Can't stand drinking coffee, or strong brewed coffee scents, but yeah - I DO love the smell of a freshly opened can of non-froufrou coffee (Folgers, Maxwell House, etc).
Friday OT #2 - Heaven Scent
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The smell when you walk into the Aria hotel in Vegas, I am not sure what they do, but it is wonderful.
Addendum to the conversation. Does anyone ponder "why" some of these are so appealing? Quite a bit of commonality/overlap in the responses. Some of the agri-scents might have roots in nostalgia for Iowa-bred peoples among us, but what is it about gasoline and plastic-wrap and magic markers?
I assume there are scientific studies of some sort, with connection to it, I haven't researched that.
I assume there are scientific studies of some sort, with connection to it, I haven't researched that.
As an old farm boy..(several have been mentioned)
-Fresh cut hay
-Just tilled soil
-The first couple minutes of a steady rain
-Silage
-The haymow
-That first belch of diesel smoke when you start the tractor
-This one will seem weird, but an old dairy barn that's sat empty. It wouldn't smell good to most people but there's something about that mix of old feed, bedding, wood, and other stuff that takes me back.
-Fresh cut hay
-Just tilled soil
-The first couple minutes of a steady rain
-Silage
-The haymow
-That first belch of diesel smoke when you start the tractor
-This one will seem weird, but an old dairy barn that's sat empty. It wouldn't smell good to most people but there's something about that mix of old feed, bedding, wood, and other stuff that takes me back.
Rain in general does it for me. The smell and sound is so relaxing. Nothing like falling to sleep during a mild thunderstorm.
Summer rain on hot concrete
Racing fuel with the grape smelling additive
Coniferous forests
Burning cedar
Fishing tacklebox
Deisel engines
Outboard motors/general marina smell
Fresh tilled soil
My dogs feet smell like corn chips. Weird, but it's tantalizing haha
Racing fuel with the grape smelling additive
Coniferous forests
Burning cedar
Fishing tacklebox
Deisel engines
Outboard motors/general marina smell
Fresh tilled soil
My dogs feet smell like corn chips. Weird, but it's tantalizing haha
Beer farts, toe nail butter, from under cheese, nah, fresh cut hay, grass, camp fires with bacon cooking over fire.
Nostalgia has to play a part. Cow and pig **** doesn't smell good, but it has a calming effect on me when I go back to the old home town to see my parents.
On the flip side, I've caught an odor that reminded me of the dentist drill when I was a kid and I immediately wanted to get the hell out of there. I'm convinced that some smells are burned in a person's memory forever.
Every once in a great while I will have a scent give me such a vivid memory that I will have just a glimpse of what it is like for some of our animal friends with much more powerful senses of smell. I start to understand how a dog can identify old friends just by the scent left behind. It is a whole great big world that we just touch the tip of the iceberg.
Pineapple weed. It grew next to the chicken house on my grandmother's farm. Whenever I smell it I'm instantly reminded of her. She died in 1970.
There's also a smell of the combination of the ditch grass/weeds in the summer and the dust from a gravel road. Reminds me of getting the mail out of the rural mailbox as a child in the 60's. Hard to describe but when it hits me it hits me.
Some of the same others have mentioned. New mown hay, mimeographed copies.
Some other unique ones. The smell of my jukebox. Its from the heat and the effect of the heat on the light machine oil in the mechanisms. Very faint but definitely there.
The smell of the inside of my old car. Slightly musty with a bit of old gas. Sometimes I just sit in it to take in the simplicity of the dash layout, the smells, and I think about the times it has existed through and the people it has carried to different significant and insignificant life events.
Damn, I'm waxing poetic today, LOL!
There's also a smell of the combination of the ditch grass/weeds in the summer and the dust from a gravel road. Reminds me of getting the mail out of the rural mailbox as a child in the 60's. Hard to describe but when it hits me it hits me.
Some of the same others have mentioned. New mown hay, mimeographed copies.
Some other unique ones. The smell of my jukebox. Its from the heat and the effect of the heat on the light machine oil in the mechanisms. Very faint but definitely there.
The smell of the inside of my old car. Slightly musty with a bit of old gas. Sometimes I just sit in it to take in the simplicity of the dash layout, the smells, and I think about the times it has existed through and the people it has carried to different significant and insignificant life events.
Damn, I'm waxing poetic today, LOL!
This is true, and other sensations forever connected to certain smells. I was in the fall play when I was in junior high school. My costume for my bit part was hastily whipped together and included a giant safety pin right in the center back to hold it together. In addition it was freshly dyed black. The dye smell was pretty powerful. I had to pull that costume over my head and whenever I wasn't thinking about it as I pulled it back off I would snag that safety pin in my hair at the nape of my neck. Over the course of dress rehearsals and performances I probably did it a dozen times. To this day whenever I smell that dye smell I can vividly feel that pain of my hair getting yanked at the nape of my neck even though it was almost 40 years ago.
My grandfather's Sir Walter Raleigh pipe tobacco.
My old man smoked Winston's and drank Old Milwaukee, that's a unique smell combo.
Old books and old portions of a library.
My old man smoked Winston's and drank Old Milwaukee, that's a unique smell combo.
Old books and old portions of a library.
Two I haven't seen yet:
1) Freshly placed concrete (it also happens to smell like money to me)
2) Metal Fabrication (welding, cutting, grinding)
I'd also go with: sawdust, campfires, the ocean/beach/salt water (coupled with the humidity), and the smell after it rains (petrichor).
1) Freshly placed concrete (it also happens to smell like money to me)
2) Metal Fabrication (welding, cutting, grinding)
I'd also go with: sawdust, campfires, the ocean/beach/salt water (coupled with the humidity), and the smell after it rains (petrichor).
