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What is your favorite scent?

Discussion in 'Whatnots' started by Dice, May 29, 2012.

  1. Dice

    Dice ★ SPS Account Holder Adored Veteran

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    Oceans, flowers, gasoline, perfume, essential oils, lasagne ... there are a lot of scents to choose from. Tell me about your olfactory :D.
     
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    [​IMG] Lemon Balm, Petrol, Sea Air and Cut Grass
     
  3. Mesmero

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    Fresh coffee, rain in spring, my father's lasagna and laser printers.
     
  4. reepnorp

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    Napalm in the morning, obviously ;)

    Only one that comes to mind that hasn't been mentioned yet is old book smell
     
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    My wife's homemade bread, cotton candy, bacon sizzling in the pan, the air after a major thunderstorm.
     
  6. T2Bruno

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    My wife ... just my wife. I also love the smell of her cooking -- she tends to use a lot of wonderful spices.
     
  7. Splunge

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    Vanilla extract. Pipe tobacco (before burning). Pine forest air on a damp, cool morning. Fresh coffee. Briefs.

    Wait, that last one might belong in a different thread.
     
  8. Master of Nuhn

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    Some have been mentioned:

    Summer rain on hot asphalt
    Tomatoes
    Sawdust
    Tabacco (before burning)
    My old man's leather jacket
    Rubber
    Ironed Clothes
    Freshly baked bread
    Fresh coffee
    Cut grass
    Ocean breeze with sun lotion and a faint whiff of cigarette smoke

    And a (self made!) MUG-mixture of funk, blown out candles, pot and shampoo.
     
  9. Ofelix

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    Vanilla
    Fresh baked Bed
    Freshly ground Coffee
    Mother's spaghetti sauce recipe -- which she told me how to do, that's nice :p
    Lemon
     
  10. Silvery

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    I often bake my bed...I just love crispy sheets
     
  11. Master of Nuhn

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    Silv :lol:
    Flix: How do you do that? Your bedroom is a space shuttle and you set the house on fire? :p
     
  12. 8people

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    [​IMG] If you put a metal skewer through it you can bake it in half the time, Flix, perfect for when you're craving the scent of burning mattress ;)
     
  13. Barmy Army

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    I thought this was going to be a 'favourite fragrances' thread, in which case I'd choose Paul Smith Extreme.

    Just general smells though, I guess fresh coffee, sea air and all that shiz... and I love the smell of burning leaves. Dunno why!
     
  14. Master of Nuhn

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    I don't really know what that smells like, but it makes sense, I guess, because I also like the scent of burning wood, as in bonfires etc.

    When I was young, we had a small, wooden shed in our garden. The wood was impregnated with something that smelled nice, but I don't know what the stuff was. It was some sort of tar or other stuff.
     
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    Ofelix The world changes, we do not, what irony!

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    typo; it should read bread... It also reminds me of a Rammstein song "Wollt Irh das Bett in Flammen sehen" -- Do you want to see the bed in flames. :shake:
     
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  16. Dice

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    I don't know, fresh baked bed sounds pretty good. :p . It sounds like Silvery knows how to prepare it best.

    I love the smell of freshly mown grass.
    Earth dug up when planting a garden.
    Lavender, the essential oil, worn as a perfume.
    Chopped fresh garlic
    Fields of wild clover
    Gasoline
    Coming rain
    and Lime zest
     
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    Wet dog and dog smells in general. Many a good childhood memory related to various dog smells.
     
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    Ahh... my favorite sense!

    Some have been mentioned: the smell of a storm in the air, coffee, rich black dirt, old books, wood fires, vanilla and leather.

    Others I like: dragon's blood incense, patchouli oil, amber, sandalwood, and wet, rotting leaves (not burning ones, although since I like wood fires I probably like burning leaves -- I just haven't really smelled burning leaves in a very, very long time).
     
  19. Harbourboy

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    I second the wife's homemade bread.
     
  20. Barmy Army

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    How do you know what LKD's wifes bread smells like?!
     
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