We have a linen closet that for a time in my childhood was emptied out and made to serve as the “Nintendo room”, containing an NES hooked up to an old Commodore 64 monitor. I still associate that fabric/crafty smell with 8-bit gaming.
I also love the smell of sun soaked dog fur.
My favorite smell is also my favorite word; Petrichor. It’s the smell of the earth when it rains after an extended dry period.
From Wikipedia “from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra) ‘rock’; or πέτρος (pétros) ‘stone’ and ἰχώρ (ikhṓr) ‘ichor’, the ethereal fluid that is the blood of the gods in Greek mythology.”
Man one of my most fivid memories is me sitting in the window of my crappy room, smelling the petrichor and smoking a cig while it’s raining. I’m no longer a smoker but thinking back it really hit different
I like that smell, or that smell that comes right before a rain where you can smell its coming or lilacs when they first start to bud and its not too heavy yet
Mine is a composite smell of my grandfather’s shed: soil, and sawdust, and wood glue, and petrol, and pipe smoke, and whisky. He was a keen gardener and would often spend the afternoon pottering around the garden, tending to his veggies or flowerbeds or mowing the lawn, then wind up for an hour or so in the shed, sitting on a deck chair and smoking his pipe (or occasionally a cigar) and drinking single malt whisky. Sometimes he’d be reading the paper, sometimes looking through the notebooks he filled with plans and notes about the garden, sometimes just looking out across the garden and being content. I never got into gardening, but I did love to find him at the end of a day at school and just hang out with him in the shed. Often we wouldn’t talk, he’d read the paper and I’d read The Beano. I learned companionable silence from him.
Sometimes I’ll catch one of those smells and it takes me right back to that shed and makes me feel safe and warm and happy.
I can’t really describe it, but sometimes after sneezing I get this very pleasant smell in my nose for like 2 seconds. It’s what I would imagine the world’s most expensive bedsheets to smell like. It doesn’t happen with every sneeze, but the smell is consistent and has been for many years. Unfortunately it only lasts for like 2 good whiffs.
I always thought that smells when sneezing were caused by a sinus infection.
no clue what causes this smell but it’s 100% not a sinus infection
Grapefruit (I always thought the name should be Greatfruit whos with me amirite?)
Petrichor.
Smell from rain is very nice. And oranges.
Asphalt, kinmokusei (a tree that blooms in autumt in Japan, don’t know it in English), the natural body odor of a certain fling I had eight years ago whom I now hate because they didn’t want to leave their partner for me and because they made me experience transfuckingcendant sex and now my standards are way too high to enjoy anything else, freshly ground coffee, igusa (the weed of which tatami are made).
kinmokusei (a tree that blooms in autumt in Japan, don’t know it in English)
“Fragrant Olive”, apparently
Edit: or also “Sweet Osmanthus” according to Wikipedia
🎶 🎵 one of these things is not like the others, one of these things is not quite the same 🎵 🎶
Kerosene mixed with summer jasmine. When you step onto the tarmac and the humidity hits you, and those two syrupy fragrances mix
Mmm.
Growing up my dad had a jar of orange oil at his workstation. It smelled great every time we visited him at that job.
When the wind blew the right way it would smell like cookies outside in the mornings. There was a cookie factory within noseshot. It was like an invisible treat.
My cats, gasoline, pinesol, Mac n cheese
Crisp “smell” after first frost.
Oceanic pine forest on hot days
Onion and garlic when heated in oil making food.
The University of Wisconsin Madison Arboretum has several acres planted with a combination of; magnolias, crab apples, and lilacs.
During April to early May that field smells AMAAAAZING.
The scent of nothing. I really dislike artificial scents, like perfume, air “purifiers”, and sprays. Natural scents are fine, but I prefer they stay outside the house.
Tomato plants. Pet fur. Orange blossom. Generic institution bathroom cleaner. Seaweed. My partner’s clean breath
Taking a hit out of my cats fur after a long stressful day is the best relaxation technique I’ve found
I dont really like Smells
