Smells Like....

[pepe6599]

I like the smell of snow right when it's about to fall. When i was living in Colorado I would always be outside when it was snowing.

[roguedog]

smell of a clear day after a rainy night

the smell of woodsmoke in the air

smell of rice cooking

smell of puppy breath

smell of sun dried clothes

smell of sunrise, that fresh, cool morning air


"these are some of my favorite things" .. ha.. may this song be going thru your head as it is in mine now!

[Kano]

puppy paws -- this reminds me that many years ago, the St. Paul, MN newspaper, yes, a paper paper, had a "bulletin board" area. Sort of a community free for all, and they had a thread that went on for quite some time about the delightful smell of puppy paws.

people say babies, but my Xander -- grandson #1 always smelled of sour milk, which wasn't especially pleasant. grandson #2 smells much better!

baked things -- particularly apple/cinnamon type smells!!

Karen in Boise

[Melstar]

I like the smell of sizzling onions wafting from the roadside vendors... but i don't like the way the smell stays on the clothing

[Tater]

I echo liking the smell of snow and woodsmoke.

Noxzema face cream. Just a light whiff of this stuff reminds me of my great-grandmother who always used it.

Cinnamon bread. Reminds me of my mom's baked goods. Now I enjoy baking and making the house smell warm and sweet.

Pine trees. Love the mountains and the trees, but this reminds me of my grandmother.

Mr. Tater's neck. Smells clean...like soap, aftershave, sometimes his leather motorcycle jacket and just HIM.

[mimitabby]

I love the smell of the sun in my tortie cat's fur.

I love the smell of frying garlic in olive oil and the smell of cooking artichokes.

I love the smell of burning eastern cedar

and believe it or not, what makes ME smile is the smell of a skunk.
We don't have a lot of skunks here in NW washington, so whenever I smell
a skunk i think of years ago when I lived in Idaho .. or further years ago when I lived in NJ.


and I LOVE the smell of chocolate! and if someone else is eating it I can smell it.
It doesn't make me smile though; unless they share it with me.

[Nanci]

Eew, BF loves skunk smell. It gives me a headache.

I like mown hay. Horse smell. Pigeon smell. Lilacs. Citrus blossoms.

[Bruno28]

Garlic, lemon thyme and rosemary....mmmm time for dinner.

[SadieKate]

Wet sage and pinyon after a rain. Reminds me of my family's road trips through the southwest.

[Raindrop]

Chickwhorips may agree with me on this one, since I grew up in Alaska and she's still there. In Winter there is a noticably absent "green" smell. In fact, I lived fairly close to a green house after I was married and I used to walk over there just so I could go in and smell the dirt and the plants. You miss that during the long, long winters.

[Kitsune06]

I'm very much a scent person... hardly anything smells 'bad' to me, but lots are better than others.

I love the hay/barn/horse/cow smell...
the 'green' smell of spring and the clear, clean smell of snow... wet sidewalks in summer and 'ozone'
I love the 'shop' smell of sweat, grease, rust, old iron, steel and WD-40; Gasolene and Diesel exhaust and old leather work gloves
I like 'clean' sweaty scents, and the warm, mineral smell of sweat meeting cool shower water
I very often like the smell of breath, but not mouth-breathing, just the warm smell of air just through the nose as someone sleeps beside you
I used to love the combination of sweat, oak sawdust, chain saw exhaust and gas as Dad and I logged in WI.
Bourbon and whiskey, the peaty smell of fine, aged scotch, brandy and cognac-dipped (expensive) cigars
Camp fire smoke and the smell of birch and sugar maple burning
The smell of venison, rich and almost waxy in the slow-cooker
Deer lures, esp. the kind with anise in them; so musky but 'right' in the chill November air
the dusty, warm smell of turkey feathers and fans on May mornings, combined with the brown call rosin/chalk and the smell of the sunshine on your old, musty camo clothes and the forest floor
the hot sulphurous scent of spent shells, sassafras bore butter and Hopps No. 9
the 'green' smell of healthy marshes, teeming with life in the summer; the kind I grew up in
The smell of post offices, b/c my dad's 'mail car' always had that dust/paper/adhesive smell to it
Chandans and Champas
sauteeing garlic, dark miso and soy sauces, nori and salmon...
mmm.
I need to go home and visit...

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

The little toe pads of my two pugs used to smell more like popcorn than Fritos....my daughters pointed this out to me originally. "Mommy, mommy!! Kinky and Sukey's paws smell like popcorn, check it out!" It was true.

[RoadRaven]

Kipling wrote some great poems and one line from one of his poems really stands out and screams to heard in this thread.

"Smells are surer than sight or sound to make the heart-strings crack"

So true