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Sticking with the weather theme the smell of heavy dew on a late summer morning with a slight nip in the air. It reminds me of going back to school after the summer holidays. Not a fantastic smell because autumn and winter are on the way but an evocative one.
Compost, fresh bread and open fires whilst toasting the bread on the fire...
Great memories...
Third the Castrol R. Reminds me of many a Classic racing meet at Snetterton.
Creoste I can agree with, Smell of fresh cut grass, Smeel of rain on hot tarmac.
To be honest pretty much agree with everything that has been said so far.
yes castrol R takes me back !
Castrol R for me too
wild garlic
bonfire mixed with wool - takes me instantly back to my childhood, my dad had seemingly endless bonfires at home and his gardening jumper was an old holey wool thing that permanently smelled of them.
GT85
Creosote
Petrol
Proper coffee
Old school creosote combined with a freshly mown lawn.
Takes me right back to watching my Dad in the garden circa '79
I know what you mean, but sometimes I smell spring.
I think you can smell new plant growth and the sap rising in the trees. A definite smell. I bet if you did chemical analysis on the air through spring you'd find the chemicals change week by week.
Christmas day morning - it must be the mix of the smell of the tree and the cooking turkey.
New shoes.
GT85 - reminds me of 5 years working in a bike shop
Wet flannel - don't ask
Peat smoke, marzipan, pine resin, wd40
As a child I loved the smell of exhaust fumes... leaded as well. Now my favourite smell is beach balls, or anything else made out of the same material.
Petrol fumes while filling up the car, I've actually missed this smell while my car has been off the road for the last 6 months, and only driving diesels in the mean time.
Burnt two stroke oil, reminds me of going to the bike racing with my dad when I was a kid
fresh laid tarmac, cut grass, coffee, cigar smoke
oh and I've always rather enjoyed the stench of my own farts 😉
I also agree with the being able to smell spring thing. also you can often smell when it's about to rain.
like the post-it note one, the pages of a new glossy magazine, with the printers ink / varnish fumes still on it.
The smell of cricket eqipment - not musty after a long winter in the loft, I mean of a new pair of batting gloves or something. It's a mixture of the sheepskin leather but they also seem to dust them with some sort of powder to stop them being sticky. Great smell.
And on last night's ride, we passed a pub (the Cricketer's at Yateley in case it's important) and I swear they were barbecueing (at least grilling) king prawns with the shell on. Mmmmmmm!
pine forrests
the musty smell you get from boats left under covers
the sea
wetsuits
peat/heather smoke
moisturiser, stella, strawberies and cream, sweat, and the back of a hot car.
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Washing fresh off the line.
Fresh bread
Grass after rain.
Pine woods
Jasmine on a hot night
My wife's armpits in the morning
Other bits, too.
Heather moorland in August
Coffee-shops (good ones)
Old canvas tents in the rain.
Now my favourite smell is beach balls
WOW - sudden flashback to childhood holidays. Why do they have such a distinctive smell? Some unhealthy plasticiser no doubt.
oil paint on canvas a couple of days after painting.
oh and the smell when planing or lathing timber and also furniture wax.
baby powder
Wetsuits for me too, but only clean dry ones.
Sea air, especially if mixed with 2-stroke exhaust smell.
Boiling engine oil.
Pine forests.
My wife's armpits in the morning
Someone is particularly sensitive to pheromones!
a freshly opened bag of raindow drops.
have you had them recently? Found them, surprised they were still going, massively disappointed. Thinks its because of the no artificial this and that. Bring back E numbers all round.
will probably sound stupid, but i can smell when its going to snow.
Freshly mown grass caught the first smell of it this year on thursday mornings commute (late start) and just gave me a hint of the good weather thats coming our way this year!
Freshly mown grass as well.
Takes me back (many!)years to when I was at junior school & we had a lesson sat outside,& the grass we were sat on had been cut that morning.
firelighters
Aviation fuel for some reason!
also pipe tobacco, reminds me of my grandad smokig his pipe before he gave up
Napalm in the morning
will probably sound stupid, but i can smell when its going to snow.
Why "probably" ?
Peat smoke. Went over to Ireland last November for a family do. Driving across from Dublin to Tuam at night it was pretty much all I could smell once I'd gotten off the motorway
Victory! (my second SS win in so many weeks!)
Dettoll, cut grass, brand new shirts. And that gorgeous smell that's really hard to describe when you go out on a crisp, fresh morning when everything's clean and clear and frosty and fresh.
Bread in the bread making just before it's finished
Expresso coffee as it trickles into the cup
Tippex thinners ohhhhhhhhh
Fresh cut grass
A fresh deck of 20
Good weed
creosote
Chip shops
And this stuff...
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Cow Gum - Art School Girls 😯
After a weekend of using the stuff - straight in at number one - Osmo Hardwax Oil.
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"The smell of a woman" - you know what I mean guys. Afterwards. When you go to work and you can still smell her on you...
Oh and Bog Myrtle (that's a plant, not an ex-girlfriend). After a hot day and the air is thick with it. It's a great midgie repellant too.