Bromine. It’s what they treat the water with on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland, and the smell puts my mind on vacation
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Chlorine and florine
Coffee and vanilla.
There are literally no flaws with either of those smells
My grandmother's closet - old wood, old clothes, and mothballs
I got a brief flash of a Ren and Stimpy close-up of a nostril sucking in mothballs, from reading this comment.
But jokes aside, I can imagine that smell becoming a core memory down the road and will hit with instant nostalgia whenever you smell something similar.
I remember the smell of my Grandmother's house every time I hear the song Teardrop by Massive Attack. I'm 9 years old, and I'm watching MTV, sitting on the living room carpet.
I love the smell of grains being unloaded from a truck into a silo.
The air on a crisp Halloween dusk back in 1988.
Skunk. From a very safe distance, of course. But I love it when you can smell one, somewhere nearby.
Stinky dogs.
They smell like friendship
Stockmar crayons.
roses
Diesel fuel is a pretty awesome smell 🔥
diesel exhaust
Seaweed
Freshly baked bread.
Oh yes that is literally always good
- The smell in the air after a rain on a warm spring day.
- The smell in the air of wood smoke on a freaking cold winter day.
That first one is called petrichor
Creosote on a hot summer day.
Reminds me of the amusement park when I was little. There were a lot of railroad ties used as retaining walls there.
Napalm in the morning.
Coffee
Firewood drying in the sun appeals to me, but it's generally a quite mild smell. If there's a breeze, it probably is undetectable.
My girlfriend's cooking
There are these yellow flowers that grow on vines around here. They smell excellent.
I used to taste honeysuckles as a kid.
core memory unlocked
Pine and fir needles.
Fresh out of the oven bread Coffee Pipe tobacco Cigar shops
Baking bread. The smell right after a summer shower. Books. Diesel exhaust on a cold day. Don't ask on that last one, it's weird I know, but I love it.
Brand new tires
Chlorine on my skin after going to the pool.
I like the smell of jergins shampoo from like 30 years ago. My mom, who died when I was 23, used it when I was growing up, and I haven’t smelled it in literally decades, but I’d know it if I smelled it again, because it’s impossible to mistake for anything else, but you try really hard to figure out what the smell is. Pretty sure it died in the early 2000s (apparently it’s still available but I have no hope it smells the same, because I haven’t had a whiff in so long.. last time was on a bus around 2002)
It had a very unique… tangy? smell that wasn’t floral or fruity or musky or anything. It was just its own very specific smell. Probably all man made chemicals. But it contains volumes of memories.
Interestingly, I still don’t like her perfume (dune from like 1990-2004). I have 2 bottles of it, and I find it very unappealing. It smells like her, sure, but I don’t like it. I sniff the bottle every now and then, for memories. But they are adult memories. The jergins is childhood memories.
If anyone has a really old bottle of jergins floating around, I’d pay money for it..
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Corn chip puppy smell!
The smell a candle makes when it’s put out.
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