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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?

OP posts:
fataroundthemiddle · 08/01/2021 23:03

I think I'm missing out.Shall have to get a dog..

HippyChickMama · 08/01/2021 23:09

Petrichor
Creosote
Turmeric
Night blooming jasmine
Peonies
Bonfires
Sea air
Black Jack ointment
A now discontinued Nicky Clarke shampoo
Tinsel

KinseyWinsey · 08/01/2021 23:10

Fresh coffee. Can't drink it though. Yuck.

Diorissimo.

Ralph Lauren Safari.

Marzipan.

RecipeStealingBitch · 08/01/2021 23:13

Cats when they’ve been outside in the fresh air

CK One

A new book

Garlic bread

JayAlfredPrufrock · 08/01/2021 23:15

A horse’s muzzle when it comes in from grass.

Pralinelatte · 08/01/2021 23:15

New pure wool carpets.

Once went out with someone for a few dates in my teens because he worked in a carpet shop, and I loved waiting in the showroom for him to finish work.... Sadly didn't appreciate him as much as I loved the carpet smell so was a very short fling Grin

finisterreforever · 08/01/2021 23:17

The ocean
Cinnamon in hot milk
Gorse
Hokey pokey ice cream
The fish and chip shop

SirVixofVixHall · 08/01/2021 23:18

Scotch tape, the matt one , smells slightly like marmalade.
Italian paper glue in a little tin , smells of marzipan.
Tinsel.
Snuffed candles.

feellikeanun · 08/01/2021 23:19

Calamine lotion, petrol,

Kayjay2018 · 08/01/2021 23:22

The smell when

  1. you lift the lid off a tub of quality street
  2. You get the tinsel out from where you packed it after the last Christmas
  3. My baby DDs head
Longdistance · 08/01/2021 23:23

I love the smell of freshly ground coffee beans. Can’t stand the taste of coffee though Blush

Charles11 · 08/01/2021 23:26

Woods and forests when it’s been dry in the summer. So different to the usual damp woody smell we get.

InTheShadowOfTheMushroomCloud · 08/01/2021 23:28

New baby's head...

DenisetheMenace · 08/01/2021 23:29

Our grandson. Smelled hi after he was born. Haven’t been able to smell him since 🥺

NormaSnickers · 08/01/2021 23:31

Fish and chips
Tomato plants
Pink grapefruit
That wintry smell you get when the neighbours have fires lit and the smoke is drifting on the evening air

Chocrock · 08/01/2021 23:36

Sunscreen
Tiny babies

RecipeStealingBitch · 08/01/2021 23:38

Oh god yeah baby heads smell amazing

littlealexhorne · 08/01/2021 23:55

There's no better smell for me than my dogs warm tummy - I wish I could bottle that scent so badly

TheoriginalLEM · 09/01/2021 00:14

Wet dog and puppy smell

Horses

Creasote

vminkookie · 09/01/2021 00:27

The road smell after the rain

Scbchl · 09/01/2021 00:29

A match being struck. Fairy non bio washed baby clothes. Suncream. Christmas

nahdenmardybum · 09/01/2021 00:33

Freshly sawn wood
Yankee candle spiced orange
Lemons / limes / oranges
Fresh mint
Fresh bread
Fresh baked cookies
Certain magazines / publications
Old books
New books
Cigarettes in the pack (not lit)
Tea bags in the pack (dry unused)
Christmas trees
Washing powder

I absolutely hate the smell of petrol

Blueskysunsout · 09/01/2021 00:34

Hedges when the white flowers open on them around august. (Don’t know what they are called)
Scones out the oven
Babyish smell of clothes that sometimes happens when line dried outside.
Horses
Carpet shops or new carpet

WithASpider · 09/01/2021 00:35

Petrol, hot tar, my late Uncle. He was a dairy farmer and always smelled faintly of cows and fresh milk.
DH (most of the time!)

Mally2020 · 09/01/2021 00:39

petrol
manly smells (specifically of my partner but I don't want to specify because it might be weird)
fresh baked goods
laundry
seaside smells
disneyland smells
oddly subway but I dont actually like subway

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