[osiris]

I'm busy, but bored mindless. Hence this thread.

What's your favorite smell? Weird stuff, food, whatever.

My top five smells:

1) Gasoline - I wish there was a non-flammable aerosol for home use. Really.
2) Creosote - this goop is used on train tracks, wonderfully nostalgic.
3) Tennis Balls - it must be a fresh can. It smells like green, if green had a smell other than nature's own.
4) New Car - a delight, but it must be a real new car, not that faux nue stuff.
5) New Electronics - maybe it's the lead, mercury and radon gas, but damn, who doesn't love that synthetic freshness.

[SpaceMonkey]

Cigars. Even though I don't smoke and never will.

[Dakar V]

Fresh Tennis Balls

[Tomchu]

Ditto on the gasoline. Certain grass has a very distinct smell when freshly-cut also. Oh, you can't forget New Apple Product smell.

[Luca Rescigno]

Coffee.

[osiris]

I forgot about fresh grass... mixed with a little gasoline for that 'really fresh cut lawn' effect.

[Shaddim]

Frankincense resin (with a bit of myrrh), It's the most incredible scent on Earth. Oh, and umm, natural female scent. Mmmm...

[Spheric Harlot]

The inside of a running Hammond organ: warm tubes, oil, OLD electronics, Hammond oil, and wood. Accompanied by the whir of the motor and generator.

:heaven:

[Dakar V]

Tauntaun innards.

[Laminar]

I'm partial to burning rubber.

[BlueSky]

The perfume on Tiffany's wrist as she cuts my hair.

[SpaceMonkey]

Gunpowder.

Dakar.

McNuggets.

[Laminar]

Originally Posted by BlueSky 

The perfume on Tiffany's hair as she cuts my wrist.

...

[maxintosh]

Matches, right when you light them.

[Face Ache]

Fresh cut grass
Cinnamon doughnuts
Fresh bread
New baby
An approaching storm on a hot day
Corner shops
Roses
Coffee (although I don't drink it)
Salt air
Papaya/Mango
Bacon
Play dough
Coconut scented tanning lotion on fit women (wouldn't want to smell it on Barry the trucker)
Nostalgic smells that you can't quite pinpoint.

[andi*pandi]

^agreed:

fresh cut grass
new baby
salt air
bacon
cinnamon anything

and:
lilac
ocean rose
approaching rainstorm
pipe smoke

[iM@k]

Storm on a hot summers day

and

The moment you walk into a commercial jet and you get the combination of Jet-A fuel, leather, and coffee. Oh God that's good.

[calverson]

Tobacco

[ctt1wbw]

Hoppes #9 Powder Solvent
And something called amine which removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere on a submarine. I love that smell.

Oh, and varmint ********.

[ctt1wbw]

That's varmint poon tang.


Oh, and another one. Just outside Waikiki Beach is Restaraunt Row. Oh man, the smells coming from those places is amazing.

[osiris]

WD-40
Sharpies
Cashmere Boutique powder

[ghporter]

Fresh baked bread.
A baby's head.
Cinabar by Esté Lauder.
Freshly cut grass (that I didn't have to cut).
Flame-cooked beef, especially the part that gets burnt.
Fresh, crisp apples, especially the tart ones like Gala and (yes) Macintosh.
Ground coffee.
Fresh brewed coffee.
Jet exhaust (though at a distance).

[mattyb]

The Atlantic Ocean.

[abbaZaba]

I love the smell of a shoe store. the rubber smells awesome

[Andy8]

New car smell.

[davidflas]

Personally, I love the smell of napalm in the morning....it smells like....Victory!

[Laminar]

Ah, like in the movie.

[davidflas]

Originally Posted by Laminar 

Ah, like in the movie.

My sincerest apologies for that..but someone had to say it, might as well be an old-timer such as me.

[villalobos]

Originally Posted by osiris 

I'm busy, but bored mindless. Hence this thread.

What's your favorite smell? Weird stuff, food, whatever.

My top five smells:

1) Gasoline - I wish there was a non-flammable aerosol for home use. Really.
2) Creosote - this goop is used on train tracks, wonderfully nostalgic.
3) Tennis Balls - it must be a fresh can. It smells like green, if green had a smell other than nature's own.
4) New Car - a delight, but it must be a real new car, not that faux nue stuff.
5) New Electronics - maybe it's the lead, mercury and radon gas, but damn, who doesn't love that synthetic freshness.

1) toxic
2) not sure what that is
3) toxic
4) toxic!
5) toxic.

[Ghoser777]

Armpits

[osiris]

Originally Posted by villalobos 

1) toxic
2) not sure what that is
3) toxic
4) toxic!
5) toxic.

Party pooper!

2 is toxic too- a preservative for railroad timber and telephone poles.
It's a very distinct smell, kind of like burnt charcoal and crude oil together.

[el chupacabra]

Fresh cut up Guava and Limes,
..or anything citrus, even the flower.

[Gankdawg]

Jack Daniels
Cinnabon
Liz Claiborne perfume
.
.
what luca said minus the coffee

[SpaceMonkey]

Fear.

[Railroader]

Hops
Malt
Lilacs
Coffee
Ground beef cooking

[villalobos]

Originally Posted by osiris 

I forgot about fresh grass... mixed with a little gasoline for that 'really fresh cut lawn' effect.

You should try that.
Ok I kid. Don't. Seriously you should be a chemist you seem to be attracted to alkanes and aromatic compounds, as we as war gases!

[mattyb]

Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey 

Fear.

lmfao - excellent !!!

[villalobos]

Originally Posted by osiris 

Party pooper!

2 is toxic too- a preservative for railroad timber and telephone poles.
It's a very distinct smell, kind of like burnt charcoal and crude oil together.

I know. Seriously the new car smell is pleasant, but loaded with aromatic solvents : and these aren't good for ya especially in a closed environment such as a car.

[Andrew Stephens]

surely this thread has made for Besson all over it.

But while we're all waiting for his input...

freshly made chips when your not expecting to smell them (i.e NOT while in the chip shop)
Old style Pantone markers (oh baby)
Just washed baby (aah)
Unopened brand new book
Decent organic mushrooms (supermarket ones smell of nothing)

[SpaceMonkey]

Seems there are a lot of baby sniffers in this forum...

[Dakar V]

Originally Posted by villalobos 

1) toxic
2) not sure what that is
3) toxic
4) toxic!
5) toxic.

I fail to see the problem here.

[zro]

BBQ beef
Alcohol fountain solution
related: A new National Geographic magazine (among others)
Thanksgiving dinner
Molten solder
Leather
Puppy


This is gonna be the best google indexed thread ever!

[Dakar V]

Originally Posted by davidflas 

My sincerest apologies for that..but someone had to say it, might as well be an old-timer such as me.

Apology accepted.

[mattyb]

Originally Posted by zro 

This is gonna be the best google indexed thread ever!

I'm tempted to put up the full list of Echelon key words just to see what would happen.

[osiris]

Originally Posted by villalobos 

You should try that.
Ok I kid. Don't. Seriously you should be a chemist you seem to be attracted to alkanes and aromatic compounds, as we as war gases!

It's funny, I've been told that before. Not that I go around sniffing dangerous chemicals, but when I do, I enjoy it.

[osiris]

Originally Posted by Dakar V 

I fail to see the problem here.

Thank you.

[ctt1wbw]

Originally Posted by mattyb 

I'm tempted to put up the full list of Echelon key words just to see what would happen.

BOMB BOMB BOMB BOMB AL QUEDA RULES AL QUEDA RULES BOMB BOMB BOMB THE US DOWN WITH THE US BOMB BOMB

There. Let's wait. While the master baits.

[2001pass-var]

Outboard motor exhaust.

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally Posted by davidflas 

My sincerest apologies for that..but someone had to say it, might as well be an old-timer such as me.

Quoting classics doesn't date you.

Classics don't age. By definition.

[brassplayersrock²]

Originally Posted by mattyb 

I'm tempted to put up the full list of Echelon key words just to see what would happen.

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