Whaddya Say - Smells

What smells do you love?? Hate?? I am focusing on non-garden scents, but if you want to include that you can. We did do a thread a couple of years ago on that but we have some new regulars.

Love:

Coffee - both freshly ground beans and 'cooking'.
Gasoline - go figure. Weird, but I do.
Vanilla.
Cinnamon.
Certain women's sweat - sorry, cannot be more specific. It is what it is! ^_^
GARLIC!!
Wet soil.
Wet leaves.
The air when it rains.
Ozone after an electric arc. (Remember I am an EE!).
Salt water.


Hate:
Fish.
Lake water.
NYC subway homeless person.
Cat pee.
Spoiled dairy!


Garden-related:

Love: Jasmine, Gardenia, some viburnums(judii, Mohawk, carlesii), most roses, BASIL!!, honeysuckle, mint.

Hate: Some viburnum (dentatum, dilatatum), datura, creeping chameleon (gross!).

Smells that most hate that don't really bother me:
Skunk, petroleum products.


I have many more in all categories, but I just wanna get it started.

When I cant taste or smell I can only dream. ughh

In color or b&w? No smells in the dreams?

I've lost a lot of my smelling ability, but here goes: Love- Old Spice (but if I see those horrible commercials anymore, I'm changing my mind!), clothes dried on the line outside, grass or hay that's been mowed, Oriental lilies, vanilla, banana bread, Spring, Zest soap, lilacs, iris, roses, some viburnums as well, puppies. Hate: skunk, low tide, chicken manure, fish, diapers, gingko, sour milk, road kill, and strong chemicals.....

non garden: coffee, new cars, baby skin and hair, baked bread, ozone after a storm; sweet smell of California redwood lumber and most fresh lumber

garden: heirloom peonies, Burkwood and Korean Spice Viburnum, daphne odora,hyacinth, apple blossoms

hate: when i think someone's trying to trick me or even trick the state for services, I say and feel like I smell a rat. locker rooms and old sneakers, cleaning chemicals, especially Pinesol

Yes - forgot baby smell. Love it!

Love: wood burning fire on a fall day, house freshly cleaned with bleach, fresh bread baking, cinnamon rolls, sheets after being hung outside to dry
Hate: cigarette smoke, cat pee, rotting meat in the trash

LOVE: Harley exhaust, firewood, cookies baking, vanilla, cinnamon, Yankee Candle Vineyard or Shiraz candle, clean baby smell, the beach, the boardwalk(popcorn, hotdogs, cotton candy)

HATE: Burnt toast, wet dog, porta john, skunk, cigar smoke(cig smoke too but cigar is the WORST)

Garden-related:
LOVE: Fresh cut grass, Old fashioned Rose, Peony, Sweet Autumn clem,violets, daffodils, .....oh ya know, I just LOVE all flowers with a scent

HATE: Dog poo

Smells that most hate that don't really bother me: Gasoline, cleaner aisle at the grocery store


This message was edited Mar 10, 2012 11:14 PM

Yes on burning wood, or leaves. Like pipe smoke, some cigars. Hate cigarette smoke.

Love:
The forest
The Ocean
The air/mist at a waterfall
First snow of the season
Spring Shower
Fresh cut grass
Fall ~ The combo of leaves, apples, pumpkins, woodland musk smell
Apple Pie in the oven
Spaghetti sauce simmering
Fresh brewed coffee/I can tell when it's old.
Garlic
Baked Bread
Kitchen Spice's ~cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, vanilla
A Baby
Women's Perfume ~Jovan Soft Musk
Men's Cologne ~ Aspen or Jovan's Musk for Men

Lilacs
Apple Blossoms
Oriental Lilies
Rose
Sweet Pea's
Sweet Autumn Clem
Ripe Melons
Fresh Strawberries


HATE:
Any spoiled meat /Fish
Any spoiled dairy
Vomit
Rotten broccoli or cabbage
A Male Cat's Spray
Doe/Deer Urine
Old Blood

You like new blood?!!

No, but it's not offensive to me as is old blood. (its being married to a hunter...he gives you a shirt soiled in blood as soon as he gets home, no problem. He takes it off in the truck and leaves it there for a few days...WE HAVE A PROBLEM!

This message was edited Mar 11, 2012 12:30 PM

Love,
Fresh dirt
Onions and garlic frying
Bacon (but can't eat it)
Puppies
Babies
Farms
Dog paws
Rain
Wet dogs
Anything baking especially with cinnamon
Far off skunk, tells me it's spring
Our mountain house after I haven't been there in a while

Lilacs
peonies
roses
lilies
sweet peas

Hate,
too much perfume or cologne
cat pee under our porch
gas fumes from the weed whacker
air fresheners
any chemical cleaners
cigarette smoke

I actually like the smell of smoke if I'm outside! No cigars, though.....And lemon...forgot how much I love a fresh lemon....and orange blossoms...which I only smelled in FL...

Real lemon scent--love. Artificial lemon scent--hate. Our dog likes to be brushed under our Meyer Lemon Tree so he can sometimes sniff it.

I knew he was a smarty!

I also have trouble with the ole sniffer, but... My likes:
Vanilla, cinnamon, apple pie, coffee brewing, campfires, my brother's pipe, far-off skunk, definitey clean baby smells, Chanel #5', Design perfume, oh yes, lemon

Dislikes:
Cat pee or spray, vomit, spoiled meat or potatoes, cigarette smoke,

Garden likes:
Lily of the valley, sweet autumn clematis, lilacs

This message was edited Mar 11, 2012 4:15 PM

Yes, I hate the smell of lemon pledge! That's what lemon balm smells like to me.

Always amazes me how strongly scents can trigger memories.

They all make "sense" to me! (LOL)

love: fresh cut hay, campfires.

hate: cat pee, tomato sauce

Love memory smells!
Yum to lemon too and lily of the valley♥

Tomato sauce? Interesting.

Oh yeah I LOVE the smell of coffee

it tastes better than it smells (tomato sauce)

I don't like the smell of preparing fresh tomoto sauce, when someone is crushing the stewed tomatoes, hated that smell when my mom was doing that

Big yes on fresh cut hay, and sometimes regular grass freshly cut smells real good. Love hay-scented fern.

Aside from Oriental lilies, which I often find too strong, the other plant that really fills my garden is clethra.

Add the air on spring days like today!!

How about ambivalent smells-- the smell of garden sheds. Like the familiar smell, but it isn't really very nice.

Love basement smells. And bungalow or country house smell.

ewwww basement smell???

Yes - not dirty or flooded ones, though.

i loved the smell of my hockey equipment - some pieces i had for 10 to 15 years - i never washed it - the smell just reminded me of hockey - even now i will open the old equipment bag for a wiff - it also gave me a little extra room in the corners and taking face-offs :)

Same with an old baseball glove....leathery & sweaty, but nice......

yup!

Love baseball glove smell.