What's your favorite scent / aroma's?

Cedar, pine trees, ocean air, mountain air, and the air after a nice thunderstorm.

In no particular order:

The aroma of a good cigar. Can't smoke anymore. Doctor's orders.

The smell of the interior of a 75 year old T-6 when I pull the hood closed.

100LL avgas and/or racing fuel.

Scotch over ice.

My wife after she's gotten out of the shower.

My dad after he got home from work and hugged all of us kids.

Hmm ;

 From my youth . Farms - 

Fresh cut hay .

Fresh cut Wheat

Fresh mowed grass .

    Now . Fresh coffee

 Good Brandy .

Vanilla .

AXE Brand - Phoenix Men's products .

A Clean Chihuahua

 A Clean Cat

Fresh Laundry

The fresh smell of Glue and Styrene in the morning !

Wow! I had forgotten all about this thread. Guess I oughta add another response to it while I'm here:

Lacquer paint

WD40

Tri-Flo

Downy

Snuggle

I would say my wife, but then she'd get suspicious about a compliment on a mostly guy forum.......

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The first thing that comes to my mind is "lemons", though the smell of certain different woods in a fireplace or grill are also good choices.

Pat

                          The sweet smell of

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Burning oak logs.

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New car

Hoppes 9 Bore Cleaner

Tri Tip Roast being slow cooked

Pipe tobacco

Fresh baked bread

Gunpowder in an indoor shooting range

Taco Bell Bean Burritos (you always have to sniff them before you eat them)

And the best smell ever . . . the PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN RIDE AT DISNEYLAND

I forgot one !

The smell of freshly burned JP4 from a jet !

Fr esh cut grass

Freshly laid tarmac

Burning applewood

Two stroke oil (with added Reddex if possible )

The black marker pens from my youth ( now banned :-( )

Parrafin

The old lighters that used flint and liquid lighter fuel ( not hte new disposable ones but he ones that used Ronson fuel )

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I have to agree on this one .The smell of knowledge .Isn't it wonderful ?    Tankerbuilder

The library. One of my favorite places to hang out and take in the aroma of paper, leather, and binding glue....

For me it has to be

the smell in the air after a hard rain back home in Tennessee

Then

Gunsmoke

Cigarette (haven't had one in over a year now)

and the last one is a bit weird but the smell that every old chevy gets lol  

Napalm, especially in the morning. It smells like..... Victory!

AH !

This old man has to pipe in here . This list is quite down to earth , believe me .

CINNAMON

My late wives perfume , PIKAKE and WHITE GINGER , Imagine , TWO women with the same taste

in perfumes.

Gunpowder at the range

The fresh smell of a freshly plowed field .

Freshly mown grass

Coffee brewing (the 400 octane stuff )

Lilacs in bloom

The " NEW CAR SMELL "

New tires at the tire store

Freshly washed clothes that dried on the clothesline

My dog at any time

My cat at any time .

Testors and Tamiyas nice glues , Tube or liquid

.M.E.K.

Fresh fiberglass resin .

Cinnamon rolls , fresh out of the oven .

Strawberry fields , just before picking and last but not least

The smells of a real working farm , the horses , cows and chickens .

Oh before I forget there is one more smell that I am sure we all can relate to

The smell of our sons and daughters when they were very small and had just been bathed .

That's about all I can think of right now except the smell of the two engines warming up

on the old warbird I owned , It seems like centuries ago .

For me it's the following.

The smell of Baking Bread.

The smell of Rain on the Road after a Storm.

The Sea

Chilli, Onions and Garlic in the Pan on the Stove.

A Roast in the Oven

Freshly mown Grass

After being around Horses, the smell of Hay and the Leathery Smell of a Saddle.

Cadet Chuck

I thought of a hilarious one, but I won't post it, because I don't want to be banned from the forum!

The smell of premix and exhaust as I crank up the ol' two-stroke race bike.

Suzuki Rmx250s ROOOL!!

And anything off the grill.

Apple pie

Brownies

Night Blooming Jasmine perfume

Fresh cut grass

Fresh cut wood

Crisp morning air in fall

Lilac tree/bush in full bloom

and of course....

BACON!!!!!!!!!!!

Schnapps.....    Schnapps.....   Schnapps.....

Your right!      It is fun to say. Like guacamolie ... or scuba.

But I still preffer to drink it.

Just try and say it after 6 or 47 shots!!       ScHnappssl.......

Pizza!

Gasoline

Asian Food

Vanilla

Coffee

Turkey Dinner on Thanksgiving

Apple Pie

I thought of a hilarious one, but I won't post it, because I don't want to be banned from the forum!

littletimmy

<SNIP>

But I believe my favorite smell of all would have to be Butterscotch schnapps.

And that's just because you like saying the word 'schnapps'! 

Gene Beaird,
Pearland, Texas

This time of the year in the mid-South, it's the honeysuckle, especially during the evening walk.

Ok     Heres my list in no paticular order.

Onions being fried in olive oil with garlic.

The smell of a freash tire burnout.

Tamiya gloss black paint sprayed from a can.

The scent of cardboard.   ( I know...... its a bit wierd. )

The "ozone" smell that comes from small electric motors.

Any Chinese food !!!!!!!

Cake.

Old comic books.

vinyl records.

HOBBY STORES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But I believe my favorite smell of all would have to be Butterscotch schnapps.

In no particular order:

cigars

fried garlic

cinnamon buns

fresh sawn oak

hickory chips in the smoker

sequoia trees on a really hot day.

Jasmine blossoms

roses in my garden

my wife

Not in order:

Vindaloo curry

yellow curry

fresh-ground coffee beans

coffee brewing

114 octane racing fuel burning

burning tires

the aroma of a kitchen match that's been lit and quickly blown out

turpentine

puppy breath.  

cinnamon

vanilla

Weird combination!  

Gene Beaird,

Pearland, Texas