Your favourite smells that are NOT perfumes...

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I am getting more and more discerning with the smell of products in general, not just perfume, and I think they contribute just as much to your "smell". I love the smell of Aussie volumising shampoo and conditioner, and I have an abahnabody lotion that I love that smells of. Honeysuckle. I love layering on lots of lovely smells. I have yet to find a clothes washing detergent that I truly love though. What are your favourite non-perfume smells?

Burning wood
Fresh basil in pots in Greece

Washing that has been hanging outside is my absolute favourite smell. I love bringing in the towels and hanging them up inside for a bit so my whole house smells wonderful :)

Cinnamon, ginger, patchouli. But my favourite smell is dd's hair when it's freshly washed

Freshly cut grass
Frangipani on sunny Sydney streets
Honesuckle in not so sunny Irish gardens
Nutrogena pink grapefuit face wash

yy to line-dried cotton sheets. It's like bringing the sunshine indoors - particularly on those very early sunny spring days :)

I absolutely adore the smell of laundrettes/utility rooms......heaven!

Washing powder
Oranges and lemons
Soap
Baby lotion
Sun dried cotton
Leather
Marzipan (even though I can't stand the taste or texture of it)

the smell of babies,
citronella,
fresh cut grass,
geraniums,
the smell of baby products,
daddy-o shampoo from lush,
the smell of my mum,
honeysuckle,
flower meadows,
wild flower honey,
petrol,
old books,
old houses,
my own farts,
horses,
lemons

Log fire burning
Benylin
Lavendar
Vanilla
Almond
Burnt matches
Petrol
DH
Clean bedding

parsnips

new carpets

old books

Thought of more!
Plastic from toys esp Barbie... Oo nostalgia!
Tinsel and evergreen christmas tree

witch hazel
jasmine in cyprus in the evening
my cat's fur
the smell of my (clean) daughter
new car smell (not that I've smelt that personally for a very long time)
new books
old books
the sea

Any books, magazines, leaflets - I always open them and smell them and yes, people do give me funny looks
Tar
Freshly mown grass
Suncream
Dunhill aftershave (the original I think, I can never find it when I look for it in duty free for a sniff)
Frying bacon (most food actually)
The smell outside pubs, sort of boozy but never quite the same once inside

Another one - the smell inside a new car, never mine unfortunately

Petrol
yellow lenor
lancome cleanser (the milky one)
cucumber
rosemary
thyme
fresh bread
garlic
parma violets

I like that yellow flowering gorse you get on cliffs/moorland (and the side of the motorway....).

BBQs,garlic (but not on other people), old fashioned sweet shops from years ago with cheap chocolate, multivitamins.

Yy to launderettes.

The bread factory near where my grandparents used to live.

Rose oil. Makes me happy.

The Dcs hair after a bath

New baby smell

Yy to freshly cut grass

The smell of woodland after the rain on a Sunday afternoon.

The smell of people who've just swum in the sea

Chlorine smell on wet hair after a dip in the pool

Coconut oil in suntan lotion

I also really like the smell of skin after sunbathing. Smells a bit parched. I actually think it must be the smell of melanin because my exp had olive skin and smelt like it all the time. Very unscientific theory there!

I swear bracken has a smell as well.

Still 18 - manure!!!
Really?

Coconut
Gorse - smells like toasted coconut!!
Horses
Sawn wood, especially pine
Old fashioned hospital disinfectant
Leather
Woodsmoke

There are more, but I'm boring myself now.....

Ooh!
Freshly ironed cotton bedding!!

Imperial Leather soap (do they still make it?)

Lots of the above but I haven't seen one of my favourites here: the smell inside a sauna, all woody and hot. Years ago the Body Shop did some bath salts inspired by Japan that had just the same smell...