What's something you love the smell of?

Chlorine and florine

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

I love the smell of grains being unloaded from a truck into a silo.

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.

Coffee and vanilla.

The air on a crisp Halloween dusk back in 1988.

Skunk. From a very safe distance, of course. But I love it when you can smell one, somewhere nearby.

Stinky dogs.
They smell like friendship

Stockmar crayons.

roses

Diesel fuel is a pretty awesome smell 🔥
- diesel exhaust

Seaweed

Freshly baked bread.
- Oh yes that is literally always good

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

Napalm in the morning.

Creosote on a hot summer day.
Reminds me of the amusement park when I was little. There were a lot of railroad ties used as retaining walls there.

Firewood drying in the sun appeals to me, but it's generally a quite mild smell. If there's a breeze, it probably is undetectable.

My girlfriend's cooking

There are these yellow flowers that grow on vines around here. They smell excellent.
- I used to taste honeysuckles as a kid.
  
  core memory unlocked

Coffee

Fresh out of the oven bread Coffee Pipe tobacco Cigar shops

I'm called Fresh Cut Grass.

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.

Pine and fir needles.

Brand new tires

Chlorine on my skin after going to the pool.

I like the smell of jergins shampoo from like 30 years ago. My mom, who died when I was 23, used it when I was growing up, and I haven’t smelled it in literally decades, but I’d know it if I smelled it again, because it’s impossible to mistake for anything else, but you try really hard to figure out what the smell is. Pretty sure it died in the early 2000s (apparently it’s still available but I have no hope it smells the same, because I haven’t had a whiff in so long.. last time was on a bus around 2002)
It had a very unique… tangy? smell that wasn’t floral or fruity or musky or anything. It was just its own very specific smell. Probably all man made chemicals. But it contains volumes of memories.
Interestingly, I still don’t like her perfume (dune from like 1990-2004). I have 2 bottles of it, and I find it very unappealing. It smells like her, sure, but I don’t like it. I sniff the bottle every now and then, for memories. But they are adult memories. The jergins is childhood memories.
If anyone has a really old bottle of jergins floating around, I’d pay money for it..
- This is a really nice one. Have you tried hitting a big perfume store? Staff might be able to find something similar.
  
  No. I appreciate the thought but I feel like most of the people working those places have never smelled the specific and very particular scent I’m looking for, and throwing shit at the wall to see what’s close isn’t a solution because my brain will trick me but it won’t work the way I hope.
  It’s one of those lost memories, I think, like when you want the same game experience but aren’t the same person so super Mario 1 is just really hard instead of being fun..?

Matches (No I'm not a pyromaniac)
- Sounds like something a pyromaniac would say

Corn chip puppy smell!

The smell a candle makes when it’s put out.

I hate the taste of coffee but the smell is heavenly
- Same here!
- Like walking past a Starbucks.
  
  Or the coffee isle in the grocery store

My dachshund's feet. Seriously. They smell something like popcorn sometimes.

Cheap old books, when the paper turns brittle and yellow or even orange.
- The way libraries used to smell before they became homeless shelters. Not hating on anyone who needs a warm place to be. Just sucks it falls to the libraries to be that place.

Campfire, and the smell of woodsmoke on clothing the day after.

Dogs. A place where dogs have been living has such a comforting smell to it. Also their paws smell so nice
- Corn chip feet

My chicken after she's been dust bathing, or when it rains.
The dust bathing brings in an earthy note to her natural birdy scent. She just smells like a little nature spirit might, if such things were real.
When it rains, she's usually under cover (though sometimes she gets out into it), but she's picks to the petrichor aroma of rain and soil. She'll carry that scent all evening usually, so when she comes inside and is nestled up next to me, there's the normal bird smell, but also that rich aroma that a gentle rain brings, that usually fades quickly.
Mind you, I also love her normal smell, that almost dusty book, nose tickling smell of bird, colored with the mild earthiness and slight tang that's all chicken.
Luckily, she doesn't mind being sniffed occasionally :)
- Now i want to sniff your chicken. She sounds delightful.
  
  She really is :)
- Bird sniffers unite!

I'm surprised no one put crayons on here yet (I don't really care either way but it seems like something that would go on this thread).

Horse feed. Sweet feed to be exact.

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.

Grass, lily and petrichor.
Bonus points if all combined :)

No one is going to say bacon?
- I woke up early yesterday and the one and only reason I got out of bed instead of going back to sleep is because someone was cooking bacon and the smell made its way up to my room.
- I'm surprised it took all day for someone to say that.
- I don’t eat pork and the smell of bacon is nauseating to me personally
  
  I’ve got an intolerance to most animal fats, which means I’ve never been able to digest pork. My dad’s got the same thing, and while his case is less severe, he doesn’t eat pork either, so we never had it in the house.
  The smell of pork generally and specifically that of bacon are extremely unpleasant for me. I can tolerate it for a while, but it wears on me about as much as high pitched background noise.
  
  I thought about that shortly after I posted my initial comment. I realize it's not for everyone, hope I didn't offend anyone.

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?
  
  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.
  
  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.

Cedar. There's nothing like pulling a blanket out of a cedar chest and surrounding yourself in it.

Weird one, but I have pet birds. They smell AMAZING. Just stick your nose right up to their feathers and huff. They kinda smell a bit like corn chips, or laundry dried outside in the sun, dusty and earthy and warm.
- I so feel that :)
  Our birds are chickens, so they pick up the extra smells of grass and soil as well, but there's still that "birdiness" too, and I love it

vinegar, just can’t get enough of it

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!

Lilacs

Salty air, leather, books, a wet or dry forest, my cat's fur, fresh bread, my homemade vanilla, coconut scented anything, woodsmoke, fresh snow, & my boo ❤️

New packs of cards when the shrinkwrap is removed.

Freshly harvested cannabis is my favorite smell, far and away

The smell of freshly cooked rice.

Lots of nice smells, but I'll just list a stranger one I like. Dry hay.

Cooking bell peppers on a frying pan. Add onions and it's even better.

Pizza cooking in the oven. Fresh laundry. Slight electrical warm smell of a heater (not burning). Petrichor mixed with city smells. Smell of asphalt in the sun (takes me back to childhood and drawing with chalk with a childhood friend).
- That's a really nice memory 😀