We have a linen closet that for a time in my childhood was emptied out and made to serve as the “Nintendo room”, containing an NES hooked up to an old Commodore 64 monitor. I still associate that fabric/crafty smell with 8-bit gaming.
I also love the smell of sun soaked dog fur.
Sagebrush after a summer rain
Petrichor.
I don’t know whether anyone else smells this, because I never hear people talk about it.
Some time in November, no matter the weather, there will be this empty, metallic, crisp, clean burning smell. I usually only catch whiffs of it a few times. It’s how I gauge when winter is here.
Maybe this is just how winter smells and I get noseblind to it quickly?
It could be someone near you doing a controlled burn of their fields. IDK why farmers do it but I know it’s a thing. I can sometimes smell it where I am though I am not a huge fan of whatever it is we burn around here.
Greasy pepperoni pizza with a hint of cardboard, live rosemary, the first few times smelling rain and dirt after winter, cold winter air, green tea, so many things
The smell of rain in a forest.
The small space on the back of my bunny’s head, right in between their ears. My first boy smelled so good and he loved when I did that. It smells even better when they have been sitting next to a window, my current boy is a lionhead mix and that spot always smells so good.
My tiny girl is very sassy and doesn’t let me smell her much, but once in a while she will. It’s always the best smell.
Fresh mint. Oh my goodness does it smell amazing.
My backyard is a monument to the hubris of gardeners past, which is to say that it’s overrun with mint. I do enjoy the smell though. Especially freshly mowed 😌
Campfire
Skin after the swimming pool (gentle chlorine smell), flourine, curry, my wife’s hair, freshly baked bread, roast chicken, clothes that have been dried outside.
I couldn’t narrow it down to one. So far I have:
Freshly cut grass, freshly baked bread, a real christmas tree, pipe/cigar smoke, aviation fuel, sunscreen, candyfloss, fresh linen, the sea air, Indian food, corrainder, fresh coffee and the smell of a BBQ.
Tomato plants. Pet fur. Orange blossom. Generic institution bathroom cleaner. Seaweed. My partner’s clean breath
Taking a hit out of my cats fur after a long stressful day is the best relaxation technique I’ve found
Water. Whether it’s ocean water, creek water, water on trees in the woods, spring rain, summer rain, fall rain (they all have different scents), or the smell of rain from miles away mixed with ozone from summer storms, even lightly chlorinated pool water can smell good in the right circumstances.
That and my cats fur. He always either smells like clean laundry, even if he’s been nowhere near any laundry, or if it’s a windy day and he’s been sitting at the window he smells like fresh air.
The smell of firing up a brand new toaster. It’s a very particular smell and an extremely rare one. I think I’ve only smelled it 3 times in my entire life. That’s less than once a decade.
CK1. Had some when I was a teenager, forgot about it for 20 years, now whenever I smell it I am instantly transported (sadly not literally) back to a more simple time before I completely fucked my life up.
fuel rich exhaust from an old truck with cigarette smoke.
if I’m lucky I’ll smell it once every few years and it sends me back to the handful of good memories I had with my father.
otherwise it’s fresh cut pine lumber from a construction site with early morning dew and dirt.
Ah yes, those god awful smells that your brain tells you are nice because of nostalgia. So funny how the brain works. 🥰
Although I used to like the smell of car exhaust when I was a kid, without nostalgia. That’s a bit weird.
