Cats. Their natural oils smell like fresh laundry!
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Marijuana. And by association, dead skunk (it smells like strong weed/strong weed smells like dead skunk 🤷🏻♂️)
Light BO. A day after sweating at work, great. If you haven't bathed in a week; 🤮
Whatever the Rock is cooking.
Sun bathed skin, forests(both the humid ones and the dry herby ones), baked bread, lily of the valley flowers, and many other flowers.
Pot/weed. I understand why non-partakers dont care for it but I gotta get a sniff whenever opening a new bag
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Coming into the house when it is very cold and snowy outside and smelling bread baking in the oven.
Halls cough drops remind me of my grandfather, specifically the cherry ones.
That's really sweet
Lilacs
Summer rain
Petrichor?
Learned a new word today, thanks. Yes.
Freshly cut Ytong blocks. Ink of ballpoint pens.
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.
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 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 of freshly cooked rice.
Rain. Baby head. Books
Cheese toastie
Well I didn't want to boast but I do smell lovely
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!
Wet concrete. Diesel. I think coffee smells way better than it tastes (unlike the other two).
Edit: the top of my cats head
I like the smell of petrol too
You like the taste of diesel and wet concrete?
That was the implied joke, yes. (For clarity, I think I have tasted wet concrete before as a kid, I have not tasted diesel)
The first time you fire up a brand new toaster creates this incredible smell that I've only experienced like 3 times in my life.
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Imminent snow, petrichor, the damp forest on a warm afternoon, sawdust/cut wood, ozone during/after thunderstorm, after a fireworks show (burned black powder).
When you are driving through the countryside and you start to smell cow shit. I fucking love it.
My dad used to say this to me and I never understood it until I got older.
Sunscreen, sun-soaked basil, and new electronics.
Nothing beats the smell of a subwoofer on its first run.
Alfalfa.
A fresh bag of weed, especially ones that are high in limonene.
oil paint, cigarettes, and laphroaig
[but I had to quit most of those]
My sneezes (when I'm not sick)
The smell of minced garlic and onion as they're cooking.
I've heard that some restaurants do this the first thing in the morning just to attract customers.
If my pipe dream of a restaurant/pizzeria/spice shop ever comes alive, I'll be doing this for sure. Because damn, it's a great idea!
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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.
I'd love to travel to India and smell this.
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.
Real leather, freshly cut wood, most fragrant flowers (especially Lillies, Jasmine, Sweet Peas and Roses), petrichor, garlic, freshly cut grass