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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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AhBallix · 06/06/2020 22:11

The first time grass is cut after the winter - it loses its appeal after that!
The smoke from a turf fire burning.
Wine, when I'm just drawing it towards my lips for the first sip. Can't beat it with a big stick!

snowstorm2012 · 06/06/2020 22:12

Coffee
Petrol
Freshly cut grass

Coffeebiscuitsrepeat · 06/06/2020 22:13

@clopper I also love St Eval sea salt candles - I have one in my living room! Good taste...

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TheChosenTwo · 06/06/2020 22:13

Bread baking in the oven
Jo malone lime basil and mandarin perfume
A discontinued Rituals diffuser (still sad I can’t get it any more 3 years later!)

I do also love the smell of petrol Blush

Coffeebiscuitsrepeat · 06/06/2020 22:15

Thank you all, and keep them coming! I'm just imagining all these delicious scents. I agree with so many of them! Yet to be sold on dog biscuit feet and new born baby though (haven't 'tried' either!)

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ureterr1blemuriel · 06/06/2020 22:16

Fresh bread (still warm)

Walking into a house on a cold day, smelling a roast dinner cooking

Fresh bed linen when you’re knackered and get into bed

saveeno · 06/06/2020 22:17

Hot tar recently laid,
Newly cut grass,
Honeysuckle climbers in the evening.

LightDrizzle · 06/06/2020 22:18

Freshly cut grass with a hint of 2 stroke
wood smoke
jasmine

TheoneandObi · 06/06/2020 22:21

My dog (specifically his toes and forehead), the washing powder aisle in the supermarket, and air coming in off the Atlantic onto a Cornish beach.

RiftGibbon · 06/06/2020 22:21

Petrichor
Woodsmoke
Freshly cut lavender

NotYourHolidayDick · 06/06/2020 22:21

I cant believe nobody has mentioned the best smell ever.

When you open a bag of mini eggs. They proper Cadbury ones in a yellow bag. The smell hits you.

Its. The. Best.

JustAddCoffee91 · 06/06/2020 22:23

New baby smell
Pine disinfectant
And the smell of my toddlers hands... they usually smell like cheese puffs and other snack assortments... but I always go in for another sniff 😂

Tartyflette · 06/06/2020 22:28

A freshly opened pack of coffee beans.
Neroli. Once stayed in a hotel in Tunisia which had orange trees in pots blooming in the lobby and courtyard; the toiletries were all fragranced with neroli too.
My late mum's original Vent Vert perfume by Balmain.

moolady1977 · 06/06/2020 22:29

Creosote
Petrol
Hot fresh tar
Closely followed by burnt matchsticks
Wood fires
Pipe smoke

EventRider1 · 06/06/2020 22:29

Rain on hot tarmac in the summer.
A really crisp Autumn/Winter morning. Not a specific smell I suppose but that clean fresh cold air breathing in is just perfect.
My horses have a very lovely smell about them but it is difficult to describe.

Victoria6386 · 06/06/2020 22:33

Petrol
Soil
Chalk

101Pizzaqueen · 06/06/2020 22:40

New trainer smell.

The biscuit factory that's over the road.

Bit of a weird one but the smell of my boyfriends T-shirt's/jumpers after he's worn them. It's a combination of aftershave/man smell (only ones he's had on a couple of hours and not ones he's been wearing for days lounging about the house Envy)

Zisforstripyoss · 06/06/2020 22:59

"Real"

Fresh cut grass
Pipe smoke
Petrichor (smell of the ground after it rains)

And " fake"

Marshmallows
Yankee candle "Fireside Treats"
Diesel

INeedNewShoes · 06/06/2020 23:03

Woodsmoke

Molton brown Frankincense handwash

Coffee beans

(I've really struggled to get this down to 3. I also want to say fresh oranges, lavender and petrol!)

Bakedpotatoandgin · 06/06/2020 23:15

Freshly baked bread.
Books (so many different smells within this!).
One of the roses in my garden.

lockdownrainbow · 06/06/2020 23:21

Apple
Freshly cut grass
Baking bread

coronafiona · 06/06/2020 23:23

My sleeping children
Coffee
Fresh bread
Neroli perfume
Clean bathroom
Sunscreen
Freshly washed sheets that dried outside

WhittlingWinnie · 06/06/2020 23:29

Parrafin,
My cheesy dog 😂
And Vanilla

WhittlingWinnie · 06/06/2020 23:30

Oh and blue lenor 😍

RoomForMore · 06/06/2020 23:33

My kids
Christmas
Wet, dewy mornings at 6am in summer
Definitely dog biscuit feet & head (on top, between the ears).
Swimming pools that you can smell when you're still outside
Barbecues and bonfires

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