Your top 5 favorite smells

[glynnahab]

There is nothing quite like the smell of gumbo being made in the morning.

Even now, the smell of onion and bell pepper sauteeing (don't forget about the roux, chere!) brings me back to the early Saturday mornings of my childhood, with NES and cartoons while my mom would start up the gumbo.

After that, my other favorite smells are pretty generic:

2. freshly cut grass
3. high quality pot - like kb. I also enjoy the smell of an actual skunk from a safe distance.
4. books - ranging from freshly printed books that smell all ink-y and chemical-ly to old library books. I once bought a 100 year-old paperback in awful shape just to see how it smelled.
5. new electronics - especially consoles!

Smell is the most underrated of the senses.

[Jrecee]

I have taken the liberty of combining some of the smells listed to create a "composite favorite smells list" for this guy:

Marijuana
Old Ladies
Gunpowder
Musky Sex
Gasoline
Skunk

[Luke]

There is nothing quite like the smell of gumbo being made in the morning.

Coincidental: I made gumbo earlier this week. I use my Father's recipe, where you make the roux with rendered bacon fat and flour. Takes a little over an hour to make the roux, constantly stirring, never leaving the pot.

Man did that smell take me back. When my Father used to make gumbo, I wouldn't leave the kitchen. I just wanted to bathe in that smell. Not too much a fan of left over gumbo though. The oysters always get overcooked.

I have taken the liberty of combining some of the smells listed to create a "composite favorite smells list" for this guy:

Marijuana
Old Ladies
Gunpowder
Musky Sex
Gasoline
Skunk

I want to play too.

Bacon
Strippers
More Strippers
A Good Cigar
Explosions

[Rebz]

also, whenever i smell an old lady, it always reminds me of my grandma and being at her house when i was young, so that's nice also. which could make me sound super, super gross and creepy.

haha for some reason I imagine you walking straight up to old ladies and taking a good whiff, exhale slowly, and then casually strolling away as if the incident never occured. Then I can see the old lady just flabbergasted.

[pelham123]

-Tomatoes on the vine, practically orgasm-inducing
-Coffee
-Weed (although I haven't smoked for 3 years)
-My male cat's fur (my female cat smells like ass)
-Smell of a summer day (Escallonia hedge clippings, cut grass)
-Smell of an expensive printed publication, or wrapping paper

[aaron]

also, whenever i smell an old lady, it always reminds me of my grandma and being at her house when i was young, so that's nice also. which could make me sound super, super gross and creepy.

haha for some reason I imagine you walking straight up to old ladies and taking a good whiff, exhale slowly, and then casually strolling away as if the incident never occured. Then I can see the old lady just flabbergasted.

shit, do we know each other? i do this all the time.

[BlackDS]

Neat thread

Chlorine
Cooking Mac-n-cheese
The sweet smell of success
Other food related smells
Campfire

[Incognito D]

my Gamecube always had an amazing smell. I'm not kidding! Anyone else ever experience this?

[Jrecee]

Just remembered another one. The 80s battery operated toy smell. That sort of burning battery smell from toys that probably got way too hot.

Holy crap did anyone else have Magic Mike the smoking robot?



http://www.theoldrobots.com/smallbot25.html

[Koopin_Krackerz]

Just remembered another one. The 80s battery operated toy smell. That sort of burning battery smell from toys that probably got way too hot.

Holy crap did anyone else have Magic Mike the smoking robot?



http://www.theoldrobots.com/smallbot25.html

HOLY CRAP! I haven't thought about that smell for years! Now that you mentioned it, I can't stop thinking about it. Those robots had the weirdest smells to them. For longest time it blew my mind trying to figure out why made that smell it did. Total mind trip! (BTW: I had a silver one)

My five though:
1. Cinnamon Rolls/Toast
2. The smell of the mountains in the spring when you go hiking
3. Brand spanking new bball shoes or anything with new leather
4. Ribs (especially in the city of Memphis)
5. The smell right before kick off at many big football games at night. ( Strange I know, but it's such a crazy combo of grass, beer, food, sweat, anticipation, the city, and lights creates a wicked sensory explosion.)