Casual Conversation

Rain, and then a thunderstorm.

A combination of the smells from my grandfather's shed: sawdust, machine oil and petrol from the lawn mower, freshly cut grass, leather, his pipe tabacco, and just a hint of whisky from the bottle he used to keep in there. He had a couple of old, leather, wing-back chairs in there and sometimes at the weekend after mowing the lawn we'd just sit and talk in his shed for a bit while he smoked his pipe and had a wee dram.

Sadly long gone (he died in the late 80s) but I get hints of it occasionally. Sometimes I'll smell maybe the lawnmower smells in my own shed and my brain will fill in the rest and I'll feel small and safe and warm and comfortable just for a moment or two.

The smell of minced garlic and onion as they're cooking.

Cut grass, gas/petrol, books.. lots of smells really. Some weirder than others :3

Since it's the time for planting tomatoes where I live, I'll also point them out as smelling nice

I hate the taste of coffee but the smell is heavenly

My chicken after she's been dust bathing, or when it rains.

The dust bathing brings in an earthy note to her natural birdy scent. She just smells like a little nature spirit might, if such things were real.

When it rains, she's usually under cover (though sometimes she gets out into it), but she's picks to the petrichor aroma of rain and soil. She'll carry that scent all evening usually, so when she comes inside and is nestled up next to me, there's the normal bird smell, but also that rich aroma that a gentle rain brings, that usually fades quickly.

Mind you, I also love her normal smell, that almost dusty book, nose tickling smell of bird, colored with the mild earthiness and slight tang that's all chicken.

Luckily, she doesn't mind being sniffed occasionally :)

The smell of freshly cooked rice.

No one is going to say bacon?

Unburned rolling tobacco in the pack, fresh cut evergreen, a just-opened pack of post-it notes, petrol, the oily/greasy smell of a machine shop, charcoal barbecue.

Freshly baked bread.

Lilacs

Campfire, and the smell of woodsmoke on clothing the day after.

I love sweet food smells! Vanilla, cinnamon, candyfloss and things like that. My favourite smell of all time is cookies baking.

1. The smell in the air after a rain on a warm spring day.
2. The smell in the air of wood smoke on a freaking cold winter day.

Cedar. There's nothing like pulling a blanket out of a cedar chest and surrounding yourself in it.

Baking bread. The smell right after a summer shower. Books. Diesel exhaust on a cold day. Don't ask on that last one, it's weird I know, but I love it.

Weird one, but I have pet birds. They smell AMAZING. Just stick your nose right up to their feathers and huff. They kinda smell a bit like corn chips, or laundry dried outside in the sun, dusty and earthy and warm.

Pine and fir needles.

The many smells of forests, seaweed when it washes up on the beach, new steam deck vent and video rental stores, I guess I'll never smell the last one again though. I know there are candles that are made to mimic them but they are too expensive.

The smell a candle makes when it’s put out.

The smell of fresh tea when the package is opened.

"Stinky tofu" when passing the street carts selling it.

Freshly-made lard-cooked french fries.

A "strong-scented" baijiu.

A good Indian restaurant, that moment you walk inside and breath.

Corn chip puppy smell!

Salty air, leather, books, a wet or dry forest, my cat's fur, fresh bread, my homemade vanilla, coconut scented anything, woodsmoke, fresh snow, & my boo ❤️

Real leather, freshly cut wood, most fragrant flowers (especially Lillies, Jasmine, Sweet Peas and Roses), petrichor, garlic, freshly cut grass

Cheap old books, when the paper turns brittle and yellow or even orange.

Not smelled it since the 80s, but: New Starwars Figures

Matches (No I'm not a pyromaniac)

Coffee. Fresh roasted coffee smells heavenly.

Cheese toastie

Pizza cooking in the oven. Fresh laundry. Slight electrical warm smell of a heater (not burning). Petrichor mixed with city smells. Smell of asphalt in the sun (takes me back to childhood and drawing with chalk with a childhood friend).

Imminent snow, petrichor, the damp forest on a warm afternoon, sawdust/cut wood, ozone during/after thunderstorm, after a fireworks show (burned black powder).

Coffee and vanilla.

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I like the smell of jergins shampoo from like 30 years ago. My mom, who died when I was 23, used it when I was growing up, and I haven’t smelled it in literally decades, but I’d know it if I smelled it again, because it’s impossible to mistake for anything else, but you try really hard to figure out what the smell is. Pretty sure it died in the early 2000s (apparently it’s still available but I have no hope it smells the same, because I haven’t had a whiff in so long.. last time was on a bus around 2002)

It had a very unique… tangy? smell that wasn’t floral or fruity or musky or anything. It was just its own very specific smell. Probably all man made chemicals. But it contains volumes of memories.

Interestingly, I still don’t like her perfume (dune from like 1990-2004). I have 2 bottles of it, and I find it very unappealing. It smells like her, sure, but I don’t like it. I sniff the bottle every now and then, for memories. But they are adult memories. The jergins is childhood memories.

If anyone has a really old bottle of jergins floating around, I’d pay money for it..

Cats. Their natural oils smell like fresh laundry!

2-stroke mopeds

Mitti Attar. It's a Indian scent that smells of wet moss, rain on hot sand, a damp forest. Difficult to describe but very alluring.