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mine would either be burning leaves in the fall...or burning charcoal on the grill on a hot summer day...hmmm..makes my mouth water just thinkin about it.

― Megan V, Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Magnolias, tequila, and Decatur street.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Woodsmoke, vanilla, clean babies, coffee, bacon, my mom's perfume, tangerines.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

burning hair in a room full of cigarette smoke

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)

tarmac drying quickly after a sudden downpour

― zappi (joni), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

The air right before a storm in the summertime.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Old Spice. Zippo fluid.

― andy, Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

You'd love my grandfather if I lit him on fire, dude.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Holly Valance's bits!!!

― Nudie Nigel, Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Sex.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Napalm in the morning.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 June 2004 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

lamb vindaloo from hilmarton tandoori

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

MY FAVOURITE SMELL WOULD HAVE TO BE CHIPS. I LOVE CHIPS!

― MARTIN POCKMARK (dog latin), Thursday, 10 June 2004 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

gasoline, permanent marker, girls' hair, tomato sauce simmering, the ocean

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Topsoil
Hard rain
inside sleeves of import records

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

old records and books (unless they've been stored where it's too damp)

coffee

cigarette smoke, but only with coffee

most cats

this one perfume my girlfriend in high school and one woman I knew in college wore. I never got the name of it.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

fresh laundred towels right out of the dryer

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

the stuff they put on fences (creosote?)

― don (don), Thursday, 10 June 2004 20:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Freshly mowed grass; lilacs; Rubrum lilies, and the way that wool blankets and cats smell, kinda like wool, and the way the Earth smells after a thunderstorm. My partner likes the smell of gas stations.

― PsychoKitty (PsychoKitty), Thursday, 10 June 2004 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)

bacon. the nearby flower shop. clean shirts.

― the surface noise is so overwhelming that it renders the contents of the re (ele, Thursday, 10 June 2004 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

coffee. tar. smoke from just-extinguished candles. vanilla.

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Friday, 11 June 2004 09:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Woodsmoke from an outdoor fire. Bacon. Air prior to & during a summer storm (a popular choice). Clean towels/shirts. Airports. Burgers on the BBQ. Pine needles. A forest after heavy rain. Bakeries.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 11 June 2004 10:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Rob B entirely otm, with the possible exception of airports - if he'd said kerosene I'd have agreed with him 100%.

Also, panini football stickers when you open the packet (NB this might have changed since 1986)

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 11 June 2004 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, Airport smell is my own weirdo thing. When I smell airports (even if I'm just picking up/dropping off someone), I get excited because it smells like 'travel' somehow - doing something different, getting away, etc.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 11 June 2004 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

My boyfriend's body wash....

― ohsofineblondie, Friday, 11 June 2004 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Creosote

― holojames (holojames), Friday, 11 June 2004 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Freshly-bathed puppy.
The faint smell of fire (someone's having a fire! what a great idea! who is it? .. That smell.)

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 11 June 2004 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Tea
Bacon
Summer grass
Good Weed
Fresh baked bread
Old arcade game cabinets
Coffee
Washed hair
Vanilla
Dewy grass

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 11 June 2004 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Apple blossoms. Rosemary.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 June 2004 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

My weird one: Diesel exhaust. Reminds me of vacation. Every time I have gone abroad, I have gone to places that I guess didn't require much in the way of emissions controls.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 11 June 2004 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Cinnamon

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Friday, 11 June 2004 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

my smelly watch band

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 11 June 2004 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)

hstencil's smelly watch band.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 11 June 2004 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

does anyone else think nintendo games smell awesome?

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

when i was young i used to think that car exhaust smells like roast chicken. it stopped doing that since cars started using unleaded petrol.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

S: the smell of a warehouse full of tobacco curing (nb i don't smoke)

D: the smell of ice hockey locker rooms

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Natural food stores and a bag of good weed.

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel like I have let ILX down by not predictably being the first to mention how great really good weed smells.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

petrol and girls.

― tweeozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

burn, baby, burn.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Coconut
Almond
Coffee
Lilac flowers

― Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

nine years pass...

suddenly weirdly obsessed with fresh rubber smell. does this mean I have a nutritional deficiency? am I pregnant????

― smhphony orchestra (crüt), Monday, 14 April 2014 20:57 (twelve years ago)

yes, you are deficient in vitamin c and you are also pregnant

― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Monday, 14 April 2014 21:43 (twelve years ago)

i have recently longed to smell an old-fashioned permanent marker. the kind that were made of metal.

― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Monday, 14 April 2014 21:43 (twelve years ago)

that's not my favorite smell though, i just wanted to remember what they smell like

― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Monday, 14 April 2014 21:44 (twelve years ago)

A brew kettle

― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 02:10 (twelve years ago)

Clean laundry done by mine or my girlfriend's mum.

can never seem to get the same results when i do my own washing.

― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 09:53 (twelve years ago)

Roast chicken.
La Rose Jacqueminot (which of course is out of production and can be had only for megabucks).

― #TweetFromAnUnknownWoman (j.lu), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 13:04 (twelve years ago)

woodsmoke for sure.

― marcos, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 14:05 (twelve years ago)

grapefruit
ozone
rosemary
houjicha
kaffir lime leaves
vetiver
lavender
clean sweat
cedarwood
brackish water

― clouds, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 14:16 (twelve years ago)

what does ozone smell like?

― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 14:17 (twelve years ago)

it's a component of many commercial perfumes
it smells like the opposite of earthy

― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 14:22 (twelve years ago)

smoldering sandalwood might be my favorite warm smell

― Mayor Manuel (La Lechera), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 14:22 (twelve years ago)

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