Crisp “smell” after first frost.

Oceanic pine forest on hot days

Onion and garlic when heated in oil making food.

Rotisserie chicken.

Smell from rain is very nice. And oranges.

CK1. Had some when I was a teenager, forgot about it for 20 years, now whenever I smell it I am instantly transported (sadly not literally) back to a more simple time before I completely fucked my life up.

Tomato plants. Pet fur. Orange blossom. Generic institution bathroom cleaner. Seaweed. My partner’s clean breath

Asphalt, kinmokusei (a tree that blooms in autumt in Japan, don’t know it in English), the natural body odor of a certain fling I had eight years ago whom I now hate because they didn’t want to leave their partner for me and because they made me experience transfuckingcendant sex and now my standards are way too high to enjoy anything else, freshly ground coffee, igusa (the weed of which tatami are made).

Water. Whether it’s ocean water, creek water, water on trees in the woods, spring rain, summer rain, fall rain (they all have different scents), or the smell of rain from miles away mixed with ozone from summer storms, even lightly chlorinated pool water can smell good in the right circumstances.

That and my cats fur. He always either smells like clean laundry, even if he’s been nowhere near any laundry, or if it’s a windy day and he’s been sitting at the window he smells like fresh air.

The smell of firing up a brand new toaster. It’s a very particular smell and an extremely rare one. I think I’ve only smelled it 3 times in my entire life. That’s less than once a decade.

That sort of smell of decay when the fallen leaves from autumn get a little soggy from early winter rains. Gosh I could just shove it all up my nose

Petrichor.

fuel rich exhaust from an old truck with cigarette smoke.

if I’m lucky I’ll smell it once every few years and it sends me back to the handful of good memories I had with my father.

otherwise it’s fresh cut pine lumber from a construction site with early morning dew and dirt.

There’s a soecific air freshener that my parents use at their house. They only use it during winter mainly so everytime I smell that, paired with the warm lighting of their lamps, and the quietness of the snow outside. It always gives me a sense of calm that I can’t explain.

My dog smells absolutely fantastic. I could just sniff her all day.

I’ve never met another dog that smelled nice to me.

My favorite smells are the few that nearly transport me back in time, maybe like some form of déjà vu but I can’t quite pinpoint what exactly those scents are. I’d never be able to recreate them intentionally. Two different soap scents bring me to two different familiar childhood places. Sometimes when I come back in through the back door I get a rather neutral smell but also very intense feeling like I’m suddenly at an old friend’s rental house from decades ago. There’s one smell that instantly brings me back to a childhood scratch n’ sniff book. As a side note, I find that nostalgic textures bring back strong memories too.

When I was a kid, my friends and I thought it was funny when an older woman mentioned to us that she loved the smell of crayons and that they brought her back to her childhood. Now I understand!

Almond-scented stuff (not almonds themselves - they have no noticeable smell to me).

Pine forests, the sort with lots of dry pine needles on the ground.