What do babies’ heads smell like?

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Everyone raves about the scent of a baby’s head, but neither of my DC has a particularly distinct smell? Baby breath is very unique and sweet to me, but I don’t get the whole head-sniffing thing.

Malted Milk biscuits with something else that I can't quite describe. It's addictive.

Thank goodness its not just me!! When my baby was a newborn people would often snuggle him and take a deep breath/ sniff, and love his 'baby smell?!' .. I had no idea what they were smelling 😅

Slightly concerned now because my boyfriend sniffs my head and says I smell like biscuits all the time 😂

Am I a baby??

The inside of my dad's flat cap! Very specific I know 😂

@SalviaOfficinalis : DD is 4 weeks and EBF, so the smell (or lack of?) is not related to feed for us! I suppose her smell is buttery to me but not like biscuits! Her breath is what is massively intoxicating to me!

Can't explain it but I loved smelling my babies head. When you think where it's been though... 😂😂😂

Mine smelt like sick and shit most of the time TBH.

sweet almonds

Warm biscuits

Hot, musky skin and brain.

I cannot stand the smell of babies’ heads. Even my own. Blurgh.

I think it’s a myth that whole baby smell 🤣

Yes they are usually tiny and cute but every baby I have ever met has smelled of that vommity sour milk smell, saliva, and sometimes more unpleasant smells when they need a nappy change haha… It’s a good thing they are cute lol.

I think the smell people like is actually a synthetic smell we associate with baby’s, that baby powder, soapy, kind of baby lotion smell but that’s not the baby it rather the products we use on babies. I do love the smell of baby lotion/ powder though!

Brain … OMG I laughed so hard at this 🤣 … I’m sure you can’t actually smell a brain 😆

Toast. Lovely.

They definitely have a smell, I'm just not sure it's a good one 🤢😅

Gorgeousness. A smell that I can’t quite remember, but can’t forget. Oh there’s nothing like rubbing your cheek over their fluffy head and inhaling ❤️

Babies emit airborne molecules called pheromones. When the mother inhales them, the pheromones trigger a response in the mothers brain so she gets a powerful feeling of satisfaction and love. It helps the bonding process.

I didn’t get this. Then I gave babe formula and he smelt disgusting to me. DP thought I was being mad. Then we tried a different one and now he’s complaining poor boy smells odd 🤣

I love it when he doesn’t have a bottle and he gets that baby smell back. I think it’s part your smell so you don’t really realise it until it’s gone.

Yes this is us. See above. When I go back to bf exclusively it’s fine. Throw in a bottle of aptamil and I know how the birds who disown their young must function. He’s literally a different smell entirely and if I was blind I wouldn’t be able to pick him out of a line up.

Ds smelled like warm candy floss.

My first baby smelled amazing, like breast milk but sweeter and warmer. My second smells like nothing though but he has CMPA so his breath always smells a bit sour

Actually just thinking about it, she still smells good at 2.5

I breastfed for a couple of months and then formula fed both of mine. I know the biscuity smell but I didn’t think it was ‘the most divine smell on earth’. Maybe I’m
a cold hearted bitch?!

i adored my babies but I didn’t swoon at the smell of their heads.

Awwww
<eyes teenagers' heads>
<decides against sniffing>

I remember thinking that breastfed baby breath smelled like butterscotch angel delight 😊

I think the smell I remember most was when my DDs were first born and not yet bathed. It's probably hormonal. But I always said they smelled like toast. Literally could not stop sniffing them. Once bathed they just smelled clean apart from the cheesy smell that they sometimes get in their little neck folds. Still delicious. Mine are 21 and 18 now and I still love how they smell.

Yes. Cheesy pooof