I was cutting some stair treads this weekend and realized that I really, really like the smell of Douglas Fir sawdust. After I was done working, I go up to the shower and my wife just put up a new vinyl shower curtain. I love the smell of new vinyl right out of the package.
Here's my current TOP 5 smells. Anyone else?
Douglas Fir sawdust.
Brownies fresh out of the oven.
Pert Shampoo. Don't know why, maybe it's just me.
Low Tide on the New England coastline. That sweet, swampy, dead-fishy smell.
New vinyl. To me it just smells clean.
Green walnut and exhaust fumes when yer slabbin' it........ ;D ;D ;D
I love the smell of green walnut in da mornin'.... :D :D
Topping my list today would have to be the smell of spring, gettin real tired of movin dis snow around :(
food cookin is always a good one ;)
I don't think about this very often, but now that you mention, I suppose I can come up with a top five list.
1. The smell right after it rains on a summer day--and the first smell of some flowers in the spring.
2. The smell on the shore of Lake Superior, with the wind whipping right off the water--nothing's fresher.
3. The smell of an orange, right after you peel it.
4. The smell of ash or oak
5. The smell of pretty much any kind of food. ;D
PS Shouldn't you say you love the smell of Logrite Brownies, right out of the oven? :D
Pineapple - you see we get these huge trucks stuffed with ripe pineapple. The only issue when you are stuck behind one is that you tend to drool on your steering wheel... ;)
Rain, especially after its been dry.
A new car.
Freshly turned dirt, in the spring.
Black locust blossoms.
As for sawn lumber, black birch and sassafras.
Freshly mown grass. (I know that's number 6).
In no particular order-
Babies
Camphor leaves when you mow 'em
Fresh cut wood being made into a boat
Coffee when you first wake up in the morning
Lily of the Valley
I once lost my sense of smell (and taste) for almost 2 years due to an infection. You can't imagine what it was like when it returned!
For some reason, due to Anesthesia during surgeries, I have lost my smell. It isn't damaged nerves because, sometimes, I can smell and the sense is overwhelming. After a 15 or 20 minutes, it goes away again. Perhaps it's mental, though I can't figure out a reason I would subconsciencly shut it off.
Anyway, I find myself driving down the road when my nose gets turned on and a county tractor is mowing the right of way. It's the best smell in the world. I have to pull over and breath deeply, reveling in it. Sometimes it is so brilliant that I can't stand much and have to leave. But, I leave slowly.
If my nose is turned on, I can watch a farmer work his hayfield all afternoon.
For me, I'd have to say
freshly turned earth
cedar sawdust
fried chicken
fresh cut grass, ( if i am not the one who cut it) ;D ;D
Lets not forget BBQ cooking over some shingle bark hickory
The smell of a good camp fire in the cool, early autum morning.
Stew
Dark becoming Light in the desert southwest
Baby humans
My Wife
Pinon smoke
Pine growing in the heat of summer
fresh cut grass
black birch, freshly sawn green
onions cooking in butter
dirt
clean sheets
Actually my most vivid recollection of a "smell" was in March 1991, I was in senior year of college here in VT, it was cold and snowy and miserable, and some friends and I decided we were going to Puerto Rico for spring break (one of our classmates and friends was from there). Anyway - stepped out of the airport into the outside air, it was about 11 pm, has just rained and was about 80 degrees. The smell was like being in the world's biggest greenhouse. It was unbelievable, and it stuck with me all that week and for months afterward. I have never been in a greenhouse that smelled that intensely. And I love the smell of "greenhouse".
Collard greens cookin'
Boston butt on the grill w/ hickory & oak
Bacon & eggs in the morning
Pecan leaves burning
Peanut harvest time
I live in the peanut belt. S.W. Ga, S.E. Ala and N.W. Fla. all dig peanuts around the same time and the whole country side smells ..... hard to explain, not exactly like peanuts, but a combination of fresh plowed dirt and green peanuts.
I grew up in North Carolina and worked in the tobacco feilds as a kid. I miss the smell of flu cured tobacco on a cool fall morning...
Cedar- My clothes after cutting x-mas trees and boughs- Woodsmoke in October, I'm sick of it by now- Gasoline, in small doses- Fresh country air- Maine mudflats.
I worked on fishing boats for a while and the first time we were on our way back in after a couple weeks I was taken by surprise by the smell of the ocean, actually as it turns out-the smell of the land.
Bacon
Maple syrup on buckwheat flapjacks lathered with butter
More Bacon
More Maple Syrup
I hear you Troy, at one time there were 7 miles of tobacco warehouses in Durham. Driving through there when they were full was a good smell.
I was working some heart pine today. That's another smell I really like.
Coffee - good old Columbian - burning leaves - BACON frying - most any sawdust [except basswood] & hay thats ready to bale - :)
The smells that are on the top of my list would be;
Diesel smoke in the morning, especially a sunny crisp fall morning.
White pine being sawn on the mill.
The smell of the air after an afternoon ran in the summer.
And I have to agree clean sheets are right up there too.
Randy
The smell of a Outback steak. WHOOEEEEE Slow cooked baby back ribs. Fresh cut alfalfa hay.
One of my favorites that has alread been mentioned is freshly tilled soil :)
That special scent in early spring when you first open the house windows.
A calm, bitterly cold night.
The woods right after it rains.
A campfire.
Eastern Red Cedar air drying
The ocean on the outer Banks of North Carolina
Fish frying
The Outback steakhouse right next to the hotel that I am staying in tonight in Mississippi::)
Black Walnut
My least favorite smell............rattlesnake smiley_sweat_drop smiley_sweat_drop
I like all the stuff you guys have written....But my best scent is Tova Signature Perfume on my sweety..it'll make your heart pump !!
U.S. currency $$$$$$ ;) ;D ;D ;D
In no particular order:
Freshly cut grass
Coffee beans
Rum cured tobacco (even though I don't smoke)
Wet pine sawdust just after its rained at night
Cinnamon
My jasmine flowering late in the evening or early morning.
White pine saw dust. I tell Rita she should make a pine saw dust candle at Yankee Candle, and we all might be willin to go wit da hunies to da candle shop ;D .
In no particular order.
My late grandmothers perfume. I dont know what it was but I have been known to follow women down the street!
Orange blossoms in Florida
Pine sawdust I can just sit in the forest or on a log pile for hours.
Snowcat and locomotive diesel exhaust in the cold of winter. does nothing for me in the summer.
Dark rum
Exhaust from a 2 cycle snowmobile.
Firecracker smoke, .22 shells
To each his own!
sawdust
Hay being made
Bread in the oven
That one spring day when it really smells like spring
In no particular order
eastern red cedar
prescribed fire in the piney woods
freshly roasted and ground coffee brewing
yellow jasmine
apple pie in the oven
My wifes banana bread cooking.
Will
MmMm sooo many good smells, now I'm hungry :D
Food. All of it DanGit bring it on! ;D
Walnut saw dust dry walnut sawdust green Fresh whole wheat bread in the oven Pumpkin pie on my plate Maple syrup cooking down fresh cut /made hay
Fresh baked bread ,food I didn't have to cook ,fresh tilled soil ,spring rain
Most of my favs have been mentioned. Fresh turned soil, newly mowed hay,hot cinnomin rolls,pine sawdust.
My favorite all time smell is from my childhood...
The smell of a baseball field.......
The rest...
Oak being milled
My Wife's chocolate chip cookies baking
A camp fire
Freshly turned earth
We all seem to have similar likes for smells..... ???
Well, WDH, I like the smell of rattlesnake pretty well. But, those big old stub-tailed moccassins stink.
That being said, I still like being to smell the both of them. Well in advance. Kinda like some humans.
:D
WOW
Pine smoke
Top quality corn silage
Hemlock Bark Mulch
Pine Bark mulch
freshly plowed feild
Cow manure from a well managed herd " You can tell the difference" !!!
Apples in cold storage
The smell of a spring morning w/fresh dew!
my wife when she's gettin all Gussied up !!!
Good compost
Yankee Candels " Pine candel"
Yankee candels " wood smoke candel"
fresh cut grass
Steaming hot coffee, columbo supremo is my favorite
Freshly mown hay
Black cherry being cut on the mill
Onions cooking in butter
The first time in spring that we get a good rain and then open the windows up to get rid of the collected smells from winter....come on spring!
I love the smell of woodsmoke especially the pine knots I use as fire starters.
I love the smell of diesel smoke, takes me back to when my Dad used to fire up his dozer whe I was a kid.
I love the smell of my smoker running on hickory, apple or red oak.
I also agree with many of the earler mentioned posts, grass, fresh turned earth, cedar sawdust...
I will not even start to talk food except to say that frying onions makes my heart skip a beat, Mom used to start alot of meals by frying onions.
The musty smell you get down by a river has a calming effect on me, why I could take a nap right now just thinking about it.
Jon
The soft fragrant smell of my wife
the leather interior of the '84 XJS
the air after a summer rain
honeysuckle and jasmine
a good scotch
Ahh, a good scotch, nectar of the gods 8) I love the smell of fresh cut timber on the log landing and fresh hot coffee. I also like new mown hay but it makes my fingers hurt remembering those wire tied 80 lb bales.
Funny how smells can take you back to your childhood...first and second!
Spring rain
a field of lupine
bread baking
Now later...
grandbabies
pine trees around the lake
burgers on a grill
c'mon summer!!!! It's -25 with the wind today! A record low "high" for the date
My bride used to keep a can of PLAY-DOH on top of the fridge. We would take that can down, open it up and share a big wiff. Musta been a childhood memory thing.
Others;
Bacon frying.
fresh cut hay.
That smell from the feed mill. I don't know what it is is, and it prolly don't taste good.....
Camp fires.
Hopps, properly hydrated of course, with a dose of barley ;D
Quote from: Engineer on March 05, 2007, 06:51:45 PM
fresh cut grass
black birch, freshly sawn green
onions cooking in butter
dirt
clean sheets
Actually my most vivid recollection of a "smell" was in March 1991, I was in senior year of college here in VT, it was cold and snowy and miserable, and some friends and I decided we were going to Puerto Rico for spring break (one of our classmates and friends was from there). Anyway - stepped out of the airport into the outside air, it was about 11 pm, has just rained and was about 80 degrees. The smell was like being in the world's biggest greenhouse. It was unbelievable, and it stuck with me all that week and for months afterward. I have never been in a greenhouse that smelled that intensely. And I love the smell of "greenhouse".
We get that greenhouse smell a lot here in FL, right after a big summer thunderstorm. 80 degrees would be a rare cold snap, though. Our summer thunderboomers only cool it down for a few minutes.
The river under the tail race
Bream beds when there spawning
skunk in passing
some books
cool weather when it first comes
Asking such a loaded question ... this time of the year: the smell of melting snow , soon the smell of maple syrop in the making . Haye being cut , opening a cherry log witht eh mill .
When I was a little bitty kid, my Granddaddy would come in the house and jam his old hat onto my head. Of course, it would fall right down over my face. I will never forget the scent of that old hat, and OH would I love to smell it again.
When I was a kid I liked the smell of gas when we filled up at the gas station.Also liked the smell of old grease on old,long unused logging equipment.
Fresh cut hay,Absorbine Jr,Yellow Cedar.
When we would go away for a week and have our dog with us,he'd start to whine and yip happily when we would come back through the Joffre pass and start to decend into the Pemberton Valley.I guess he could smell "home" in the air.
Quote from: Paul_H on March 06, 2007, 09:57:56 PM
When I was a kid I liked the smell of gas when we filled up at the gas station.
You and me both...particularly the smell of the gas being filled up on a long road trip with the family, which was usually the time I wanted to be outside, helping dad pump the gas. That brings back some fond memories...
I'm working on planning a road trip with my dad, brothers and nephews up into the U.P., for this summer. Hopefully, it will turn into an annual trip with the male members of the family, and I'll be outside again, pumping gas with dad...and my nephews. :)
I like alot of the smells mentioned and would like to add a few. ;D
The smell of a Puppy.
Steak or Chicken cooking on an open flame.
Walking into a Bakery in the morning.
Dunkin Donut Coffee.
Old Hot Rods.
I got more but dey are all food related. ;)
Quote from: Mooseherder on March 06, 2007, 10:16:11 PM
I got more but dey are all food related. ;)
Three of the five you listed were food related too, Mooseherder. Hmmmmm. What is that telling us? ;D :D :D
Quote from: DanG on March 06, 2007, 10:19:34 PM
Three of the five you listed were food related too, Mooseherder. Hmmmmm. What is that telling us? ;D :D :D
I broke the 200 lb mark last week. ;D
200 lbs. ain't bad if your six foot I guess.
I'm just a few inches short of da mark. :D
hear we go, in particular order
1} my mom's home made chili in the crockpot. she starts it about 8am and by the time 2 o'clock rolls by my dad and I are circling the crockpot like a couple of vultures
2) 2 cycle exaust mixed with fresh cut douglas fir or lodge pole pine
3) west coast trout stream in the early morning
4) hot dog vender at a baseball game
5) ponderosa pine forest on a hot day
The smell of good fried catfish while having the honor of meeting and dining with Radar67 in Collins, MS tonight. Priceless.........First it was Sgtmaconga, then DanG, then Radar67. Where will it all end ? I want to meet all ya'll 8). Piggy roast, here I come ;D.
Yeah, we had a good visit...and a fine meal. :) Once you get started meeting folks, it is almost as addictive as sawdust, just can't seem to meet enough of em. You have a safe trip Danny, and stop back by whenever you get the chance.
Stew
I will definitely be back. You are gonna need some help stacking all that lumber for the new house ;) ;). Ah, the smell of drying lumber..........makes me happy :D. (What this really means is that I will get to eat more Mississippi catfish, the best in the world. If you want to try it, Collins, MS is a good place to start).
I was just telling the wife you might get tired of me helping you tail all your lumber when I come over to Augusta for that 5 month school. ;)
Stew
Quote from: sawguy21 on March 06, 2007, 10:43:25 AM
Ahh, a good scotch, nectar of the gods 8)
What's your fave? I'm a fan of Oban myself, and Talisker. Gotta love a good bottle of Scotch! 8)
1. the smell of clean cotton sheets that have been out on a line.
2. Fresh cut grass or hay
3. honeysuckle (love the smell hate the vines)
4. the smell of an incomming rain storm.
5. pecan pie baking in the oven.
6. a weird one but I like the smell of horses
Quote from: Paschale on March 07, 2007, 12:39:01 AM
Quote from: sawguy21 on March 06, 2007, 10:43:25 AM
Ahh, a good scotch, nectar of the gods 8)
What's your fave? I'm a fan of Oban myself, and Talisker. Gotta love a good bottle of Scotch! 8)
Macallan, or Laphroaig. Also get into Jamieson's occasionally, although Irish Whisky really ain't the same thing. ;D
I am very disillusioned. :'( Used to be, I thought Gusana Rojo was the nectar preferred by the gods. Or, maybe it was just the worm talking. They do that, you know.
:D :D :D :D I try to stay clear of that stuff. Paschale, you are a man of class, none of that blended stuff here either.
Quote from: Engineer on March 07, 2007, 10:33:26 AM
Quote from: Paschale on March 07, 2007, 12:39:01 AM
Quote from: sawguy21 on March 06, 2007, 10:43:25 AM
Ahh, a good scotch, nectar of the gods 8)
What's your fave? I'm a fan of Oban myself, and Talisker. Gotta love a good bottle of Scotch! 8)
Macallan, or Laphroaig. Also get into Jamieson's occasionally, although Irish Whisky really ain't the same thing. ;D
Oban, Talisker, Macallan, Laphroaig, Balviene, Highland Park, Glenmorangie, Dalwhinnie, Cardhu, Bowmore, Glendronach, Lagavulan. They all have their own special qualities. However, I am most fond of the one that is in front of me at any given time ;)
Those are all excellent choices for a glass to be shared with friends.The Laphroaig certainly has a unique smell and taste.
Yes. I particularly like the Laphroaig 10 yr. A very clean taste. It sure would be nice if we could meet up somewhere and raise a glass. :)
a blended coconut rum drink relaxing on a beach smelling the tropical waters :) 8) 8)
Quote from: DanG on March 06, 2007, 09:56:32 PM
When I was a little bitty kid, my Granddaddy would come in the house and jam his old hat onto my head. Of course, it would fall right down over my face. I will never forget the scent of that old hat, and OH would I love to smell it again.
Yes, I feel the same way about my Dad's hat...that manly smell of a sweat band! Thank God that he's still with me at age 96!
Well I am a Grant by clan so I tend to favor our family stock, Grants and Glenfiddich. Found out a few years ago a good mate of mine is a grant as well so we have been trading bottles back and forth for special occasions ever since, at least we always know what to get for each other at Christmas :D
Quote from: sawguy21 on March 07, 2007, 11:19:54 AM
Those are all excellent choices for a glass to be shared with friends.The Laphroaig certainly has a unique smell and taste.
The Laphroig definitely has a unique taste--in a good way, but you're got to really be in the mood for a smoky tasting Scotch. Goes well with a nice cigar. ;D MacCallan is mighty fine--had the opportunity to share some 18 yr old MacCallan, and it was nice and smooth.
I realized I'm out of Scotch...might have to make a run. This talk of fine smelling Scotch is giving me the itch. I do have some Woodford Reserve Bourbon in the house--that's one of my fave bourbons, fwiw.
Yes, Nancbee, you are lucky.
Glenfiddich, now that is fine..... ::)
The smell of money
No particular order
Going across the Mackinac Bridge with the windows rolled down.
Sitting on a rocky granite outcrop in the Minnesota Boundary Waters with my son and smelling warm earth and northern cedar buds.
Smelling my wife's home ground whole wheat bread fresh out of the oven when I walk in the door after work.
The smell of a very intense lightening storm. It's a great smell as long as you are not paddling across open water with your butt encased in a wet aluminum canoe. :o WooHOO!
Forgot one of my all time favorite smells:
The smell of a pine forest you're hiking through in the heat of the day in the middle of summer. If you could bottle that, you'd make a fortune! 8) 8) 8)
Mom's cinnamon rolls
Wife's perfumed letter when I was overseas
Kentucky boubon on the rocks
freshly mown alfalfa
puppy breath
especially the second one
BARK MULCH FRESH OUT OF THE LIVE FLOOR !!!!! Mulch season has begun """"" Yahooo !!!!!!!
8) 8) 8) 8) Im in da money 8) 8) 8) 8)
Some of you would go nuts in my yard now with the Wisteria in full bloom, the Dogwood coming on strong and the Horse Sugar just fading out and the Hackberry about to open. Dogwood blooms and Azelea blossoms complement the visual effect.
The fragrence (smells) are practically intoxicating. I'm blessed to be able to live out here in the woods with all these naturally occuring fragrancies here in the yard.
Hope you have something to compare with it.
Blessings to all.
Yep.
Redbuds coming on, dogwoods starting to burst forth, forsynthia all aglow, daffodils been up for a while, poplars turning greener every minute, maples glowing soft pink, grass growing as fast as it can because the mower deck is out of commision - hey, wait! slow it down a bit :o ::)
Have the polar bears come out of hibernation yet?
Quote from: WDH on March 29, 2007, 10:54:21 PM
Have the polar bears come out of hibernation yet?
Polar bears don't hibernate silly!
How would you know ???
You can't seem to find a black bear let alone a polar bear. ;) :-X
Not sure if hibernate is the correct term, but the females do at least hunker down for the winter to give birth, never leaving the den till spring or so if I'm remembering correctly.
I guess you are right, Boss. DanG looks like a polar bear and he don't hibernate.
Diesel exaust from the old circle mill I grew up on.
Wood smoke.
Chainsaw exaust.
This may sound strange but cow poop and hay....A mixed smell. :D
Gadget
I prefer the smell of hay before it goes through the cow. :D The black bears and grizzlies are out and there have already been some unpleasant confrontations. Swamp Donkey, there was a big snowstorm in Prince Rupert last week and you missed it ;)
have to add one.
The smell of home cooked fried chicken, biscuits and greens.
Haven't smelled the good stuff since my grandma passed away years ago.
My Grandfather's International Cub as a 2 -3 yoa child. Later in life, at 16, I cut yard for Mary Ann Mobely, Miss America about 1964, she was from Mississipi. She married a world renound ear doctor Shea in Memphis. I became their yard boy. They had an International Cub Cadet riding lawn mower that had the same smell.
My Grandfather's coal fired forge. Again as a small child about 5 -6 yoa. Much later in life, 29 or there abouts, I visited the National Ornamental Iron Museum in Memphis. As I stepped on property, I could smell the coal fired forges and knew I was in the right place.
Scratch cathead buttermilk busicuts near ready.
Some others I like: the pungent smell of the forest in the Fall
the smell of Elk, ' cause that means I'm close!
the smell of the sea
the smell of digging for earth worms as a kid
the faint fragrant smell of night blooming flowers
Bacon frying over a coleman stove on a chilly morning
Hoppes No. 9 Bore solvent
freshly burned gunpowder through a shotgun ( smell of freedom)
the right perfume on the right woman...... espeically southern gals ;)
Pizza
Nothing ...... Sometimes it is the best smell of all because when I saw all week with the wind blowing sawdust in my face, I am burned out of wanting to smell anything, plus we have 5 girls so I get sprayed every morning and evening with the latest perfumes, Lotions and powder. My kids sometimes say, daddy you don't know what smells good. I think about that and wonder if their a little bit right, but when my wife cooks collards, lima beans, fried chicken and corn bread ...... I think to myself oh yea, I know what smells good. ;)
-A stove filled with oak on a winter morning
-Sugar cane cooking
-Fresh cut cypress
-babies
-The Okefenokee swamp in the Summer
-Clean sheets
-Cows\Horses
-The river swamp in the summer
-A smoke house
-Money ! 8)