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?

Tuberose

Baby powder

Basil

Oh yeah and bathroom grout

My boyfriend
My dog
Lavender and geranium
Garlic
Mulled wine

@Hoppinggreen

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

Yes! New carpets!!

Swimming pools
Bleach
Tarmac
Sawdust/wood being cut

This isn't a smell per se, but I love when my cat's been cuddled up to me, and then her head smells vaguely of whichever perfume I've been wearing.

Petrol/diesel
Hibiscrub
Alcohol wipes with the red top
Cloves/nutmeg/star anise
Bacon frying

Roses, Lavender, wet earth, cinnamon, lemons, baked bread or cake, creosote (no longer available), cut grass, the vanilla smell of petunias late at night in the summer.

My cat's fur

Petrol
Someone else’s burnt toast
Coffee and bacon smells walking down the high street
Freshly mown grass
Tinsel
The buttery smell of pancakes cooking (weekly in my house!)

Daz washing powder

Meant to add that I love how evocative smells are!

Lilacs
Ground coffee
Washing powder and fairy softener

Smoke from a bonfire... petrol... fresh laundry! Lemon... I sound strange lol

The stuff they make yellow lines with - when it’s all hot and melted.

The smell of a freshly opened jar of coffee
Lavender
The top of my dogs head
Honeysuckle
Tia Maria
Weed.

Hyacinths and vinyl stickers fresh from the printers.

Tarmac
Car oil (reminds me of my dad)
Creosote
The smell of 'outside' on the kids on a breezy day
Coffee
Marzipan
Cow parsley ( I think!)
Line dried laundry
Nail varnish remover and shoe polish

Toasted teacakes, bluebells, daffodils, salty sea air, blackberries when cooked, horse manure.

To those who like basil, Zara sell a hand wash you will like - Basilicum. It’s rather good, v herby.

@Deathraystare

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

I agree with the home grown tomatoes, I grow my own. Nothing touches the taste.

.....or smell, that should be.
Which reminds me, I need to order thyme basil and tomato seeds for the spring.

I think I have smells that I actually think are nice and smells that are evocative of childhood memories.

Nice - Summer rain, especially on grass or tarmac. Roses, bergamot, rosemary, coffee etc.

Evocative - opening a punnet of tomatoes, a poor substitute for my grandad’s greenhouse as a child. Germaline, my grandma’s solution to whatever ailed you. Tinsel, Christmas morning, obviously. Loads more!

I found a Vine Tomato candle which is very good, a bit too perfumed and not quite earthy enough but pretty close.

This thread is torture for me as since having COVID in November, my sense of smell hasn’t fully returned.

However, my favourite smells were :

Roast lamb cooking in the oven
Basil
Angel
Badedas
Body shop Pink Grapefruit body butter

bangable I haven’t owned horses in over 20 years but as soon as I read hoof oil I could instantly remember how it smelled !
Funny how memory and smell works

Tinsel.
The kids think I'm bonkers when I buy a new string and sit at home with my nose buried in it

New babies.
Tar
New mown grass - can’t wait for this sign of spring!

Bacon cooking
Sweet peas
Just-picked tomatoes
The sea
Even the smell of washed-up seaweed
Pears soap
A real Christmas tree
Dogs, provided they’re not too wet and haven’t been rolling in fox poo.
Horses
Fresh horse poo
New leather shoes
New leather anything
Some undefinable dh smell before he gets up and showers. (NB it’s not sweat or farts!) My DF smelt the same.