The smells of Ireland

OU812 · 04-03-2013 03:18PM #1

Was talking to a mate who emigrated last year (he's in the US).

He was telling me one of the things he really misses are the smells.

It's probably psychosomatic, but he says that pubs, sausages cooking & the air don't smell the same.

I know you can sometimes get a smell if Guinness are brewing, but can't say I recognise a pub smell in a blind smell test.

Anyway, it got me thinking, apart from the smell of peat fires and maybe countryside.

What do you think the "smells of Ireland" are?

(Obligitary Guinness farts mention)

brummytom · 04-03-2013 03:18PM

Manure. Everywhere.

elefant · 04-03-2013 03:19PM

I don't miss the smells, but one thing I missed without realising (until i returned home to visit) is being able to see the stars in the night sky.
The sky at night isn't the same in a big city. I never appreciated the beauty of it before.

Celly Smunt · 04-03-2013 03:20PM

Smell of roses off some peoples shit is baffling when walking around.

Anyone · 04-03-2013 03:21PM

The smell of benji.

Cantona's Collars · 04-03-2013 03:21PM

Passed a guy spreading slurry earlier,can't say I'd miss that smell.

Tabnabs · 04-03-2013 03:22PM

I remember that summer in Dublin,
And the Liffey as it stank like hell,
And young people walking down Grafton Street,
Everyone looking so well.
I was singing a song I heard somewhere,
Called "Rock'n'Roll Never Forget",
When my humming was smothered by the 46A,
And the scream of a low flying jet.
So, I jumped on a bus to Dun Laoghaire,
Stopping off to pick up my guitar,
When a drunk on a bus told me how to get rich,
I was glad we weren't going too far.

Rose coloured glasses...

gobnaitolunacy · 04-03-2013 03:27PM

Turf smoke is getting rare now, so I'd have to go with cowsh*t.

Grayson · 04-03-2013 03:27PM

OU812 wrote: »

I know you can sometimes get a smell if Guinness are brewing, but can't say I recognise a pub smell in a blind smell test.

I do love that smell.

The liffey on a bad day can smell like something crawled up mary harneys arse, died, then she ate it, and now she's got the runs because of it.

Grayson · 04-03-2013 03:28PM

zerks wrote: »

Passed a guy spreading slurry earlier,can't say I'd miss that smell.

Dunno if it's because of where I grew up but all the farmers spread pig slurry. A proper culchie can identify different types of sh1t by smell.

gobnaitolunacy · 04-03-2013 03:31PM

Grayson wrote: »

Dunno if it's because of where I grew up but all the farmers spread pig slurry. A proper culchie can identify different types of sh1t by smell.

Depends on where you are, chicken/poultry sh*t being spread has to be the worst smelling stuff.

Banjo String · 04-03-2013 03:32PM

Grayson wrote: »

Dunno if it's because of where I grew up but all the farmers spread pig slurry. A proper culchie can identify different types of sh1t by smell.

Hen slurry is the devils own concoction, completely and utterly rank.

Edit, beaten to it ^

Chuck Stone · 04-03-2013 03:34PM

The smell of the coast as you approach in the car on a warm summer's afternoon.

Walking into your Ma's house and being met with the smell of a chicken roasting in the oven.

Frolick · 04-03-2013 03:35PM

Mold... Wet mold

Ava_e · 04-03-2013 03:36PM

The smell of coffee when walking by Bewelys on Grafton Street always made me want to go in, especially on a winters day when the had the fires lighting beside the snugs. St Stephens Green in the summer when the flowers are in bloom and you get the lovely scent of the blossoms in the air when you're lying down in the grass during lunch break, can't be beat.

Grayson · 04-03-2013 03:36PM

gobnaitolunacy wrote: »

Depends on where you are, chicken/poultry sh*t being spread has to be the worst smelling stuff.

SamHall wrote: »

Hen slurry is the devils own concoction, completely and utterly rank.

Edit, beaten to it ^

We had chickens when I was a kid and the smell of that coop in the middle of summer would make your eyes water.

cloud493 · 04-03-2013 03:37PM

Cigarette smoke. Not in a bad way.

Aidric · 04-03-2013 03:37PM

Smell of seaweed.

Seedy Arling · 04-03-2013 03:37PM

SamHall wrote: »

Hen slurry is the devils own concoction, completely and utterly rank.

Edit, beaten to it ^

Vile, a smell that will leave a taste in your mouth.

Banjo String · 04-03-2013 03:39PM

I miss the smell of naplam in the mornings.

.Henry Sellers. · 04-03-2013 03:40PM

The smell of a fresh early summer morning, when the dew is still on the grass and there's not a cloud in the sky for miles.

OU812 · 04-03-2013 03:45PM

Actually a rise tinted glasses one for myself.

The smell of my grandfather's pipe.

26 years since I smelled it

B0jangles · 04-03-2013 03:45PM

OU812 wrote: »

Was talking to a mate who emigrated last year (he's in the US).

He was telling me one of the things he really misses are the smells.

It's probably psychosomatic, but he says that pubs, sausages cooking & the air don't smell the same.

I felt the same after spending a few months living in Chicago - when the wind blows off the lake it smells muddy, and when it blows off the land it smells dusty and tired.

When I came home it was late summer and I stood on the doorstep of the house at twilight for about half an hour just smelling the air - I live in a town but it's close enough to the countryside that I could smell fields, woods, gorse flowers and of course, the sea.

That's when I really felt that I had come home again.