What do you like to smell?

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Oh those little gunpowder caps you used to get for toy guns.

And I have my grandad's zippo lighter which i smell when i want to remember him, but it's losing the smell now.

vanilla
baby dolls
thunderstorms
play-doh
apple pie
hot tar
vinyl albums
wallpaper paste
lit pumpkins
swimming pools / chlorine
beach balls
back-to-school clothes
pencils
sawdust
matches
unsmoked cigarettes
lemons
new cars
babies' breath (not the flowers)
lilacs

Purrell hand sanitizer

freshly peeled bananas.
The ozone in the air just before a rain storm.

Other stuff mentioned above...like pine trees.

And the smell of napalm in the morning!

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I love the smell of when my daughter comes in when it's cold outside. She smells like she's been playing out

Oh that's a good one. Hot pumpkin smells great.

I have a sweet chestnut log beside my woodburner and I never burned it because when the burner gets really hot this log smells wonderful.

Strawberry jelly - the type that you buy in blocks that you put in boiling water to make it. But before you do that. When you've just opened the packet.

I also like to squeeze bags of coffee until some of the air comes out of the little valve and take a deep hit on that.

a garage with old car repair smell

yes!! !

Right?!

Sandalwood
Jasmine
Violets
Tea
Coffee
Fresh air
Wet gardens, parks, and fields in Spring
Freshly-baked bread
New laminated cardboard vinyl LP covers
Deep Heat ointment ("Icy Heat" in the USA)
New cut timber
Pure ethanol
Certain very clean but slightly sweaty people
Victory-V lozenges (the old type with chloroform)
My first record player when its valve had warmed up
The burning resin in solder
Paraffin
The sea
Real vanilla
Humbrol enamel paint for plastic models
Linseed oil
Fresh unburnt tobacco
Cannabis resin smoke
Tomatoes
Putty
Fresh elderflowers
Almonds
Hot cooked lentils
Mushrooms
Lanolin
Pears
Red-hot iron
Caraway seeds
Saffron
Hot tar
New paper banknotes
Plasticine
Hessian sacking
Firework smoke, especially sparklers
Unignited gunpowder
Old books

Peanut Butter

And fresh yeast.

It occurs to me that I rarely have occasion to smell much of anything. But there are currently several climbing jasmine vines in bloom in my neighborhood and I smell them when I am out bike riding. They are wonderful. So much so that I think it would be overwhelming if I smelled them all the time, if I was to sit next to them.

Things I rarely smell but whose smell I like are vanilla, baked bread, cut grass (it seems like I mostly smell the fumes from the lawn mower when someone's grass has been cut), coffee, even though I can't stand the taste, berries, cilantro, lime and other citrus, fresh baked apple pies. I even like some musty smells, like soil or a cellar that is damp.

I could live in a jug of 1970s Noxzema. ^




Also, the glycerine on the back of Avon broaches.





That's me wearing a mouse broach c. 1975.

Bacon

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