What is your favorite scent?

Dice · Tue, 29th May '12, 6:07pm

Oceans, flowers, gasoline, perfume, essential oils, lasagne ... there are a lot of scents to choose from. Tell me about your olfactory

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8people · Tue, 29th May '12, 6:30pm

Lemon Balm, Petrol, Sea Air and Cut Grass

Mesmero · Tue, 29th May '12, 6:50pm

Fresh coffee, rain in spring, my father's lasagna and laser printers.

reepnorp · Tue, 29th May '12, 10:53pm

Napalm in the morning, obviously

Only one that comes to mind that hasn't been mentioned yet is old book smell

LKD · Wed, 30th May '12, 4:06am

My wife's homemade bread, cotton candy, bacon sizzling in the pan, the air after a major thunderstorm.

T2Bruno · Wed, 30th May '12, 4:30am

My wife ... just my wife. I also love the smell of her cooking -- she tends to use a lot of wonderful spices.

Splunge · Wed, 30th May '12, 4:41am

Vanilla extract. Pipe tobacco (before burning). Pine forest air on a damp, cool morning. Fresh coffee. Briefs.

Wait, that last one might belong in a different thread.

Master of Nuhn · Wed, 30th May '12, 5:32am

Some have been mentioned:

Summer rain on hot asphalt
Tomatoes
Sawdust
Tabacco (before burning)
My old man's leather jacket
Rubber
Ironed Clothes
Freshly baked bread
Fresh coffee
Cut grass
Ocean breeze with sun lotion and a faint whiff of cigarette smoke

And a (self made!) MUG-mixture of funk, blown out candles, pot and shampoo.

Ofelix · Wed, 30th May '12, 4:04pm

Vanilla
Fresh baked Bed
Freshly ground Coffee
Mother's spaghetti sauce recipe -- which she told me how to do, that's nice

Lemon

Silvery · Wed, 30th May '12, 4:16pm

I often bake my bed...I just love crispy sheets

Master of Nuhn · Wed, 30th May '12, 4:39pm

Silv

Flix: How do you do that? Your bedroom is a space shuttle and you set the house on fire?

8people · Wed, 30th May '12, 4:47pm

If you put a metal skewer through it you can bake it in half the time, Flix, perfect for when you're craving the scent of burning mattress

Barmy Army · Wed, 30th May '12, 5:00pm

I thought this was going to be a 'favourite fragrances' thread, in which case I'd choose Paul Smith Extreme.

Just general smells though, I guess fresh coffee, sea air and all that shiz... and I love the smell of burning leaves. Dunno why!

Master of Nuhn · Wed, 30th May '12, 5:42pm

I don't really know what that smells like, but it makes sense, I guess, because I also like the scent of burning wood, as in bonfires etc.

When I was young, we had a small, wooden shed in our garden. The wood was impregnated with something that smelled nice, but I don't know what the stuff was. It was some sort of tar or other stuff.

Ofelix · Wed, 30th May '12, 5:49pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by Master of Nuhn

Flix: How do you do that? Your bedroom is a space shuttle and you set the house on fire?

typo; it should read bread... It also reminds me of a Rammstein song "Wollt Irh das Bett in Flammen sehen" -- Do you want to see the bed in flames.

Dice · Wed, 30th May '12, 7:30pm

I don't know, fresh baked bed sounds pretty good.

. It sounds like Silvery knows how to prepare it best.

I love the smell of freshly mown grass.
Earth dug up when planting a garden.
Lavender, the essential oil, worn as a perfume.
Chopped fresh garlic
Fields of wild clover
Gasoline
Coming rain
and Lime zest

joacqin · Thu, 7th Jun '12, 8:27am

Wet dog and dog smells in general. Many a good childhood memory related to various dog smells.

Vorona · Sat, 9th Jun '12, 5:36am

Ahh... my favorite sense!

Some have been mentioned: the smell of a storm in the air, coffee, rich black dirt, old books, wood fires, vanilla and leather.

Others I like: dragon's blood incense, patchouli oil, amber, sandalwood, and wet, rotting leaves (not burning ones, although since I like wood fires I probably like burning leaves -- I just haven't really smelled burning leaves in a very, very long time).

Harbourboy · Sat, 9th Jun '12, 6:23am

Quote:

Originally Posted by LKD

My wife's homemade bread, cotton candy, bacon sizzling in the pan, the air after a major thunderstorm.

I second the wife's homemade bread.

Barmy Army · Sat, 9th Jun '12, 7:40am

Quote:

Originally Posted by Harbourboy

I second the wife's homemade bread.

How do you know what LKD's wifes bread smells like?!

Harbourboy · Sat, 9th Jun '12, 12:10pm

Given that bread only has about three ingredients, I'm guessing there's not much chance of significant variation in the aroma.

Master of Nuhn · Sat, 9th Jun '12, 2:46pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by BA

How do you know what LKD's wifes bread smells like?!

Is that some innuendo I'm unfamiliar with?

Dice · Sat, 9th Jun '12, 6:26pm

Yah bread smell is amazing. Last year I started making BBQ pizza's with my home-made dough. I don't have a fancy BBQ or anything but damn! that was some of the best pizza I ever made

So mix home-made bread smell with BBQ smell and you have another winner

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Blackthorne TA · Sat, 9th Jun '12, 10:36pm

Bread has a minimum of 5 ingredients: Water, flour, sugar, salt, and yeast.

But there are far more complicated breads out there.

T2Bruno · Sun, 10th Jun '12, 3:54am

I like the smell of napalm in the morning ... err ... I mean I like the smell of peanut butter in the morning.

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