Favorite Smells

I'm unfortuntely allergic to most artificial scents so it has to be natural now.

Baking bread
Coffee
Vanilla
The ocean
Wood smoke
Baby powder
The musty smell of old books, antique stores or an attic
A bakery!
 

I like the smell of lavender and herbs, particularly thyme, rosemary and mint. I also have some perfumes I favour too like Anais Anais.
 

jujube said:
Diesel Fumes. Reminds me of the three months I spent bumming around Europe as a teenager. All European cities smelled like diesel fumes. Also, the smell of diesel fumes bring back Turkey, where I lived for 2 1/2 years. Diesel fumes = youth and adventure/exotic locations.
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I hear ya! I even like the smell of hot tar when they are paving the roads. :confused: Can't yet place the connection to the past, but there must be some. Or, maybe I'm just weird.:)
 
NancyNGA said:
I hear ya! I even like the smell of hot tar when they are paving the roads. :confused: Can't yet place the connection to the past, but there must be some. Or, maybe I'm just weird.:)
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Hot tar is definitely a childhood memory. They'd tar our road and then spread a layer of small gravel over it. The tar would bubble up through the gravel in hot weather. As we seldom wore shoes in the summertime, we'd get tar on our feet. My mom had a bottle of gasoline and a rag sitting on the back porch. We weren't allowed in the house until we had cleaned the tar off our feet with a gasoline-soaked rag and washed them with the hose. Hot tar = summertime fun and no school/no shoes. Gas fumes = probably why I'm getting senile now - lol!
 
NancyNGA said:
I hear ya! I even like the smell of hot tar when they are paving the roads. :confused: Can't yet place the connection to the past, but there must be some. Or, maybe I'm just weird.:)
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The smell of hot tar is supposed to be good for you if you have a chesty cough. When my sisters and I were kids my mother put a small tar burner in our bedrooms if we had a cough to ease it. I managed to knock it over one day all over my bare foot, VERY PAINFUL!:(
 
Here`s my donkey Jezebel. She`s the one inside the fence-the one on the outside is the neighbor`s donkey, Tony, who comes to visit once in a while. Jez is a Mammoth Donkey-the largest of the donkey breeds. She is as big as a horse. Sweetest animal ever!
 

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jujube said:
Hot tar is definitely a childhood memory. They'd tar our road and then spread a layer of small gravel over it. The tar would bubble up through the gravel in hot weather. As we seldom wore shoes in the summertime, we'd get tar on our feet. My mom had a bottle of gasoline and a rag sitting on the back porch. We weren't allowed in the house until we had cleaned the tar off our feet with a gasoline-soaked rag and washed them with the hose. Hot tar = summertime fun and no school/no shoes. Gas fumes = probably why I'm getting senile now - lol!
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Great story, jujube.

My father worked at a factory where they made tires. His clothes always smelled like rubber when he came home from work. Rubber smell always brings back good memories, too.
 
The problem with tar - more properly termed coal-tar pitch, derived from the coal coking process - is that it contains many carcinogens (PAHS - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons), somewhere on the order of 200 of them, and can be a long-term health threat.
 
Me want donkey! Sure we live in a urban area. Makes it easier, I could walk into town hall and call my donkey a retriever mix and they wouldn't even blink...next

Another fragrance that I miss this time of the year is the garden. Not just the flowers but the smell of the earth, the plants all have a unique scent as you prune them, the grass...oh definitely cut grass, reminds me of sitting outside as a kid and my Dad would work in the yard.
 
Smells

By Christopher Morley

WHY is it that the poet tells
So little of the sense of smell?
These are the odors I love well:

The smell of coffee freshly ground;
Or rich plum pudding, holly crowned;
Or onions fried and deeply browned.

The fragrance of a fumy pipe;
The smell of apples, newly ripe;
And printer's ink on leaden type.

Woods by moonlight in September
Breathe most sweet, and I remember
Many a smoky camp-fire ember.

Camphor, turpentine, and tea,
The balsam of a Christmas tree,
These are whiffs of gramarye. . .
A ship smells best of all to me!

To these, I would add eucalyptus trees and new babies.
 
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Mrs. Robinson said:
Here`s my donkey Jezebel. She`s the one inside the fence-the one on the outside is the neighbor`s donkey, Tony, who comes to visit once in a while. Jez is a Mammoth Donkey-the largest of the donkey breeds. She is as big as a horse. Sweetest animal ever!
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I always wanted a donkey.

My great-grandfather had a big plow mule named Bess who was meaner than a snake. She was retired from the plow and older than sin, but Paw kept her around for old times sake. I was scared to death of her as she'd just as soon bite a hunk out of you as look at you.
 
I read somewhere that none of our senses bring back memories as easily as smell. Here's an article.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/body-odd/smells-nostalgia-why-do-scents-bring-back-memories-f895521

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/08/06/smells-trigger-memories.aspx

The smell in an antique or used book store reminds me of my great aunts house. Her house didn't smell like that but the attic did and the unused back bedrooms and her house was filled with antiques. Very pleasant memories. The smell of a bakery can bring back memories of the bakery she owned.
 
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