Common Scents!

[nudeyorker]

OK we have a couple of threads going about fragrance in a bottle. But what are your favorite scents in life?
Mine are...
The Honolulu Airport
Night blooming jasmine
Freshly ground coffee
Swimming pools
Thanksgiving dinner cooking
Fresh bread
The smell of the fireplaces burning in Santa Fe on a cold night
The Farmers Market in Union Square with the fall harvest
and a stranger who smells like someone you know.
Oh and scent of the old I Magnin Store on Wilshire Blvd.

 

[SilverTrain]

West Maui airport is better than Honolulu!:tongue:

Great thread.

Let me have a think on it.

 

[DiscoBoy]

Freshly-fallen rain.
The smell of the Atlantic Ocean at sunset.
And lavender. Love the smell of lavender.

 

[mitchymo]

Champagne (but the taste is horrid unless its the REAL one)
Cut grass
Roses
Deodorised Armpits
Leather

My fave of these is cut grass.

 

[D_Tim McGnaw]

Dry cleaning fluid

Petrol

Gardenia

Freshly ground cumin seeds

Orange flower

Man

Antiquarian bookshops

Glossy magazine paper

Truffles

Figs

Church incense


( to begin with )

 

[D_Tim McGnaw]

Port Barrels

Leaf mold

Hops

Chocolate

Narcissus/Iris/Tulips

Coconut

Chili

Wright's coal tar soap

Ginger

Did I say Man ? LOL

 

[DaveyR]

Bread dough as it is proving

Night scented stocks

Jasmine

Lavendar fields

Indian food cooking

Petrol fumes

 

[L_Lynn]

Cookies baking
Freshly cut lawn
Garlic sauteeing in olive oil
Roman chamomile
Ripe pears
New vinyl

 

[Northland]

Ink
Coffee
Chocolate cakes cooking
New carpet
New leather
Sawdust
Roasted chicken
Pork cooking-baked or fried
Onions sauteeing
New money-the crisp bills have a tantalizing odor
New upholstered furniture
Molding leaves
Peanut butter
Toast
Cinnamon
Brown sugar
Quiche Lorraine, fresh from the oven
Wool
Blueberries
Candle wax-still melted
That smell you get when you blow out a candle-the smoke and wax mingled
Pipe tobacco both in the pouch and burning in a pipe
Heat on a cold winter morning
The smell of the cement when rain hits it on a hot day

 

[D_Tim McGnaw]

Freshly ground black pepper

Bay leaf

Bleach

Sun parched English woods in the summer

Fennel/Angelica

Tuberose

Celophane

Real Vanilla

The inside of antique mahogany or rosewood wardrobes

 

[D_Harry_Crax]

Fresh sweat in nondeodorized (natural) armpits

 

[cdarro]

Pumpkin pie
Freshly baked bread
Fresh cut alfafa
Freshly brewed top quality coffee
Irises
Baby powder on my GF's skin when she's straight out of the shower
Cedar
New leather
My mother's lavender soap
When the sun comes out after a good rain

 

[sdbg]

The smell of the salt air near the ocean
Creosote bushes (greasewood trees) in the Arizona desert after a rain
Jasmine (there are 4 in my garden)
Roses - especially Double Delight
Marigolds - too bad the snails like them. They get devoured in my garden.
Pine trees in the forest
Garlic when it sautees in extra virgin olive oil
Home made spaghetti sauce simmering on the stove
Coffee - both when I grind the beans and brew it in my coffee press

 

[vince]

Babies
Fresh bread
The old Bosporus ferry boats
Freshly caught fish
Two-stroke outboard exhaust
Yellow cedar sawdust
Cut grass
Motorcycle leathers (freshly used)
Sheets that have been lined dried
Goats
My girlfriend's hair
Camp fires
Basil
Roasting chestnuts sold by the street vendors in Istanbul in the late fall/early winter
Straw

 

[Autofellatio]

I'll try to do this one alphabetically


Black pepper (ground or not doesn't matter)
Chilli powder
Coca Cola
Coffee Brewing
Curries
Cut grass
Garlic (being chopped up)
Incenses
Laundry soap
Lead fumes (from soldering)
Onions frying
Ozone (before a rainstorm hits)
People (yes, I do go around discreetly sniffing people) :tongue:
Petrol fumes
Rain
Roasting chicken
Sandalwood
Sulphur
Sulphur fumes
Wind (on a windy day... the air smells different enough...)
Wood burning (In the forest only. Campers will know what I mean)


That's just off the top of my head, LOL

 

[2322]

Sage (burning)
Turf (burning) (since were talking about burning things)

Curry

Ginger and Molasses

Tarragon

Wet Dog

Lilac

Sweet William

Spicebush

Salt Water Air

Cloves

Freesia

Balsa Pine

Night-Blooming Jasmine (it really is that good)

Tea Roses

Chypre

Vetivert

Vanilla

English Boxwood

 

[798686]

Grass Cuttings

Petrol Fumes

Creosote (for painting fences)

Freshly-baked bread

Rain after a drought

 

[Lex]

The way my man smells when I nuzzle under him at 3 am after rolling over.

HmmMMMm...

 

[D_Tim McGnaw]

The Beach on your clothes when you get home from holiday.

lipstick

Violets

Holy Basil

Yuzu

Lilac

Tarmac

Nigella seeds

White Poppy seeds

Frangipani Flowers

Malt

 

[Countryguy63]

Babies
Puppy Breath
The air right before a Thunderstorm
Livestock area at County Fairs
Rodeos
(If you really think of the source of the last 2, it really doesn't sound very inviting though, lol)
A fresh cleaned house
Jasmine
Honeysucle
Roses