Smells.

IKE

IKE

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Oklahoma....U.S.A.
I'm not one to go around sniffing flowers but I do like some smells.

Like;

1. fresh mowed grass.

2. the smell of rain.

3. gasoline (sometimes).

4. the smell of the house with a stuffed turkey baking on Thanksgiving Day.

5. opening a new can of coffee.

6. walking in the local bread shop.

Got any favorite smells ?
 

I like fresh mowed grass, rain and fresh coffee too Ike. Also wood or charcoal fires and bacon frying.
 
When I was a child, my father worked in the tire warehouse of the co-op. He occaisionally would take me to work with him on a weekend and I spent hours playing in and around all the tires. To this day the smell of rubber takes me back to simpler times.

Diesel exhaust on a frigid morning
The combination of oil, gas, hot metal, and the organic smells that combine to create the scent of a farm shop
 
Ike, I like several of yours, well, maybe except for the gas. Odd thing is, I like the ground coffee smell, but never drink the stuff. I also like fresh cooking spaghetti sauce. Turkey dinner as well. And the saltwater sea smell. I also will open a window if I see someone sawing a tree, or running tree through a wood chipper.
 
Pumpkin pie,it reminds me that the holidays are on the way. Burning leaves,we always burned our leaves in the fall. The smell of WD-40, the hubby and son use it once in awhile around the house. My Grandma loved the smell of a skunk. I guess she had a strange sense of smell.
 
I like all of the smells mentioned except for gasoline, garlic, and moth balls. Both sets of Grandparents burned coal for heat and cooking and I love the smell. And, a barn full of hay smells great. Neither of these were a part of my suburban childhood. I love the smell of a pine and fir forest, and a campfire doesn't hurt, especially if you throw pine cones in it. I can't say that I love diesel exhaust, but it does bring back memories of submarine duty.

Don
 
Butterfly -- The last time I bought Old Spice aftershave, this was on the box: If Grandpa hadn't used this, you wouldn't be here.

If it was good enough for Grandpa, it's good enough for me.

Oh! And one smell I forgot, Grandma's fresh baked bread. Heaven.

Don
 
Grampa Don said:
Butterfly -- The last time I bought Old Spice aftershave, this was on the box: If Grandpa hadn't used this, you wouldn't be here.

If it was good enough for Grandpa, it's good enough for me.

Oh! And one smell I forgot, Grandma's fresh baked bread. Heaven.

Don
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Funny, I hadn't even thought about Old Spice in years. I guess it's still out there?

And I love the smell of bread baking, too. I bake my own bread, and there's no smell as homey and comforting than bread baking.
 
I haven't held a baby in many, many moons but I can remember the fresh, clean and innocent smell of a infant.

That's about all of my softer side I wish to share. :)
 
RadishRose said:
What was it, in gasoline from when we were small children that somehow smelled good? It disappeared a long time ago,, but I never knew what it was.
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[FONT=q_serif]It is due the presence of a hydrocarbon called Benzene - the colorless and highly flammable liquid with a sweet scent. Even in a quantity of 1 in a million part, a whiff of air is sufficient for human senses to identify it. For the same reasons, benzene was used as an after-shave lotion in the 19th and early-20th centuries.

Anyways, benzene's presence in the gasoline is primarily to boost its octane rating. The sweet smell comes as a bonus!
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I love the smell of fresh lilacs in the spring. They don't last long, but they are so nice. When I was little, we had many bushes of lilacs.[/FONT]
 
Pappy said:
[FONT=q_serif]It is due the presence of a hydrocarbon called Benzene - the colorless and highly flammable liquid with a sweet scent. Even in a quantity of 1 in a million part, a whiff of air is sufficient for human senses to identify it. For the same reasons, benzene was used as an after-shave lotion in the 19th and early-20th centuries.

Anyways, benzene's presence in the gasoline is primarily to boost its octane rating. The sweet smell comes as a bonus!
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I love the smell of fresh lilacs in the spring. They don't last long, but they are so nice. When I was little, we had many bushes of lilacs.[/FONT]
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Thanks Pappy. Benzene! After reading your post I even remember the word "octane". I used to stick my head out of the car window when my father got a fill-up.
 
We learned this one in high school.

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!



I had to look up "gramarye." It's an old English synonym for magic or enchantment.
 

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