We have a linen closet that for a time in my childhood was emptied out and made to serve as the “Nintendo room”, containing an NES hooked up to an old Commodore 64 monitor. I still associate that fabric/crafty smell with 8-bit gaming.
I also love the smell of sun soaked dog fur.
Petrichor.
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).
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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
My SO’s skin and hair after a shower.
Same, but before, especially if they’re sweaty. Can’t get enough of the stink.
My SO, not yours. though I’m sure they’re lovely.
Violet?
I can respect that, especially if the sweat is from some fun.
I so don’t understand this. I’ve had so many partners over the years who don’t like it when I shower. Like… I’m stinky.
I don’t know that there’s a whole lot of logic to it. Just a chaotic alchemy that sometimes works out.
Pheromones I suppose. I don’t why I smell like a freshly cooked steak.
I agree. I also love the smell of their hair.
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.
I’ve never been in a pine forest, everything around me is decidedly deciduous. I’m gonna have to find the nearest pine forest and go smell it.
My dog smells absolutely fantastic. I could just sniff her all day.
I’ve never met another dog that smelled nice to me.
I went on a road trip through the mountains in central Colorado during the summer ~7ish years ago. I still don’t know what the smell actually was but every once in a while we would drive through certain parts of the mountains that had slightly sweet and clean/crisp smelling air. Never forgotten it.
The closest I can think to describe it would be something floral like freesia+ a woodsy Sequoia/evergreen combination.
The bark of certain pine trees smell like butterscotch, and pine needles themselves have what I find to be somewhat floral smell.
It’s a wonderful forest smell up in there. So fresh.
Tomato plants. Pet fur. Orange blossom. Generic institution bathroom cleaner. Seaweed. My partner’s clean breath
Taking a hit out of my cats fur after a long stressful day is the best relaxation technique I’ve found
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.
Cucumber Cilantro Dark Coffee Tea Tree Spearmint Clove Tomatos Pizza Hut Pan Pizza Clean Cotton (no detergent) Fresh Rain Hot summer night 3am Aqua Velva Dragons Blood Nag Champa
And this one is very specific. When you snap a banana off the bunch, the tip of the stem had a very clean, fresh banana smell, love it.
I don’t know whether anyone else smells this, because I never hear people talk about it.
Some time in November, no matter the weather, there will be this empty, metallic, crisp, clean burning smell. I usually only catch whiffs of it a few times. It’s how I gauge when winter is here.
Maybe this is just how winter smells and I get noseblind to it quickly?
It could be someone near you doing a controlled burn of their fields. IDK why farmers do it but I know it’s a thing. I can sometimes smell it where I am though I am not a huge fan of whatever it is we burn around here.
Yeah. I know that one. That’s a good one. The burning I’m thinking of is burning leaves.
Campfire
Garlic, or cedar. I love food though, but cedar just hits differently.
Came to also say cedar. It smells like home to me.
Cat bellies and old books. Oh, and coffee.
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.
