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
Coffee and vanilla.
There are literally no flaws with either of those smells
- 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
Stinky dogs.
They smell like friendship
sweaty partner
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.
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
Coffee
Pine and fir needles.
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.
Rain, and then a thunderstorm.
It’s called petrichor - also one of my favourite words.
I’ve never been able to smell them, what’s the smell like?
It’s hard to describe I suppose. First the smell of rain hitting dry stone and dirt, and how that smell slowly swells and then fades as they become waterlogged… Then the heat rises as the thunderstorm comes, and the air itself smells warm and wet.
That’s a really nice description thanks
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Petrichor! Not just a great smell… also my favourite word!
It’s a beautiful word, but for someone unfamiliar with the smell I wasn’t sure it was a good word to use.
I don’t think I have ever spoken to someone who hasn’t experienced the smell of rain on dry soil. Not trying to be rude, or pry too deep, but…uhmmm…how? How have you never smelt that before? It’s so far outside my own personal experience, I just don’t really understand it.
I meant someone unfamiliar with the word itself. Not trying to make people break out a dictionary.
That’s a great way to describe it. For me there’s also the faint smell of electricity in a thunderstorm, and it’s oddly soothing.
That might be ozone you are smelling
I have an O3 air purifier, not that I ever run it when I’m going to be in the same room. But getting a whiff on the way to airing it out the room after a session, yeah, I think I do pick up that smell also in very active thunderstorms.
Chemically it’s the smell of beet red. Most people describe it vastly differently because the retro nasal smell makes it feel like something else. Pretty interesting if you ask me.
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.
Diesel fuel is a pretty awesome smell 🔥
diesel exhaust
The smell of minced garlic and onion as they’re cooking.
I’ve heard that some restaurants do this the first thing in the morning just to attract customers.
If my pipe dream of a restaurant/pizzeria/spice shop ever comes alive, I’ll be doing this for sure. Because damn, it’s a great idea!
Campfire, and the smell of woodsmoke on clothing the day after.
