flowers, bacon or roast chicken.

@Coffeebiscuitsrepeat wow! I'm tempted by that candle too!

Newborn babies and babies in general especially when they've just woken up have a sort of freshly baked smell, not yeasty or anything but warm and comforting. They have the loveliest breath ever as well mmmmm. Even my kids at 3 and 6 smell
"Freshly baked" when they wake up. Just warm little bodies without any offensive odours that adults produce! Unless they have full nappy of course.

Baby / toddler clean hair
Log fire
Roses

Hot tar
Creosote
Petrichor (rain on hot concrete)

Peat smoke drifting over a Hebridean village
Lemon 🍋
Freshly ground coffee beans

Petrol
JPG Classique perfume
Lush snow fairy

I would add my dogs paws.... but she is currently soggy from the rain so stinks 😹

Cut grass
Lime tree blossom
Pine needles when it's hot and dry

@fliesandpies I went to camp in California when I was 11 and the smell of the sugar pines up in the mountains was totally unforgettable. Would love to go back!

New leather
Freshly laid tarmac
The warm earthy smell when it rains in the Summer.