My favourite smell is…
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(This is one of mine, along with freshly mown grass and BBQ briquettes drenched in lighter fluid. Ahhhh.)
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1 | Katy
Bready sweet baked goods.. it often leads me to sampling hot banana bread before it cools down and burning my mouth.
6 | Krista
cedar, lilacs, campfires, fresh mown grass (I can’t pick just one!)
7 | Brenda A.
My kids, just as they open their eyes in the morning. I could inhale that every minutes of the day if possible!
8 | Cathy
If my spouse really wanted to impress me he …. would make it home from work on time, tell me the meal that I have prepared smells so yummy. He always helps clear the table, but he would then help with the dishes. Yes I know I am so hard to impress, live for that man is hard. To me it is the little things that count that mean the most to me.
9 | binki
Glad to see my top smells on the list of others. Fresh-cut grass (with extra bonus points for bbq aroma), newly cut cedar, wood fire, lillacs, onions frying in oil (the start of most good meals). All winners. But there’s a smell that beats them all. When human beings come in from the cold after being active, our cool skin has a particular odour. I have no idea why or what it is I’m smelling, but it’s a distinct smell. It smells like adventure.
10 | andrea
Ooh! These are all great smells. I need to add to my list:
campfire
coffee
bacon
outdoor smell (just like binki described!)
outdoor smell v2: rainy/earthy spring days
laundry on the line
lilac trees
baked bread
11 | andrea
Do you wonder why these smells are so meaningful to us? Is it because they remind us of being a kid?
12 | binki
Oh yeah, that amazing smell on wet spring days. My youngest daughter noticed it the other day. She said “It smells like spring. I really LIKE that smell”. I loved that.
And here’s a weird one. I like the smell of Windex. It smells like weekend house cleaning (when I was a kid). It smells like getting ready for a party or a family get-together. Windex is mixed in with my favourite Christmas odours.
Taste and smells can bring back powerful childhood memories (Marcel Proust penned a few words on this subject). Our favourite odours are usually linked to positive childhood memories.
13 | Sara
coffee.
leaves raked in a big pile in the fall.
that smell of people who have been out in the cold.
and strangely, Canadian Tire…reminds me of my small home town in NS
14 | Ann
New babies!
Line dried sheets. vanilla, the old morrison lamonthe bakery(remember driving om the Queensway at Bronson?mmmmm) markers, lilacs, fesh cut grass, fresh baked bread and warm apple cider after a cold day :)
16 | Mommy Marshall
Newborn babies and hospital hand soap, and coffee when I am waking up.
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