Lots of nice smells, but I'll just list a stranger one I like. Dry hay.
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Cooking bell peppers on a frying pan. Add onions and it's even better.
A fresh bag of weed, especially ones that are high in limonene.
Stinky dogs.
They smell like friendship
My sneezes (when I'm not sick)
Ocean pine forest on warm summer days when walking to the sea side/beach.
Fresh bread just out of the oven
That crisp smell of cold fall days, just shy of frost.
oil paint, cigarettes, and laphroaig
[but I had to quit most of those]
My girlfriend's cooking
Bit of a weird one, but... freshly peeled parsnips
I could take them or leave them when it comes to eating, but they smell great. Maybe it's a memory from childhood or something!
Coming into the house when it is very cold and snowy outside and smelling bread baking in the oven.
Allll of my partner. Mmmmm.
Sun bathed skin, forests(both the humid ones and the dry herby ones), baked bread, lily of the valley flowers, and many other flowers.
The beach.
Freshly harvested cannabis is my favorite smell, far and away
New packs of cards when the shrinkwrap is removed.
vinegar, just can’t get enough of it
Horse feed. Sweet feed to be exact.
My dachshund's feet. Seriously. They smell something like popcorn sometimes.
Grass, lily and petrichor.
Bonus points if all combined :)
Chlorine on my skin after going to the pool.