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Favourite smells

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PollyPutTheKettleOnKettleOn · 12/04/2022 22:31

As i lie here revelling in the scent of the aloe vera I've lathered myself in, I wonder...what are your favourite smells?

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FarmCat31 · 13/04/2022 02:02

Proper creosote - Shame you can’t get it anymore.
My cats fur
Fresh cut wood & grass
Rain
Baby powder
Roast chicken cooking, the same for bacon and fried onions.

LondonQueen · 13/04/2022 02:03

Petrol!

Maduixa · 13/04/2022 02:16

bonfire
sliced/crushed limes, grapefruit, or ginger
the air right before a summer thunderstorm
shortbread baking
fresh rosemary
crushed pine needles
fresh lavender (anything less than fresh-picked smells different)
maple syrup

Handyweatherstation · 13/04/2022 08:27

Lavender, freshly cut lemon, lentils simmering, mycelium.

Beetlewings · 13/04/2022 08:31

My dogs ears
Citrus
Rain/mist on the moors this time of year
Wet stone
tar on telegraph poles warmed by the sun

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 13/04/2022 08:36

@Thursa
Grapefruit, I just got a grapefruit scented shampoo, smells good enough to eat.

I bit into a bar of soap once (as a child) because it smelt so nice, and it tasted of soap... Sad

ellyanna · 13/04/2022 08:52

Real Christmas trees
Birthday candle smoke
I agree with pp who said sun cream and pool inflatables
New carpet

AnyCakeButBattenburg · 13/04/2022 08:59

freshly-mown grass
baby powder
oranges
coriander
cooked onions

TheNoodlesIncident · 13/04/2022 09:44

The smell of Greece, the way the air smells of the hot baked mineral earth.

Wallflowers, truly the scent of summer together with cut grass. And tomato leaves/stems.

We used to stay with an aunt as children who had a porch with pelargoniums (geraniums) in. The smell of the porch was fantastic, possibly similar to greenhouses.

The smell of the earth when it rains after a prolonged dry spell.

Bearded irises, the common purple ones. Like sherbet!

There are so many glorious flower perfumes, I have a climbing rose in my garden and when you walk up the path to the sheds area, you walk into a cloud of rose scent going past it. It's wonderful!

Shinyandnew1 · 13/04/2022 09:50

Fresh coffee
Verbena
Getting into bedding that’s just been line dried
Cut grass
Nesti Dante Fig and Almond soap
Chanel No 5

My new favourite smell is the Sanctuary Spa shower moisturiser-it is absolutely divine!

StrangeCondition · 13/04/2022 10:29

Coconut
Spent fireworks
Aussie Shampoo

Wintersgirl · 14/04/2022 00:55

I must be the only person in the world that can't stand the smell of freshly cut grass...

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