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.
Petrichor.
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.”
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
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
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).
🎶 🎵 one of these things is not like the others, one of these things is not quite the same 🎵 🎶
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
My SO’s skin and hair after a shower.
Same, but before, especially if they’re sweaty. Can’t get enough of the stink.
My SO, not yours. though I’m sure they’re lovely.
Violet?
I so don’t understand this. I’ve had so many partners over the years who don’t like it when I shower. Like… I’m stinky.
I don’t know that there’s a whole lot of logic to it. Just a chaotic alchemy that sometimes works out.
Pheromones I suppose. I don’t why I smell like a freshly cooked steak.
Yeah but there’s a level of sweat and stink that’s intoxicating when it’s someone you’re attracted to
I can respect that, especially if the sweat is from some fun.
I agree. I also love the smell of their hair.
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, over 50 years ago, to that shed and makes me feel safe and warm and happy.
Smell from rain is very nice. And oranges.
Almond-scented stuff (not almonds themselves - they have no noticeable smell to me).
Pine forests, the sort with lots of dry pine needles on the ground.
I’ve never been in a pine forest, everything around me is decidedly deciduous. I’m gonna have to find the nearest pine forest and go smell it.
That sort of smell of decay when the fallen leaves from autumn get a little soggy from early winter rains. Gosh I could just shove it all up my nose
My dog smells absolutely fantastic. I could just sniff her all day.
I’ve never met another dog that smelled nice to me.
Campfire
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 don’t know whether anyone else smells this, because I never hear people talk about it.
Some time in November, no matter the weather, there will be this empty, metallic, crisp, clean burning smell. I usually only catch whiffs of it a few times. It’s how I gauge when winter is here.
Maybe this is just how winter smells and I get noseblind to it quickly?
It could be someone near you doing a controlled burn of their fields. IDK why farmers do it but I know it’s a thing. I can sometimes smell it where I am though I am not a huge fan of whatever it is we burn around here.
Yeah. I know that one. That’s a good one. The burning I’m thinking of is burning leaves.
Cucumber Cilantro Dark Coffee Tea Tree Spearmint Clove Tomatos Pizza Hut Pan Pizza Clean Cotton (no detergent) Fresh Rain Hot summer night 3am Aqua Velva Dragons Blood Nag Champa
And this one is very specific. When you snap a banana off the bunch, the tip of the stem had a very clean, fresh banana smell, love it.
Mountain air is pretty great.
Also a big fan of the smell of allspice. I remember as a child climbing on the kitchen counter to reach the spice cabinet so I could crack that jar and get a good whiff.
Oh no, you can’t do that. Sorry to tell you, but for years you smelled up all the scent of your family’s supply of allspice and ruined Thanksgiving (or weridass Canadian Thanksgiving), or Christmas, or whatever
I went on a road trip through the mountains in central Colorado during the summer ~7ish years ago. I still don’t know what the smell actually was but every once in a while we would drive through certain parts of the mountains that had slightly sweet and clean/crisp smelling air. Never forgotten it.
The closest I can think to describe it would be something floral like freesia+ a woodsy Sequoia/evergreen combination.
The bark of certain pine trees smell like butterscotch, and pine needles themselves have what I find to be somewhat floral smell.
It’s a wonderful forest smell up in there. So fresh.
