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Before this thread degenerates into fart and sex jokes, I figured I'd propose a few ground-rules:
(1) What is your favorite smell that people normally also like?
(2) What is your favorite smell that is generally considered gross or odd?
(3) What is a smell that instantly triggers good, funny or mischievous memories?
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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(1) Fresh-cut grass. I love, love, love that smell. It reminds me of playing baseball and going hiking.
(2) Gasoline. For whatever reason, I've always loved the smell of gasoline. I used to do a lot of housework as a kid, including mowing the lawn, which meant I'd handle gasoline fairly often. Maybe that's why? Obviously, I know its not Gasoline itself that smells like that, its the added thingy.
(3) Marijuana. Thats what inspired this thread when I was walking around Manhattan this morning and randomly smelled some kids smoking weed behind a fence near a construction site (at like 1:00 in the afternoon). I found it so amusing...its been awhile since I smelled that and I enjoy seeing kids be mischievous like I was.
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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3) Unsmoked tobacco makes me think about when I was a kid and bought my comics in a smoke shop.
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3) You ruled out farts but let pot stay? What's funnier than blaming a fart on someone else?
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1. Roses. The old-fashioned kind that actually haven't had the scent bred out of them. Though I actually think hyacinths smell better than roses, they're not as ubiquitous.
2. Gasoline as it's being pumped.
3. Pipe tobacco, because it reminds me of my Dad.
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(1) Fresh baked bread. I use to have a bread machine, and I'd set it the night before to bake over night. I wouldn't need an alarm clock.
(2) Gasoline. This is a common one I've heard. Guess lots of folks like that added thingy.
(3) Apple pie. I don't recall many funny memories of pie, but it's such a pleasing smell, it makes me thing of good, fond moments.
From: Denver, CO | Registered: May 2004
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1. Roses! Especially wild roses, when you walk by them, the scent is wonderful. Lilaces, hyacinths and other scented flowers too, even stinky marigolds, but roses probably top the list.
2. Melting polypropolene rope. To seal the ends of cut rope, you burn them in a flame, which releases a smell which I know is probably cancerous and killing my brain cells, but I sort of like it. In small doses.
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I have to agree with bread. I spent a large part of my childhood in Europe and fresh baked bread always reminds me of my early early childhood. I love fresh bread still hot from the oven.
Sawdust. I love shop work and making things. I've worked around big machines for years but the smell of deisel, gas or oil makes me think of work but the smell of sawdust gives me a warm homey -working on a project- feeling.
I'll have to think about the mischevious answer though. Right now I may have to agree with Cobie, the smell of pot takes me back to High School and College..farts, not so much.
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