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Fried onions.


 
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Deadlydarcy.


 
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The smell that wafts from a fish and chip shop when you're hungry.


 
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The purple Joop.
Petrol.
Cut grass.
GT85.
Steak.


 
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The purple Joop.
Petrol.
Cut grass.
GT85.
Steak.

All mixed up in a bag?


 
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Steam trains
Vanilla
My good lady's perfume.


 
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Is your 'good lady's perfume' a euphemism?!

For me - the smell you open the envelope of freshly developed film (something that you don't get nearly so often in these days of digital).

Also burning pine wood.


 
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Roast chicken (in the oven right now, nonnomnom)


 
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The top of a rabbit's head - right between the ears. Smells of hay and sherbert.

Magic markers. Toast.


 
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Clean washing
Gorse
Strawberries
Horses' noses
Freshly bathed dog


 
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Anything that's not me


 
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Weed.


 
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Carpet shops.

Proper Seaside.

Herb. The.

One and three can be identical.


 
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Pahahah. Yes, foliage can smell lovely.


 
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The cocktail of hot hydraulic oil, leaking tractor gearbox oil, red diesel and pine resin when log splitting.

Oh and anything almond based, marzipan especially.


 
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sea/beach/seaweed

fried onions


 
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Babies


 
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Shoulder of lamb with rosemary roasting on my BBQ right now


 
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When it first starts to rain.


 
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petrol - can't explain why


 
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All mixed up in a bag?

Preferably.


 
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Old spice after shave, the old boys in the bookies still wear it, reminds me of good days spent with my Grandad, and he's been dead 30 odd years,crazy how a smell can bring it all back!


 
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I love the smell of napalm in the morning! 😀


 
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There's a commercial bakery next to our Northwich office, always a nice smell of baking bread.


 
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Coconut surf wax and seawater.
Damp neoprene.
Babies.


 
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Mrs L's lady bits after a decent shower....


 
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Gt85
Skin washed with soap
Lamb roasted


 
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Weed.

It can get too much though. There is someone growing it round here. We have been trying to work out where exactly but depending on the wind the smell has been travelling about 2 miles. It's been very pungent for about a month.

I'm amazed no one has said their own farts yet!


 
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Im amazed no ones said bacon..


 
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In no particular order
Petrol
fresh Bread
red wine after being de-corked
crushed garlic
frshly ground coffee
smoked bacon
This list is not exhaustive.


 
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Im amazed no ones said bacon..

I was writing my list as you posted this!


 
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Summer rain on hot tarmac
Bacon
Chips when your starving
Castrol R
Olbas oil


 
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A brand new book
fresh bed-linen
Woodsmoke
Enamel paint


 
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Play Doh.

Cake.

Castrol R.

Jey's Fluid.

Curry.


 
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Freshly ground coffee
Play Doh
The smell of wild herbs in the air in the Mediterranean
Fresh garlic
Pine trees


 
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Napalm


 
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Old (school's) iron railings after the rain.
freshly creosoted fence, I used to walk past a couple of times.


 
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Smiths bakery when the winds in the direction
Cut grass
Coffee
The cloud of salt and vinegar vapour when you unwrap chips
A proper cold day


 
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A greenhouse full of tomato plants.


 
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Today's great smell was the brewery at Hertford.mmmmmmmmm


 
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New season footy boots - I really miss that smell now I'm old and broken

That lovely damp pine needle smell in a forest where it's rained just a bit and you've missed it.


 
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angle grinding metal

mrs MB's body butter stuff

Two very different smells (thankfully) but both awesome


 
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Opening the shed and smelling 2 freshly lubed bikes, Castrol R, fresh ground coffee, tarmac, Lagavulin, summer rain.


 
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a fart you're proud of (you know the type!)


 
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Hops
The sea
Little Miss CFH
Fresh homemade bread
Bacon....Hmmmmmm, bacon...


 
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Mrs L's lady bits after a decent shower....

Ladybits smell far better before a shower. They smell of girl rather than shower.


 
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taint sweat


 
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Ladybits smell far better before a shower. They smell of girl rather than shower.

In one of her books Pat Barker has a female character describing not sharing with her husband, as he's pissed her off, "the smell of ****ed the night before ****"


 
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dry fried cumin coriander and cardamon.


 
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dry fried cumin

I think that's what we were just discussing.


 
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Sage


 
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creosote


 
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Sage

Oh I don't know it's not such a bad thread....


 
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Fresh ground coffee
Fresh deck of twenty
Good weed
Cut grass
Bacon
Toast


 
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The smell of grass, oil and petrol that the mower gives off in the garage/shed. Straight back to summers in Austria.
Clean babies
A dogs head
Fresh cut grass/wheat
Combination of GT85 and rubber in the workshop.


 
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The evil marketing scent outside every Subway Sangtvich emporium.

Bisto

Burning rubber (Ahhh Yeaaaah)


 
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Bluebells

Toasted Sesame oil

Barbecued shellfish

Laphroaig

Gear oil


 
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The smell of the malting room at Bruichladdich


 
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Stinking Bishop


 
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bacon - of course

leather

WD40

cut grass

old engines


 
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Freshly baked bread
Real Christmas trees
Freshly washed sheets
The smell of my FILs 1963 E type being revved


 
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Factory fresh electronics
Esters


 
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MucOff Wet chain lube and deep heat, car smells of one going to cross races, and the other on the return journey.


 
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Johnsons baby shampoo!

Smoked bacon

GT85


 
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Cocaine


 
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Weed.

This as well. Such a great smell.


 
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few from others
Fresh Cut Grass
The smell just before a massive rain shower

Proper Bacon
Proper Bread


 
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Freshly planed wood
Paraffin
Disaronno (only the smell, not the taste)
Basil (the herb not Faulty)
Prada amber (on my wife)
Vosene
The exact mix of GT85 and Deep Heat you only get on the start line at races


 
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Pine forests in the summer.


 
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Thyme
Rosemary
Ganja
Rolled up notes
Cheese
Snowboard Wax
My wife!


 
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Wild Garlic by the roadside on a summer morning.
The back of my wifes neck/shoulder.
Uncatalysed petrol fumes.
Smokey bacon.
A distant cigar.
🙂


 
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Eggs and bacon cooking outdoors, preferably on a wood fire.


 
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A lot of all of that ^

And frying onions. They've been in the pan 2 minutes: "What are you cooking? It smells amazing!"

Me to my mum when I was growing up, me to wife now, her to me.

They just smell good!


 
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Another one, freshly cut wood. I love my road route that passes a shed building factory.

Love the smell of a good pub. Also freshly baked bread or pie.


 
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Steam trains - as my two year old daughter said "mmm 'licious"


 
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The beach
Bacon
Fresh bread
Coffee beans
Fresh mint
Fear
Cordite


 
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bluebell woods
tea roses
milk chocolate
meat pie fresh out of the oven
freshly baked bread
my home made short bread
newly mowed grass
copydex glue
hubby just out of the shower
saddle soap
lavender


 
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Weed
Fresh 'tarmac'
Puppies
Fried garlic
Scrumpy


 
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Well I've just enjoyed the effect of reading all of these things but it's all just been eclipsed by the smell that tells me my almonds are now roasted.


 
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