Sausage rolls fresh out of the oven
Clean bedsheets, that have been dried outside on the line
That first cold, clear, sunny day after the worst of the winter is gone
I know what you mean, but sometimes I smell spring…. It’s odd….more of a feeling than a smell, but it’s when the air smells fresh and new, and the breeze feels a bit warm, rather than a bit cold…
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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.
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.
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.
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 😉
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!
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)
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.
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.
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
