Scents and smells are such powerful things. They transport us to fond or unpleasant memories, excite or relax and can make us feel happy or sad. Scents bring emotion, inspire passion and desire and often punctuate moments of our lives.
There's many scents I love: Vanilla, freshly cut grass, petrichor - the smell of first-rain after a period of none. The scent of a flower, cookies baking, the forest in the early morning as the sun rises - dew and earthy smells from the damp ground, the smell of my campfire deep in the wilderness as it crackles and pops, the ocean, coffee brewing in the morning with bacon and eggs sizzling, Angel by Thierry Mugler...My list is endless really.
I thought it would be super-cool to hear about what scents and smells you like or do not so read on below for the topic questions and get involved if you like.
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Greetings, everyone
This is a great topic, one that actually brough back a bunch of smells and scents from different sources.
It is incredible how a smell can take you back to times, places, and people from the past. They can also make you relive moments and almost taste things.
The very image of the bottle of cologne mad eme remember my first years as a college professor (I was just 24 years old). There was this one teacher, who became my good friend, who was obssessed with brand colognes. He knew about every single house and all the products for both men and women. He was always changing fragrances and providing recommendations.
Back then, we could afford whatever fancy cologne was out. I was not so much into the very expensive ones, but there were some fragrances that bring back good memories of those days.
This also made think about this one fragrance my father used to wear. I think it was called Wild Country. It came in this Avon catalogues and my father was obssessed with that one. He rarely used a different cologne. Just thinking about it brought back that sort of wooden/musky smell and of course, flashes of my father doing his daily grooming routine.
As I thought about other smells that have been kind of ingraned in my brain, some rather rough ones came to mind. Like the smell of cacao en baba (cocoa bean). Against our elders best advice, we used to eat (suck actually) the beans of cocoa, which can give you pretty ugly stomachaches if you eat too much of it, but it was the smell that really attracted me. All the process of harvesting was filled with different smells. The days that the seeds spend fermenting and thn the days they spend under the sun drying produced different smells that bring back great memories from my childhood.
I'd better stiop here because, tons of smells are coming to me as a storm. Speaking of which, I loved it when it rained really hard (which happened for months in a raw). Every time it rains hard, the two rivers that divide my hometown flooded and that smell of flooding river was just something fascinating.
We were reckless (I was not much into it because my parents were harsh disciplinarians, but once in a while I participated of the crazy stunts of rural kids in a flooded river)
This is not a picture of my town, but we had this bridge that connect my neighborhood with the downtown area and we did this when the river was flooded.
In retrospect, I don't know how we survived our childhood. Maybe it was just training for what we are living now.
You guys have a great weekend
It's truly amazing how a remembered scent or smell can trigger vivid memories of times past. My dad was a typical sort who used to wear a cologne called Old Spice. It wasn't expensive but had a distinctive scent and these days when I happen to smell it I think of him. Of course, it's the same with other scents and as you say, they transport us backwards through time, to good times, bad times or even dangerous times like you lads and your daring flood-water stunts. I'm assuming things wouldn't have gone so well had someone fallen in.
I used to wear that one, Aqua di Gio - Nice and light. Seemed to get a decent response. :)
Thanks for joining in this week. I hope you and the family are well.
Thanks, @galenkp
We are doing better now. Same issues, but we try to face them with a better attitude.
Well, ironically, the whole point was to jump into the river from the bridge. As far as I recall, noone ever got in real danger. It was scary, but either we were very good swimmers, or we were very damn lucky.
That river of ours did drown more than one person, but it was usually someone on horse who got dragged and hit their head against a rock, or was too drunk to swim away.
One of my wildest memories is swimming down the river, seeing entire trees pass by, animals (like pigs or chickens), domestic gas canisters, etc. and avoiding being hit by any of those, or any rock, while trying to keep a safe course back to the shore. A hell of a ride.
Lol, crazy man!
We have flooding here too and sometimes someone falls in and it rarely ends well. There you are jumping in on purpose. Lol,
@hlezama my friend! How good to see you here!
I don't know how I survived my childhood, either.
Cocoa. I'm not familiar, but imagine the smells would be exotic. There is the smell of cut wheat in the early morning dew that I remember really well. I catch it here once in a while in the appropriate season and am always transported back to my youth...
I hope you are well and at least reasonably happy.
Hey, @bigtom13
Good to see you too.
We are doing ok, all things considered. No COVID, at least. Hive provides some happiness
Ah, the smell of teenage bravado! Monkey bridge for the win!
Hahaha. That's what our parents called us, monkeys.
Your list of smells is nice, love the first rain smell and the cookies the most 😊
One of the smells that I like and it also brings back some memories is the smell of wooden floor in the concert hall of the music school that I attended as a student. It gives the feeling of space and light, and the piano in the middle...
Smell, any of them but especially food or strong perfumes are not on my liking when the first signs of migraine are showing up. It makes me sick, literally. In normal conditions, I like them.
Wood is cool, I'll go with wood too from time to time. Some of it might get sticky and irritating after a bit but initially...it's nice to sense your wooden environment. Something about your username tells me you're still into the piano thing.
Peace and Parsley!
Something is telling you very well hehehe, I am still into the piano thing :D
Wood is interesting, also as a building material. My uncle who has lived in Norway for some decades liked it so much, so he refurbished his apartment, lots of lots of wood he used. Always wood kind of sense 🙂
Wow! You must be. Good performing art, right?
And that smell was way too far for me, used to had it when I was a kid and hanging around Schools
Don't know am I good performing art... I try to be at least :D
So it brings your memory back to school too? Nice 🙂
Yeap, things always got us in one way or the other, but I guess this time, school was what I could think of ☺️
Wooden floor at a concert hall is an interesting one. I think I know the smell you are referring to. I can see that as being one of those smells that transports you back in time.
Definitely, transporting back in time. Many things can do it, a tune, a color, photos, writings, so smells too. While are able to connect those triggers and remember, we should enjoy that :)
I can understand how the small of that concert hall would bring back strong memories - Music is a large part of your life and I'm sure you spent many moments in that concert hall. I also agree, very strong perfumes aren't so good for headaches. There's a few that actually give me a headache! Not many though. I'll not mention them in case someone wears them and read this post. 😀
Yeah, I spent there six years learning and playing before going to another music school. And still visiting that place from time to time ;) The headaches and strong smells are not a good combination, for sure. And perfumes that give you headaches 🤣 Yes, probably many of them would provoke the same to me , even without my migraine things 😉
This reminded me of my memories 😄 Those school days make us smile
There is a saying in my language, translated to English doesn't sound very nice but it goes like this: from the cradle to the grave, the best is the school age.
It's good that those memories are good then ;)
I must say for school memories looking at our uniform is enough to be nostalgic. And, yes, the smell of jhal-muri. Splendid memories.
ahhh That saying is totally on point. What is your language?
Exactly bro
Hi gorgeous, How are you😄
Am very well, how about you, hope you are having a good weekend
I am good sis, Was busy the entire day which has given me fatigue
🤣🤣🤣My ribs are cracking migraine are good you know😂 you should just not like food generally 🤣🤣
Ow, I DO like food , but I have those migraine attacks sometimes that you would not like to feel, ever hehehe. So one of the first signs is that my sense of smell become very sensitive and weird, can't explain is it a metal kind of smell or similar... anyway, the very next step is that any smell of food becomes very annoying to me and nausea is starting.
Hehehehe yours is a different case altogether 😂😂😂. Maybe only you can sort that out. I wonder why someone will feel or smell something else when food is being cooked or served somewhere hehe.
I know the wooden floor smell you're talking about, I have a similar feeling about my old school hall. So weird that it can bring back memories so strongly.
Oh, seems that many of us had those old, wooden floors in our schools and halls. Nice, actually. And memories, it is always good to connect with pleasant moments from the past, right? :)
Oh, I can relate with this, sometimes some strong unpleasant smell can make one sick.
I don't think I have been to a concert before not to talk of tge kind of smell a woods floor will have.
Am sure you did enjoy every concert, but am curious to know, do you play the piano.
Yes, it can provoke that. Do you have some similar condition or a specific smell that provokes in you sickness?
I hope you could go to a concert one day and enjoy with all your senses the experience 🎶🎶🙃
Yes, I still play the piano. And not just as a hobby, it's my profession 😉
Wow, am impressed.
That's a good one sis.
I never got to train in any instruments even though I love music.
Cookies! We will have some with coffee some day. Then, they will remind you of a nice day too 😋
This reminds me of my first concert. It wasn't in a particularly nice place in terms of flooring so there was not the magic sent of wood to enshrine the experience.
Some perfumes are made for the sole purpose of making people dislike them. But hey, noses are a thing of mystery.
Bertrayoooooooo !!!
The cookies and coffee meeting will have to happen one day, indeed :)
Noses... well I am a proud owner of a great one, hahaha
Ha, ha, ha. You're beautiful, @mipiano. Your nose is part of the charm.
Yes, I'll make the cookies and you'll pick the coffee.
😊 😊
Coffee ready ;)
Cookies fresh out of the oven!
Ok, here's my part :))
Hive Party! 😃
too true to ignore.
Ha, ha, ha. Words of wisdom!
I love the smell of older wood! That's indeed one of my favorites. I'm glad it brings back those nice memories for you!
So for you too, wood? Cool 😎
What a pleasant memory for you. I really don't have that memory in my mind. The only wood floors I was really exposed to were in my High School (it was old then and is long gone now) that mostly smelled of dust. It was a farm town, after all.
I've not noticed any smell that I associate with a concert hall. I go seldom and seems I am aware of other things when I am there...
Which reminds me. Has covid passed enough that you are giving concerts and teaching again? How exciting and frightening that must be.
Here in Spain we started with teaching already last September. Masks and lot of cleaning though...
Concerts, that segment of my activity has not improved, had just two performances with a local choir since March 2020. Not a great thing
So good news/bad news. I note that the local orchestra is having an actual concert here this weekend. I'll not go because covid in the desert is a real thing. I know several cases of 'breakout' infection here even among the fully vaccinated. I am glad to see the renewal of concerts, however. Some day, maybe, we'll get back to normal. Sigh.
Yeah, a perfect sum-up of the whole situation is: sigh
😅
Absolutely mindblowing fact of the week for me was that the smell of the earth after rain, petrichor, is due to a compound called geosmin which is produced by microbes, specifically the bacteria Streptomyces. This genus releases geosmin when they die, and we're attuned to that smell as are other creatures. Now, streptomyces, when it's ready to reproduce, creates spores, and it needs a vector to do that - springtails, for example, which feed on them. Springtails are little arthropods that live in leaf litter on the forest floor. When it rains, the springtails are feeding on this bacteria. So when I'm sitting on my couch watching the rain here in Victoria (because it's been pissing down) and I'm all in love with the smell of the earth after rain, I'm tuning in to all this life happening.
Perhaps what Emily Dickinson was thinking about:
As I feed the baby chicks handfuls of oats and silverbeet under the native elder in the garden, the water drops splatter down and cut the air, and the pink scent of the flowers is heavy and thick. And I can smell the gumleaves burning as Jamie's just lit the fire, and the woodsmoke around the neighbourhood is homey and good.
We too often forget that smell is another brushstroke in the sensuous tapestry of our lives - colour and shape often steal the show, but it's smell that is more extraordinary than we think. I'm besotted with the smell of my love - celery seeds and fennel, engine oil and woodsmoke, and perhaps a few notes of whiskey as the night goes on.
Thanks to evolution for geosmin because the smell of petrichor is legit!
OK, so I read that piece by Emily Dickinson and thought, how lovely, and then read your text and it cast a shadow upon Dickinson's words, so magnificent they were. 😉
Pretty damned good Riv.
Have a good old Saturday night by the fire.
What a lovely reply. I mean seriously good writing! Not to mention the smells and the biology lesson.
I'm going to be in your neck of the woods (literally, I think) this summer. A couple of my very best friends moved to Vancouver Island (Erdington) and I need to visit them. I haven't seen them since covid and the need lies heavy in me.
Oh, crap. It just dawned on me that you are probably talking about Victoria, AUS. I won't be in those woods this summer. It'd be 'needles' not gum leaves in Victoria, CAN.
Oh yes, I'm not in THAT Victoria - I'm in the police state of Victoria, Australia!! Enjoy the other one though - I heard it's lovely!
Victoria, Canada is just a lovely city. It's really colonial at it's core, but has managed to change significantly with the times. The Indigenous Nations have had a huge impact in the area and the energy is dynamic.
Much of Vancouver Island is wild. Old growth forest and rivers and amazing scenery on the ocean side and the mainland side. It's a truly great place to visit in general and having two of my very besties (husband and wife) with a place to stay is terrific. The border should be open by the time it's warm enough for me to go this year :)
Hmm, I love smells like vanilla and cut grass aswell, or the smell of the flowering Lilac in our garden. It's the best and belongs to a beautiful spring. I'm pretty sensitive too all sorts of smells and sounds though, so a smell can quickly become overwhelming. It doesn't really matter what kind of smell it is in that case, I'll just want it gone. So I guess I love 'neutral' aswell!
What I really dislike is the smell of manure on the fields! It's not so bad when it's once in a while and you're driving past it, but living in a farmers area now, it happens a bit too often and sometimes all day long, so I have to hold doors and windows shut, no matter how hot it might get. And it sometimes persists even after bedtime, so I have to sleep in that stuff 😭
You mention some lovely scents. Lilac. So nice.
I understand the thing with overwhelming scents and how they can quickly irritate...The other matter too, not a nice smell to have to have permeate ones sleep.
Beautiful roo,🤗, vanilla smells good, it makes me remember a lot of crazy things i do back then with friends.
Oh, I forgot the freshly cut grass smell. A nice one, without any doubt !
Vanilla is a good one. I loved vanilla. Pity it tastes so bad when it is not mixed with other things.
Finally someone mentioned cut grass!!! My favourite smell, it's just so very fresh and gives the sense of life. Definitely the top of my list
Can I be honest? :)
Gun Powder :)
Brunt oil and tire (mildly)...after a Mustang runs a couple of donuts :)
Spices.... mixed spices...not any single spice.. A spice bazar. The great bazar of Istambul..
Soil with the first sets of raindrops..
1 Million by Paco Rabanne
Oh yeah, I almost said gunpowder as it's something I smell so often because I shoot a lot. I've never done a burnout in a Mustang but might have done a few here and there in other cars and I'll agree that the combination is also somewhat pleasing indeed. 😀
A spice bazar...Been in a few and I know what you mean; the scent of all those spices hanging heavy in the air...Walking through leaves one hungry so fortunately there's vendors who offer tasty treats along the way...Yum!
And look at you, rockin' the 1 Million! That's a pretty cool spray bottle...Made of .9999 gold of course. I've actually not smelled this one but I'll check it out, just so I know what you smell like bro. 😂
Oh I almost forgot! About 10-15 over old cricket ball, not the new ball :)
I am sure you understand this :)
Ah yes, that 15-over ball - Nothing quite like it in the world. 😉
All right, while we're at it...
Whatever The Rock is cooking.
Haha! Indeed my friend, this is for sure worthy of a place on the good smell list!
The Rock says...
I had gunpowder typed and backed off of it. I love the combination of fuel and tire and hot oil-in any form.
Another I didn't say was ozone. The smell after a lightning strike. And spices, most certainly spices.
If we can’t be honest to our friends we can’t be honest to ourselves. If you love gunpowder no harm in saying you love gunpowder:)
You ride, so oil and tire comes naturally:)
Wonderful smells. Good to hear from you Tom, it’s been awhile
I'm not overly concerned with offending people, just thought I was getting too many and would end up with a dilution of all. If people are offended by another's choice, they are probably way too sensitive and need the stimulation.
I worked on a dragster for a couple of years. I just love the smell of the race track. Gas is good, alcohol is great and nitro methane is even better :) Then throw in a visible layer of rubber and you are really on to something.
I had this weird smell addiction before. When I was in High school, I kept smelling the container of the kerosene oil. I mean I smell it more than 3 times a day. Everytime I smell it, I also eat raw rice. Meaning I had raw rice with me and the container of the kerosene oil. I can't remember when and how it was started, what I remember is the pleasurable feeling I had felt everytime I smell it. It made me weak when I can't smell it and can't eat raw rice. It's funny, right? It was long time ago. I just remember it as I'd read your post.
Hmm, this is an interesting one! Kerosene and eating raw rice? Hmm, I'm glad you gave that up as I'm not sure if it's all that good for you.
You know, here in Australia there is a group of people who are addicted to petrol sniffing. They walk around with open cans of it up to their faces - They get some sort of high from it. It s dangerous of course, for many reasons.
My mother was angry everytime she caught me sniffing the kerosene oil so I slowly gave it up. She kept reminding me that it was dangerous. It was not easy to give up at first because I used to sniff it many times a day but I forced myself. My love for myself was greater than my addiction.
It's a very good thing you ceased the practice. 😉
That is, or used to be called 'huffing' here. Really serious huffers had a reddish/orange tint to their hair right above their forehead.
I like the smell of gasoline, but I'm no huffer. Modern gasoline doesn't smell as strongly as the old full leaded variety that I really like.
They introduced low-aromatic versions here for the sniffer issue. It was only a select community group doing it though, and more a problem in just one state primarily. I'm not sure if it's ongoing in the way it was previously though. Quite probably is though.
I thought it was the basic switch to 'unleaded fuel' that mostly ended the huffing here. Maybe I just got old enough and moved around enough to not be aware.
You can still buy 'white gas' at Wal Mart. I've owned a couple of camping stoves that ran on 'white gas'. Today I can just use pump grade gasoline in them. The odor is pretty slight...
Yeah, things change...Unfortunately the problem is still quite prevalent here within certain community groups. I googled it to satisfy my curiosity and yeah, still happens.
Maybe I was once a huffer. But I'm glad I was able to stop such thing by myself.
I wouldn't suggest that, really. Huffers were chasing a pretty specific high.
I like the smell of petro chemicals (including Kerosene). My best ex wife could tell what I'd been working on by my smell every evening. Hydraulic fluid, Gear Oil, Diesel, whatever.
Hehe, do you still smell those stuffs up to this time? I had stopped it for a long time.
It's a consequence of working on motorcycles and cars :)
I use synthetic oil in the rear drive of my motorcycle, and the first time I changed I was very disappointed because Gear Grease has a very distinct smell (one my ex wife knew well) and the 'new stuff' doesn't have.
I'm working on the fuel system of one motorcycle right now and get a whiff of gasoline from time to time. It is not unpleasant for me...
Smile.... This is way to funny.....
I am so happy you didn't make an attempt to have a taste of it, that would have been so bad, you know 🙈
Haha. Well, I only loved the smell of it @repayme4567 not interested of the taste because I know it could be more harmful if I tasted it.
That is good to hear... I am glad now, but do you still smells It now?
I mean recently?
Not anymore. The last time I did it was 18 years ago. I stopped it when I was 20.
Good to hear 🤸
This funy and wired at the same time.
It as well reminds me of my own old habit too, i always smell my cloths before putting them on, after removing them and before washing them.
I can't wear any cloth if i can smell any little not nice smell at all.
Haha, if we can recall those times it just made us smile. Something weird and funny!
🤣🤣😂bro I can't help it I burst out laughing after reading, people around begin to wonder what could I be laughing at. My friend you are really funny. I had such situation too I love smelling petrol but as a kid
Hahaha, meaning you can relate the feeling everytime we sniff it.
Exactly 👍 I do. haha 🤣🤣
Haha. Now you brought to me one of the smells I hated the most.
In my hometown, we used to have kerosene lamps, among other things run by kerosene. I hated the smell, and I specially hated when I was asked to go to the bodega to buy kerosene when we ran out of it. These places where they sold kerosene had big barrels and the concentration of the substance was just too much for me
Haha, when I were in your situation, I would probably volunteer to go to that place but that was long time ago. Things have completely changed.
Definitely not something you'd want to continue bad a habit. It's great that you stopped, I'd dread to think of the long term consequences if you continued.
I'm grateful that I overcome such bad practice.
Smells are important to me, and your smells list is terrific. Here on the desert petrichor is a very real thing. I love it. Coffee? Another big heart, I just opened a fresh bag of beans, which fills the whole kitchen with the smell. I have a wool shirt that is just tattered but smells so good due to the fires it's been around...
I love the smell of freshly plowed or dug dirt. Lilacs and roses. The smell of a motorcycle as it cools after a hard ride.
But there is a place that I can smell and see when I close my eyes. It's right at the bottom of 'Banner Grade' where a year round bee keeper has his hives. You can smell the honey and the flowers it was made from as you ride through. It's in a hollow just before you ride up the hill and there is a really sharp left, right set of corners there. The smell is just exquisite. Makes me feel sorry for those in a car that don't even know.
Hey @bigtom13, coffee is a very pleasant smell, my mornings have to start with that. Also, there is the noise that the coffee machine makes, and waiting until the last drop falls into the mug is precious! It's a cool waiting for tasting the first morning coffee! Without that, my day doesn't start :))
That could be a perfect smell indeed 🏍️
Oh yeah. My mornings ALWAYS start with that.
That noise is certain, too. It's like the very last push for the flavor! Matter of fact, my coffee maker is just about to make that noise. I'm actually making tea for iced tea but the noise is just the same. Good stuff!
Oh, have a good tea time then and a great start of the day :))
Though I like the smell just fine, it amazes me that tea doesn't move me like coffee. That particular smell is so essential to me...
And I have that essential one right now, the early afternoon coffee is prepared :)
At the risk of sounding like a heathen, I don't pour coffee out. I'll let it cool in the pot and microwave a cup when ever it feels right. Often just before bed, caffeine does not affect my sleep at all....
Your last paragraph here - Legit. In a car there's so many things than are filtered by the vehicle but on a bike one is closer to them. I can recall doing the same, riding through a section where something grows, wildflowers or something, and when their scent hits the nose it's impossible to not smile. I would usually go riding very early so I'd be racing through the hills just after sun-up and when the flowers were all sort of releasing their scent. So good.
A couple of years ago I was in Montana's sweet grass country when it was cutting time. 2 days of an incredibly evocative smell. It was just amazing. Blistering along a basically unused back highway with pockets of wonderful smells and the occasional small town. A really good ride...
Wow - that's really evocative. Petrichor was mine too, but honey and rain - nature smells - makes you drunk with life.
We have another smell here that sorta goes with petrichor. Every spring you get some, but in a wet spring my entire neighborhood can be overwhelmed with the smell of Verbena. A lovely purple desert flower that is incredibly sweet smelling.
"Drunk with Life" I like that a lot. It doesn't even have to be 5 o'clock!
The first time I came across verbena was in a B&B in Taiwan that had verbena liquid soap in the bathroom. The smell was so awfully nice, absolutely loved it, but when I checked the price, it was also very expensive, at least I couldn't justify it for daily use. This would go into the same category as business class travel for me, ie things I'd definitely upgrade myself to if I won the lottery
In a wet year the smell can be overwhelming at times. Most years you can smell it in the early morning and then sometimes a whiff on the breeze. It's pretty attractive...
There is a 'domestic' verbena that I am familiar with also. A handsome purple plant often used along borders and walls in Spokane, WA. It trails it's glorious flowers and is a very attractive plant. Doesn't have near the aroma our desert plant has...
Sounds like there are so many varieties, I like the sound of purple flowers, they are so pretty and special
Oh that sounds lovely --- we have jasmine here in the summer that's rather heady too. Yes, you can get drunk with life quite shamelessly at any time of the day!!!
Another nice topic Galen:)
My olfactory receptors are strong, so I could come up with endless things that I love, or detest.
However, answering Option 1:
I'm a bit of a renifleur, particularly my own, strangely;)... well thus far! The natural pleasant smell (maybe like "human pheromones), makes me feel titillated.
Thanks for a great topic!
Human pheromones are designed to do things to other people that result in other things happening with those people. So, yep, it's a thing. It's funny how that works but it simply does, and thankfully so!
Thanks for stopping by and I hope y'all have a great Sunday.
I'm sure there's a science or term, besides "weird" to what I experience. I just haven't stumbled across it yet😅
It's a lovely Sunday morning waking up to a flock of 40 swans, and mallards (that I cannot count), after a long day cruising:)
Wishing you a lovely Sunday evening!
It sounds like you've got an idyllic Sunday going on there. Crack on with it and say g'day to Scoobs for me please. 😊
Indeed 😊
I will tell him 😄 when he returns from his mum.
I'm boat sitting - Leicester, the City Of Thieves!!
Lol...I hope you're guard duty went ok. 😆
It always does😆
I take the job seriously!
💂
Ah, scents! I wish my nose wasn't such a sensitive thing, but then I remember how awesome it is to have a keen sense of smell when things are good. Among the scents I like a lot are: wood resin (it reminds me of mangoes), coffee (for perfectly obvious reasons), fried fish (yup, I do have a lot of that to eat). And among those I don't like I can name cheese in general. A lot of them I can't eat because of the strong smell; others are in textures that make me want to throw up.
Hahaha, you don't like the smell of cheese? Well, if it is too strong, me neither, but generally yes, I like it. My son is who is running away from any cheese 🧀 😂
Coffee, ok, so we repeat the gifs, or what? 😂 Just kidding.
Fried fish 👌
Yeah, I'm not too fond of every kind of cheese. I can tolerate some kinds. 😅
We could! 🤣
The best thing to have around the sea.
Ok, as it is morning here, ( ok, midday already) it is coming hahhaha
There's not a bad time for coffee.
Neither a wrong one for cookies!
ay ay ay ;D
canta y no llores...🎶
Wood resin that smells like mangoes! That's some kind of very cool wood resin I'd say. A good thing it doesn't smell like cheese though! 😁
Yeah, pine resin has a particular thing that smells similar to mangoes. I don't remember the exact name of the compound. And yes, it is a good thing it doesn't smell like cheese. 😂
I just responded to another comment in which the user refers to the fact she needs to taste the things she smells. Like: Chalk, books, concrete, sand...I wonder if you've ever had that particular desire?
Hmm... Not with everything. I have tasted those kind of thing from eating paper and when the dust of chalk and concrete gets into the air. Some things get me interested for tasting from time to time, but when they are toxic I refrain from doing it.
Yeah, little point in eating something toxic I guess right? 😂
Ha, ha, ha. Well, that depends. And I think I could die by eating, but not from poisonous food. I'd rather do it getting a heart attack from eating a lot of good stuff. 🤣
Chicken Shit? I rest my case for the need to taste...
Lol.
Hahaha. "(Some) foods are meant to be eaten and not smelled," the old folks used to say. Maybe they were thinking about cheese. There are some I really like, the Gouda, which we used to eat a lot when we were happy, but we did not know it.
I loved that one. It meminds me of the good old days (my mother brough tons whenever she went to Margarita).
Yeah, I remember the Torondoy cheese ball. It was a staple of going to Margarita. Gouda doesn't have a particularly strong smell and it's not a hassle for me.
I can relate with your choice of smell type, especially the smell of first-rain after a period of none. The mesmerizing refreshment is incomparable to any other smell.
Now moving to the 1st topic, I must say that I love the smell of a few different kinds too. One which is a must is the smell of chilly spice, back in my hometown in grocery shops it is quite common that they keep the dry chilies separate and soon they transform it into powder. The smell which resonates in the atmosphere is one strong mesmerizing in nature which easily captivates my mind.
In contrast, I also love the smell of Beli flower, the sweet aromatic in nature. I know it is quite the opposite of what chilly spice smells like but the perfect combination of sweet but not too sweet is a splendid one I must say, one which easily drives me crazy to the point that I feel heavenly.
Now the last one is definitely one with which I spend most of my time; my color palette. The combination of different colors mixed with a decent scent which it produces is one to produce a calm environment. I can compare it with the smell of the sea, which when it touches you, one feels chilled and relaxed. Such is the action of the smell of the color palette to me.
Okay, I was way too much engrossed in talking about my likes that I was almost about to miss that I totally cannot resist the smell of sweaty socks. Once it is into my nostrils I am a gone-case for sure. Although I have heard that it is an element of addiction and that totally boggles my mind.
Now, the ones I have mentioned I don't have many memories to hold with these scents though but I cannot deny that every time I smell the fresh chilly powder it reminds me of my hometown and my close relatives back at home. Often when I am living alone, away from home, the fresh smell of the morning in the city preaches to me of my hometown. I absolutely miss that.
You list some really cool scents and I like the reasons behind them also, especially the paint palette one. My dad was an artist so it's something that was also meaningful to him.
Great to have you around on the topic this week.
Dismayed that I missed last weeks topic! This ones interesting for sure!
Let’s see as far as smells go, I have some that I find very appealing and some that are repulsive for sure. For smells that I love and trigger some great memories or at least the idea of good memories, I would have to go with old books!
I loved cracking open a book from a bookshelf at the library or somewhere else. One of my favorite places was my great aunts attic. She had lots of great old books there that had been sitting for a long time. Then the book acquires that old paper smell, it’s hard to describe but I think you may know the smell. I love that smell! Brings me back to those days in childhood where I would be at that book case. I even remember sitting down reading a book once and they had no idea where I was and were panicking. I told them I was sitting there reading a book and they were happy but annoyed lol.
There’s a lot of repulsive smells in my line of work so I’ll steer clear of that area but for smells that gross me out I would have to go with the asshole move of reheating fish in a microwave! That drives me nuts and people would do it at work all the time. Bastards!
Books would be on my list also, like I said it's a long list.
It's the smell of books that is responsible for me not using a device to read eBooks - I just don't get into it. I'd rather the flip of pages and the whiff of book that occurs. So enjoyable.
On the fish in microwave thing...Yep and yep! There was this person at my last workplace that did it; some sort of Asian fish-fuckassery went into the microwave and out came the smell reminiscent of something that came out of the wrong end of the devil . It would permeate the whole area and then she'd take that fucken shit to her desk and clear out the open space work area. I had my own office but it penetrated...I used to just leave and go home. G-dog don't play dat shit.
Oh, books, well a good one. I forgot this one, but indeed, I like it too.
What an interesting topic we have here, reading all the incoming entries was fun filled an am delighted to see that people find even the smell one can consider odd as something pleasant.
You sure have some interesting ones yourself but addition to the smell of damp soil and some cooking I have found something interesting that serves as a memory i can never forget.
Smell leads to something else for me
It is called PICCA, a funny disorder that affects people living with sickle cell.
Smell leads to Picca where by I must not just smell but have a taste of the odd things I smell.
I ate and still eat sand and chalk.
Imagine me eating most of the chalk used to take classes in my preliminary school.
I often watch out for tress to rot into sand that I will eat from it. 😂😂
My worst fear came when I had a complication with my liver and momma scared me that it all the sand i had been eating that stored there.
Another smell I liked but never get to taste was the smell of cement and new buildings, I was afraid that cement might contains too much of chemicals and never tried to taste it, mind you I held some fresh moulded block in my mouth so I can inhale it better.
That aside I love the smell of new books and often chewed up some pages of my text and note books.
I have seen worst Picca than these with my friends who eat charcoal.
Very funny but that's what what smell does to me.
This is a very interesting thing and one I've not heard of to be honest. Wanting to taste the things one smells.
Concrete? Hmm...I'd probably say concrete might be a bit tough to chew...But sand...Yeah, that's probably way easier to eat! Same with chalk...I haven't eaten any but they look like lollies to me so I've often wondered if they have different tastes to go along with the different colours? Maybe you could clarify?
Concrete is hard but a little soft after mixing, though I can't chew or swallow that I just keep small portions in my mouth to savor the taste.
But for the rest, they taste so good just like how attractive the smell is, clay soil has the best taste for me, but I eat the loamy left over when we have harvested rice plant from the farm.
And chalk is just delicious like food.
The smell from these thing isn't betrayal, they taste good, just like the smell.
Am not the only one with the conditions and sometimes read up other peoples story to enjoy the fun of the dirty things we eat
I've done a little research since your message and see that it's something quite a few actually do. I think I'll stick to food though myself.
That is a really... unusual condition. But I guess if something is natural and does the body no harm, there is no reason it's not edible.
Does chalk have any taste? I thought I'd be bland.
I so much love the smells of cookies directly from any kitchen 🤣🤣 am a lover of good food mostly afang soup cooked with lots of dry fish and yes I love smell of cookies because food is what we use to survive it will be difficult to go by a day without food except you are maybe on fast and even so. A lot of people can't just dump the food and fast with all thier hat you will see them running back to the kitchen for food so yes i love the scent of good food from mamas kitchen 😂😂🙈
Aside food I also love the scent of good perfume the one that once I pass the whole crowed will notice me😁 good scent of perfume gives me a sense of belonging.
The smells of good food emanating from within the kitchen is amazing, especially if one is hungry! I'm with you on this one.
On the other, the cologne. A good cologne worn well, not overpoweringly, is a nice way to punctuate one's point.
Be the best version of you and you'll be noticed. Be polite, courteous, a gentleman, and wear a great cologne and you'll be remembered.
Thanks friend for your good advice 🙏
Fresh cookies smell! Oh my gosh, I want to change my answer to that 😁
🤣🤣🤣you better do change it now😂. The smell of Fresh cookies just turn me on🤣
Well, I do love the smell of good food too, but a poor cook can make you throw up from the smell of whatever it is she is cooking in her kitchen.
My smell for perfume varies, am not sure if it dependent on the kind of chemicals used of the perfume but I do have some allergy for perfume at a point.
I guess that faded with time and now i can stand the smell of just a moderately used perfume.
Yeah and I trust my sense of smell, it will never lead me to where bad food is being cooked🤣.
For me most of the perfumes just give me serious sneezing.
😂oh I see
Yes🤣🤣
Oh, cookies, especially when someone else prepares them, and come to our sense of smell, wow, just a perfect experience (until consuming them, which is even a better experience 😅 )
🤣🤣🤣yeah consuming them is actually the greatest 🙂.
Yeah, absolutely. We can enjoy the smell of cookies, but the real energy comes from the calories we intake :)
Yeah i agree with you on that 😂 the real thing comes from the calories.
Ah, the smells of food are magical and can transport us to many places. The same is true for perfume. Magical scents that are triggers for reminiscence.
Yes my friend very true💯
Good day☀️☀️☀️...
I am looking forward to coming across this post and I wanted to join ....🤗
Smells always remind me of something ...🥰
I remember at school I often went to a small school store for accessories such as pencils, notebooks, erasers ... Etc.
The smell of new notebooks and the smell of that store in general always brought me again ... Because it reminded me not of a new, new beginning, a new subject, a new day ....
Then the aftershave scent called Pino silvestre and it had a drawn cone and the bottle was in the shape of that shape .. The smell of pine needles .... I remember my dad who used that scent ....
The smell of gasoline ...
It takes me back to my childhood, where as a child I went down to the basement where bicycles and some other material were kept, and maybe buckets of gasoline ... Because it always smelled like that there .....
The smell of fallen leaves, happily playful childhood ... and now sometimes I sit on the leaves and want to roll and laugh ....
The smell of dry earth after the first shower ... fills me with life, joy and purity of air ... I go outside and just breathe deeply .....
The smell of pine trees in the forest when it's a sunny day ... It calms me down ...
The smell of cut grass is the smell of freshness almost the same as fresh lemon ....
Lavender smells that I love in the room where I sleep and exudes freshness and purity ...
I also love my scent called Passion dance
A combination of woody, earthy notes, rose citrus, moss, patchouli and flowers ....
It fills me with energy and warms me in these cold days🤗🍁🍂🍁
There's so many scents you love! Lavender is one I really like and I'm lucky to have a few lavender bushes at home which I cut and bring inside. Leaves the house smelling really nice. 😉
Yes, I love lavender a lot and there are five or six bushes in the yard.
🥰This is one of the bushes
Yes it is 🥰
Lovely looking lavender bush! I took a photo of mine today, I used it on my last post a couple hours ago. Different species to your lavender though.
Scents that remind me of childhood times and I haven't registered for a while — those are my favorites, indeed. This summer, it was the natural scents of various plants early in the morning while I was making my way through the overgrowth in our village garden. Picking carrots was cool but...the best one was Parsley. Dew, low soft sun rays, and parsley.
Its value was definitely graded high due to memory triggers. Otherwise, I would put a lot of the herbs out there above. I mean, better smells. Like Thyme. But they are just more...common to me, even though right now I can grow parsley with ease and I have difficulties starting herbs on my ground.
Maybe th at scent will lose personal value to me over time, as it becomes more common again, but that was a nice moment I do remember having in mid summer.
Peace and Parsley to you all!
Lol, peace and parsley.
Yeah, that's a good one actually, parsley is a pretty legit herb, so good in scrambled eggs. I like the small of things growing actually, and considering I've been vegetable gardening lately I've had a good deal of vege-garden scents. So good!
Peace and thyme to you. (Ok, not as good as peace and parsley.)
Right? I think it's gonna stay as my signature for some time. It's a new piece of Hive-Engagement Culture.
Still, you can't neglect the fact that...
Thyme is of the essence.
Come on bro...Even Kim Jong liked that one!
From a certain alternative perspective, that might be all the approval one would ever need.
😂
Haha, cool indeed 😎
Thank you. I won't say it right here, though, because that would be overdoing it.
Do it, overdo it!!! 😉
This is amazing, like I sense in the first comments, Natural scents are awesome, you know what?
Nature play a big role in us, I love your scent, it is one of a kind
Well...not familiar to any supernatural smells, yet. Although that argument might have been lost since we kind of separated from the natural branch of things in many regards, including natural smells. I'm confused by my own comment so...move along, people. Thank you for commenting, though ;)
Wow! That's so kind of you, it was nice getting to know you ✌️
Parsley is a unique smell to enjoy. It's interesting how smells are linked to memories of our childhood.
Your scent are just great.
Thanks but I still think I need a shower ;)
😂oh well then you can have one
Oh, wow, now you say about herbs and memories from childhood... When we started to walk in one route that goes through gardens and orange plantations, we discovered some wild dill. It's growing by the path. Well, as a child my grandma had it in the garden and could use it fresh when needed for some dishes that she was preparing. The smell of some plants definitely can take us back in time.
I like the smells of childhood? The smell of mom's kitchen and her perfume called Jannathe. They bring back memories of a beautiful and happy childhood.
The smell of the rain when I used to bathe in the backyard with my cousins when I was little. Those are the smells I like the most.
Nice ones, it's so great we can connect smells with childhood memories 😊 Mom's and grandma's kitchens are definitely something worth of remembering !
Undoubtedly one of the best memories 😉
Yep, it's incredible the way smells can transport us right back many years to our childhoods. I think all of our senses do that though as music can take me back as well, something I hear or touch etc. This is a nice one so thanks for sharing.
Recently I found out that I love the scent of fresh tomato plants. I don't like to eat tomatoes but I try to grow it as my partner love to eat and it is easy to grow in my small flat. So when I did the pruning for them, I smell a very strong tomato scent. At first, I didn't like it that much but overtime, I feel it is quite relaxing the smell. it is quite weird for me as I don't like tomatoes at all.
What a weird scent indeed, I love tomatoes and eating them fresh and uncooked is usually my favorite.
I don't know if I have perceived enough tomato scents but I love that fruit vegetable.
I know, it is quite weird for me that I come to like it :(
Tomatoes are a interesting entity with a particular smell. It is a curious thing what you say here. I can tell for the story in the comment below you had a traumatic experience with it. But I think you should give them a try again, especially if you are growing them. Things we disliked as children tend to taste totally different when we grow up as our palates adjust. Just don't eat them raw if you don't like sourness. I could suggest eating some fried green tomatoes or making some sauce for pasta. That's a good entry point for tomatoes.
That's a good advice. I can try the green ones. I never eat when it's green. Can't wait for my homegrown tomatoes to have fruits.
For pasta, I don't like it because it has tomato sauce :( so I always cook pasta in a different way with mushroom, onion and chicken.
Well, it's always interesting to try things again. But if you don't like it there's no problem with it.
Tomato plants have a distinct scent don't they? It's strange that you like the smell and yet don't eat tomatoes. What is it about tomatoes that makes you nor want to eat it?
I remember when I was small, everyone said eating tomatoes raw is yummy and I should eat it too. So I took a big red tomatoes from my mom'kitchen to try. I expected it sweet and jummy flavour. However, when I bite it, it was not sweet but sour, and I don't like many seeds inside. So from that moment of my life, I just don't like tomato fruit
But maybe you should try it now, to give it a chance :) Mmmm, tomatoes, the home grown ones are so tasty!!!
Might be you are right. If the fruits come from my own tomato plant, It is worth to try. For now, I dont know if it will have fruits. I saw some flowers already so hopefully soon
Hopefully, yes. Please, dont miss to try them if they grow :)
Yes, it's as simple as that sometimes, some childhood moment that endures throughout life.
I know what you mean. I like tomato ketchup, a must with steak and chips, but I don't like eating tomato coz I think they're sour. And I don't like it when I get a slice of tomato bin my burger coz it makes the whole thing go all soggy
Yes same, I forgot to mention I like tomato ketchup with chips too. So good to finally find someone who doent like tomatoes. I told pp and they're like: you dont like raw tomatoes, how?
Or that. I know that one, too, it's quite nice. I love the memories of smells of the summer gardens we had...and still have...kind of...but are less engaged with.
I agree. If it is too strong, it is too much for me as well. But light smell from the garden, it is amazing for me to relax
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I love the scents of an hibiscus flower.
Ever since I was a child, hibiscus flower has been used in setting examples when it comes to study and from the way I see it, hibiscus flower happens to be the most popular flower, that is used as studying material by teachers.
because, I could remember, even in my primary school days, our class teacher was fond of using hibiscus flower in setting example, he at times would asked us to come with it to the class, and if you did not go with yours, he would send you out of the class.
At time he will tell you to go around looking for it and if you could not find it, you would not be allowed to entered his class, or he would just asked you to go near the headmaster's office and plug it, if only you would find any there.
Then, during time for class, he would asked us to take a deep breath then inhaled the hibiscus flower, and afterwards, each and everyone of us will have to tell him, if the flower has a smell or if it has a scents and if it has ascent, and if it a smell, what does it smells like or if it is a scent what does it scents like?.
We normally did this in class, not once not twice so from that continuous teaching of using an hibiscus flower as a teaching material, my love for hibiscus flower grows rapidly and up til date.
I hardly pass when I see this flower because I would have to take a deep breath and inhaled it as I was taught in primary school to see if it ever change from how it uses to scents.
This is a wonderful flower. There's a town nearby where they make a soda out of hibiscus. It tastes pretty good. I also now that a hibiscus tea is good for sleeping.
Wow! This are good learning, I am happy for being enlighten thank you
Spreading wisdom around!
That is good to hear,
I like the style
Oh wow, I've never know a hibiscus flower to have a scent so maybe you have different varieties over there than here in Australia. I know bees and hummingbirds like then though, and that some can grow up to some 30 centimetres in diameter. Pretty big huh? Anyway, thanks for getting involved and I hope to some day run into a hibiscus flower that has a scent!
I Believe that one day you will see an hibiscus flower
I've seen them, my parents had several of them planted in the garden. I've just never come across one that has a scent as most do not.
That means varieties is the thing here
Thats interesting. You have quite a connection to the flower. Very cool. I can't remember what a Hibiscus flower smells like but I will be sure to stop and smell it the next time that I see one.
Wow! That is way too good you have to give it a try also, to me, the way I am seeing it, is like my class teacher really impacted his teaching of hibiscus flower in me that is why i admire it whenever I came across it.
Yes I also remember in my school days the class teacher will ask us to come to school with an hibiscus flower. And she will ask us all to inhale the flower and explain how it smells 😂😁 but I never did get any scent worth explanimg maybe I didn't pay much attention 😂
It seems you were you were among those pupils that uses to disturb and make noise in the class😂
Hell no😂😂🤣 u was the quiet type that could not even hurt a fly. I go from home to school and in school I sit in my class till it's closing time I head back home. I was calm and quiet to a fault. Because of that they will put my name in list of noise makers just to make me talk😂😂😂.
But you see now I regret having behaved so. Because I really suffered 🤣.
Smile.... You were a good student who suffers what you did not do, hmmm... That was bad, how could they have done that to you?
Yes I was🤣🤣🤣 but now I have wise small 😂
I havn't smell hibiscus fresh flower before, but i love hibiscus tea, prepared with ginger and honey.
Wow! I love it I love it I love it, that is nice! Hibiscus tea would taste great, although I he have not taste it before
Yeah, it taste great and is very healthy for the body system.
Wow! That is good to hear
I also like hibiscus tea ☕ 🙂
Good to know we are team hibiscus tea sis.
We have many hibiscus flowers around. Never tried to smell it, but I will definitely try it the very next time I see one!
Try it and give is worth trying, and I assure you that the scent will be lots more more fun☺️
I will :)
That's great 💪
Nice choice of smells you have there.
Mine would be the scent of fresh fruits, maybe its because I love fruits a lot especially oranges, tangerines, bananas, pineapple and strawberries.
It's even more lovely when the are mixed in together in a place like the market.
A smell I hate is the smell of wet shoes 😑 I could puke when I perceive such thing so I always try to avoid getting shoes wet or a avoid someone with a wet shoe.
It's been long I stop by here to engage with you all, I've been busy and still busy but I had to answer this question 🙈
Longest time all 😃
Wet shoes is a good one for the bad smell category. That is a gross smell. Its also a hard smell to get rid of as well.
Liek seriously, it's just so annoying when I can't get the smell out totally so I try not to get my shoes wet
I love the smell of fruits as well but you see that wet shoe, geez! I hate it so much, i can't even stand it for a second .
😂 We are the same, wet shoes can be very bad to breath... I hate it so much
Reading you, I realize that I also hate the smell of wet shoes. It is so disgusting and it takes a lot of time to get rid of it especially with the sneakers.
That's so true, the smell doesn't go away easily.. Makes me want to get new shoes even though I don't have the money for it 🤣
That's the thing, every time we get wet shoes we want new ones. But we have no other option but to live for a while with shoes with a wet smell. And if we wear socks, these also catch the unpleasant smell. LOL
😂 So true, and very annoying 😑
Oh, yeah. Some smells that I love too. Fruits I know to pick by smell. That way I can tell when it is the right amount of ripe to my taste. It also helps to know whether it is too sweet or too sour. Unfortunately, this makes me very slow when buying fruit. 😅
Ugh! This is nasty. I once went to another city to work and lost a pair of shoes because of rain. The bad part of it was that I had to wear them for months until I could throw them away.
You're slow to buy fruits because of the smell too? That's so funny but really cool, you know what you want from its scent.
Wet shoes are so disgusting, really
Indeed. Once an old lady asked me how could I tell what was the taste of the fruits by smell. And I gave her a peach. "This one is sweet". But I never saw her again.
Agreed!
@merit.ahama nice meeting you here🤸
So you do like the scents of fruits, and also you loves fruits, that is awesome, I can't wait to buy fruits for you🤔
Would you accept it?
😂 Why won't I accept it nah? It's my favorite, I can take it from any one and enjoy the smell and the taste very well 😋
That's awesome, heading to your state right away to had it delivered to you, keep your phone on🏃🚀
😂 Okay, my phone will on... 💯 Percent 😃
Smile.... I was there, but you were not around, why na?
Oh yeah, pineapple and strawberries! So good. I didn't even think of the fruit smell but it's amazing right? Markets are awesome places for scents, sights and sounds too. I go to a farmers market to get much of my fruit and vegetables and it never fails to leave me feeling happy and wholesome being there.
Thanks for stopping by when you're so busy, it's greatly appreciated...As it is also that you didn't bring along any wet shoes! 😀
😂 I can't think of bringinh wet shoes here... Nobody would want to make a comment anymore, your comment section will be so stinky for anyone to drop by 🤣 so I didn't bring any.
Fruits scent are so lively, really
😁👍🏼
Wet shoes isn't the only choking smell.
Have you ever perceived the smell that comes out whenever someone wear a stoking for long inside shoes.
That smell is common among guys, you just perceive a choking smell that can cause one to faint when theg take off their shoes.
Though I have heard a chemical remedy to this is the use of charcoal to absorb the smell, probably use pieces of it while wearing the shoe or when one takes it off after work.
Wow such remedy exist? That's good, I hope I don't meet anyone with smelling shoes and stocks but if I do, I'll share this remedy with them.
Yes sis 😊
No doubt my dear your pick is absolutely special. Trust me I wouldn't wanna go near a wet shoe that shit can make you go mad😂. It was nice having you around stay safe and catch cruise
😂 Do you mean to tell me that you run from your own wet shoes? 🤣 Now, that's very hilarious
😂🤣🙈🙈yeah absolutely. That shit smell so bad no lies😁😁😁
😂 I understand, just don't run far from it.
Get back to it soon enough to dry it up except if you're a shoe manufacturer, maybe you could just make a new one once any of your shoe gets wet 🤣🤣
Thanks for your advice 🙏😁 and I promise I will stop running away from them.
Better 😌
I love orange smell as well. I even try to squeeze the skin after finishing the orange just to smell it
😂 You do that too? That's amazing, I love it's scents to that extent as well
Hahaha yeap. I sometimes soaked all the skin in water and used it in a sauna room. It smells wonderful in there.
That's good to know
How odd and funny 😁
Haha I even tried to squeeze it in the air so I can enjoy it for longer. It is quite fun :)
I've been trying to work out what wet shoes smell like, I must admit this is not something that I've really picked up on in my life but it looks like a lot of people share this dislike with you.
Strawberry smell 🤩 That is a very good one. And oranges. Oh, I can't wait the oranges ripe, I like in an area with many orange plantations, so I buy them from my neighbor he has them in his garden. The smell is excellent, the taste too :)
That's great to know
This whole conversation about wet shoe is is putting me off now ☹️😷
Gonna find something else nice to smell
Dog.
I pretty much roll around in dogs and it makes me feel loved and wanted even though this lousy filthy mutt will not snuggle at all.
I think I got a defective dog.
He is all sorts of loyal and he is gorgeous.
Lol...Stay out of the rain, dog and rain means wet dog and wet dog means wet dog smell and...Well, that's not so good.
He's a pretty good looking fellow indeed, and clearly a very valued member of your inner circle.
Yeah I really don't like wet dog but what can you do when he is your best friend...
Best I can do is make him sit in the front seat on 5 towels... I can't wait for housing me and puppy dog are really going to enjoy life as soon as we have a place to live.
Man's best friend is allowed to be wet because he's man's best friend. Good luck with the housing, I hope it happens soon.
Pretty much and I really want to get one of those blowers so that I can blow down my puppy dog and get him a little bit less moist...
They actually work really well.
When it comes to dogs, less moist is preferred.
Hahaha absolutely I totally have to agree with that one.
That means you like a smell of a dog or it scents 🙈
Yep I wake up and just roll my tongue around my mouth until I end up consolidating all of the dog hair within my oral cavity. At which point I may take the hairball out of my mouth without spending an hour picking each individual hair out of my mouth....
I love my dog sometimes...
Everybody says he is so gorgeous and I tell them most days he is...
That is great, loving is a nice feeling and we must stick to it, keep up ✌️
Thank you very much and I definitely will keep up with the snuggling of my amazing puppy dog.
WOW! you are welcome, do what is right, you are on the right path
Always I come from a phenomenal family as well as Native American tribe. I was lucky enough to get medicine man training which I didn't even know I was chosen for. I just got to hang out with a phenomenal relative and one day he promoted me to full medicine man. Keeper of traditional ways blah blah blah blah blah...
I actually told him no I wasn't ready for the responsibility....
Oh boy did I get a cussing!
Dog, yeah I can see it. My dog as a kid had puppies and puppies have a distinct smell about them. Every once in a while I come across it and immediately think of the time that we had puppies.
Yeah I don't even really pay attention to it anymore. Living the dog life is absolutely phenomenal so I can't really complain.
He looks quiet humble more like a gentle jack😁 too good looking to be a detective
He is part Clydesdale horse as well as definitely part eagle for his ability to fly. It's kind of ironic that he bounces around like a bunny and also hates bunnies with passion.
I am sure there are a couple other choice descriptions of him.
I call him Quasimodo sometimes for the huge shoulders he has and when he lays down a certain way he has a huge lump on one side that's really his shoulder blade... Ha ha ha ha
🤣🤣lol I really need to meet this detective 😁 with all this discriptions. Most dogs do hate bunnies I never got to know why haha
Well because bunnies elicit a perfect prey behavior making them awesome to Chase and when you catch them they are delicious. And if you bring it back we can grill it together and share it making it even more tasty.
😂😂😂🤣 wow really? I never herd that before. You are absolutely right😂
Yep sure is.
Whole night after heavy storm and rain when we wake up in the early morning and walk outside to the jungle area and slowly you start getting earthy smell at your surroundings which make the mind relaxed and soothe from uninvited negative thoughts.
I don't favour anything against scent because they are somewhere with someone emotionally attached .for example ,my wife love jasmine fragrance because it rejuvenate her body and make her stress free from the burden work load.
Earthy smells are good for sure. Dirt and mud after a rain.
The jungle must have some great smells.
Yes, the jungle after rain is a pretty nice place to be - I used to live in a rainforest area here in Australia and it was wondrous. Jasmine is nice too, one of my favourite smells.
Wow, Jasmine fragrance can do all that, I love what can soothe and relax me after a long stressful day.
Regards to your lovely wife.
That smells make one relax, right on that, to me u think it is refers to nature smell 🙈
I can relate to that my friend. The smell of the earth after heavy rain is great and relaxing
Oh that sounds like a lovely smell! I can imagine how relaxing it might be :-)
Food (BEANS,FRIED STEW AND FRIED PLANTAIN)
One of the smell I love most is the smell of food especially beans and plantain. I crave for it anytime I passive the smells of the bean with a fried stew which has a great aroma and a fried plantain which doesn't burnt at all. I love it.
What about when you're so bloody hungry but can't eat yet for whatever reason and then you catch a whiff of some damned good food cooking somewhere close by...It's like get in my face food! The smell of something tasty cooking is glorious torture! 😀
Lolz. I started acting weird and becomes an angry birds 🦅
That's you, front row right side.
Lolz 🤣 🤣 🤣🤣🤣
But when have eaten to my satisfaction I become the coolest person 🤣 like a morning dew
Here's you eating to satisfaction...Bring on the morning dew you!
And then after have eaten to my satisfaction then I kinda engaged in any conversation that's come because I have acquired the energy needed to do so. 💪💪
There is a saying that, what ever happens to you in life, eat first. Lol!
I never joke with food, even when i got sick or angry. I most just eat first.
Oh! Yeah, because that's where the strength to do with things of life comes from
Then I will have no option that jump on that food or beg to have some😂🤣
Please!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣my ribs!!
@twicejoy you must have love food so much 🏃
Wow! Beans and Plantain?
That rock bro, real African lolz.....
Lolz 🤣. I don't really love food but I totally fell in love with beans and plantain 😁
Wow! And if you asked me, I will tell you that, those two combination are way too good, I love it too as well, it goes well and if I am to cook it, I may even missed work and more just for it, stay at home and eat it all through.
Lolz 🤣. That's means am not the only person here who craved for the food even though it takes a long time to get ready
Yeah, a lot of people do the same, likewise me
Abi nah
Wow! And if you asked me, I will tell you that, those two combination are way too good, I love it too as well, it goes well and if I am to cook it, I may even missed work and more just for it, stay at home and eat it all through.
Lolss...
Exactly my friend that is it the smell of food not only awaken the hungry lion in me it turns me on as well🤣 Infact it feels great whenever I come by the smell of food
Lolz, 🤣 and what happened after you have eaten to your satisfaction.
🤣🤣then I will be at peace
A real food lover you are 👌
Lolz. But food is be loved, aren't it?
Petrichor - cool word, I've never heard that before.
Smells I like: hmmmmm....
Onions cooking in butter (delicious)
Pine needles (childhood memories in British Columbia)
Shampooed hair (sexy)
I know that a bunch more with some really important meaning to me will come after I hit the reply button lol.
Wow.... Sounds so cool, is that the shampoo I know you were referring to?
I completely agree with you, that smells is always one of a kind, I love that smells too
I don't have a specific type of shampoo in mind, its just one of those things where you know it when you smell it I guess lol
Those shampoo really do make ones hair bright and cutly
You've narrowed it down well indeed! Shampooed hair is a good one actually. I remember a girl at school whose hair always smelled like strawberries - That was a long time ago, strangely, I still recall her name. (It's not that strange actually.)
Pine forests are legit too...Something about being in one after rainfall as well. So peaceful and the smell. Glorious!
I think rain makes everything smell better, except dogs of course (like you mentioned) and shoes. Actually, maybe rain doesn't make everything smell better at all. Lol
Forests though.
Haha,
dogs, shoes, woollen sweaters, sheep,forests!Got there in the end.
Lmao exactly
Shampooed hair is a yes for me especially those with menthol is so relaxing and keeps headache away especially on an an uncomfortable day.
Wow, shampooed hair, cool! Never thought about that but yes, agree with you about that one 👌
Specifically baby hair. In fact babies always smell so nice when they don't puke
Catching the glimpse of Lilacs on a Spring day, autmn leaves crunching under my feet are some seasonal scents I love... Roasting sweet potatoes on the street corner in Seoul is a local scent I couldn't find in the States.
The autumn also brings fallen gingko fruits fermented on the street. These may look pretty but they stick to your feet. Someone may ask you, "Boy what is stuck to your seat?"
Looking at this beautiful flower make me imagine what the scents could feels like, the flower is way too beautiful
Can you please tells me how it scents please?
Hi @repayme4568.
This is a branch of the ginko tree with the sun shinning. The leaves change to yellow in the fall. It smells like a dirty toilet or rotten pooh 💩.
Really? That's not good bro, but i like the way it look, the flower is so iconic to me,
Thanks... It is a tree that grows naturally in Northeast Asia. The fruit begins to rot quickly. It smells bad but inside is a special medicine if you cook it. Look into some time. It's a cool tree.
Have a great weekend^^
It's interesting how we get so used to smells and scents around us that when we're abroad we seek them out. Conversely I sometimes get the scent of something here that reminds me of some distant place I've travelled in the past. The amazing power of smells and scents I guess.
I'd not want fermenting gingko fruits Stu K to me though. That doesn't sound so good.
You just gotta watch where you step sometimes @galenkp,
Are you guys having spring now.
I remember I miss the smell of Michigan apple cider. They don't make anything like that here except some kind of concentrated apple drink with oriental medicine in it. That oriental medicine smell is something that never leaves your system.
How do you keep up with these comments...?
It's spring here for sure; lovely days, cool nights and the promise of the warmth to come. It's a nice time of year. ✅
Michigan apple cider? Cool. I had a Bulmers apple cider today with a mate. So refreshing.
I use Ginabot notifications so I generally don't miss any although I think I have from time to time.
Once again I'm drinking vicariously though you. !BEER
Another great smell is !PIZZA
Hey everyone 😁
I'm not much into the colognes or scents so I'd go for the third option. When I was a kid I used to live with my grand parents in their house. My grandma was such a darling she always used to make spicy things for me. I used to be with her in the kitchen eagerly waiting for a fresh dish to be served. She used to make pastries for me and I still remember the fragrance of those pastries and whenever I smell something similar to that fragrance it takes me back to those good old days giving me nostalgic vibes. Wish I could taste those pastries once more♥️
Grandmas are many times the best chefs in the world 🌠 You still remember, and that is the proof of your love to her and her kitchen and dishes 😊
Whatever they make or do is made gracious with the tenderness they have in their behavior
Wow! this is so touching 🤗
Memories from the things we used to love always remains in the heart, it makes us strong at times and it makes us weak at times, but what matters most is if you are able to turn it in to good mode.
It was nice reading about those precious time you had with your grand mother
Yes these memories are sometimes emotional because we no longer see these people around us but what makes us happy is the feeling of spending time with such lovely people. Thank you mate your comment made me smile
WOW! You are welcome, you know what? I am one of the coolest guy ever, smile....
You can always count on me for that.
How is it going over there?
Glad to know that 😁
It's going good
Alright
Hmm interesting. I had you pegged for a definite cologne connoisseur - Shows how wrong a G-dog can be I guess. I had you pictured like this bro...
You know, sniffing the latest cologne and deciding if it would natch those gold shoes you have that you kindly showed us a few weeks back.
Ravishing
Now, down to business...Grandma's cooking brah! Indeed! I hear you loud and clear on this one. We used to go to my grandma's for lunch every Sunday and I loved it. She's gone now and I'll never taste such delights again.
Man I was having a rough day and you made me laugh out loud 😂😂 Yes whatever you pictured is right because these colognes are sharp, killing the nose, and these don't even match the swag of my golden shoes 😂
Grandmas are love bro..
BTW, I can sense that you're in a good mood today .
The swagger one would deploy when one is sporting golden shoes is unparalleled.
I'm always in a good mood, it's just that the degree of good is sometimes so low that it looks bad. Still good though. 😊
I am now looking forward to doing something similar to that 😂 I have a similar walk but that is conditional 😂😂😂
And the degree of good sounds so high today😁 Go ahead bro you're making my day
Please video it when you swagger like this and do a post, gold shoes and all. I'll vote it.
Those shoes were old and I was not using them so I gave them to someone who needed to cover his feet. If you wish to see such stuff, I'll post a video for you and not for the votes my friend 😄♥️
Oh such sweet memories, everyone has a secret ingredients and makes their meals with a unique taste, sometimes you can differentiate grandmas food from that of your ma or someone else just by the scents
yes. you're totally right ♥️
This one is absolutely nice, but my grandma will make you paster and you will hate it the rest of your days🤣
Hello Boss, When I was much younger, I really don't have a particular Scent I use. Sometimes I used my brothers because we stayed together and he got so many of them. Some will last for days and even week
Bvulgari was one of them. Now, I make sure of Terree D'Hermes it's fruity spicy woody fragrance and I so much love it. Sometimes I buy 2 so that I don't run out of it. I think it cost around 140$ for 100ml.
Regards.
Ah yes, I know the one you mean...Rather classy my friend - You'd have to beat the ladies off with a stick if the get a whiff of that on you!
Never run out...And always keep a stick handy, or not.
140$! that's a lot lot money....
I think it costly, well it depends on the product.
Nice entry....
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I love the smell of this perfume, it has a way of soothing my mind and soul. It makes me feel a lot more good about myself.
I lovs the smell of pressing Iron as wired as that might sound.
I like sniffing the air at the beginning of raining season, i found it interesting and refreshing
And i hate the smell of smoking of ciggrate, it irritates me badly I could trow ups.
Oh now I want to smell this perfume! I'm going to see if I can find it in a shop because if it's soothing to the mind and soul I cold use a little of it!
I know a few who like the smell of ironing clothing; I think the heat brings out the scents from the washing powder or liquid used in the washing process and I've had people say the same about my business shirts as the heat can draw out residual scents from the colognes I sprayed on which have over-sprayed to the short collar.
I'm with you on the cigarette smoke thing too. Filthy habit. I have the smell of those vape/e-cigarette's also.
I'll third the cigarette and now vape smell. Nothing worse than walking behind someone on the sidewalk and they suddenly blow out a massive cloud of chemical bubblegum smell with strange undertones that you can't quite place. Even just sitting next to someone who vapes is off-putting, with the same weird smell permeating off their clothes.
Yep, exactly. I know it's a free world and all, they have the right to smoke or vape...Just as I have the right to hate it, along with so many others.
We all can definitely not love same stuffs.
Indeed.
Good luck in finding the perfume, you will definitely love it. It's smell, is just amazing.
I'm on a mission: Operation perfume.
Wow I would go look up this very perfume let me also feel very good about myself 😁.
You mentioned the smell of pressing iron I was wondering i immediately walked over to my iron turn it on but the smell was not really enticing to me🥱. I hate irons the numbers of my cloth that got stuck on it just makes me furious 🤣🤣
Hahhhaha , maybe the control of your iron is bad, hence it is stucking your cloth.
The pressing iron smell isn't really enticing but some how i still like the smell and found it interesting
Yes I guess so too. I am gonna take it out for a engineer to check it out. Almost half of my cloth got kisses by the iron😂
I will continue sniffing iron to feel the same way as you😁
I don't think it's strange that you like the smell of the pressing iron. That smells reminds me of when I was a child, a lady used to come home to do the ironing and she used to even iron the socks, hehe. And I loved sitting down to talk with her while she was ironing. The smell of the pressing iron always reminds me of her.
And the smell of cigarette smoking is disgusting, I agree.
Good to know I'm not alone with pressing iron thing. I use to think, am the only wired one lol!
@funshee what is that you are presenting!
Brown Orchid perfume?, no way you rock it I mean, it smells good, I love it too, I used to make used of it some days back
Yeah, I sure did.
WOW! That's awesome
Oh, smoke can kill especially those bad weeds
Formaldehyde.
During a dissection class for gross anatomy in medical school, the unpleasant stench initially struck my nostrils. The stench turned me off. When I came close to the cadaver, even my eyes sting.
Over the next year and a half, my team and I gathered around the cadaver that had been assigned to us. We worked hard, learned a lot, laughed a lot, and matured a little.
When I finished gross anatomy, I was acclimated to the stench and missed it.
Now, the smell of formaldehyde brings back memories of my team's camaraderie. Our learning a-ha moments Our staff is hard at work. Our goofy antics. I have fond memories that bring a grin to my face.
I adore the scents of jasmine flowers, coconut oil, roasted spices for chettinad curry, sambar, gardenia,soil after the first rain, Johnson's baby lotion, Eucalyptus oil, coffee, cardamom, etc.
Formaldehyde will always be a unique substance.
What an odd but cool scent-memory. I guess considering the power of recall scents and smells have it makes sense that the chemical makes you recall those days and the happenings in them. Cool answer.
I like your other scents too...Better than formaldehyde for sure. ✅
Gone through all the comments now, and only one person said my favourite smell which is freshly cut grass. There's nothing that beats this to shout I'm fresh, I'm alive and I'm natural.
Magnolia, or specific species called white champaca beings back lovely memories of my grandma. She used to place the stems in a little dish of water and the light fragrance would fill the house with lovely scent.
And finally, sad to see your header image. BLV used to be my favourite parfum, but they've discontinued the ladies version now. I haven't found a replacement yet, one coz I don't wear perfume anymore, and two, it's like I don't want to find a substitute for something that I used to like so much.
Oh yeah, I mention it at the top in my own list but was surprised to see few others did. Cut grass smells are legit. (Unless one has hay fever I guess.)
Magnolias and grandma's go together right? It's a lovely scent indeed.
I didn't know they discontinued the ladies version of BLV although I'm not a lady and never buy it so that's. It so surprising I guess. I don't wear this one often but like the smell of it and get a comment or two now and then so people must like it.
I've read and heard a few comments about women not wearing perfume anymore...I never ask but often wonder why? What's the reason for the change.
For me, I'm no longer working now, hardly wear makeup and always dress like an old bag, so if I wear perfine people probably think it's to cover up my stink 😁
But that's a valid question, maybe its the trend of all about being natural nowadays
Lol...Dresses like an old bag. I'm sure not, but it's a funny comment and made me smile.😉
Am glad to come across this post. Seems I almost forgot 🤣.
Ok, for me I detest with passion the smell of a cockroach. Each time I see them around, their smell irritates me to an extent that I have to fill the whole place with perfume 😂😂. Part of the reason is because of the disease they are believed to transmit ( Leprosy ), another reason is that their scent can make me vomit.
I love many scents but I think I will go for the banana scent. The smell has always been one of my favorites perhaps because I have been in a good relationship with bananas right from childhood 🤣🤣. I could remember telling myself that part of my first salary will go for some bunches of bananas 😜.
Just like you, I also love the smell of flowers. It transmit nature to me. Reminds me the need to appreciate nature .
I'm not sure I know what a cockroach smells like to be quite honest but don't really want to find out. I'm not keep on getting leprosy either so I htink I'll steer well clear of those little blighters. Come to think of it I'm not much of a fan of bananas either however I know a lot of people love them. I hope yo managed to spend your first salary on bananas mate, I'm sure that would have made you feel content.
Hugo Boss the scent private accord. I like sweets so maybe cacao/ chocolate is the reason why I like this scent so much.
I also like the smell of burning wood. For this I blame my art because in it I use pyrography(burning on wood). So maybe my nose got accustomed to this smell.
I know someone keen to do some pyrography and I think it's going to happen so I'm keen to see how that goes. Have you seen that YouTube video of the guy who does amazing wood burning artwork but he uses gunpowder? He does the design then lights up the gunpowder which burns into the wood. It's pretty cool.
i don't think so. But that sounds cool.
And, I remember when I was a kid I was at the Big Pineapple in Queensland and there was a rubber (eraser) that smelt like pineapple and I loved it, and I cut a bit off with my thumbnail and shoved it up my nose so I could keep smelling it, and it got stuck there and I couldn't tell anyone because I knew it was a stupid thing to do, and I experienced quite the panic until a big snort set it free. I've never told anyone that before. Dont' tell the staff at the Big Pineapple. Although I was like 7 at the time.
Yeah so? Sounds a perfectly legitimate thing to have done. 😂
I bet you were a very inventive and ingenious kid judging by the smarts you showed at the Big Pineapple. Come to think of it I reckon I saw you there hat day, poking that eraser-shard up your schnoz. Was that you in the purple corduroy trousers out the front with you finger up your nose? Hmm, maybe some other kid.
I think it's quite clever, hahahahaha - I'm sure my parents said I couldn't have it which is why I decided to carry it up my schnozz. I can still remember feeling stupid embarrassed... like, how am I going to get out of this one?
And then you were like, screw it, I'm owning this shit! And you went around with an eraser up your schnozz like in the legends of old!
Shhhhh let's not talk about it anymore...
Lol.
I cannot stop laughing at this!!! If there's an award for the best comment here, I will vote with my twenty fingers and toes
Hahaha omg I always forget people I know might read stupid things I put online..
@riverflows I came on here to just browse through the comments and see what the discussion topic was this weekend, but this comment about the rubber (eraser) is so honest and absolutely hilarious. I love it.lol
Thanks --- as I said above, I forget other people might read these stupid things ahahahahah
I like so many smells. Almost everything about baking, cookies, and cakes while baking smells so good.
I also love the smell of wet earth when it rains. It brings back very good memories of when I was a child. We used to go on vacation to a house that my uncle had in the countryside. There used to drizzle in the morning, and I loved waking up with the smell of wet earth.
I love the smell of most fruits, especially citrus fruits. And the smell of apples too. But I don't like the smell of papaya even though, I love to eat it.
And one smell that I don't like at all is that of uncooked butter. Although I like the taste of it, I hate its smell.
I have to agree with you on these, especially the citrus fruit smell - oh my word Orange Blossoms! So good.
Yes, orange smells so good and also the tangerines.
It's that kind of fresh zest that is just delectable. I actually had the weirdest craving for marmalade a few days ago - I don't crave things often, but when I do they tend to be citrus - fresh oranges, orange juice, marmalade or chocolate with orange pieces in it. I'm such a weirdo lol.
Chocolate with orange pieces is an addiction to me, hehe. I love it.
It's great, I love it! Some people just don't think it's good and I can't understand it. I don't know if you know of Terry's chocolate oranges? Oh my wordy, those things! 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡
I don't know them. But I googled and now I'm craving to try them.
It's really strange how we can dislike the smell of something but like to eat it; I'm like that with blue cheese. Smells terrible but I don't mind eating it. Weird.
You've mentioned some good things here and I have the same ones also - I guess humans are much alike in this aspect.
I also like blue cheese, and its smell isn't very pleasant, hehe;)
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I pretty much love the smell of the first rains as well it's just great🤣
It's such a lovely smell!
First time i smelled i knew i want to taste chai tea on a festival, cinnamon cardamom honey and milk the mixture of these have a unique smell, and whenever i create it on my own, this sweet spicy scent reminds me to those good old memories when i smelled it first. Well the ingredient list can vary and there are others beside the mentioned four to create chai, but these which makes the smell i rly adore.
I've had a few cups of chai tea over the years, very tasty indeed and they have a unique scent for sure.
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STOPAh...for me it is the smell of a wood fire. The smell of wood burning in a fire pit or in a fireplace...I love it. I even like my clothes smelling like it the next day (and hey, maybe even wear them to work the next day because I love the smell so much). I don't know if it is reaching my primitive subconscious or what, but I can't get enough of it.
Based on the comment above, including the wears smokey clothes to work part...
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I sort of knew this about you anyway, now it's confirmed.
haha, and this made me make a purchase last night...portable fire pit en route! Smokey clothes are going to make a comeback this fall...
Photos and posts bro, photos and posts.
ha, I promise!
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