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posted August 12, 2004 03:27 PM         

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My favourite smell is the smell of Roses, and clean smells, actually I like most smells as long as it doesn't smell of sweat, poo,wee, vomit etc!!!

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posted August 12, 2004 03:33 PM         

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Clean, subtly scented warm skin. Babies, children or Lovers. I could smell their skin forever.
Chocolate, spices, coffee, musk, clean light scents too, fresh baked bread, cinnamon, nutmeg, lily-of-the-valley, magnolia, vanilla, my perfume, amber, patchouli, sandalwood, neroli, tangerine, rich pipe tobacco, so many more!!!!!!

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posted August 12, 2004 04:09 PM         

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I couldn't pick a favorite. I love vanilla, Butterfly Garden Glade candles, Angel Whispers Glade candles, kitty smell, puppy breath, fresh cut grass, good soil, bbq, ocean water, jasmine rice...

I could go on forever.

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posted August 12, 2004 10:05 PM         

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Welcome, 3!

I will try to narrow down my favorite scents;

Roses
Coconut
Lavender

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posted August 12, 2004 10:42 PM         

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I love really fresh, crisp, clean smells, like fresh laundry- oh, I love that smell! Coconut and vanilla are great too, and cocoa butter. And I absolutely love the smell of the beach- not during low tide, of course, but yeah =D.

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posted August 12, 2004 10:46 PM         

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MMM I love fresh laundry and coco butter a lot too. Just about every fruit smell.

Have you guys ever heard of the grapple? It's an apple that smells just like a grape. Doesn't really taste so much like a grape, but it sure smells YUMMY.

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posted August 12, 2004 11:09 PM         

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i looove the smell of fresh baked bread and cookies...also love the smell of rain especially on freshly mowed grass...last but not least fresh ripe strawberries and bananas...yummmm.

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posted August 13, 2004 03:54 AM         

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Lilacs

(among so many others)

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posted August 13, 2004 03:58 AM         

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Patchouli and sandalwood. Really.

And I love the smell of coffee but I don't drink it very often at all. I just love to smell the ground beans.

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posted August 13, 2004 05:22 AM         

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cement after it rains
fried onions
Lagerfeld (for men)

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posted August 13, 2004 09:24 AM           

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BRM - P&S for me, too, but they generally have to be together for me to really dig 'em.
Coffee, too, though I only like drinking it if it has chocolate in it. Maybe caramel.

The smell of rain coming in (yes, it does have its own smell - though I can generally only pick it up in rural areas).
The smell of snow.
Mint leaves crushed between your fingers. (Oh, weeeiiiird - just thinking about it, I caught a whiff.)
Meghan after a bath.
Jase's stinky man-stench (it's all about context, all about context...)
Everything my Grandmommy owns (she's a Leo Sun/Pisces Moon & it all smells of lavender).

LS - Yep, we bought some Grapples a couple of months ago...they kinda smell like Grape Kool-Aide

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posted August 13, 2004 07:38 PM         

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Did you know that the sense of smell deteriorates least of all the senses in old age?

(Sorry, Immortals... just a factoid I picked up somewhere.)

Mine are:
Coffee. Especially a real Cappuccino.
Rain... on concrete or grass, doesn't matter.
Crayola crayons.
Sandalwood! But not patchouli, BRM... it's like someone lined the inside of my nose with salt!

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posted August 13, 2004 08:00 PM         

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roses...vanilla (Victorias Secret)...a freshly opened jar of peanut butter...a freshly opened can of coffee...Lancome's Tresor...the scent of the man I am in love with...star jasmine on a warm summer night...freshly ground nutmeg..freshly mowed grass...I can smell rain in the air before it rains too - luv it!, love the smell of cooking bacon, but don't really like to eat it (if that makes sense)
I'm sure I'll think of more...

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posted August 13, 2004 10:12 PM         

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"new car" smell...it's not particularly lovely, just very distinctive and capeable of invoking the feeling of luxery.

freshly laundered sheets (I use Gain. It smells dreamy)

Anybody rememember "Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific" Shampoo?? That smelled really really nice. I wonder why they discontinued it.

the smell of a turkey roasting in the oven. MMMMMMM.

Almost any colone on a sexy man.

Definately the smell after a rain, especially when it follows a hot sunny day. I agree, even on concrete it smells...really clean and fresh.

Sweet peas, their flowers, still on the vine, on a warm summer's eve.

So many wonderfull smells. I could go on forever.

Did you know that the olfactory sense is the sense most closely related to memory? Yup, smells will trigger memories much more than any other sense.

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posted August 14, 2004 12:48 AM         

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mine?

~man skin

~the ocean

~campfires

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posted August 14, 2004 04:24 AM         

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It's funny this should come up. I am in the process of writing my new book. In the story a character explores the sense of smell in terms of memory. It amazing how quickly a simple fragrance can take you back years. It could be a place, person, or perhaps an experience long concealed in the mists of time. Smells are like invisible trails they always lead you somewhere.

My favourite smells are:

THE OCEAN
FRESH AIR AFTER A STORM
HOT SUMMER ROSES
VANILLA PODS
FRESH VINE TOMATOES
BAKING BREAD
SWEET PEAS
LILLACS
GARDENIA
GERANIUM
CLOVES
CORIANDER
BASIL
DAMP EARTH
FRESH LINEN
WINE
LEMONS
ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE
SCONES
SMELLS OF PEOPLE I LOVE
BABIES - IT'S A PINK SMELL.

I can't help but associate colours with smells. Do any of you?

Gia

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posted August 14, 2004 10:36 AM         

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I've always been highly synaesthetic, Gia. I smell and taste everything -- colors, shapes, textures. I see sounds. Just had a thought. That may explain my odd natural resistance to psychadelic chemicals. I have wowed a few Deadheads in my younger years. While everyone else is seeing pink elephants, I'm still 'waiting for the show to start'. At four times the dosage, too. Go figure.

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posted August 14, 2004 11:14 AM         

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I luuuuuv the smell of my sister's fabric softner... I don't know what it is, but whenever I smell it, if I'm on a bus or walking past someone, I almost start to cry, cuz it reminds me of my beautiful neices... I miss them soooo much!!

Also rose oil, Nag Champa, rain, snow, clove cigarettes, oatmeal rasin cookies, freshly damp earth, that ''man'' smell, and christmas potpourri (minds me of my daddy).

Ghani

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posted August 14, 2004 12:19 PM         

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oooh.. Nag Champa.. how could I forget!!! Thatson my list up there too... not the one "up there" But the one *points* up there, in my olfactory factory.
and rain
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gardenia.. forgot about those.
My list is very similar to alot of yours too.
*sigh*
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.........

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posted August 14, 2004 02:25 PM         

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I love Nag Champa too!

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posted August 14, 2004 05:29 PM         

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Fresh laundry
Victoria Secret Vanilla Lace
Coconut oil
Spiced Candles
Rain...yes Proxie is right, it does have that smell
The smell of the mountains first thing in the morning
Driving through central California - where they grow grapes, strawberries and the smell of livestock - it is very Earthy and homey to me

When the house smells like garlic and my abuela is cooking.

The sweet smell of my grandma when she would hug me.

The smell of Mr. Taurus - it's the fresh crisp smell of clean laundry and the slightest touch of cologne.

Oh...the smell of an ice cold juicy orange when you first pull open the meat.

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posted August 14, 2004 07:46 PM         

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I miss the smell of my great-grandmother's kitchen. And the smell of Avon Soft Musk on my Grandmother.

I love smell of my children after a bath. And the smell of autaum rain. The air at the shore.

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posted August 21, 2004 12:34 AM         

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I love the smell of Pillsbury Orange Danish rolls right out of the oven.......

Amazing Grace perfume by Philosophy.......

The ion-charged air after a Texas spring storm........

Freshly mowed grass......

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posted August 21, 2004 02:21 AM         

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Nature smells good.

flowers, grass, the air and everything natural in the outdoors. well most everything.

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posted August 21, 2004 11:49 AM         

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I like this topic

I love the smell of rain, petroleum, vanilla, fried onions and garlic, gardenia, jasmine, puppies, Christian Dior's Diorissimo (my mother wore it all through my childhood... comfort smell), CK One and my husband's coveralls when he used to work on the flight line all day, incense from the Orthodox church, fresh basil...

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