Favorite outdoor smell?

For me, it's the smell of fresh mown grass. There's nothing like riding on the tractor and smelling the grass as you're mowing - personal heaven!

Ahhh...especially if there is some sweet clover being mown over....mmmm!

1) When it rains over soil that has been prepared for planting.

2) When I open my window in the morning and I have to decide what lovely scent the breeze is carrying (it's spring now for us in the southern hemisphere).

3) Hay.

How many can I list? LOL

Oh, lucky, lucky you!! I'm already beginning to feel sad as I put the gardens to bed for the season.

When I was a younster we spent a couple of years in Equador, and we used to "summer" in Guayaquil (excuse the spelling!) over the Christmas break. It was fabulously warm and the beaches were wonderful; very clean with crystal clear water.

Thank you for bringing back such a wonderful memory of December summers!

Fall leaves are my favorite outdoor smell.

Here ya go! I just got through taking the picture - after raking 50 bags of leaves so far this week, I decided I should have a photo to remind myself why it's worth it!

This time of year, it's fresh dug peanut fields..Espwcially at night..

Larkie

New mown grass tops the list. Next I'd have to say pretty much any flower, but especially lilacs and roses - in that order.

It's funny - as youread the posts you actually get a hint of the scents...

I agree with you, Sequee: scents are able to transport us to vivid memories and for a few seconds re-enact them for us.

Does anybody know what moats are?

A ravine surrounding a castle?

well yeah, I forgot about those moats! We had some kind of compost or something when I was a kid that would be delivered by the truck load. It had an odd smell and my folks called them moats.

Freshly mowed hayfield, and grass. Lilacs...they mean summer is almost here. You can smell them a block away!
The smell of a haymow...not really outside, but kind of!I haven't smelled one for years.

Joan, I love fresh cut hay too. We have a small 3 acre field that is cut about twice a year. Lilacs and wild honeysuckles are my favorites.

Fresh-cut hay, by far! Love driving around here as folks are haying....

I must be the only one here with hay fever! My nose is actually itchy thinking about it! I don't remember ever smelling any hay except in the barn. I'm assuming fresh cut is different?

Hay in the barn makes me sneeze too... but driving by a field that's just being mowed for hay creates a wonderful earthy smell like no other.

I'll have to check it out! So many of you agree!

lilacs...reminds me of growing up..wish I could have them here..also pussy willows..no smell that I remember,but neat.

fresh cut grass

raked leaves burning

rain on parched soil

my kids..ok not really in the garden,but my sown sprouts,after having a "mommy bottle"

Oh, I love that! Your kids - It don't get no better than that!

My driveway is lined with lilacs. When they are in bloom and I'm pulling in after work, it's like I died and went to heaven! Thanks for the rush!

I grew up in Philly...we had double french purple and white lilacs. Gosh I sure do miss them!

How funny! That's exactly what I have! The double french purple are along the driveway, and the white ones are along the front of the house. They were in bloom when I bought the house - they may have had a serious effect on my decision!

My favourite outdoor smell is after walking through 10 miles of soaking heather in the Highlands of Scotland, the smell of a whisky distillery which lightens the soul, and makes those wet and tired legs go that wee bit faster.

What a whiff ;-)


Whiskymoor

You are sooo funny~wish I was there! At the end oif the journey, of course!

Ginger, I was thinking newborn baby smell.

Now I have images of those tiny little toes and fingers - is there anything sweeter?

There sure isn't anything sweeter than that.

Hmmm...
Wood fires in the fall.

Tuberose and brugs in summer.

Fresh cut grass in the summer.

Lilacs in the spring.

Hyacinths in the spring.

Rain in the spring.

Freshly tilled soil.

Apparently, newborns and sweaty kids too. LOL

I love the smell of mown grass. Also love the outside smell of a fire when I go out to get more wood in the winter!

All of the above which I have smelled at one time or the other in my life.

Don't forget puppy breath, (outside or inside)

The smell of the air when rain is on the way

Pati

Oh my! Lilacs and roses and alfalfa fields and burning leaves (I know, it's not a good thing but...) and brand new kittens, and spring rain, and spicy geraniums, and lily of the valley, and fresh cut grass even though it makes me sneeze, and clover and.......you guessed it, I love all the outdoor garden smells, even the occasional whiff of horse manure from our neighbors down the road....it's all good!

Probably my favorite smell is when rain is on the way or just after it has started. In this area we don't get to smell that very often.

My next most favorite is when my Silver Linden, Tilia tomentosa, is in bloom. It is just a short distance from my bedroom window, can't really explain how it smells. It is a very pleasant fragrance. Donna

Yes Ursula I agree with you, I also like "When it rains over soil that has been prepared for planting"

Hi, Gumlla! Welcome back! We've missed you! Hope you and your wife and your fur-babies are all in good health!

Outdoor sounds are nice, too. I'm playing hooky today and just took the dog for a long walk through the fallen leaves. It's cool and windy out, but the sun is shining and the crunch crunch of the leaves underfoot sounded so much like my childhood memories of autumn - funny, too, on one block I saw people mowing their lawns and on another I could smell firewood burning - that's a true sample of the changing seasons!

When I got home I noted their are fewer leaves on my Maple tree today - and many more on the ground. I raked 10 bags yesterday, but it looks like I didn't do a thing

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Sequee
I always love the fall colors and cool air, here winter season is also started , there is raining out side ,it is the first rain of winters. Weather is very cool,we dont have maples here, I mean in my house otherwise I also raking bags.......lol
In an other thread I saw the pictures of your beautiful Sedum.My all the babies are fine, when I have accessing problem, i really missed all of you.

Thank you - if you were closer I'd be happy to send you some of the sedum. It multiplies like bunnies! I will be sorry to put everythig to bed, but all the outside work certainly keeps me out of trouble...that and spending all of my free time at DG!

No I dont want to have your plants, it is very difficult to send plant from USA to Pakistan, I just saw the picture and praised. I have Sedum in red and yellow colors.

Oooh, mst be pretty. Do you have a photo of the yellow?

Oops - I've gotten off the subject again! Sorry guys!

No, but will send when bloom this time,