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12 June 2015

Friday question NOT from the Book of Questions What is your favorite smell/aroma/perfume? Any reason?

post by: bearwife at: 16:08 | 22 comments

I am very, very partial to the smell of roses myself. I'm not sure why. I do love the flower too.

Also high on my list of favorite scents are baking bread, melting butter, freshly mown grass, sea air, jasmine, gardenia flowers, and sage.

posted by bearwife 12 June | 16:10

I enjoy the citrus scents (and flavor) and dislike the musty scents and heavy sweet scents.

Citrus is so bright and fresh!

posted by mightshould 12 June | 20:15

Cucumber, cilantro, mint because they all smell like summer.

Vanilla.

Cedarwood.

posted by gaspode 12 June | 21:14

Everything that gaspode said, but add rosemary.

posted by msali 12 June | 22:46

Citrus, pinaceae, lavender, rose violet, mint, extra sourdough bread, coffee, chocolate....the man I loved in college.

posted by brujita 13 June | 00:52

Lots of lovely roses in England at the moment. Also dill and basil. Lemon. Rosemary. Coffee.

posted by altolinguistic 13 June | 03:36

OH, yes, rosemary is also lovely.

posted by gaspode 13 June | 05:30

I can't think of a favorite, but honeysuckle is in bloom all along our tree line, and it smells lovely.

posted by amro 13 June | 06:30

Vanilla. Honeysuckle. Wisteria. Baking cookies & brownies. Whatever it was my male Lebanese-Canadian coworker at my first job wore.

posted by bluesapphires 13 June | 06:55

We have several huge lilac bushes outside my studio window, and when they are blooming the place smells amazing. I can't honestly say if lilac is my favorite scent, but that short period when they're blooming sure makes the days a lot happier.

posted by Thorzdad 13 June | 07:30

Warm mules on cold mornings; you lean up against them and watch their breath become visible while you drink in their aroma.

posted by mule 13 June | 14:47

Speaking of animal smells, I am very partial to sniffing my husband's skin and my dog's ears and head.

posted by bearwife 13 June | 16:25

Roasting chicken; cookies in the oven; coconut; certain male colognes (Dolce & Gabbana's Light Blue); and the way my boyfriend smells after he's been working outside.

posted by redvixen 13 June | 18:49

Cinnamon. Horses. Honeysuckle. Chicken soup. Our dog's heads. Mrs. chewie. Smoke from wood fires. Indoor swimming pools.

posted by chewatadistance 13 June | 19:45

Victory.

posted by Hugh Janus 13 June | 22:22

Vanilla.

posted by Obscure Reference 15 June | 00:33

Cinnamon, vanilla. And kitty shoulder/scruff.

posted by sperose 15 June | 10:52

There is a bread bakery a few miles from our house on one of the main drags. They make Wonder Bread (or the equivalent) but I don't care because it smeels great when you open your windows as you drive by.

I also like new vinyl, like the off-gas of a brand new shower curtain. Yes, I am weird.

posted by Madamina 15 June | 13:08

Vanilla (the only candle scent I like), cinnamon, coconut (especially suntan lotion), the beach/ocean, the woods (especially in fall), my mom's kitchen when she was able to cook (anything she made smelled great), sometimes cigars (they remind me of my father)

posted by Pips 16 June | 08:34

Cats smell between their ears like lanoline to me. Which is similar to how my daughter smelled as a baby. Which reminds me in a way of how my GFs neck/hair smelled. I guess olfactorily I'm a people person.

posted by jouke 16 June | 11:25

I love to sniff a dog's paws and tell the dog how stinky they are. The smell speaks of the adventures that the dog has been on, it's just a very sweet, earthy, wonderful smell.

posted by jayder 17 June | 21:01

I sometimes keep the cardamom on the counter because it smells so good.

posted by theora55 18 June | 08:50

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