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Smells you love

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Sage.... when the stuffing has just been made and the aroma of sage drifts through …. epitome of Christmas. Also makes a good antiseptic wash so the aroma of healing


  • Registered Users Posts: 532 ✭✭✭Turquoise Hexagon Sun


    Was out doing some street photography last night. Some of the restaurants passed I had a lovely smell of fried garlic wafting out of then. It was a real comfort smell on a windy, cold night.


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,132 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    miamee wrote: »
    My new Yankee Candle "Christmas Cookie". It smells good enough to eat, I haven't lit it yet but it's so yum I think I better have some cookies on standby :pac:

    I have this one too... it's soooo good! I love the Yankee Candle "Snow In Love"

    I also use wax melts from Designer Soy Wax Melts, they smell INCREDIBLE and the company is a small Irish company so win win.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Hyacinths... essence of sheer fragrance

    I forced a trio of blue and they started to open on January 7th. our Orthodox Christmas Day. Utter deep fragrant glory.

    Echoes and memories from decades ago. A perfume of every Christmas past


  • Registered Users Posts: 870 ✭✭✭barney shamrock


    Petrol.
    I'd wear it as aftershave if it wasn't for the ridiculous safety issues. :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,046 ✭✭✭pavb2


    On the subject of smells bringing back memories I used to go to school in Aston, Birmingham. I can still smell the HP sauce factory even today the stench kicked in from about half a mile away, add to this the smell from the Ansells brewery which was about a minutes walk from HP, the competing odours of molasses and hops would cling to your clothes and literally knock you out, it was truly intoxicating


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52,781 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Rashers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,369 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Tinsel. Really unique smell that you don't really get anymore coz people don't really use tinsel these days, but reminds me of Christmas as a kid. The day my mum would bring the decorations out to put up, the smell was really powerful and it meant santy season was starting.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 438 ✭✭The_Dave


    The smell of the air as you leave work to take some time off


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,294 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Haven't smelled it in probably 40 years, but was always very fond of the smell of the 'Flying Dragon (Horse?)' crayons Hector Grey used to sell.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    The smell of a turkey cooking in the oven on Christmas is one I'll always hold dearly. The Mother always did it from Christmas Eve and I've such fond memories triggered by that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,987 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    New sawn timber
    Petrichor
    Cut grass
    Sun dried laundry.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6 NanaBob22


    Damp graveyards.
    New Socks.
    Creosote.


  • Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭ClydeTallyBump


    Jasmine incense cones and that fresh rain smell after a humid day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,817 ✭✭✭Darc19


    spurious wrote: »
    Haven't smelled it in probably 40 years, but was always very fond of the smell of the 'Flying Dragon (Horse?)' crayons Hector Grey used to sell.

    Wasn't it a giraffe? Good petroleum smell. :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,528 ✭✭✭ShaShaBear


    Petrol
    Petrichor
    Industrial plastic packaging
    Firelighters
    Wild rose/Rose geranium (that Turkish Delight scent)
    New babies (specifically their skin and hair)
    Coty L'aimant perfume (ironically my husband absolutely adores the smell too, but had never smelled it before he met me)
    Freshly-cooked steak with hot pepper sauce on it.

    I wonder if there's a reason so many people are actively drawn to those chemical/petrol/flammable smells?


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,132 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Firelighters is a good one, I love the smell of a BBQ and freshly cut grass too.


  • Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭ClydeTallyBump


    Loughc wrote: »
    Firelighters is a good one, I love the smell of a BBQ and freshly cut grass too.

    Love freshly cut grass too!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35 RLF71


    Honeysuckle and a nice musk perfume on a woman.


  • Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭ClydeTallyBump


    RLF71 wrote: »
    Honeysuckle and a nice musk perfume on a woman.

    I used to love the smell of honeysuckle! It is years since I smelled it. I wish you could google smells.:)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 252 ✭✭hgfj


    Napalm in the morning


  • Registered Users Posts: 8 EasterSheep


    The smell of a freshly made cheese pizza


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 402 ✭✭neutral guy


    Smell of sea which leave salt on lips
    Smell of pine in a forest and smell of real Cristmas tree
    Smell of hot tarmac in airport in Portugal and kerosine in airport
    Smell of rain from wet tarmac after rain storm at hot summer
    Most favorite is the smell of snow and winter wind


  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Buttery toast


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,132 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Buttery toast

    There's nothing like the smell of Buttery toast to make you want to have toast.

    Same with fresh popcorn in the cinemas.


  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Loughc wrote: »
    There's nothing like the smell of Buttery toast to make you want to have toast.

    Same with fresh popcorn in the cinemas.

    I used to wonder did they pump out the smell of popcorn to get people to go into the cinema, it's hard to resist!


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,132 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    I used to wonder did they pump out the smell of popcorn to get people to go into the cinema, it's hard to resist!

    They always make sure fresh popcorn is on the go and they do it to make you buy the popcorn. And it’s a fact. I used to work in a cinema :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Marigolds.. ie calendula. Not a sweet scent ; spicy and very individual,.


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,132 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Smell of pulled pork or Lamb in a slow cooker.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    Freshly brewed ground coffee, flowers and fresh sea air!


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 2,159 Mod ✭✭✭✭Oink


    Imagine visiting your grandma. Smell of freshly cut grass in the garden. You open the door, and the wooden floor smells of old-style beeswax. You step in the kitchen and you smell freshly baked scones. You sit down by the fire and the smell of turf hits you. Here comes a fresh pot of tea. That works for me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    I love the smell of freshly baked scones and bread!:o:D:):cool::P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52,781 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Rashers frying.


  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    When I go outside on a cold October day and can smell the freshness, I breathe it in deep :)


  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Sunscreen :cool:


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,687 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    On my cycle to work there is a small biofuel station. The smell of the wood chips.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭jordata


    Walking the highways and by-ways this time of year I stop to inhale the coconut / vanilla scent of the Gorse bush. It is especially fragrant when the sun has warmed it up a little.


  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I got a new candle today and it's a combination of my favourite smells: black coffee, jasmine, and vanilla :)


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 12,435 Mod ✭✭✭✭miamee


    The smell of Autumn on the air, it's like freshly cut grass mixed with a cool breeze and something else



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,023 ✭✭✭sporina


    the smell thats produced with angle grinding/welding.. hmmm



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,212 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home




  • Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭Sunny_Arms


    is it a psychological study? or maybe even a psychiatric one?



  • Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭Sunny_Arms


    fresh coffee (mostly the smell of coffee when you enter a coffee shop)

    lavender

    vanilla

    smell of books (especially newly opened and old books)

    baby powder on skin

    baby smell

    the wet earth after it rains

    rice cooking



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    The other day walking through the corridor in my job there was a distinct smell..it's like a mixture of the coldness from the walls and an area not in use...that's the only way I can describe it.

    Its a nuetral kind of smell but straight away it reminded me of other jobs I've worked in and a feeling of that time.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    The aroma of home- made ie in the making- chicken soup simmering gently on a chill morning.... mmmmmm!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭sam t smith


    My own farts.

    Sometimes they are spicy, in a good way.

    I don’t recall ever not liking the smell of one of my own farts, even the really rough ones or the ones with follow through.

    Of course you can’t resist smelling them. Who here hasn’t given themselves a ‘dutch oven’ to get the full effect?



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