The Best Smell Ever (v1.42)

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• Amtrak
• Hairspray/Hair Gel/Stage Makeup
• My best friends' houses
• A machine shed - gasoline on packed dirt
• Pesto (actually, basil in any form)
• Outside in the early morning with the smell of people's breakfasts in the air - golden pancakes, bacon, coffee, ''pancake syrup'' that's just glorified corn syrup
• Calendula deodorant
• My grandpa's ancient manual slide projector — the slightly rubberized and musty smell of '50s equipment
• A northwoods lake at dusk with the water lapping the rocks

And ditto to almost everything the anonymous poster two below me wrote. Reply

-AndyP, who loves smells and the impact they can have on him. Reply

• I forgot to sign my name. meeps. I ditto the breakfast thing. —Molly

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• It totally is Tom's... wow. And Molly, I guessed it was you, but didn't know if you meant to stay anonymous or what. Cool!

• Musty basements and garages
• Gasoline
• Challah rising...mhhmmm
• Halloween—woodburning stoves, pumpkin pie, wet leaves
• Books
• Apple Crisp baking
• Home after traveling
• Money...hehe

—Anna F. I'd have to say that smell seems to be one of my least prominent senses. I often associate smell with nauseau and fear and other unpleasent things—which might explain things. However, the smells that I love, often make my day. Reply

• The smell of the air at daybreak in the middle of the summer after having just stayed up all night. The air hasn't warmed up but it's getting lighter. It's quiet and snuggly and ahhh...
• SMYRC
• Kitties
• The lodge at camp in late afternoon when stuff is cooking and people are floating around.
• Around midnight outside in the middle of the summer.
• Cob
• Sleeping bags
• Bookstores
• Amtrak
• My sister's bedroom
• Fresh cut grass
• Dirt
• Horses
• Tea
• Crepes
• My parents' bed
• An art studio
• The darkroom —Molly

• That really thick, pungent smell of libraries. God. I love that.
• The smell of a stranger as they walk past you on a street and for a moment that smell transports you to an imagination of what their life must be like
• Peppermint when I'm feeling down
• Curly fries at the fair
• Eucalyptus trees
• Babies
• Wet rocks
• New shoes
• Gasoline!
• That dry, soft, warm smell of summer dusk

—CaitliN Reply

PS — I read that smell is the one thing (sense) that provokes the most memories/feelings out of people. It's so true. Reply

Wow, Bean, nearly the same as I. Reply

I love the smell of rain on sweet field grasses most of all. Then comes the smell of the fungus in the forest rotting away the detrius and turning it into soil. Rich moist soil, freshly turned is beautiful, too. Pu-ergh tea is a delightful scent — it smells of earth, too. Maybe I like these smells because I'm the ungrounded sort, always looking for a connection to the earth? Reply

I love the smell of granite, and of lichen on rocks. Moss on pine-needles, and the smell of fir trees. I love the smell of clean, dry humans. Mint, sage, rosemary, lavender, cumin. fennel, coriander and all the other spices. Reply

Roasted peppers evoke so many memories of my childhood — riding with my father down the boulevard past the Mexican vendors who would roast a hundred bushels of peppers at once, filling the entire intersection and parking lot where they worked with the aroma; the smell of meals being made at home on my favorite gas stove. Reply

The smell of yerba maté reminds me of my father. Its smell permeating wool makes me think of my grandfather and all my Argentine relatives, that distinct Argentina smell is old leather, wool, and yerba maté, melded together and rubbed into everything so that it's not distinguishable anymore. Reply

Wet pavement. Mud. Wet grass. Hot clothes coming out of the dryer. Sun-dried sheets and pillowcases. Pizza. Reply

My sense of smell is a huge part of how I connect to my world. Reply

—Ari Reply

Oh totally ditto on books.....LOVE that book smell...and new magazine smell. *ahem* Reply

• Lavender (many, many stars for this one)
• rain
• chocolate
• coffe
• ok, food in general
• that old smell that some buildings have...ya know, when its all dark and quiet.....you can practically feel the dust settling on you as you walk....and the walls are creaking and moaning..........*Shiver*
• the decay-y smell of forests
• Mushrooms
• Paint
• Fresh bread earns another point!
• Ironed clothes
• black tea

Bean Reply

• Books (no, i dont read them hardly ever, but i do loves the smell)

- jkm Reply

• Score another point for Freshly baked bread!
• That odd smell that seems to linger after concerts and Folk Festivals... I can't quite think what it's called ;-)
• Pizza
• That smell of the calm before a rain storm.

—Neal Reply

• That shirt you stole from the guy you like that still smells like him.
• Bread baking in the oven.
• Christmas trees.
• The Hempen Goods store in Madison. It smells really good in there.
• Cinnabon.
• Walking through an apple orchard in Autumn.
• Campfire — always a classic.

—Allie Reply

• Completely ditto that first one *melts*...~Newt
• Oh wow, double ditto on the first one. *Lara swoons* LARA

• Fire.
• The smell that fire leaves on your clothes.
• Embers still burning in the early morning.

~sam Reply

• Rain on sidewalks
• The freshly washed hair of someone you love
• New notebookes
• Old journals
• Warm honey
• White chocolate

—Newt Reply

• Fresh cut hay
• Burning fields
• Fresh baking bread
• Horses
• Old Spice colgne
• Rain
• Some people
• The way things smell after being near a camp fire
• A cold crisp sunny winter day
• Gasoline
• Damp dirt —Ruth

I've thought of a few more: Reply

• Wisconsin on the first day the snow starts melting
• Riding on the pegs of a bike (ecspecially behind some one you love...heehee)
• Milk right from the cows udder
• Warm dandelions
• Babies
• Juicy oranges
• The fruteria in Mexico (fruit store)

~NEWT Reply

• Yes. *Hugs Newt's first one* So true. —Susannah

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Favorite Smells: Reply

• Really good cologne (almost to the point of a fetish for me)
• My grandpa's family auto shop in Utah
• my grandpas train room
• the peach perfume my grandmother wears
• desert rain(it doesn't smell like that anywhere else)
• buckwheat
• aussie products
• My best friends hair

-Laura

• Mel's bellybutton
• the ocean
• the air right after it's rained on a hot day
• fresh cut grass (yeah, overused, but still true)
• just-lit matches
• my mom's ribs (the kind you eat... not her physical ribcage) when you walk into the house and they've been cooking in the crock pot for a few hours... mmmm....
• My grandpa's chair
• leather jackets. More specifically my dad's leather jacket when I'd ride on the back of his motorcycle
• coffee shops

-Fiona Reply

• Ridgway after the rain
• Ari
• Fall in the midwest
• Garden dirt in the springtime
• the Chinese restaurant
• plumeria
• the ocean when it goes up your nose a little
• clean laundry
• chocolate
• Cimarron Books, our local coffeehouse
• Food For Thought, a local books & supplement shop
• Rose and Riley (two extremely cute lightly dog smelling beasts)
• horses
• beer batter bread
• my...um...vagina. *grin*
• fresh tortilla chips
• airbrush ink, tempera, and watercolors —Carrie

My favorite smells are Reply

• Ridgway, and more specifically, sagebrush and field grasses in the rain,
• the Olympic Peninsula and San Juan Islands in October, and anywhere there near the sea,
• clothing with no soap-smell that has been dried in the sun,
• coffee as it comes out of the roaster,
• Pu-ergh tea, fresh dirt and aged compost,
• roses covered in dew,
• greenhouses in botanical conservatories,
• woodsmoke from a campfire,
• pies baking,
• burning cinnamon and allspice,
• donut shops at five in the morning, after having stayed up all night,
• cheap coffee with hazelnut flavoring,
• genmaicha green tea,

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• toasted nuts

—Ari Reply

• Bonfires
• Musty Mildew
• Old Books
• Burning Dust (like when you first turn on the furnace in Fall)
• Olwen and Amber blended Incense
• Patchoulli
• Raw Vanilla
• The Countryside after a Spring Rain. —Puck :)

• Surf wax
• Ginger
• Wood smoke mixed with peach cobbler
• Wet asphalt
• And believe it or not, sweat and leather, but that's connotative. —Josh

• The way my first love smelled...he had this one smell that made me so happy...doesn't sound very romantic though does it?
• Woodstoves
• Puget Sound at dusk
• Honey ~NEWT

• My grammas basment in her old hourse -Heather
• nbtsc camp just after it rained and all the trees are wet still -Heather
• the smell of hair dye, I swear guys it smells like freedom -Heather
• OK my father's work shop.. it smelled like greas, cold floors, hard work, sweat and passion. my father loved what he did. and he did it well -Heather
• pine trees and dasys/flowers -Heather

The best manufactured smells: CK One perfume and Old Spice Red Zone Sport Deoderant. I wear that deoderant once in a while. I like it. Reply

The best culinary smells: Freshly baked bread, basil, fresh juicy peaches Reply

The best nature smells: Lavender, the ocean off the coast of New Hampshire/Maine, the stark clean smell after a fresh snow before the cars muck it all up, patchouli Reply

Miscellaneous smells: gasoline, wool sweaters (as long as that kinda oily smell isn't too overpowering), fresh laundry, pleasantly sweaty boys. Also, you know how people have natural smells that you can recognize even when they don't have perfume or anything on? My mom wears nice perfume, but she also has a really nice parental kind of natural smell. -eira, who's very sensitive to smell Reply

• books
• something already cooking when you wake up
• the smell of fall (particularly october)
• an unused notebook or a completely filled one
• waterfalls
• Davi (my sister)
• sweatshirts that yuo have been wearing out in the cold and then you take it off so its still cold —- Breetel

• horses, and horse barns
• grass hay
• Mel
• hair dye
• rain
• anything my mother cooks
• horses
• beds that people I love have slept in
• horses

—Robyn Reply

• warm bread
• comfry plants with sun on them
• horse manure
• mangos
• the first hint of wet salt when you haven't smelled ocean for a long time
• office supply stores
• pans of watercolour paint before they're wet
• after sex
• the smell that tells you it's going to rain in summer
• split cedar wood
• straw bales
• molasses —Tessa

• Laura and Koree's car. that is my favorite smell.
• The way my yp joshua smells when I hug him.
• CONCERT SMELL. the way my clothes smell after shows oooo man. sweat, other people sweat, other people's perfume, their hair gel, cigarette smoke, ect ect. I love that smell.
• my deoderant. I've got no clue...but it smells really good.
• the way my blanket smelled after Brian had used it for a week.
• the way this arabic perfume smelled. i had it but the bottle broke.

-Kanani Reply