Freshly baked bread.
Smelling freshly baked bread is the “seeing a water bottle cold enough to be sweating on a hot day while thirsty” of being hungry
Oh yes that is literally always good
- The smell in the air after a rain on a warm spring day.
- The smell in the air of wood smoke on a freaking cold winter day.
That first one is called petrichor
Coffee and vanilla.
There are literally no flaws with either of those smells
A combination of the smells from my grandfather’s shed: sawdust, machine oil and petrol from the lawn mower, freshly cut grass, leather, his pipe tabacco, and just a hint of whisky from the bottle he used to keep in there. He had a couple of old, leather, wing-back chairs in there and sometimes at the weekend after mowing the lawn we’d just sit and talk in his shed for a bit while he smoked his pipe and had a wee dram.
Sadly long gone (he died in the late 80s) but I get hints of it occasionally. Sometimes I’ll smell maybe the lawnmower smells in my own shed and my brain will fill in the rest and I’ll feel small and safe and warm and comfortable just for a moment or two.
Rain, and then a thunderstorm.
I’ve never been able to smell them, what’s the smell like?
It’s hard to describe I suppose. First the smell of rain hitting dry stone and dirt, and how that smell slowly swells and then fades as they become waterlogged… Then the heat rises as the thunderstorm comes, and the air itself smells warm and wet.
That’s a really nice description thanks
Petrichor! Not just a great smell… also my favourite word!
It’s a beautiful word, but for someone unfamiliar with the smell I wasn’t sure it was a good word to use.
I don’t think I have ever spoken to someone who hasn’t experienced the smell of rain on dry soil. Not trying to be rude, or pry too deep, but…uhmmm…how? How have you never smelt that before? It’s so far outside my own personal experience, I just don’t really understand it.
I meant someone unfamiliar with the word itself. Not trying to make people break out a dictionary.
That’s a great way to describe it. For me there’s also the faint smell of electricity in a thunderstorm, and it’s oddly soothing.
That might be ozone you are smelling
I have an O3 air purifier, not that I ever run it when I’m going to be in the same room. But getting a whiff on the way to airing it out the room after a session, yeah, I think I do pick up that smell also in very active thunderstorms.
Chemically it’s the smell of beet red. Most people describe it vastly differently because the retro nasal smell makes it feel like something else. Pretty interesting if you ask me.
It’s called petrichor - also one of my favourite words.
The smell of minced garlic and onion as they’re cooking.
I’ve heard that some restaurants do this the first thing in the morning just to attract customers.
If my pipe dream of a restaurant/pizzeria/spice shop ever comes alive, I’ll be doing this for sure. Because damn, it’s a great idea!
Pine and fir needles.
I hate the taste of coffee but the smell is heavenly
Same here!
Like walking past a Starbucks.
Or the coffee isle in the grocery store
Baking bread. The smell right after a summer shower. Books. Diesel exhaust on a cold day. Don’t ask on that last one, it’s weird I know, but I love it.
Coffee
Campfire, and the smell of woodsmoke on clothing the day after.
My chicken after she’s been dust bathing, or when it rains.
The dust bathing brings in an earthy note to her natural birdy scent. She just smells like a little nature spirit might, if such things were real.
When it rains, she’s usually under cover (though sometimes she gets out into it), but she’s picks to the petrichor aroma of rain and soil. She’ll carry that scent all evening usually, so when she comes inside and is nestled up next to me, there’s the normal bird smell, but also that rich aroma that a gentle rain brings, that usually fades quickly.
Mind you, I also love her normal smell, that almost dusty book, nose tickling smell of bird, colored with the mild earthiness and slight tang that’s all chicken.
Luckily, she doesn’t mind being sniffed occasionally :)
Now i want to sniff your chicken. She sounds delightful.
She really is :)
Bird sniffers unite!
Stinky dogs.
They smell like friendship
No one is going to say bacon?
I don’t eat pork and the smell of bacon is nauseating to me personally
I’ve got an intolerance to most animal fats, which means I’ve never been able to digest pork. My dad’s got the same thing, and while his case is less severe, he doesn’t eat pork either, so we never had it in the house.
The smell of pork generally and specifically that of bacon are extremely unpleasant for me. I can tolerate it for a while, but it wears on me about as much as high pitched background noise.
Lol mines a bit different. My grandparents aren’t Jewish but they celebrate basically every Jewish holiday (Passover, feast of tabernacles, days of unleavened bread etc) and don’t eat pork or unclean fish and instilled that into me as a kid even though my mom wanted to break away from it (they didn’t celebrate Christmas or Halloween or anything but my mom wanted me to experience that) but it’s the one thing that stuck and as I grew up i just ended up not wanting to eat it and eventually it just grossed me out
Depending on where you are*, it’s a hassle to avoid pork, but it’s honestly not a bad thing for your health, plus pigs are smart. It sounds like there might be other factors involved, but at least the pork thing sounds reasonable to me, lol. Plus Purim is super fun to celebrate.
*I grew up in the US avoiding pork and thought it was annoying. I then moved to Germany and realized the US is very accommodating in comparison
Lol even in prison they’re accommodating out here due to so many people converting to Islam while locked up. A bunch of the meals in the processing facility i was at which is where you get poked and prodded for diseases, mental health issues and determined where you’re gonna end up for the long term were pork based but you just had to say “meat free!” and you’d get a pork free tray. I was pretty surprised by that
I thought about that shortly after I posted my initial comment. I realize it’s not for everyone, hope I didn’t offend anyone.
Lol don’t worry about it! I totally get most people looooove that smell haha it’s just not for me
I’m surprised it took all day for someone to say that.
I woke up early yesterday and the one and only reason I got out of bed instead of going back to sleep is because someone was cooking bacon and the smell made its way up to my room.
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