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What is your favorite smell?  [message #16233] Tue, 07 October 2003 20:00 Go to next message
marc is currently offline  marc

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I think there is nothing like opening a fresh tin of good tea and taking a good whiff.

Yummy........



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Re: What is your favorite smell?  [message #16234 is a reply to message #16233] Tue, 07 October 2003 21:18 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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icon6.gif Re: What is your favorite smell?  [message #16236 is a reply to message #16233] Tue, 07 October 2003 21:42 Go to previous messageGo to next message
dartagnon is currently offline  dartagnon

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The smell of rain/snow in the air of an apple orchard. Crisp and clean and natural.



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I think one of my favorite odors is . .  [message #16238 is a reply to message #16233] Tue, 07 October 2003 22:01 Go to previous messageGo to next message
machelli is currently offline  machelli

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That which occurs when one backs a batch of Toll-House cookies. It's such a cozy scent.



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I meant "bake," not "back."  [message #16239 is a reply to message #16238] Tue, 07 October 2003 22:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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"Backing" a batch of cookies could get messy, I suppose.  [message #16240 is a reply to message #16239] Tue, 07 October 2003 22:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Re: What is your favorite smell?  [message #16241 is a reply to message #16233] Tue, 07 October 2003 23:05 Go to previous messageGo to next message
saben is currently offline  saben

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The smell I miss most is the smell of gum tree, eucalyptus leaves. Another smell I like a lot is warm milk... Not sure what my favourite smell is, though...



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icon3.gif There are many...  [message #16242 is a reply to message #16241] Tue, 07 October 2003 23:50 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Freshly baked bread.
Hot cinnamon and vanilla rolls.
Ground coffee (but not the finished beverage).
Orange peel being broken apart.
A steaming mug of cocoa.
A tall glass of bubbling Coca Cola, with a slice of lemon.
Earl Grey Tea, leaves or brewed.
The scent of a forest; leaves, pine needles, decaying vegetation. All of it summed up.
Early summer flowers in a sunny late afternoon with the sun low in the sky and a faint haze of dust in the warm air.
Gingerbread men in the oven.
The insides of a Thai restaurant.
Blueberry pie with custard, like my adoptive father makes it.
Turkish Pepper salt licorice bonbons.

...and the list goes on...



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direct my sail."

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icon7.gif Re: What is your favorite smell?  [message #16244 is a reply to message #16233] Wed, 08 October 2003 00:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
smith is currently offline  smith

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#1 The smell of the spruce trees (Christmas trees) all along Bear Tooth pass heading into Yellowstone. The windows of the car rolled down, I would absolutely overdose of Christmas Very Happy

#2 My Grandma's kitchen at Thanksgiving with everything bubblin' and bakin' on the stove. She always cut wild running cedar and decorated the house so it smelled like the woods Smile

#3 Warm Vanilla Sugar body lotion Razz
Re: What is your favorite smell?  [message #16246 is a reply to message #16233] Wed, 08 October 2003 01:31 Go to previous messageGo to next message
misplaced is currently offline  misplaced

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the air, in summertime, just before a heavy rain.
gasoline.
shiloh's blankets.
my conditioner, whose name i forget right now. vibrance or vibriance or something.
lilacs & lavender.



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Re: What is your favorite smell?  [message #16247 is a reply to message #16233] Wed, 08 October 2003 02:35 Go to previous messageGo to next message
jaman is currently offline  jaman

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The perfume: Champs Elysée, it reminds me of walks along the Mosel with one of my friends.



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And I'd start to cry and say please don't talk that way
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Re: What is your favorite smell?  [message #16267 is a reply to message #16247] Wed, 08 October 2003 03:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
david in hong kong is currently offline  david in hong kong

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Fresh ground coffee, like Lenny said

Oiled leather....but no hand-cuffs, please...we're talking saddles, here, ok? Razz

When Man is cooking (which he mostly does in the out-doors section of our kitchen), the smells of the spices mix with the scents coming from the flowers in the garden. An amazing combination, I have to say. Wink



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Re: What is your favorite smell?  [message #16271 is a reply to message #16233] Wed, 08 October 2003 05:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
setras is currently offline  setras

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1. Forest after a rain.
2. Mulled wine and gingerbread men made by mom at christmas.
3. Grandma's home. I don't know what it is, but it has it's own smell to it Smile



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icon7.gif Grandma's House  [message #16274 is a reply to message #16271] Wed, 08 October 2003 09:33 Go to previous messageGo to next message
smith is currently offline  smith

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Yesss Setras Smile My Grandma and Grandpa's house in Alabama had this huge attic with a door and stairs you walked up. They always kept it locked but in the summer, but when my brother and I would visit, they would hand me the key. It was one of those old-timey keys, you know, heavy and about 4 inches long. It was on a long leather strip and I'd put it around my neck. We'd open the door and this smell would whoosh out....musty and closed. I'd forgotten that smell till right now. We'd play all kinds of pretend until time to go to bed. I was always the captain and my little brother was always the second in command. I loved that attic so much.

One other that I forgot.....the fragrance of night blooming confederate jasmine in the fall and spring. It grows wild all over the fence lines and up the huge oak tree outside my window. It explodes about dusk and you can almost OD on the smell.
icon3.gif Fave smell? That's easy!  [message #16281 is a reply to message #16233] Wed, 08 October 2003 12:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
mg_zidane is currently offline  mg_zidane

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The smell of my Stephen, of course! Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy
But you guys wouldn't know what that smells like. Smile

Seriously, other than that,
I go crazy over anything chocolate. Sad)



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Oh boy!  [message #16285 is a reply to message #16233] Wed, 08 October 2003 13:30 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Steve is currently offline  Steve

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I think that my very favouritest smell is that of chips straight out of frying pan and nestling in the Daily Mirror. (All you people from the 'other' side of the Atlantic call "chips" French Fries.) No other newspaper gives the divine odour that comes from the Daily Mirror. (I haven't smelt it in years!)
icon6.gif Re: Oh boy!  [message #16290 is a reply to message #16285] Wed, 08 October 2003 14:17 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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We over in the promised land have often wondered about that odor,wondering what they put in the brown ink.....HEHEHEHE.........rob
icon6.gif Re: What is your favorite smell?  [message #16293 is a reply to message #16233] Wed, 08 October 2003 14:44 Go to previous messageGo to next message
robert bryce is currently offline  robert bryce

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Fav smell is MONEY,lots of it...............rob
Re: Grandma's House  [message #16302 is a reply to message #16274] Wed, 08 October 2003 15:28 Go to previous message
david in hong kong is currently offline  david in hong kong

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Hey! Jasmine is one of the bestest smells from our garden here in Asia...don't know if'n it's Confederate jasmine or not, tho...they never had a civil war here. Just regular brushes with the Burmese...does that count?



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