Campfire, and the smell of woodsmoke on clothing the day after.
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Grass, lily and petrichor.
Bonus points if all combined :)
I hate the taste of coffee but the smell is heavenly
Like walking past a Starbucks.
Or the coffee isle in the grocery store
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Cheap old books, when the paper turns brittle and yellow or even orange.
The way libraries used to smell before they became homeless shelters. Not hating on anyone who needs a warm place to be. Just sucks it falls to the libraries to be that place.
My dachshund's feet. Seriously. They smell something like popcorn sometimes.
My chicken after she's been dust bathing, or when it rains.
The dust bathing brings in an earthy note to her natural birdy scent. She just smells like a little nature spirit might, if such things were real.
When it rains, she's usually under cover (though sometimes she gets out into it), but she's picks to the petrichor aroma of rain and soil. She'll carry that scent all evening usually, so when she comes inside and is nestled up next to me, there's the normal bird smell, but also that rich aroma that a gentle rain brings, that usually fades quickly.
Mind you, I also love her normal smell, that almost dusty book, nose tickling smell of bird, colored with the mild earthiness and slight tang that's all chicken.
Luckily, she doesn't mind being sniffed occasionally :)
Bird sniffers unite!
Dogs. A place where dogs have been living has such a comforting smell to it. Also their paws smell so nice
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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.
I'm surprised no one put crayons on here yet (I don't really care either way but it seems like something that would go on this thread).
Horse feed. Sweet feed to be exact.
No one is going to say bacon?
I woke up early yesterday and the one and only reason I got out of bed instead of going back to sleep is because someone was cooking bacon and the smell made its way up to my room.
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Cedar. There's nothing like pulling a blanket out of a cedar chest and surrounding yourself in it.
Weird one, but I have pet birds. They smell AMAZING. Just stick your nose right up to their feathers and huff. They kinda smell a bit like corn chips, or laundry dried outside in the sun, dusty and earthy and warm.
I so feel that :)
Our birds are chickens, so they pick up the extra smells of grass and soil as well, but there's still that "birdiness" too, and I love it
vinegar, just can’t get enough of it
Lilacs
Salty air, leather, books, a wet or dry forest, my cat's fur, fresh bread, my homemade vanilla, coconut scented anything, woodsmoke, fresh snow, & my boo ❤️
New packs of cards when the shrinkwrap is removed.
The smell of freshly cooked rice.
Freshly harvested cannabis is my favorite smell, far and away
Lots of nice smells, but I'll just list a stranger one I like. Dry hay.
Pizza cooking in the oven. Fresh laundry. Slight electrical warm smell of a heater (not burning). Petrichor mixed with city smells. Smell of asphalt in the sun (takes me back to childhood and drawing with chalk with a childhood friend).
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Cooking bell peppers on a frying pan. Add onions and it's even better.
2-stroke mopeds
Cut grass, gas/petrol, books.. lots of smells really. Some weirder than others :3
Since it's the time for planting tomatoes where I live, I'll also point them out as smelling nice
Coffee. Fresh roasted coffee smells heavenly.
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.
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Cats. Their natural oils smell like fresh laundry!
The beach.
That smell that tells you it's Spring.
Fresh bread.
Gasoline.
Bleach.
That head shop incense smell.
The smell of detergent or fabric softener from a nearby house doing laundry.
Whatever that syrup is they use for canned peaches and fruit salad cups.
Allll of my partner. Mmmmm.