Favorite smells

I have a new found love for the smell of English breakfast tea.

Books, cats, chocolate, baking cookies, rain, freshly xeroxed papers (okay, so I'm weird), cinnamon, nutmeg, molten lead (I do stained glass), incense, my violin.

In no particular order...

books

leather

a real fresh tomato

rich, freshly dug soil

a healthy lake or pond

woodfire

pipe tobacco

my kitchen at anytime

fresh sheets off the clothesline

gardenias

magnolias (eat your hearts out, Yankees & Canadians!)

mint

sassafras

fresh cut grass (if someone else did it)

gunpowder

the sea

the piney woods

cedar

hot fresh-baked goods right out of the oven

the Mrs' hair

Diamonds or Passion by Elizabeth Taylor (or whatever else the Mrs wears, she makes 'em smell better than in the bottle!)

sandlewood incense (other varieties, too)

a new car!

A warm and windy fall day when your near the woods... like today...

My girlfriend personnal scent, steak, !!!poutine!!!

burning wood & paper, definitely. also rain on a field, & this one smell that sort of permeates Heidelburg, Ger. - sort of wet & fresh & old at the same time. it just smells like what i imagined Europe would be. (awesome city, btw). also hyacinths, just after an entire flower stalk is opened. it's fresher that way.

Ben, i know what you mean about gasoline - i like it too. (of course, i'm also one of the few people who likes the smell of magic markers...)

aryne *

Gas
Rain
BOOKS
Boot Rubber
Garlic
Burning wood

POUTINE I tell you!
I can smell it miles away!

Popcorn, chocolate, fresh mountin air, leprechauns

home baked bread just before it comes out of the oven, hickory smoke from the grill, sassafras and lavender. Also, it may sound odd, but the smell of a horse

You guys do know that gasoline fumes are 1) addictive and 2) carcinogenic, right?

Another one to add...the smell of Mr. Ring's room. It's the room we have forensics meetings in, and it has its own distinctive odor of books, papers, unmentionable sticky stuff stuck under desks, a great deal of dust, and the interesting combined odors of our forensics teammates.

yes, i do know that about gasoline fumes. but i figure that with the way the world is going now, i'll get cancer at least once, so it's futile to be paranoid about it.

aryne *

It's scary how many people like sniffing gas...


My faves are:

Cats (Marlu is in my lap right now), chocolate, vanilla, toffee, strawberries (What? So I like swwet things!!), burning wood/paper, just before rain/Rain/Just after rain, smoke (just keep the plastic away!), old books (once I borrowed a book that smelt like chocolate!), the sea, rainforests, nature in general, insence and sandlewood.

my cats feel better than then smell - feelings of warmth & fuzziness & catlike is preferable to the scent of catfood & the strange personal odor of one of mine.

aryne *

In no order, red pepper, olive oil (good olive oil!), cedar, baking pizza, fresh french fries (taters,hehe),lemon oil furniture polish, (the oil itself, not the stuff in the can w/ propellant, and chocolate. Good chocolate.
Shan, what does a poutin actually smell like? I've never even *seen* one.

Poutine is LIKE cheese fries, but is NOT LIKE cheese fries.

Shan will give you a lecture about it.

Ya, I know what it is, cause I saw a previous thread that talked about it. Shan had a lot to say.

I love the smell of bensin.

(Don't get me wrong, though. :lol: )

Some books smell nice as well.

Books
Leather
Apples
Chocolate
Rain
Ceder

SahanaElf, you've been to the rainforest? Nifty!
That's another one of my favorite smells I need to add to my list. Sort of a warm, wet, furry, green smell.