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?

Creosote
Hot tar
Xylene
Alcohol wipes (like at the doctor / blood donor centre)
Cinnamon

Persil
Herbs, particularly sage and rosemary
Pine
Buttered popcorn

The smell of someone doing the else cooking

Petrol
Tarmac
Fresh wood shavings
Patchouli
Sandalwood
I used to love the smell of spray glue and marker pens in primary school but probably shouldn't admit that

play-doh

Food and drink:

Fresh coffee
Fresh bread
Anything cooking with garlic
Roast dinner
Honey
Lime
Fish and chips with LOADS of vinegar
Freshly made doughnuts

Other:

The sea
Burnt matches
The bit that bangs in a Christmas cracker
Cigars
Coal
Wet mud, after it's rained
Babies scalps (broody much?..)

Lavender
Coffee

Burnt matches
Fresh pine needles
My dog when he’s been snuggled under a clean blanket and is all warm and toasty
A peeled orange

I rarely eat animal products (but not totally veggie, if I came to your house I would eat what you gave me, just no meat if there is choice)

but honestly - the smell as you pass a fish and chip shop just makes my mouth water and transports me back to childhood.

my mouth is actually watering now just thinking about it!

Baby's feet❤️

Coconut
New born babies (well after their washed that is)
Germalene (from a tin)
Crispy bacon
A chicken about 10 mins before being finished roasting
Panache perfume
An Indian restaurant when you walk in for a meal
Nag Champa
Holiday smell when you step off the plane
My cats’ paws (they smell of shortbread - mostly).

@PurplePinapple pear and freesia is an unusual combo and one of my faves too from a small retailer (with bees).

Also disinfectant
Rain
Pine forests
Wood smoke

I forgot to add Imperial Leather soap.

Maddie imperial leather reminds me of my first ever boyfriend's er appendage ... it must have been the soap of choice - one wiff and I am back to being 16 in his bedroom with posters of Samantha Fox and Debbie Harry everywhere!

@Pieceofpurplesky

Maddie imperial leather reminds me of my first ever boyfriend's er appendage ... it must have been the soap of choice - one wiff and I am back to being 16 in his bedroom with posters of Samantha Fox and Debbie Harry everywhere!

Oh god tmi!

German Christmas markets
Baby powder
My dog - she smells like popcorn
The chippy

Tomato plants in a hot greenhouse

Lidl Formil washing powder for whites

Magic marker pens

Patchouli

Horse's breath, hay, stockholm tar, fresh warm bread and coffee, bracken and glue 😊

drinkarsefeck I love the smell of horses breath too - especially after they’ve been eating pony nuts.

Coffee
New books
Petrol
Baby talc

Weird so many people like the smell of petrol. It was one of the things that made me vomit when pregnant, along with newsprint.
Petrichor.
Dog’s paws, the way they smell of cake tins.
Germolene.
Cut grass.
Damp woodland.
Hot sand.
Old churches.
Antique shops.
Quince.
Sawn wood.

Oh yes to horse breath.

What a lovely thread!
Obviously babies 😀
petrol
swarfega
Lilies
Roses
Petrichior
Toast
Wood fires
Old churches
Eau Sauvage
Avon ‘Elusive’ discontinued 🙁
Baby powder
Apple blossom powder
The sea/beach
Leather satchel (first day at secondary school)
clematis armsmdiii
Others too personal to mention

My Mum used to hug me and say “ Ooh! You smell of school!”

Mine are
Newborn babies ( they have to be newborn!)
Laura mercier coconut hand cream
Anything almond/marzipan
Roast chicken
My DHs ( clean) armpits
Warm chocolate cooking ( used to live near a chocolate factory)
A struck match
Tinsel