Salty air, leather, books, a wet or dry forest, my cat's fur, fresh bread, my homemade vanilla, coconut scented anything, woodsmoke, fresh snow, & my boo ❤️
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The beach.
Cedar. There's nothing like pulling a blanket out of a cedar chest and surrounding yourself in it.
Pizza cooking in the oven. Fresh laundry. Slight electrical warm smell of a heater (not burning). Petrichor mixed with city smells. Smell of asphalt in the sun (takes me back to childhood and drawing with chalk with a childhood friend).
That's a really nice memory 😀
The smell of minced garlic and onion as they're cooking.
I've heard that some restaurants do this the first thing in the morning just to attract customers.
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Lilacs
Coffee. Fresh roasted coffee smells heavenly.
Allll of my partner. Mmmmm.
2-stroke mopeds
The smell of freshly cooked rice.
Ocean pine forest on warm summer days when walking to the sea side/beach.
Fresh bread just out of the oven
That crisp smell of cold fall days, just shy of frost.
Cut grass, gas/petrol, books.. lots of smells really. Some weirder than others :3
Since it's the time for planting tomatoes where I live, I'll also point them out as smelling nice
Unburned rolling tobacco in the pack, fresh cut evergreen, a just-opened pack of post-it notes, petrol, the oily/greasy smell of a machine shop, charcoal barbecue.
Do you like Scotch or Mezcal?
I certainly do sir.
Seems like you would based on the descriptiors you chose
Cats. Their natural oils smell like fresh laundry!
The many smells of forests, seaweed when it washes up on the beach, new steam deck vent and video rental stores, I guess I'll never smell the last one again though. I know there are candles that are made to mimic them but they are too expensive.
The smell of fresh tea when the package is opened.
"Stinky tofu" when passing the street carts selling it.
Freshly-made lard-cooked french fries.
A "strong-scented" baijiu.
A good Indian restaurant, that moment you walk inside and breath.
I love sweet food smells! Vanilla, cinnamon, candyfloss and things like that. My favourite smell of all time is cookies baking.
Have you ever toasted sugar? I have recently powdered toasted vanilla sugar I made and it smells incredible (toast first, then vanilla, then powder in food processor)
Cheese toastie
Well I didn't want to boast but I do smell lovely
Coming into the house when it is very cold and snowy outside and smelling bread baking in the oven.
Not smelled it since the 80s, but: New Starwars Figures
My husband collects action figures. There are ones that don't have much of a smell. And then there are ones that 'bout knock us over with an offputting chemically smell, probably from the type of plastic or paint or both.
Imminent snow, petrichor, the damp forest on a warm afternoon, sawdust/cut wood, ozone during/after thunderstorm, after a fireworks show (burned black powder).
Real leather, freshly cut wood, most fragrant flowers (especially Lillies, Jasmine, Sweet Peas and Roses), petrichor, garlic, freshly cut grass
Marijuana. And by association, dead skunk (it smells like strong weed/strong weed smells like dead skunk 🤷🏻♂️)
Light BO. A day after sweating at work, great. If you haven't bathed in a week; 🤮
Whatever the Rock is cooking.
Summer rain
Petrichor?
Learned a new word today, thanks. Yes.
Sun bathed skin, forests(both the humid ones and the dry herby ones), baked bread, lily of the valley flowers, and many other flowers.