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What do you love the smell of?

226 replies

CarnageAtTheJanuarySales · 08/01/2021 08:36

Here are mine 👃.

Sudocrem.

Any kind of bread when it has just come out of the oven ( especially garlic bread)

Rosemary, dried or fresh from the plant

Thyme, dried or fresh from the plant. I grow this sometimes just to smell it 😊.

Can’t think of any more at the moment, so...what are yours?

So, what are yours?

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CarnageAtTheJanuarySales · 08/01/2021 08:37

Sorry for repeating myself at the end 😄.

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RainbowRaine · 08/01/2021 08:38

Fresh tarmac

Fresh filtered coffee

DameCelia · 08/01/2021 08:39

Fresh basil
Creosote
Hot tar being poured into the road
Petrichor
Fresh coffee

PinkPlantCase · 08/01/2021 08:40

Warm bread buttered

YouAbsoluteLittleBugger · 08/01/2021 08:41

Gorse in bloom. Coast path walks from about March onwards are absolute bliss due to the near constant smell of gorse and the sound of the birds that hang around on the gorse bushes.

I finally found a Gorse perfume a few months ago and I love it.

YouAbsoluteLittleBugger · 08/01/2021 08:41

And basil. Whenever I water the basil on my kitchen window the smell just fills the room for a few minutes and I imagine I’m in Italy.

ImRealHonest · 08/01/2021 08:42

Roast lamb

BiscuitTea · 08/01/2021 08:43

The kids when they have been playing outside in the wind!

Eckhart · 08/01/2021 08:43

Shoe polish. Creosote. Coffee. Solvents.

Eckhart · 08/01/2021 08:43

Ooh, and my dog's forehead.

Hoppinggreen · 08/01/2021 08:43

I used to work for a commercial wallpaper company, the vinyl samples smelt fantastic. After that I went to work for a commercial flooring company and used to sniff the carpet sample books there

CarnageAtTheJanuarySales · 08/01/2021 08:44

Basil ! I knew there was another one !

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harknesswitch · 08/01/2021 08:44

Fresh cut grass
Baking bread
My dogs ears and paws

CandyLeBonBon · 08/01/2021 08:45

Petrichor

MilkMoon · 08/01/2021 08:46

Cowshit, creosote, freshly-mixed plaster, old-fashioned tea roses, hen feed, secondhand bookshops, greenhouses, turf smoke.

CarnageAtTheJanuarySales · 08/01/2021 08:46

@YouAbsoluteLittleBugger

Gorse in bloom. Coast path walks from about March onwards are absolute bliss due to the near constant smell of gorse and the sound of the birds that hang around on the gorse bushes.

I finally found a Gorse perfume a few months ago and I love it.

Oh, that sounds lovely..
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Purplecatshopaholic · 08/01/2021 08:46

The sea. My dog. Hot tarmac

CarnageAtTheJanuarySales · 08/01/2021 08:47

I need to find out what this Petrichor is, now that a couple of people have mentioned it.

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pinkyboots1 · 08/01/2021 08:50

I love the smell of stardrops cleaning liquid, roast chicken and Pink Lady apples

BillywigSting · 08/01/2021 08:58

Ds when he's out of the shower and in fresh clean pjs

Dp when he comes home from work and smells of himself

Apple fairy liquid

The hamster cage when it has just been cleaned and fresh sawdust and bedding put in

New books

Old books

Fresh coffee

Earl grey tea

Furniture polish

Spring

Sunscreen

Petrol station forecourts

RogueV · 08/01/2021 09:00

I only just learned sudocream has lavender in it.

I love the smell of tar and lavender. Mmmmm

Sheeptheshaun · 08/01/2021 09:03

Petrol
Horses
My dogs head
Germolene

mylittleyumyum · 08/01/2021 09:04

Fresh cut grass
Holiday smell - a mix of garlic and onions sizzling, suncream, the odd whiff of cigarette smoke mixed with the sea... it's hard to describe
Duty Free - the combination of perfumes
Sea air
Newborn baby
Sawdust
Line dried sheets
My old car in the summer - it smells like the 80's
My own farts

YesPleaseMary · 08/01/2021 09:07

Freshly unwrapped post-it notes

RainbowRaine · 08/01/2021 09:08

Bluebells and Roses