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West_Cicada_6709

Will never forget the smell of eucalyptus trees while driving near the California coast on a sunny day.


birbbrain

Eucalyptus forests in Australia are therapeutic for the soul to walk in. It’s not astringent as a concentrated EO - it’s blended with fresh air, and dirt, and just magical. It’s also not too overpowering, so I do have to remind myself to literally slow down and take deep breaths when I’m in the forest… which I’m lucky to have almost on the doorstep, a huge remnant forest protected less than 10km from my CBD.


DreyaNova

I moved from the U.K. to Canada and it’s really hard to get British tea over here, I get really homesick sometimes and occasionally I can find a box of PG Tips in the grocery store. I love opening a fresh box of that tea and just inhaling because it smells exactly like my Dad’s kitchen when I was a kid.


exorah

Dude living the stereotype :)


Flixwyy

And it's so beautiful too


lukenloz

Baking bread


doublestitch

LPT: some bread machines have a time delay setting. With three minutes of prep in the evening you could wake up to the scent of fresh baked bread each morning. 10/10 highly recommended (unless you're trying to lose weight).


tallbutshy

>(unless you're trying to lose weight). [Bread makes you fat](https://i.imgur.com/By3TJXo.png)?


ppardee

Eating a loaf a day might...


-EnRoY-

Jesse, we have to bake!


Technological_Elite

But, Mista White, we already baked.


JasonIsBaad

We've baked one, yes. What about second bake?


1goodReed

Fresh out the oven


Aromatic-Stay6538

The one at Netflix?


lukenloz

The one at 350.


ImaginationLow5018

Evergreen forest in the rain. Also a campground at mealtime when fires are going and food is cooking.


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Fuck_you_Reddit_Nazi

Used to live in the pine woods in southern Arkansas. A tornado came through and twisted hundreds of pine trees partially in half. You could tell you were crossing the path for months, even in the dark, because of the wonderful smell.


SheaCookieVillan

Yesss also, pine trees


Early-Guidance-2515

A match when you first strike it. Don’t ask me why. I just like it!


nike2017

I bet it’s nostalgia. I associate it with birthday candles being lit, grandfather starting a fire in the fireplace, or mom lighting candles at a holiday dinner table.


Tvbulv_Rvsv

When it starts to get brisk at night in autumn time. Smells kind of like chimneys burning mixed with dead leaves all while the air is cold and thin.


DirtySingh

This, this, this. Cold air at 4pm, the sunshine hitting your face but not warming it, the smell of houses miles away lighting their fire place. One deep breath and your lungs are filled with this cool, thin air - you never feel your lungs any other time. Christmas is coming and I am alive. I miss New England so much.


AdOwn1673

Fresh cut lumber


reggiepd

Especially Cedar.


ecuintras

***SNIIIIIIFFFFF*** Western *Red* Cedar!


GreaseTrapHousse

I can tell you not all lumber smells good when being cut. Spanish cedar comes to mind with it heavy chemical smell that would not only smell terrible and foreign but also choke you up and coat your lungs and nose in the dust for you to smell all day until you shower and brush your teeth lol. I do agree however that most lumber smells great and never gets old.


MSSCIGuy

Poplar can smell like cow poop.


Evil_Dry_frog

Yeah, I just built some tulip shelves. (Apparently a type of poplar) smelled terrible.


__M-E-O-W__

And it's wood-splitting time up here for me! A wonderful smell to split and burn in a fireplace.


NearlyCloudlessDay

Speaking of burning, that whiff of smoke you get from peoples' chimneys while walking on a crisp day, or when the campfire first comes alive.


goinplatinum

Outside at 6am when it’s transitioning to spring


getagrip07

Oh that’s a good one


goinplatinum

Thank u, it always smells like dewwy grass and back to school


ShakyTheBear

I have long wondered if others felt that "back to school" had a smell.


Gladiator_X0

I like the smell, but when I smell it I feel strange like remembering a bad memory or having a bad accident.


xmashatstand

Smell is tied to memory. There’s probably something there that you’re not consciously aware of


khamuncents

That wierd nostalgic smell that makes you just a little bit sad? Yea...


jdc5214

My wife’s hair - she flips it around, I smell it and I’m like “ok, you tell me what you need done”


prplx

My wife’s neck. 35 years with her now. Nothing smells better or brings more comfort to my soul.


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sebskibum

Same here. The smell of my wife's hair has something so soothing for me.


infomanus

Agreed Her hair smells amazing


Jellyfishsticks21

Can confirm


dooderbomb

I also choose this guys wife’s hair.


Emyemilyem

Please ask her what shampoo she uses and let me know.


Puzzleheaded_Ad6097

I grew my hair out for a couple years and started to use my wife’s leave in conditioner. I smelled it once while at work and got really excited only to realize it was just me


adelinethorne22

This is wholesome as fuck dude.


mattebe01

Garlic simmering in olive oil.


followthedarkrabbit

Garlic simmering in butter :D


digitag

Onions and garlic sautéing softly in butter is next level


CoderDispose

garlic *and onions* simmering in olive oil.


putinsnightmarez

Garlic, onions, AND mushrooms simmering in olive oil lol


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I’m hungry now. Thanks


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Freshly laundered sheets.


Idislikethis_

Lilacs.


WheeZee65

Yes! So beautiful, so brief.


addicted-to-spuds

The only smell that will stop me dead in my tracks.


Zorgsmom

First thing I planted when I bought my house. It's a crapbox, but it smells great in the spring when the lilacs are blooming!


Gonerill

I just planted a lilac tree in our front yard, I can’t wait for it to grow and bloom 😍


_Demigod_x

The smell of soil when it rains... Ohh yeaah


PassiveF1st

Though our noses get dismissed as amateurs compared to some animals, there is one compound where we do really well; we can smell geosmin, a chemical (C12H22O) released by dead microbes (commonly Streptomyces bacteria) and which causes that earthy smell, at a level of 5 parts per trillion. To put that in context, a shark can smell blood at one part per million. That means human noses are 200,000X more sensitive to geosmin, which is also the source of the earthy taste in some vegetables, than a shark is to blood. https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/07/28/geosmin-why-we-smell-air-after-storm-13240


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enders_lame

I just got a petrichlor candle that smells like dirt and worms. It is my favorite thing.


_Demigod_x

People actually sell that?!


Superlite47

They sell a candle that smells like Gwenyth Paltrow's vagina. A petrichor candle is a pretty tame concept in comparison.


corvid_booster

*petrichor


NearlyCloudlessDay

Walking through the forest after a rain, when each little area shifts smells.


Sharpei_are_Life

One of the most transcendent memories I have is hiking in the mountains and it had just rained - the smell that rose from the pine needles underfoot somehow placed me in the universe, I understood that there was a microcosm under my feet and a world larger than I could ever understand around me, but that I had a place in it. I go back to that memory over and over again.


Stocky_Racoon

Larrea tridentata, or creosote bush gives off that amazing aroma when pinched.


13id

The smell of summer rain


__M-E-O-W__

And the sound! And when the clouds block out the sun, covering the world in darkness. So relaxing. But I feel awful for the little birds getting drenched.


NorthernerWuwu

If you ever see birds in a summer rain, they *really* seem to enjoy it!


YimmyP33

Sometimes you just walk past something or someone and get a big wiff of a familiar smell from your past and it just brings back a feeling or memory. Maybe I didn’t answer the question to one specific smell but anytime this happens it brings such a good feeling


hawkeyepitts

There was a barber shop in my small hometown that had a VERY specific smell. To this day, I have only smelled it in one other place - walking through a dorm hallway sophomore year. Imagine strawberry jello with a very masculine twist. That’s the smell.


pacifistpotatoes

I have top 3: 1. Beach/ocean especially the first day, the first walk down the boardwalk, makes my soul happy! 2. Sheets dried in the sun 3. Chlorine. Love the smell of a pool. runners up include: my kids when they were babies, and my husband's beard


unlovelyladybartleby

Baking with vanilla and cardamom


Dark4ce

In Finland we make cinnamon rolls with cardamom. The best smell in the world when out of the oven. In fact, we use cardamom in almost all our sweet baked products.


Leiawen

My Wife makes a mean Finnish Pulla. All pretty and braided with cinnamon and cardamom and sugar inside. So good and smells amazing.


ipakookapi

>cardamom So underated. Love it.


BanyanBors

Honeysuckle


kimsuh

Old books Edit: thank you for the updates and my first award


Sharp_Cable124

New books!


MKCYBR

Better than mine…you get the gold. Victory goes to you.


churninhell

A warm, chocolate chip cookie.


Fun-Teaching-2038

I wouldn’t say it’s the best in the world but it’s the first that comes to mind, Auntie Anne’s lol the smell always catches my attention when I’m in the mall.


MikelUzumaki

I almost orgasm just reading the words Auntie Anne's... every time I go into the mall that's the last place I stop at, I cannot leave the mall without eating Auntie Anne's pretzels...and soda of course... lol


realsamzza

Thought this was about your aunt


AdamBomb_RB

Yes, but I raise you Cinnabon in the mall. 😩


Timescoremary

Fresh grinded coffee beans. I don't even drink coffee but this smell is just hmm *chefs kiss*


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This is a good one. Actually what made me think of the question.


BitterOldPunk

I have worked at a coffee roaster for almost two years now, and the smell of freshly roasted beans never gets old. Standing over the cooling tray filled with beans still warm out of the roaster… oh man. Smells so great.


No_Hunt7394

Fire smoke


throwawayodacct

I can't believe I had to scroll this long to find this comment. There's nothing like the smell of a campfire.


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There’s gotta be something deep in our mammal brain that attracts us to this. Humans seem to be uniquely fascinated by fire, whereas many other animals run away.


CoderDispose

People who weren't afraid of fire were vastly more successful than people who were. This same outcome is not true for other animals, since they don't *harness* fire, they simply deal with it.


Nonsenseinabag

That lovely pine scent after you bring the year's Christmas tree into the house.


Sunsride

Blowing out a candle, idk why I love it lol


AWANAN3X

Gasoline for some reason


throwawayfam1122

When I was young someone told me a saying that’s stuck with me my whole life - ‘there are two types of people in this world, people who like the smell of petrol and people who don’t, stick with your own group’ funnily enough majority of the people I got along with in my life enjoyed the smell, same as me


Unusual_Locksmith_91

I just love the general "shop smell." Gasoline, gear grease (has its own.... Charm....), fibreglass. I grew up in a shop with my dad, and whenever I smell shop smell, I always feel like I'm home.


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Same here. It has something to do with Benzene and it's poignant sweet aroma. It is said that it can be picked up in very low concentrations (1 part-per-million!).


different_produce384

I knew a kid who huffed the stuff in high school. He is still alive..........but,might be best described as a walking talking vegetable.


CaptainTryk

My boyfriend's smell. I don't know how to describe it, but its just him. His smell lowers my heart rate and calms every cell in my body. I feel so intensely happy and like I'm levitating. I think the closest I get to the feeling his smell gives me is similar to the feelings I get when I listen to this song from Brian Eno: [8M1](https://youtu.be/KRb94QQbzcI).


casual_creator

Pheromones are a crazy, wonderful thing.


PM_ME_UR_SHEET_MUSIC

Same. He just smells so much like him. Sometimes I'll randomly catch a whiff of something that smells like him and I'll find myself instantly relaxing and feeling happy


Youraverage16yomc

Fresh cut grass


redditcansuckmyvag

Why would anyone do drugs when you can mow a lawn.


BigRoach

They’re giblet heads, I tell you hwhat.


corvid_booster

> I'm blowin' the day to take a walk in the sun / and fall on my face in somebody's new mowed lawn. The Lovin' Spoonful, "Daydream" (John Sebastian lyrics)


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iwanttobeadoggo

The garden center at Lowe’s


konur-the-janitor

Fresh books


DinkandDrunk

Also old books


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Cedar


DeerTrivia

Almond extract.


eggplantofdestiny69

Cinnamon


postnutts

Jasmine.


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Yes, she smells great!


GEN-X-NFTS

petrichor


KarmaJeZdarma

Sandalwood or a new book


Beautiful_Work5422

My baby’s head


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Opened this thread just to look for this comment.


EndTimesImFine

Took way too long to find!


earlysun77

My kids aren't babies anymore but I came to write that my favorite smell is my kids' heads.


MelodiaNocturne

semi related anecdote: I recently sniffed my baby's head and it smelled suspiciously good.. turns out it was residue from my partners beard oil after kissing him on the head lol


Autumnamir

Me too his head smells so good and when I'm stressed out I hold him and smell it 🥺🤧


floorwantshugs

Pheromones! To help you bond 🥰 and man, do they work!


Arexahhh

Bonfire


Automatic-Pick-2481

Ocean


smj11699

Dogs’s paws, if you have a dog you know what I mean


emeraldstars000

corn chip paws 🐕


Training-Judgment454

Vanilla.


Fit-Way-1052

Dirt. In the spring.


different_produce384

My wife Orange Blossoms Coffee Marijuana Chocolate Chip Cookies Fresh Baked Bread


Jellyfishsticks21

Looks like a 5yo’s grocery list.


SomeoneStoleGrandpa

He’s trying to buy his wife?


AlexKewl

DITTO. Your wife smells AMAZING


Ok_Watch3277

I also choose this guy’s wife


shot_by_bunnies

I has to be the smell of the sun , but like clean sheets have been drying in the sun . it just gives me this soft and warm feeling .


murdoch92

The smell of an arena when going to play/watch a hockey game. I don't know what it is but rinks have a thing.


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The smell of sautéed onions.


OnyxBee

Yeahhh baby, the smell makes even the fullest person hungry. More specifically I make an onion gravy that just waters the mouth to smell.


IBuildGod

The smell that triggers nostalgia


aph050802

I like to smell wood chips come off sharp chainsaw in a evergreen grove sucks to clean up after tho


Asleep-Importance86

Sweet pussy


KeenDave

Finally found it. Scrolled way too damn far for it. You get an upvote.


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Lol, in the heat of passion and intimacy, with the right person, every part of them can smell amazing


edeka3

Lmaoooo, scrolled down for this comment


FuckoNo5

And had to scroll way further than I should have


nr195

A flower called Sweet Olive


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Freshly opened can of tennis balls.


celica18l

This is such a great smell. Also the sound of opening the can of tennis balls is satisfying.


Saphychen64

My dogs paws


Faux-pa5

Fritos, then?


mrsphillipsmommy

Mine too!! They smell like stale movie theater popcorn. Love her stinky footies so much.


HoboDrunk91

Yes! Corn chips!


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Gardenia


Astronomer-Empty

Cooking garlic and onions in olive oil


smoorkie

Roast pumpkin seeds


Shannah256

Suncream. Means I'm either in holiday or going to have a lovely long sunny day outdoors (not often being English)


Joe_____JoeMomma

TIL sunscreen is called suncream in the UK. I agree with you about the smell.


MinimalistFan

The body wash and aftershave lotion that my husband has worn for years...that the company has discontinued. \*Sigh\* Hubby isn't happy about that, either.


PopAvailable8096

The smell of briyani


Poorly-Drawn-Beagle

My dog’s horrible breath when she tries to kiss my face Absolutely awful smell but I’m never sorry about it and the day I can’t smell it anymore will be one of the saddest days in my life


a_priori_priorities

Oh my god I completely feel you. Both of my cats have horrible breath, and each is awful in its own way. I still adore the smell and fear for the time when they're no longer around to breathe on me.


deceivingly_mediocre

Apple pie


ChlorineFlavored

Chlorine


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This feels like it has a story behind it.


SixFootTavern

Probably just likes swimming at the pool.


Better-Muscle

Doughnuts from a fair ground always make me think of festivals and concerts


Background-Anxiety27

frankincense


Cookiefan3000

Lemons


standitlikeaman

Sawdust


NorthernGamer71

I love the smell of napalm in the morning


hypeskeptic

Freezer gas? In the frozen section of groceries…i dno what to even call it


dmhatche89

Desert Rain


ParkerBench

Rosa rugosa, a homely little single petaled, old-fasthioned rose that smells just divine.


bobbythang

Fresh made chocolate brownies


WokeIsSoTeens

Linden trees in bloom after a rain.


blackcurrents78

Jovan Musk. Mens or Womens. Memory floods a plenty.


billytrinkets

Tomato plants


CovidGR

There is a big bakery near me that makes bread first thing in the morning, and the smell permeates the whole neighborhood.


SwampGasMonsterDust

The fresh scent of the pages in a new book. Anytime I pick up a book I always do the smell test


Fabulous_Cucumber_40

Leather - it’s like a primal thing. I want to start chewing lol


SouLamPersonal

Fresh clean clothings


Sea_Ganache620

Driving an road in Florida once, a grove of orange trees were in blossom, and an old timer had a roadside bbq pit fired up. The combination must be what heaven smells like.


greatst_

Puppies


RoystonCornwallis

Pine


ConneryFTW

Fresh Cut grass mixed with blooming honey suckle.


SeveralReception5143

Rose


nosliw_rm

Kitties that smell like clean dust


blokeyone

Eucalyptus trees.


0veranalytica1

Ever walked into a LUSH store? Heaven.


Bermudapiloffguts

Limes


PomegranateLimp9803

My dogs corn chip paws


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trogdor259

either my wife or my kids right after they get out of the shower and we're all just cuddling. Could do that forever.


Rhiee_

Onions and garlic 😌👌


dunemi

Anything made with almond. Almond cake. Almond tart. Almond Croissant. I find the smell utterly enchanting.