Dogs. A place where dogs have been living has such a comforting smell to it. Also their paws smell so nice
Pine and fir needles.
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).
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.
Grass, lily and petrichor.
Bonus points if all combined :)
My dachshund’s feet. Seriously. They smell something like popcorn sometimes.
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
Horse feed. Sweet feed to be exact.
Corn chip puppy smell!
The smell a candle makes when it’s put out.
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.
vinegar, just can’t get enough of it
Campfire, and the smell of woodsmoke on clothing the day after.
That smell that tells you it’s Spring.
Fresh bread.
Gasoline.
Bleach.
That head shop incense smell.
The smell of detergent or fabric softener from a nearby house doing laundry.
Whatever that syrup is they use for canned peaches and fruit salad cups.
