What are your top 3 favourite smells?

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I'll kick things off:

Chimney smoke
Tomato vines
Indian food

😍

Lemon balm
Fresh print
Petrol

I find scents super evocative so it's very hard to choose 3.

My husband.
My pony, esp her mane and her muzzle.
My dogs, not when they've rolled in fox shit though 😂

Are they actually called sugar pines @Coffeebiscuitsrepeat? I didn't know that. I went to California years ago and it was the first time I'd smelt it, like you say it was so overwhelming and unforgettable. Then last summer when we had such a hot spell, for the first time I smelt it here - it was just as wonderful!

Roses
Yasmine
Zaflora 😀

The sea
Limes
Ginger

Fried onions
Honeysuckle
Christmas trees

Toast
Pine trees
Roses
Lovely thread!

Coconut
Basil
Lemon

Blown out birthday candles
Lavender
Baby animals

Baby head
Freshly mown grass
Christmas lunch

That lovely newborn baby smell
The minty smell of my peppermint tea leaves in the jar
Anything sweet baking in the oven

Oh pine trees is a good one.
Carpet shops.

Lemongrass
Coconut
Sea

There's sooooo many

New books
Newborn babies
Lilac trees

My children's heads, when they haven't had their hair washed in a day or two and it's their natural sort of skin/scalp smell
Childs farm daisy body wash
The smell of the airing cupboard at my parents house (I'll sometimes pop upstairs to stick my head in and have a good sniff) 😂

Geranium and rose
Moss and woods after rain
Jasmin or orange blossom

Freshly cut grass when it has rained
Flowering Jasmine
My DD's hair

Rain on tarmac and pavements after a sunny period
St Eval sea salt candles
Jasmine

Bobbi Brown Beach perfume
Coppertone suntan lotion
Sea fret

Rose
Fresh man sweat on a healthy specimen
Lilac on the bush

Tomato vines in a greenhouse on a hot day

Rain on dry earth.

My ds's freshly washed hair

Honeysuckle
Hawthorn
A wood fire in winter

Love this thread!

White Company Winter
A crackly fire on a cold day
The back of my children’s necks

But there are so many that people have mentioned that also come very close.

Hot tar
Creosote
Disinfectant

@fliesandpies Indeed! I remember someone calling them Sugar Pines at the camp. Some more info on them here: www.mymotherlode.com/news/local/277476/why-sugar-pine-trees-are-special.html

The only other place I've sniffed something similar was in Ibiza, unreal!