The boss is popping popcorn for a sales meeting this morning and the conversation turned to peoples favorite smells. Mine are wood smoke on a frosty fall morning and the smell of my wife's home made bread on Sunday afternoons.

What's yours?

Wet sagebrush desert in the morning after a rain.

I don't know why but I immediately thought of Molly Shannon as Mary Katherin Gallagher pulling her fingers out from under her arm pits and smelling them when she is nervous :-). Popcorn is one oddity in that the smell far exceeds the taste. A few of my fav's are home made bread as it is being baked and the smell of leather -in particular a furniture store thast sells leather furniture. Will second the post above for MOST favorite- Rain storm!

Probably the smell of burning walnut in the fireplace would be #1 and some great new stuff my wife bought a Victoria's Secret..wait a minute lets swap that around!!!

This is one of them.

Sweet fern and the smell of a damp pine forest.

Pine trees

Hoppes #9 has gotta be my number 1...but due to an encounter with a young lady one night..."Poison" the perfume has to be included.

#1 The smell of the first good norther.

#2 Fresh turned earth.

#3 Summer rain

#4 Wood smoke in the winter

#5 My baby grand daugher after a bath and all powdered up.

#6 Hoppes No 9.


BCR

The smell of burnt shotgun gunpowder, fired from a paper hull, on opening day of pheasant season.

Hard to find paper hull shotgun ammo anymore.....

Yes, that is a great smell! I also like the smell of Hoppe's No. 9 when I open a gun safe. But I think my favorite smell right now is the smell of Roasting Green Chiles on a cool autumn morning.

I do not like the smell of decay and mold on a cool autumn morning here in the moldering piney woods of E. TX. So different from the pine covered mountains.

Tri tip being cooked over red oak.

all of the above...
plus
The little woman baked home made Toll House cookies last night!

My hands down favorite smell goes all the way back as a kid. I was raised in a small town in North Texas so we had several saddle shops and western wear stores. The smell of the tanning treatment on the leather puts me in a good frame of mind for the rest of the day.

1. My Wife
2. The smell of autumn across the Tundra
3. Rain after a dry spell

Ed

Wet willows!

at the shak, a good fart I made causin' the rest of the crew to gag.

My favorite smell is sorta a conglomeration of smells all in one and the only way to describe it is simply; "Christmas..."

It's cedar, pine, cinnamon, berry, etc. all mixed in that says "Welcome" through the air...

My father's pipe smoke, but that's been gone for a while now.

I wasn't going to mention female...

or wood smoke.
I work daily with testing structural adhesives. At elevated temps etc
So the aroma of cooking wood is very common

I wish it was the former!

I like the idea of a combination bringing back sweet memories
Like Christmas
Or a spring thunderstorm

Any other combinations?

A driftwood fire on an ocean beach.

Fresh milled Doug fir.

The nose of a fine Cabernet.

The nose of a fine Single Malt.

Homemade bread baking in the oven.

All the flight line smells..Av gas/hydrolic fliud/fast mover fumes and the smell of an old airplane...pretty dumb I guess!

Pepper bacon on a campfire during hunting season

Burnt red dot, leather, and wet English pointers.

Mesquite wood smoke and a simmering coffee pot.

My wife's hair on my pillow.

Not in any particular order...fired shotgun shells, Hoppe's #9, tanned leather, anything being smoked with hickory, my dad's pipe smoke, Cool Water perfume

A freshly cut hay field. I quit smoking this spring and within a week began smelling things I haven't smelled since I was a teenager. I'm 50 something now. Lots of nice odors out there!

Not dumb at all. It's about the memories.

The other day a contractor was working on a new mixer here in the plant.
and the smell of cut and ground steel brought back so many from my past.

Just the difference from the usual glue factory stink.

How about slightly musty upholstery and racing fuel exhaust mixed with burnt rubber?

One of my racing buds actually sells candels of burnt rubber!

Always has been Hoppes #9. When I was four years old I drank almost a whole 4 oz. bottle.

Was in need of a quick trip to the hospital, but here it is 59 years later, and my barrel still hasn't rusted out...

HORSE SWEAT, Fresh cut hay, saddle leather, fresh cow sshit, fired paper shotgun hulls..

My favorite smells are associated with good memories.

Smell of the coastline off Whidbey Island (salt, kelp, wood)
Ribs over apple wood in the smoker
Food cooking (pot roast, turkey, apple pie, bread)
Creosote treated pilings
Desert after a thunderstorm
coffee brewing
Doug Fir forest floor
a freshly lit Marlboro (former smoker - 15 years)
a good single malt

In no particular order.

Wood smoke on a cold morning.

Fresh fired paper shotgun shells (That one is long gone).

Baking biscuits or bread.

Frying bacon in the morning.

My wife fresh from the shower.

Perking coffee.

Fresh cut hay & freshly turned earth.

Old Spice after shave (reminds me of my dad).

Napalm in the morning, it smells like ...........victory!

Moose steak sizzlin' in the pan, and pan fried potatos from scratch doused with onions. Hot Colombian coffee on the brew. And apple crisp for dessert.

The first wiff of a freshly opened moose carcass.

Maple flavored bacon/sausage, fried in the kitchen on a cold winter morning.....


maddog

My girlfriend, brisket in the oven at my MawMaw's house, boiling crawfish, Hoppe's 9, wet dog in a duck blind, burnt gun powder, the smell of fresh deer blood

the smell of my sons after they crall in the woods and the creeks all day.

A fresh desert rain on creosote.

Freshly cut green grass.

Aroma of evergreens after a gentle breeze up in the high country.

A resting brisket.

My wife's perfume.

Spring rain

Fall

The twigs and leaves left in my small game vest from last year.

Hoppe's #9

my kids when they come from playing outside in the fresh air.

Old Sweaty football pads.

A marsh.. That Briney smell...

A Chesapeake Bay Retriever, wet or dry...

Coffee..

Leather ..

Cut grass ..

Burnt Gunpowder..

An old farm house that has been heated with a wood stove for decades..

1. My Dog.
2. Fresh cut Cedar.
3. Shot gun blast.
4. Just cut plywood.
5. Bacon cooking.
6. This one would get me banned... :>~~~~~~

fresh cut pine

new asphalt

new tires

high octane gas being burned

cedar

apple pie

most anything dave cooks at deer camp.

One more for me, and I'm real surprised no one else claimed this, but I love the smell of real Black powder from a flinter. Nothing in the world like it for me.

Freshly fired paper shotgun shells (And I've got about 500 Federal Champions stashed back).

Fresh turned earth mixed with the faint smell of diesel exhaust.

My wife.

My German Shepherds' fur right behind their ears.

Woodsmoke on a crisp day.

New leather.

Old barns.

The coffee section of a grocery store.

A cool morning on the water, even mixed with a little outboard exhaust.

Good food cookin'.

And of course, Hoppe's #9.

odor from anthracite coal, the Milw. Co. zoo has a steam powered coal fired mini locomotive train, kids and I like to ride it. alox bullet lube on the firing line too. after a spring rain it smells like worms. two stroke that's running bean oil fer lube. my x-wife used to smell pretty good, now she stinks

I literally almost blew Dr. Pepper all over my 'puter screen....

Reminded me of a time 'bout 15 years ago we had a couple of arrogant SOB's at the hunting camp. After a few days we were all tired of seeing and hearing their uppity BS, and them dominating all the conversations. We were eating breakfast and they had started up again. I went over and sat down right between them and ripped a gigantic loud, extra-rank fart. They both looked at me with horrified, piss-off looks and jumped up and went outside. My buds 'bout gave me a ticker-tape parade. We died laughing. They still talk about that incident....

You can loose your sense smell from black powder....just ask "ET".... ....Oh boy this will probably get me another one of those little smiley faces with a finger!!!

Freshly fired paper shotgun shells
Sage
leaves in the fall
Thanksgiving turkey
My wife's freshly washed hair.

A Ponderosa Pine forest on a hot summer day.

Popcorn made in a real, well seasoned, old timey popcorn machine like at the movies or carnival; and good, strong, freshly brewed coffee are two of my faves.

Gene Hill once wrote that he thought that the best perfume for a woman would be a combination of Hoppes #9 and biscuit dough. I agree. I also like the smell of burnt shotgun powder, woodsmoke, the sea air on the Coast, wet wool, wet maple leaves in October, 100LL, and the way my Springer used to smell wet from a day of hunting.

He took mine, exactly what I was going to type, except for I'm too young for the paper hulls.

One more for me (how could I forget!) - The smell of maple sap being boiled into suryp on an old wood fired cook stove in an old barn. I love the smell doing it!

Hoppes No. 9
evergreen forest after a thunderstorm

Coal burning in the stove.

Fresh sheets/pillow cases.

Mountain rainstorm.

Fresh cut lawn.

And as someone said above, "Christmas".

Puppies, especially Labs.

Believe it or not, I have always liked the smell of burning pot. I can't remember where I smelled it last though.

Orange grove blossom, especially at night.

Night blooming jasmine outside the window.

Forgot about AV gas out of my Banshee... its a 4 wheeler.. LOL..

Dam 308 my grandfather used to do that back in the 50's !!! First time I've thought about that in years..tnx for the memories

I don't recall "the smell of a paper shotgun shell". I have a couple of boxes, I'll have to get one out and pop it off.

That's mine too. I have some oak I've been cutting/splitting in the yard that I make a point to walk by everytime I'm out with the dogs. My brand of saw too

Mike.

It seems that some smells are almost universal in their appeal to people who hunt. Lots of replies mentioning the smell of fired shotgun hulls.

Went squirrel hunting this morning with my old A-5 16ga. The first time in ages that I've taken a shotgun squirrel hunting.

The smell of the first empty hull this morning brought back a flood of memories from my childhood, when a Stevens pump 20ga. was the only gun I owned, and squirrels were "big game", to stalked with as much intensity as one of the "African Big 5" that I read about in the outdoor magazines.

I'm going to have to start doing this more often. There is just something about the smell of a spent shotgun hull on a cool fall morning under the big timber...

Wait a minute... When did you get married?

Nothing beats the smell of Freedom. Enough said!

i've alaways enjoyed the smell of my own farts. i keep that a secret.

As I post this I'm cooking a big ole wok of fall collard greens and smoked ham...can't you just smell it!!!

The smell you get from singing the pin feathers off a duck.

Real Black Powder smoke.
salt water during the spring Striped Bass run
Creosote from a utility pole
A good pot of homemade stuffed cabbage
A real German beer
Moss and softwoods during deer season

Walking through a sunflower field early on opening morning of dove season.

Autumn leaves burning. Signals Michigan's hunting seasons open.

the smell of the sea as you head out the jetties at the crack of dawn

freshly fired paper shot shell......brings back many memories of when I was young and with my Grandpa!

Just about all of the following,except Yankee Devel's farts.Also,a Zippo lighter being lit,a firing line at a match,Grandaughter after a shower(4 yrs old),and WD-40. Lightman

My daughter's hair
My wife's skin
A New England fall day
A Virginia spring morning, just after a light rain
Fresh cut hay
Cut and split oak firewood
My grandmother's kitchen

Grandma's house,
My son,
my wife,
my reloading room,
puzzy,
when i fire my 30-06 at a deer, that smell is oh so sweet,
the woods during a hunting season,
outboard motor exhaust,
that fishy smell on my hands from a successful day fishing,
and cheese its...

An old cedar chest at Mamaw.s house
My wife's robe on the bathroom door
The fireplace in the den
Open fire pit at deer camp
My old Hereford saddle
Hoppe's #9
Gun leather

Favorite smell only because of the memories. I normally don't get a feral hog that has much bacon. When I do and the wife cooks it, it brings me back instantly to my Grandmothers kitchen. The smell though not great, but not bad. I am back in a time in my childhood that was so special to me.
Butch

love JP 5 and fresh tar....

The smell of my wife and children; the old paper shotshells from my grandpa fired in his gun, a campfire, pork on the grill, my favorite beer, Cope, and the smell of rain before it shows up.

The smell of venison as it hangs along with a lot of harvest smells around here as of late....

Shalimar. All rational thinking is gone with the first whiff.

The best for me is fresh bread.
Burnt powder next.

Aint nobody like partridge guts?

Ahhhh,, nothing like bird guts on an empty stomach..

Paper shot shells, ahhh the memories...
Castrol R oil in a 2 stroke engine
Hoppes #9
The smell of a new Les Paul when the case is opened for the first time (fresh guitar smell...)
Bacon frying
Our old engine rebuilding shop
Old guns
New fiberglass boats
Leather interiors
My friends neck
USPS priority mail box tape
Laphroaig whiskey
Gunpowder in the bottle
Fresh grilled salmon
Fresh made bread
The air just before and after the first storm in a while
Cedar closets
Lilac
Privilege perfume
cinnamon
new babies breath
fresh brewer strong coffee
stick welding clean steel
My pet Bobcat's head

Damp forest
Campfire
Mild skunk fragrance
Gunpowder in the mornings
My wife's hair.

Burnt gunpowder.
Hoppes No. 9
Dill pickles being canned in the kitchen.
The smell of good pipe tobacco.
The unmistakable smell of the blankets when they first come out of the cedar chest.

Mine would be 'Obummers' azz burning because he could no longer ram through Socialist/Liberal legislation that the majority of Americans do not want!!

my GF
my wife

There is a fresh cut field of alfalfa just out the door as I type this. I think that aroma is infused in my DNA.

Has anyone mentioned the fresh clean scent of a skinned deer carcass. There is nothing else like it!

I would have to say fresh cut alfalfa too. freshly turned earth, cedar wood and damp cottonwood leaves on an autumn morning & woodsmoke. Here's one nobody's probably mentioned, just a faint skunk odor brings back plenty of fond memories of trapping.

My wife
Fresh cut grass
Pipe smoke
Pork being cooked on my smoker using apple wood
Hoppes #9
Leather
Sweaty shoulder pads
Hickory in the fireplace

Fresh fired paper shotgun shells on a frosty morning.

shotgun shells after being fired. girlfriend's hair after a shower, babies, new car smell, aqua di gio, the ocean, bearded clam.

Just a few of my favorites:

The smells at a county fair...peppers, onions and Italian Sausage. And fried dough and french fries.
Cedar clapboards.
Sweet corn on the boil.
Ben-Guay ointment.
A labs foot pads...that earthy smell.
McClelland's single malt on ice.
Woodsmoke on a frosty morning at deer camp.
Fresh sweet basil.
Garlic bread.
A new born baby.

Freshly plowed earth.. A hardwood forest in late October when leaves have fallen and humidity sets in.. Freshly roasted coffee beans.. Hoppe's #9...

A brand new holster smells good. Then again I think I only shoot so I can smell Hoppes

Call me crazy, but every now and then when I think of
a certain past girlfriend, I can smell her perfume.

There I fixed it for my use. I agree. I have do one more favorite smell . . . never mind.

Nice Kinger!

I think my favorite would have to be Linguica starting to cook.

Or a empty rifle shell.

High bush cranberries in the fall.

wood smoke in the Fall or people burning their garden spot off during the Spring, I guess you could say I like the smell of smoke, I could be a closet "Firebug" .......................Hillbilly.

Oh man. I was a firebug when I was a kid. I'm really surprized I didn't turn out to be an arsonist. The only thing I like to burn now is gunpowder and you guessed it, I like the way it smells.

Appalachain woods in the fall.
Good bourbon.
buring coal
fresh cut grass.
fresh cut hard wood.
smoked meat.
new car smell
new leather

A lady named "Kate"

The ocean air

The smoke from the stove in the wall tent at 8000 feet

The fresh turned garden soil in the spring

Burning leaves in the fall

...and A lady named "Kate"

The smell of a hanging deer

Bunch of years ago walking the trail in the Colorado Sangre de Cristo range, getting closer to the lake near the end of a five mile trip and I can smell smoke. Then another odor. Coffee!! And bacon frying! WOW! Two guys camped there so they invite me over for a cup. Still the best smelling and tasting coffee I ever had.

I think a hanging Obama would be better.

Freshly baked bread
Bacon frying
Freshly mowed grass
Fresh cut hay
A man freshly showered, no cologne
Freshly laundered sheets, dried outside on the line
My perfume, L'air du temps
Bergamot
Earl Grey Tea
Japanese cherry blossoms
Cucumbers
Watermelon
Lemon

Anything frying with onions in the cast iron skillet.

That doesn't include liver (Yuuck!), does it?

Absolutely!!