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...



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