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Coffee and vanilla.
There are literally no flaws with either of those smells
Freshly baked bread.
Smelling freshly baked bread is the "seeing a water bottle cold enough to be sweating on a hot day while thirsty" of being hungry
Oh yes that is literally always good
Bromine. It’s what they treat the water with on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland, and the smell puts my mind on vacation
Stinky dogs.
They smell like friendship
My grandmother's closet - old wood, old clothes, and mothballs
I got a brief flash of a Ren and Stimpy close-up of a nostril sucking in mothballs, from reading this comment.
But jokes aside, I can imagine that smell becoming a core memory down the road and will hit with instant nostalgia whenever you smell something similar.
I remember the smell of my Grandmother's house every time I hear the song Teardrop by Massive Attack. I'm 9 years old, and I'm watching MTV, sitting on the living room carpet.
- The smell in the air after a rain on a warm spring day.
- The smell in the air of wood smoke on a freaking cold winter day.
That first one is called petrichor
Diesel fuel is a pretty awesome smell 🔥
diesel exhaust
Chlorine and florine
I love the smell of grains being unloaded from a truck into a silo.
The air on a crisp Halloween dusk back in 1988.
Skunk. From a very safe distance, of course. But I love it when you can smell one, somewhere nearby.
Stockmar crayons.
roses
Coffee
Seaweed
Creosote on a hot summer day.
Reminds me of the amusement park when I was little. There were a lot of railroad ties used as retaining walls there.
Pine and fir needles.
Baking bread. The smell right after a summer shower. Books. Diesel exhaust on a cold day. Don't ask on that last one, it's weird I know, but I love it.
My girlfriend's cooking
Napalm in the morning.
Campfire, and the smell of woodsmoke on clothing the day after.
A combination of the smells from my grandfather's shed: sawdust, machine oil and petrol from the lawn mower, freshly cut grass, leather, his pipe tabacco, and just a hint of whisky from the bottle he used to keep in there. He had a couple of old, leather, wing-back chairs in there and sometimes at the weekend after mowing the lawn we'd just sit and talk in his shed for a bit while he smoked his pipe and had a wee dram.
Sadly long gone (he died in the late 80s) but I get hints of it occasionally. Sometimes I'll smell maybe the lawnmower smells in my own shed and my brain will fill in the rest and I'll feel small and safe and warm and comfortable just for a moment or two.
The smell a candle makes when it’s put out.
There are these yellow flowers that grow on vines around here. They smell excellent.
I used to taste honeysuckles as a kid.
core memory unlocked
My chicken after she's been dust bathing, or when it rains.
The dust bathing brings in an earthy note to her natural birdy scent. She just smells like a little nature spirit might, if such things were real.
When it rains, she's usually under cover (though sometimes she gets out into it), but she's picks to the petrichor aroma of rain and soil. She'll carry that scent all evening usually, so when she comes inside and is nestled up next to me, there's the normal bird smell, but also that rich aroma that a gentle rain brings, that usually fades quickly.
Mind you, I also love her normal smell, that almost dusty book, nose tickling smell of bird, colored with the mild earthiness and slight tang that's all chicken.
Luckily, she doesn't mind being sniffed occasionally :)
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Corn chip puppy smell!
Fresh out of the oven bread Coffee Pipe tobacco Cigar shops
Cheap old books, when the paper turns brittle and yellow or even orange.
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