What do you love the smell of?

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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?

Puppies
Basil
Lemon verbena
Petrol
Petrichor
Vanilla

When you slice into a lime and the fragrance bursts out.

Petrol
Rubbers
Paint
Damp basements /garages

If I could distill these smells, I would.

Bergamot or anything tea scented
The pub
The smell of an Indian takeaway in the street

I also have an empty pot of Charles Worthington body lotion I used when my oldest was born. I keep it in my bedside drawer and every so often take the lid off and have a sniff. He’s 18 🤣

Petrol
Marzipan
Cherries.

Fresh cut grass
Petrol
Hot oil (like if you were cooking roast potatoes)

Spicy fruit crumble - in fact spicy anything!
Onion and garlic cooking away
New car smell (not smelt it often, but Yankee Candles did a new car leather smell hanging thing for the car ages ago. I bought one for dad's second hand car!
Pinks - love the smell
Lavender
Jasmine
Honeysuckle
Bluebells
The smell of coffee is better than the taste - though I do drink it
Rain
Star Anise
Limes
Basil used to grow some on my bathroom window ledge
Lemons
Proper home grown tomatoes remembered them yesterday when I ate a small supermarket one that tasted of water.
Most of the Zoflora range. Wish they still did Carnation. Not into the clean linen one one though.
Certain soap -Imperial leather, Dove, Original Camay. Lush Karma, Faith in Nature Lavender

Petrol
Swimming pools
The white goods section of places like Currys....give me a sniff of the inside of a new fridge any day
The smell of the laundrette
Acrylic nails bars
New carpets

B&Q

Mint
Lemon
Hot pavements after rain
Roses
Gin

Petrol
Freshly cut grass
Pear and freesia wax melts/candles
Garlic
My cat
My husbands aftershave
Freshly washed clothes out the machine
And don't ask me why, but cat food.

Oh I forgot Milton fluid and chorine

My dogs

Horse hoof oil (and tack, manure and horses in general!)

Neroli

Roses

White Company Seychelles, smells of holidays

Plasters. The Elastoplast fabric ones of ye olden days. As a child I used to love sniffing the ones on my fingers. In France, I came across an almond shower cream (not oil or L'occitane one) which was incredible. Petrol, marzipan, bakewell tart, roast chicken, vanilla, gorse too that a pp mentioned, towels freshly off the line in the garden, sweet peas, my dog's feet (=digestive biscuits!)

Petrol, oddly.

When I was little my beloved Grandad worked in garages and would come home with overalls on smelling of petrol. I find it very comforting.

Petrol
Bleach
Paint
Real fire on an autumn evening, that time when you just start to smell fires in the air.
Horses
Fresh sweet hay
My pets paws

Cat or dog paws

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Petrichor is rain on warm pavements or so I thought. It is apparently rain on dry earth.

Lavender
Wild garlic
New glossy magazines

Freesias
Frying onions
Lavender
Chlorine on my skin after swimming
Freshly baked bread

Books. Parsley. New carpets. Fairy non-bio. Petrol. Roses (but not rose water). Ginger. Bonfires. Horses.

Sautéd onions
Petrol
Fresh Rosemary
New shoe plastic