What is your all time favorite smell?

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dragonfly forty-six Profile

Bread baking in my oven.

Misty Law Profile
Misty Law answered

Fresh cut hay, fire and old books and my best friends perfume. They are all a tie

Sane Mori Profile
Sane Mori answered

Coffee :3 It smells so good!

Victor Reine Profile
Victor Reine answered

I like the smell of Cigarettes. I know it's bad for you, I just REALLY like it.

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My best friend used to smoke. Whenever I smell cigarettes I think of him. He is doing his residency in Corpus Christi. I wish I could hug him and smell those American Spirits on his clothes. He recently started smoking cigars. I think it's a prop to go with his Doctor status. It's not the same. I get it, Victor.
Linilla Schmidt
Linilla Schmidt commented
I never smoked, myself, but in my youth I'd read somewhere that the smell of cigarette smoke, while out of doors helped to keep your focus better on track during a conversation. From then on I didn't mind the smell of smoke outside. This is back in the 60s and 70s. My parents smoked then, too, and it ment they were present. I taught my kids that some good people (still) smoke, and to try not to judge. Most smokers stop at one point. Sooner .... or later.
Linilla Schmidt
Linilla Schmidt commented
A newly wall-papered room. My dad was a painter /paper hanger. Maybe wall-papering is a dying art.

The smell of butter in a pan comes in as a close second: I could fry liver in a pan that has butter in it, and the kids thought I was making pancakes!! I have a really good liver recipe BTW that invloves cutting really thin slices and letting them sit in milk for ½ an hour before you dry them and they hit the pan for 2 min. with salt and pepper.
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Danae Hitch answered

Fresh bread baking. Cinnamon. Chocolate chip cookies. Lastly, my son's cologne - it's so weird he's old enough to smell all pretty for the ladies!

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Ancient Hippy answered

If I close my eyes and concentrate really hard, I can smell my grand mothers house. The slight odor of Ben Gay, moth balls and weinersnitchel cooking in the kitchen. That sounds kind of stanky but it just warms me all over with the memories of the safe and content feelings I always had there.

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Didge Doo answered

I'll add a vote for fresh baked bread.

My school was just down the road from a baker's and every morning I walked past that shop and savoured that aroma. That was in the 1940s and I can still remember it.

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Yo Kass answered

Smell is such an underrated sense when you think about it...

The smell of a sizzling bbq and a summer sea breeze are the first two things that come to mind, but there are many others!

Linilla Schmidt Profile
Linilla Schmidt answered

The smell of a newly wall-papered room, which I haven't smelt in years. Well, my dad was a painter /paper hanger by trade.  Maybe wall-papering is a dying art, so not everybody knows this aroma. The scent of the wallpaper paste seems so first-day-of school like and definitely smells  like a fresh start.

The smell of butter in a pan comes in as a close second:  I could fry liver in a pan that has butter in it, and the kids thought I was making pancakes!! I have a really good liver recipe BTW that invloves cutting really thin slices and letting them sit in milk for ½ an hour before you dry them and they hit the pan for 2 min.  With salt and pepper.


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