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Castrol 2 stroke oil I burned in my old yz 80 as a kid. No other 2 stroke oil smells like it.

puppy breath is unforgettable and a pleasure to smell too.

the smell of mint around the ol pond on my pop home place. Love it! takes me back to my first bluegill.

2legit is dead on with the fresh baithed babs. I miss that smell.

Some already mentioned but:

Sagebrush

2 cycle exhaust

Musky smell of a northern

The smell of a fresh shot shotgun or 22. As a kid, I would pick them up and deeply inhale to get as much of that smell as possible.

Fresh cut hay and fresh baled hay.

Smell of a maternity ward and a newborn baby. Although it isn't necessarily a pleasant smell to most, it reminds me of when my kids were born.

Fresh brushed horse along with a horse that's gotten really sweated up.

The smell of a frog on a horse.

When you catch a whiff of elk in the timber.

Burnt hair when you're branding.

B-vitamin shots.

Burning baling twine.

Sweaty wrestling gear.

Cherry pipe smoke. My great uncle used to smoke and although he died when I was 6 or 7, I still remember that. One of my mentors later in life also smoked a pipe and I really enjoy the memories that smell invokes.

The perfumed scent of my girlfriend's letter as I read it on the fantail of a US Navy Destroyer in the Tonkin Gulf 1966.

The scent of hay while laying in a haystack with aforementioned girl friend watching a lightning storm at home in Bridger, Montana 1967.

Pleasant memories of my grandmother's house when I was a young kid.

The smell of kindling wood starting to burn good in their old cook stove in the early morning hours as she started her daily routine.

Coal burning in her old Warm Morning heater and fireplace grate in the winter.

Boiled coffee.

Made from scratch biscuits basted with home rendered lard baking.

Home cured hog jowl and sausage frying.

Homemade lye soap.

Slight sulfurous 'rotten egg' odor of their well water.

Freshly oiled dirt roads during the dry summer months.

School lunch

Old people

Playdough

A new Iphone

Dog farts

Retards that never floss

Negggars


Tinks 69

Dursban TC


A boston butt over hickory


Orthene

Bong water

Ozone before a t-storm


And...... Renegade 50's garage (dude has 27 dogs in there)

The smell of the Rogue River down by Blossom Bar.

The smell of Ambroid model airplane cement, hot fuel resistant dope, and glow fuel.

i agree


the wife and kids kill me
lazy as heck when im away for 28 days at work
they put em in the gagarge so they dont have to clean mud paws from outside when they come back in


fuggin makes me mad








smells i wont forget



korea when ya get off the plane(land of a thousand stinks)
dead bodies bloated in the sun
burnt bodies
the coppery smell of alot of blood
the entire middle east smell
gut shot deer
your first diaper change
yukon jack
jack daniels
for some reason both of those liquors bring that sour taste to my mouth when i smell them

The smell of marijuana burning, once you smell it, you always recognize it--
Skunk, one you smell it ---

The smell of cow s**t at a feed lot. As a rancher friend once said to me "Smells like money!"
Not sure I agree with that.

The smell of Kentucky in mid April when getting off an air plane after having spent 9 months in Saudi Arabia and Iraq. First time I could say that knew what freedom smelled like and was glad to have made it home to the USA. That air smelled so sweet!

My late father's '76 Ford.

A canvas tent.

Low desert vegetation after a light rain
A small baby just after bath and feeding
High sulfur gear lube
Smelling salts in the corner or on the sideline
Leaded gas in the 50s

My dads saddle shop smell of pipe smoke, leather & whiskey.

The smell of burnt powder when ejecting a spent round just after shooting a deer on a frosty morning. I enjoy that more than anything else about deer hunting.

A beef roast doing a slow braise in the Dutch oven. Makes me drool just thinking about the smell.

A broken Port Orford Cedar arrow shaft. Love the smell of cedar.
pot
mercapton
rutting bull Elk
bacon
popcorn

The smell of elk when you're sneaking through the timber, hits me like a sledge hammer between the eyes.

Others have mentioned the smell of fresh cut or baled alfalfa. I love the smell of irrigated alfalfa when I'm changing water on a field.

We have a pellet stove and I can be outside when it's burning and catch a whiff, it makes me stop what I'm doing & just enjoy the smell.

The sagebrush smell of the first antelope I ever killed. Haven't hunted antelope in close to 25 years now but can still remember the distinctive odour of antelope.

Jim

rattlesnakes. if you handle one you can't wash the smell off.i love the whitetail gut pile smell.

how bout the smell of a pretty lady fresh out of shower when she crawl's into bed beside you.naked of course.