What’s your favourite simple smell?

[Mildandcreamyricotta]

I have gnocchi bake in the oven right now but all I can smell is the absolutely divine smell of fresh rosemary smoking on top.

I don’t think I will ever tire of that smell.

What are your favourite ‘simple’ smells? Natural, non-processed or manufactured smells?

Petrichor.
Old fashioned roses.
Woodsmoke.
Cut grass.
Lemon soap.

coal tar soap

Oh I love this.

• Coffee shops (heaven = an empty coffee shop early on a sunny winter morning with the light shining on the wooden floorboards)
• Bonfire smoke from an allotment at twilight on a still October evening
• Old books with thick pages
• Cut grass
• A garden after a downpour in mid-summer

I love washing up liquid. I would chew a dishcloth for ages.

Floor cleaner as well.

I really don't like the popular petrichor though!

oh and Vosene shampoo

Butter and thinly spread marmite on toast

Putty
Freshly sawn wood
Warm old engine oil
Anyone remember the sort of dimpled Christmas wrapping paper from the 70s? It had a certain smell I’ve never smelt since.

Fresh bread baking in the oven

Hay
Rain after a dry spell in summer
Freshly cut grass
Parsnips
Christmas tree
Wax jackets
Wood polish
Saddle soap

Horses

Lilac blossom.

Horses
lemonbalm
leather
sun warmed strawberries
tomato plants
roasting chicken
wild garlic

I’m getting peckish now! 😬

Petrol

Church incense
Lavender
Peonies
Hyacinths
Flowering tobacco
Mint leaves
Imperial Leather soap
Babies' heads
Coffee (though I don't drink it often)
Frying garlic
Freshly baked bread
Freshly baked pumpkin pie
Freshly baked apple pie
Roast chicken or beef or slow roasted shoulder of pork
Seems to be a bit of a theme developing here...

Also
Sea spray
Cardamom
Leather
Beeswax
Eucalyptus

Freshly cut grass

Ooh you’ve just reminded me how much I love the smell of pipe smoke!!

Ooh and the smell of tinsel! Proper, old fashioned tinsel. Straight back to the excitement of Christmas morning in 1983

Wright’s Coal tar soap
Mimosa
Honeysuckle
Hyacinths
A log fire
Line-aired washing
Dettol (!)
Rosemary
Lemon verbena
Tonka bean

vanilla pods

Ooh, Dettol! I’ve just had my ears pierced in 1990 when I smell that 😂

Karvol! Yes! Thank you.
delicious

orange

Loving these - ginger

Lavender or lemon

DH's dressing gown.