What scents do you really enjoy?

I also like the scent of a fire. When I was a kid, we had some friends with a cabin in Canada we used to go visit in early summers. Nights would be cool, and we'd light a fire. They used mostly pine, but would sometimes throw in a little apple wood, and the scent was fantastic. A good fire still brings me back.

I really like the smell of rain. But it has to be cool rain-- like Spring or early Autumn-- not warm rain like in deep summer, or freezing cold rain like in late Fall or early Winter. Cool enough that it breaks the heat in the air, but gentle and warm enough that it makes everything green smell richer and deeper green.

The smell of old, well-cared-for wood furniture and cabinetry is a good one. I smell it in certain people's houses, or in certain synagogues and churches.

But my favorite smell, by far, that just makes my heart happy, is the scent of a large number of old books. That wonderful, dry, quiet, slightly musty smell of old paper, worn leather and cloth, and fading ink. You get it in really good libraries and used or antiquarian book stores-- your average neighborhood library won't have it, nor will a Barnes and Noble, the books are too new and recently made-- and sometimes in the home of someone special, or in the study of a rabbi or professor or suchlike. That smell just instantly speaks of knowledge, wit, love of the written word, and care for the arts of the author and the binder. That smell will always make me smile, always bring good memories to mind, always bring me a moment of peace.

 

Baking chocolate chip cookies.
A steak sizzling on the grill.

A library or a bookstore.
The forest, a campfire, salmon smoking in the smoke house.

 

Coffee - the smell of the beans when you open a fresh packet or the smell of it brewing

 

Wet Newfoundland.

It's definately not a smell for everyone; but there's a reassuring feeling that Molly has a great life that comes with the scent.

 

I love the smell of mountain creeks. The smell of green, cool, fresh, clean... I'm not as big of a fan of Lake smell. But creeks are such a pleasing olfactory experience in the mountains

 

Thanksgiving.
And the smell of decomposing leaves. You get it in the woods here in October/November.

 

Campfires
Matches
Pine forests
Cedar
Wet earth
Rain
Coffee
Baking cookies
Incense
Fresh laundry
My mom
My dad

 

SEX, I LOVE THE SMELL OF SEX

 

Horses
Leather
Fresh hay
Pine shavings
Cedar
Sandalwood
Saltwater (specifically, Pacific beaches in Australia!)
Eucalyptus
Campfire
Damp midwestern soil
Fresh cut grass (even though it bothers my allergies these days)
Citrus

 

the fresh morning air when im in the deer stand or sitting on my front porch