Scented candles left field

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Plumbing solder for me

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The tube as it comes at you through the tunnel (spoken like an ex Londoner )

Yes it's a very distinctive smell which I love almost like just hoovered carpets but more intense. Just been to London since covid and I really missed that smell

Belly button ming

Permanent markers, the ones that smell of almonds.
The smell of rain on hot pavements.

New cheap plastic dollies in the 70s

1980s My Little Pony hair

Ooh brilliant thread! I've come over all Proustian. For me, garage smell (dad was a mechanical engineer), portable gas fire, stables, saddle soap, puppy milky smell, wood fire.

Surgical spirit
TCP
Gloss paint

I think there’s something wrong with me.

Greenhouse growing tomatoes.
Greenhouse growing geraniums.
Thyme on a hot sunny hillside.
Petrichor.
Woodsmoke.

Old fashioned hospital anti-septic smell for me. Hospitals don’t smell the same anymore.

Also, cat popcorn feet

Bonfires (pretty standard I guess)
The smell of heavy rain
Soggy leaf mulch
Bag of compost
Tomatoes in the greenhouse
Crayons
Play-doh

Oh and woodchip for the rabbit hutch or the fresh wood chip smell when you go into a saw mill

Steam engine.

Linseed oil. Agreed
Putty rather than cricket bats

Beeswax Polish, but I expect that is not unusual

Burning clutch reminds me of banger racing years ago

Fireworks, sparklers, burnt matches.

Vintage tinsel

Saddle soap

Potting compost

Traction engines

Poundland

Candle smoke
My cat's head
TCP
New carpet

Creosote!!! Mmmm
Is this banned now??

Petrol
Freshly sliced aubergines (better than cut grass)

The oily smell (not the smoke, though that's nice too) of an old steam train.

Fuzzy horse muzzle
Milky baby breath
80s plastic pencil case

Petrichor is not so left-field

www.osmology.co/blog/rain-scented-candles/

Breezy Sunday morning at 10am.

Fresh plaster
Inside the box of a new Apple product
Sparklers
Compost

I've never smoked it myself but I love the smell of weed when you catch a whiff on other people, lovely grassy smell