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?

Kerosene ✈️ at the airport
The first opening of an old fashioned big tin of Quality Street at Christmas 🎄

Dressing gown of doom?

Christmas smells is almost a brand new thread …!!!

The Delia Smith vegetarian roulade I make every Christmas (mmmmmm)
parsnips
gingerbread
Christmas tree…

Nooooooo, spare me!

Forests when it’s been hot and dry. There’s no damp smell. Just amazing woody, piney, forestry smell.

Reading this, and nodding along with almost all the best-loved scents. The smells of food and nature and memory. I would hate to lose the sense of smell; I almost think I'd rather go deaf, although I don't think I'd cope well without all my senses!

I agree. A dear friend lost their smell due to some aggressive cancer treatment, and in turn lost their taste as they’re connected obviously. It was one of the things they found most difficult about their treatment as they lost so much pleasure and joy in day to day life.

Oh yes! Pine forest in a hot European country in the summer. Amazing piney warm smell.

Tobacco in the pouch (not smoked though)

in the evening, frangipani, jasmine, tobacco flowers,

lemon verbena

Lemongrass

I’ve just sniffed my dogs paws. They don’t smell of anything. Is it just Labradors who have nice smelling paws?

My sheep and silage

I only sniff my own dogs, and they have both been labs, so cannot definitively answer.
Perhaps the labs webbed feet retain the aroma more 😂 My two smell of baked goods & grass.