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What's your favourite smell/ scent ?

57 replies

violetsonadewyspringmorning · 02/02/2007 01:39

Mine's violets on a dewy spring morning - honestly I do love the smell of powdery violets - love Angela Flanders 'Josephine' perfume; dd's neck crease - even when rancid; toasted cinnamon and playdoh! smells really vanillary - yum!

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mamama · 02/02/2007 02:08

All the usual ones:

Lily of the valley
Freshly mown grass
autumn mornings
bonfires/ log fires
freshly baked bread
rain
new babies
and, of course, DS

Greensleeves · 02/02/2007 02:46

Bacon. Pig bacon.

Muddle · 02/02/2007 17:27

Freshly grated lemon - yum!

AND

melted chocolate

I'm hungry now!

LadyMacbeth · 02/02/2007 17:29

playdoh - mmm!

Fresh coffee accompanied by slightly burned toast and Radio 4.

The smell of my garden in the Summer.

southeastastra · 02/02/2007 17:30

swimming pools

Roobie · 02/02/2007 17:30

vanilla

KTeePee · 02/02/2007 17:36

Eucolyptus (sp?) trees in hot weather

BettySpaghetti · 02/02/2007 17:37

Bergamot

DimpledThighs · 02/02/2007 17:39

coffee
elderflower
line dry washing

ItsMeMellowma · 02/02/2007 17:40

Line dried bedcovers/pyjamas
Freshly mown grass
fresh grass

ItsMeMellowma · 02/02/2007 17:40

Petrol

TheArmadillo · 02/02/2007 17:40

bergamot
freshly cut grass in summer
wood burning fires
ds
rosemary
my perfume (I can't for the life of me remember what it is).

Lucycat · 02/02/2007 17:41

bacon and fresh coffee outside my tent so a bit of cut grass smell too.

petrol? mellowma!

aDad · 02/02/2007 17:45

ground coffee
thyme and lavender
frying onions/garlic
curry

aDad · 02/02/2007 17:46

i've always liked petrol too

ItsMeMellowma · 02/02/2007 17:46

You don't like petrol??

spudmasher · 02/02/2007 17:47

husband

Megglevache · 02/02/2007 18:03

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LadyMacbeth · 02/02/2007 18:14

Oooo yes, petrol - I love it too, could stand there for hours breathing it in!

I have the smell of freshly baking rolls in my house right now [smug emoticon]

chocolatebirdy · 02/02/2007 18:16

Ooh yes love petrol. Also love new swimming bags and pencil cases!

holidaymum · 02/02/2007 18:17

babies heads!

fizzbuzz · 02/02/2007 18:18

6 month old dd's head....wish I could bottle it and keep it....

I sit there inhaling her, whilst she is constantly trying to squirm off my knee

holidaymum · 02/02/2007 18:20

I don't have a baby anymore but ds (13)still has a nice smelling head! Weird

WigWamBam · 02/02/2007 18:22

Bergamot
Flowers ... cyclamen, hyacinths, honeysuckle, daphne, bluebells and old-fashioned freesias
Freshly washed baby
Tar
Cut grass
Dd's hair
Aramis aftershave

softmusk · 02/02/2007 18:23

the smell when tarmac just been laid