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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

😍

OP posts:
onyxrose · 07/06/2020 09:49

  • A baby/ puppies head (it’s sort of a warm powdery, sweet smell, so comforting and just makes you want to squeeze them)
  • A mans beard after his been at work (sort of salty fresh air, reminds me of my DF & DH)
  • Freshly baker bread In the oven
  • Lavender growing in a field.
  • Walking past kfc or a fried chicken shop on an empty stomach (and I’m a vegetarian!)

Sorry more than 3 Blush

Destroyedpeople · 07/06/2020 09:51

A freshly cracked open tin of illy coffee
Toast
My own farts

Lemonmaid · 07/06/2020 09:53

Suncream
Kerosote
Hyacinths

Wewearpinkonwednesdays · 07/06/2020 09:56

The smell in the early morning in summer time, and cut grass.

The smell of freshly washed or tumble dried clothes (unfortunately I don't have a table dryer.

While I was pregnant (I am again, so just waiting for it) I used. To love the smell of sponges or scrunchies that you use in the shower. I would stand in there and sniff them for ages.

Smokeyrobinson · 07/06/2020 10:07

My baby grandson’s little, fluffy head
Lilac flowers
A roast dinner cooking

TheSecondMrsAshwell · 07/06/2020 10:31

Bayliss & Harding Black Pepper and Sage hand cream. ???

Off to e-bay, that sounds like my drop of Darjeeling.

Mine would be

  • baking bread..... Makes me feel all earth mothery.
  • Roses
  • Mimosa flowers. Perhaps because the smell reminds me of fresh washing, but the smell goes all through the house, so no matter what a pit the place is, it at least smells clean.

But I do have a a very weird one. I bumped into an ex of mine one scorching hot day. He'd had a day off and had been bimbling around and I'd been in a cool office all day. We chatted and when he hugged me goodbye, he smelt oddly of fried eggs and cheese, but not in a bad way. In fact, the smell of a frying egg makes me a bit wistful for that day.

AltheaVestr1t · 07/06/2020 11:07

I also think my cats smell like biscuits, particularly their fluffy tummies. I thought it was just me. Grin
Flower smells - lavender, jasmine, honeysuckle, wallflowers, rose
Fresh coffee beans
Washing from the line
And the aforementioned fluffy biscuity cats.

Redwren · 07/06/2020 11:35

@coffeebiscuitsrepeat all little babies have a milky sweet kind of smell but I just think its stronger and sweeter in breastfed babies, just a warm sweet smell of loveliness

Prokupatuscrakedatus · 07/06/2020 11:41

lavender
citrus smells
freesia
rain on hot tar
freshly brewed coffee

MaggieMay1972 · 07/06/2020 11:52

Newly cut grass
Jet fuel - that smell you get at Heathrow, especially after a take off.
Newborn babies

Vamoosh · 07/06/2020 11:56

Petrol
Horses
Freshly baked bread

Purplecatshopaholic · 07/06/2020 12:07

Hot tarmac
My pets fur
My boyfriend
Oh, and an honourable mention for cap guns (showing my age, lol)

Gwenhwyfar · 07/06/2020 12:24

Lavender in the rain.

LipstickLoves · 07/06/2020 21:47

This thread is amazing OP! I agree with so many! I've struggled to choose but I'm going with:

  • lilacs
  • my dd's head when they were under 4
  • basketballs in PE at school (that rubbery smell)
TooGood2BeTrue · 07/06/2020 23:27

I can think of so many...

Bike shops
Train tracks
Engine oil

(I'm weird!)

Lilac
Lavender
Rain after a period of dry weather

Tillygetsit · 08/06/2020 02:49

Lemons
Babies
Puppies

HeyChief · 08/06/2020 03:09

Tomato vines
Swimming pools/chlorine
Fresh Yeast

Bimbop5 · 08/06/2020 03:09

Fresh rain on hot grass.
Lilacs
The smell of hay and sunshine on my bunnys fur

StarlightLady · 08/06/2020 06:36

Oregano

Basil

Rosemary.

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Sertchgi123 · 08/06/2020 06:54

Bacon frying
Tar
Freshly brewed coffee

xxlostxx · 08/06/2020 07:44

Nivea sun lotion
Baby powder
Yellow Lenor

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