NICE SCENTS

[Lynx]

5. Have you ever noticed that the weather has certain smells? I love the smell of a cool fall day or a sunny romp in the snow.

Calvin and Hobbes Comic Strip, February 13, 1995 on GoComics.com

Calvin and Hobbes Comic Strip, February 14, 1995 on GoComics.com

 

[blueorchidjd]

Ooh I love this thread,
And i'm not even joking I had to get a cup of coffee for this one.

Food:
Rich black coffee.
Garlic and Italian food cooking in the oven
Pretzel bread
Strawberries
Beef/meatballs etc.

Objects/ Every day life
New shoes!
Pool
Fresh air
Cleaning product/Bleach
Paint!
Wood shop- that's a good one.
Craft stores
Garden section of the store lol
Christmas decorations
SAUNAS. that's my favorite.
Hotels
Fresh office supplies
Pencils
Cardboard
Old books

And then this lotion

 

[Shouryu]

Bacon

Gasoline

Jasmine rice

Campfire

Guay diaw (it's probably just the star anise, actually)

Rain

Citrus

Overheated tires after some tail-wagging

 

[ardchoille]

Baking bread
Lavender

Someone needs to invent incense that has the aroma of baking bread!

 

[Gandalf]

Chanel Coco Mademoiselle (but only on my wife )
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow in our garden (also an indication that spring has arrived)
Petrol (seems like the common denominator for my Christian brethren… should we be worried?)
A diesel engine starting in the morning
A cattle truck passing you by on the road (reminds me of my childhood)
Antelope droppings but only when you are in the bush. It is like Mother Nature is telling us “you have arrived, relax…”
When I climb into my car without wearing perfume and I smell myself in the car (weird but I smell good actually )
Old libraries or certain school classrooms
Fresh bread Yeaaaah but now I hungry what is it with food and this website?
And certain pieces of steak on an barbeque
Pizza!!!!

 

[Lynx]

Baking bread
Lavender

Someone needs to invent incense that has the aroma of baking bread!

I bake bread and let me tell you, when people smell it they have to have a slice. And they say the nation as a whole already has a weight problem. Whataya trying to do, make us gain MORE weight?

 

[MissCris]

-the smell of a match that's just gone out
-rain on sage brush
-the smell outside a laundrymat, like where the dryer vents are, when there are a bunch of different scents of dryer sheets being used
-books, especially old books
-paint
-Egyptian musk essential oil that my aunt uses and her whole house smells like it
-oranges
-coffee
-fresh snow
-lumber
-fresh apples
-Vicks vapor rub
-laundry that's been dried in the sun
-the mix of river water, sunscreen, and bug spray that everyone smells like on a rafting/camping trip
-stuff baking (cookies, cake, bread, casseroles...I guess I love the smell of carbs being heated up?)
-new canvas

 

[Pipp]

Oranges, Lemons, Tangerines...anything citrus.
Vicks vapor rub

Juniper breeze from Bath and body works

 

[gypsygirl]

here are the random ones:

+my leather riding boots
+wet dirt
+grass being mowed smell
+horse barn smell, which is usually a delicious homogenization of creosote, leather, hay/straw, and saddle soap
+new (text)book smell - oh the memories, and while we're at it, library/old book smell too
+tire/rubber smell
+first rain in a long-time smell
+crispy air smell
+high altitude air smell
+fresh cut wood smell
+leaves in autumn smell

and then more expected:

+rosemary bushes, lavender shrubs, and tomato plants
+lemon verbena and peppermint
+magnolia tree blossoms
+being downwind from a lilac tree in may
+daphne in bloom
+breezy summer nights with night blooming jasmine in the air
+the smell of honey, or in a pinch, my favorite body butter
+chai smell, or maybe just the warming spices, i.e. cinnamon, clove, anise, and cardamom
+cotton candy
+burnt sugar/caramel
+roast chicken in the oven
+the aroma of brown butter
+grapefruit or lime
+sticking your nose in a large, fragrant rose in bloom

 

[gypsygirl]

On the strange end of the spectrum:
2. Black powder. Think muskets (although a lot of black powder stuff is rifled, and a percussion mechanism is not cheating if you don't want to have to knap your flint all the time).

...They always come across as way too strong (seriously, sniff a woman's perfume, and then sniff some gasoline, the perfume is stronger). Cloying, overbearing, and lingering are three adjectives I'd use for most of the scents people douse themselves with. And most people have no idea what a proper application is.

It should be like walking through a fine mist. Do not apply directly to the skin or clothing, or you'll smell like a chemical plant. And just a small mist too. I've seen way too many guys (and women) who stand there emptying the bottle like a firing squad dispatching a target.

black powder! yes.

oh, and i agree about the heavy-handed application of fragrances in general. you should have to be inside someone's personal space to smell it, not as they walk by in the hallway. *shudder*

 

[MollyConnor]

I like to smell gasoline too. As in the one you put in your car lol.

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There's a perfume by Avon that has Bon Jovi on the ad. I think it's called Unplugged. It smells so good! It has a musky scent.

 

[tourist]

I like to smell gasoline too. As in the one you put in your car lol.

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There's a perfume by Avon that has Bon Jovi on the ad. I think it's called Unplugged. It smells so good! It has a musky scent.

I had a boss once who enjoyed inhaling fumes from Sharpie markers. He said that it was better than glue.

 

[Tintin]

Winter bonfires!

How could I forget them?

 

[inthewind]

My first girlfriend had this overpowering ....well I made the mistake of asking her one day what kind of perfume she was wearing to which she replied Sweat Pea. Henceforth she doubled the application...I thought she must have bought it by the gallon. I grew up on a farm and maybe my olfactory sense was ,more in tune to barnyard scents. My two daughters were raised in a small town surrounded by forested wilderness and we eventually moved to the outskirts of a larger city which had some farming in the area. One fine spring day an aroma wafted upon the air I decided to go for a ride to check it out along with my 16 year old daughter. When I found the source of the aroma I pulled over to the side of the road and opened the window and inhaled deeply. My daughter immediately buried her nose in her sweater and said to me -- your sick. The only thing better then the smell of hay lying in the field is well aged manure. Childhood memories are addicting.

 

[ServantStrike]

black powder! yes.

oh, and i agree about the heavy-handed application of fragrances in general. you should have to be inside someone's personal space to smell it, not as they walk by in the hallway. *shudder*

Someone else here likes black powder? Suh weet!


As for the scents its funny, but I worked with a guy who every day about an hour before leaving would bathe in cologne. I mean bathe in it. It wasn't cheap cologne either.

The smell was so pungent that it wasn't just the hallway, it was the entire building, and I'm not exaggerating. I know what a refinery smells like, and this guy had a more pungent aroma than a refinery does (actually a healthy refinery shouldn't smell like much of anything other than an occasional faint whiff of diesel or gasoline).

 

[Lynx]

Did you say black powder?

That's odd, because in this one story I was reading just a couple of days ago they mentioned that. It was set in WWII with these two Allied spies who met in France. To explain why the coming joke is funny, the woman has a prediliction for small firearms. When they got to Paris they got married. (She was planning to find a priest, hold him up at gunpoint and make him marry them, until the man suggested they just ask the priest to marry them...)

That night in the hotel the man said it was a marvelous honeymoon. The woman said, "Why, because I pitched a nazi out the window and four stories down?" He said, "No, that was a nice touch but I think what makes it so nice is this is the first time I have ever been able to smell you without the smell of gunpowder on your skin."

 

[Oncefallen]

]black powder! yes. [/SIZE]

Did you say black powder?

I fell in love with the smell of black powder shooting off fireworks at 18. A family friend from church was the pyrotechnician that shot off the local fireworks show, so my first 4th after my 18th I was there firing the "good stuff" with him.

 

[wisebeardman]

I fell in love with the smell of black powder shooting off fireworks at 18. A family friend from church was the pyrotechnician that shot off the local fireworks show, so my first 4th after my 18th I was there firing the "good stuff" with him.

wat? you never fired off the good stuff till you was 18? I am so sorry.

 

[Oncefallen]

wat? you never fired off the good stuff till you was 18? I am so sorry.

Well, there's good stuff (firecrackers, bottle rockets, m-80's, 1 and 2 inch shells, etc) that are not available (legally) in many states and then there's the GOOD STUFF (basketball sized shells) that are usually only available to licensed pyrotechs in any state (that I'm aware of).

I grew up in SOCAL where the good stuff is only available to the south in Mexico.

 

[wisebeardman]

.... we just made our own basketball sized good stuff