Creosote on a hot summer day.
Reminds me of the amusement park when I was little. There were a lot of railroad ties used as retaining walls there.
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My girlfriend's cooking
There are these yellow flowers that grow on vines around here. They smell excellent.
Brand new tires
Fresh out of the oven bread Coffee Pipe tobacco Cigar shops
Coffee
Pine and fir needles.
Chlorine on my skin after going to the pool.
Baking bread. The smell right after a summer shower. Books. Diesel exhaust on a cold day. Don't ask on that last one, it's weird I know, but I love it.
Dogs. A place where dogs have been living has such a comforting smell to it. Also their paws smell so nice
Corn chip feet
I'm surprised no one put crayons on here yet (I don't really care either way but it seems like something that would go on this thread).
My dachshund's feet. Seriously. They smell something like popcorn sometimes.
I like the smell of jergins shampoo from like 30 years ago. My mom, who died when I was 23, used it when I was growing up, and I haven’t smelled it in literally decades, but I’d know it if I smelled it again, because it’s impossible to mistake for anything else, but you try really hard to figure out what the smell is. Pretty sure it died in the early 2000s (apparently it’s still available but I have no hope it smells the same, because I haven’t had a whiff in so long.. last time was on a bus around 2002)
It had a very unique… tangy? smell that wasn’t floral or fruity or musky or anything. It was just its own very specific smell. Probably all man made chemicals. But it contains volumes of memories.
Interestingly, I still don’t like her perfume (dune from like 1990-2004). I have 2 bottles of it, and I find it very unappealing. It smells like her, sure, but I don’t like it. I sniff the bottle every now and then, for memories. But they are adult memories. The jergins is childhood memories.
If anyone has a really old bottle of jergins floating around, I’d pay money for it..
This is a really nice one. Have you tried hitting a big perfume store? Staff might be able to find something similar.
No. I appreciate the thought but I feel like most of the people working those places have never smelled the specific and very particular scent I’m looking for, and throwing shit at the wall to see what’s close isn’t a solution because my brain will trick me but it won’t work the way I hope.
It’s one of those lost memories, I think, like when you want the same game experience but aren’t the same person so super Mario 1 is just really hard instead of being fun..?
Yep I see your point its never going to be quite right.
Matches (No I'm not a pyromaniac)
Sounds like something a pyromaniac would say
Grass, lily and petrichor.
Bonus points if all combined :)
Corn chip puppy smell!
Horse feed. Sweet feed to be exact.
The smell a candle makes when it’s put out.
Cheap old books, when the paper turns brittle and yellow or even orange.
The way libraries used to smell before they became homeless shelters. Not hating on anyone who needs a warm place to be. Just sucks it falls to the libraries to be that place.
Campfire, and the smell of woodsmoke on clothing the day after.
vinegar, just can’t get enough of it
I hate the taste of coffee but the smell is heavenly
Like walking past a Starbucks.
Or the coffee isle in the grocery store
My chicken after she's been dust bathing, or when it rains.
The dust bathing brings in an earthy note to her natural birdy scent. She just smells like a little nature spirit might, if such things were real.
When it rains, she's usually under cover (though sometimes she gets out into it), but she's picks to the petrichor aroma of rain and soil. She'll carry that scent all evening usually, so when she comes inside and is nestled up next to me, there's the normal bird smell, but also that rich aroma that a gentle rain brings, that usually fades quickly.
Mind you, I also love her normal smell, that almost dusty book, nose tickling smell of bird, colored with the mild earthiness and slight tang that's all chicken.
Luckily, she doesn't mind being sniffed occasionally :)
Bird sniffers unite!
New packs of cards when the shrinkwrap is removed.
Freshly harvested cannabis is my favorite smell, far and away
No one is going to say bacon?
I woke up early yesterday and the one and only reason I got out of bed instead of going back to sleep is because someone was cooking bacon and the smell made its way up to my room.
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That smell that tells you it's Spring.
Fresh bread.
Gasoline.
Bleach.
That head shop incense smell.
The smell of detergent or fabric softener from a nearby house doing laundry.
Whatever that syrup is they use for canned peaches and fruit salad cups.
Weird one, but I have pet birds. They smell AMAZING. Just stick your nose right up to their feathers and huff. They kinda smell a bit like corn chips, or laundry dried outside in the sun, dusty and earthy and warm.
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Lots of nice smells, but I'll just list a stranger one I like. Dry hay.
Cooking bell peppers on a frying pan. Add onions and it's even better.
A combination of the smells from my grandfather's shed: sawdust, machine oil and petrol from the lawn mower, freshly cut grass, leather, his pipe tabacco, and just a hint of whisky from the bottle he used to keep in there. He had a couple of old, leather, wing-back chairs in there and sometimes at the weekend after mowing the lawn we'd just sit and talk in his shed for a bit while he smoked his pipe and had a wee dram.
Sadly long gone (he died in the late 80s) but I get hints of it occasionally. Sometimes I'll smell maybe the lawnmower smells in my own shed and my brain will fill in the rest and I'll feel small and safe and warm and comfortable just for a moment or two.
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