I love:

suntan lotion
smell of the ocean
fresh coffee

hate:

gasoline
cooked egg
clothes that sit in the washer for couple days LOL :-D

loves:
Garlic and onions sauteeing in olive oil.
My DH's scent
Sun tan lotion thats been baking in the sun
Vinegar
jasmine & lilacs
Patchuli and bergamot

hates:
gasoline
hot tar
'new car' smell
vanilla air fresheners
tomato bushes
smell of fresh cut grass
tea leaves (herbal teas are ok)

English Leather
baby clothes right out of the dryer
horse poop
popcorn
my father's old jackets
campfire
old books

The scent of Downy liquid fabric softener.
If I could, I'd rinse every single thing in my home in the stuff.
Instead, After several years of searching I finally found candle tarts (for my electric candle warmers)that come as close as I've ever smelled to the Downy fabric softener. The candle tart scent is called Clean Linen and found them on Ebay.
Must be something in my childhood? The scent of Downy leaves me feeling calm.
I turn on the electric tart warmers first thing in the morning when I walk from bedroom to kitchen to get my first cuppa.
By the time I head to the kitchen for my second cuppa, the house is filled with the clean scent of freshly dried clothes and I didn't have to do laundry to get it that way! LOL

Another Crayola Crayons sniffer here. :)
Not any crayon, but has to be Crayola.
I'm a Crayola Sniffin' Snob, I am.

Freshly sharpened pencils and especially after they've been put in a metal container (Pencil Holders used to be tin cans with the labels removed).

Great Topic for a thread ThreeDGrad....thank you!

Baby Magic Lotion!
I'm a baby lotion snob too, because the others just don't give me that fuzzy and cuddly feeling like Baby Magic does.
Two of my adult children still use it so me using it on them must have made an impression of some sort. :)

And speaking of having the attention span of a gnat (me!) it might be due to the fumes from the TowMote (TowMotor).
Way back when, the warehouse forklifts of years ago ran on something, don't know what,but the fumes were addicting...at least to me. :)
Every single time a forklift driver came into my area, I had to hold myself back from following the forklift out the dock doors. The fumes those forklifts emitted....I loved that smell!

Lilacs and anything vanilla.
Thanks for mentioning White Shoulders too- my MIL always wore that. :)

Thanks for this topic. I love stuff like this. Makes
me smile just thinking about the smells I love.

Love, Love Love:

Lilacs,
babies
Morning coffee
Christmas trees
Sandlewood
Virginia Cheery Blossoms
Brazillian soap or French milled soap
Fresh cut grass
White chocolate
Blue Rock Cabernet Sauvignon 2005
Fresh Basil
Snowy day
Mint Tea
Ocean Air
my own peonies
Crayola crayons and yes sometimes Playdough
Cinnamon buns
Cucumber sandwiches

Dislikes (Yuck, gross and get away)

Halitosis
Smog pollution
Burning Auto and tires (car accident smells)
Skunk
Rotten fish
Nail polish remover
Strong in your face perfumes
Airline air
Body order
Moldy Sippy cup stuck under seat of car for months....Gross

Let's see.

The fresh air smell after it rains.
Anything fresh baked or baking, bread, cookies, etc
Fresh coffee
Fresh herbs
Rich soil

What a fascinating topic!

Love:

Smelling my cats after they bathe. It's such a fresh smell.
A baby's breath
The flower Lavender, not Lavender in anything else.
Roses
Gas
Cigars
Old Spice colognes & after shave.
Cinnamon & Clove spray by Bath and Body Works
Yankee Candle Original Gardenia which they don't offer anymore. :(

Hate:

Anything my dh cooks. I always light a candle. lol.
Lavender in anything but the real flower.
Cooked liver
Vinegar

Coconut.

I could-and do-have it everywhere.

Weird, because I don't even like the beach.

Walking into an old house or business, aged leather,
Chloe perfume, burning wood and rosemary

It's fun just to experience the scent memory from reading through all the posts.

Love:
Campfires, Burning leaves in the fall, Cloves and Oranges, Clean Laundry, Lilacs, Lavender, Spring Rain, Hot dogs on the charcoal grill in the summer, Baby powder.

Hate:
Melons, Vanilla, Wet dog, fish, raw chicken, heavy musky perfums, new carpet.

As far as candle scents I love most of the EarthyGlow Soy Lotion Candles- plus when you burn them you can use the melted wax as skin lotion which is neat.

While I wouldn't buy a candle with this scent, one whiff of barnyard (combination of manure, hay, and horse) does take me back to childhood. It's such a strong association. Add some Lucky Strikes and leather, and I can see my Dad, plain as day.

Otherwise, bacon frying (and I do have that candle), bread baking, and heliotrope.

Ohhhh, favorite smells:

-- Just-awakened, warm snugly baby, pee diaper and all!
-- Laundry just off the line.
-- From a distance, a brief scent of just-lit cigarette when combined with the scent of the burnt match (but NOT second-hand smoke in quantity)
-- Grandma's roast dinner, ready to be served.
-- A freshly-painted room; the super-clean scent combined with the feeling of happy potential since you know how good it'll look when you've moved the furniture back in!
-- Tomato plants first thing in the spring when it's still 45 degrees outside but you KNOW spring is coming.
-- freshly cut or sanded wood, especially pine.

Let's see:

-freshly cleaned rooms
-morning sunshine, freshly brewed tea and toast with marmalade
-11 a.m. coffee and a fresh baked muffin
-homemade soup -- especially Scots Broth (lamb, pearl barley and lots of veggies)
-fresh bread - slightly steamy with a real butter and homemade jam standing by
-shortbread and sugar cookies and chocolate chip cookies
-pinot grigio -- smells like crisp green apples, pears and green spring grass
-chardonnay -- smells like butter and golden Delicious apples
-rosemary fresh from my front doorstep waiting in a glass to be used
-sage for chicken or turkey
-parsley -- peppery fresh for chicken soup
-dill sprinkled on steamy mashed potatoes
-cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, cloves -- in candles, cooking, and potpourri (I'm burning Yankee Candle's "clovebud and citrus" right now)
-lemons, oranges, limes -- in everything and anything! cleaners, candles, food, wine and drink -- so fresh you can smell the color
-strawberries, raspberries -- warm and wonderful or cold and refreshing
-mint -- crushed into cooking or baking or covered in a cold, crisp coat of dark chocolate
-malt vinegar sprinkled on crispy, crunchy fish & chips
-tomatoes -- fresh as warm summer sunshine -- sprinkled with basil and olive oil
-tomatoes -- cooking in a long, slow sauce -- loving and sexy
-fresh vegetables home from the farmer's market
-fresh paint -- because of the exciting possibilities of decorating
-old fragrant roses -- like the pink one in my front garden -- can't think of the name -- but when she blossoms -- you can it through the whole house
-jasmine -- by my front door -- so scented that people walking by the house, stop and sniff the air
-men's cologne -- not strong but so suited to the man that you lean in as he speaks to you
-pipe tobacco -- not a popular one I know -- but the one that my DH smokes has had many favourable comments (and he is a most considerate smoker -- and yes! he plans to quit!)
-whiskey -- peat smoke and Scotland (and I don't even drink this!)
-wood burning fire (and I do miss the smell of burning leaves in the fall ......)
-barbecue
-new books
-old books
-old bookstores
-leather
-ocean beaches -- wet sand and salt
-the ocean itself and those incredible life-restoring breezes that let you take in a true, deep breath
-any food eaten outdoors -- on a beach; on a picnic in the woods or meadows; by a mountain or desert -- even a vanilla soft ice cream cone eaten standing outside the car on a hot summer night
-perfume that starts on top notes of flowers -- and then goes "down" later into soft deep notes of spices

Jan at Rosemary Cottage

Love:
-The ocean
-Pipe tobacco
-Asiatic Lilies
-Wood smoke
-Barbeque
-Fresh air from the first time the windows are opened each spring.
-Suntan lotion
-Snow

Teacats/Jan: Chardonnay. Does it smell? You take the time to smell it? ;-) On my way to see if I have a little Kendall Jackson left? LOLOL

Oh, there's just so many...

My absolute favorite scent is lavender. At one time all of my personal care products were lavender (shampoo, conditioner, soap, lotion, toner, makeup remover, toothpaste, etc.).
Sage
Amber
A fresh breeze coming in from the ocean.
Bay trees
yeast (rising dough, baking bread)
cinnamon
my puppies
freshly brewing coffee
rose
lilac
garlic and onions sauteeing in olive oil

Great Thread!

The not so common that I love :

Puppy and Kitten breath
leather purse with doublemint gum in it
Dishwasher as it is washing
Sweet feed
Children's Paste
Sawmills or lumber yards

Smells that I hate:

Bath and Body works Country Apple
Ceiling Tile- when it is new and fresh smelling
Rug Stores/Aisles/Samples

Patricia: LOL! True -- but I do take time to take a deep whiff of the wine first!

Oooooo --- yesssss -- garlic ------ yummmmmmmm......

When I visited Seattle -- and we stayed not far from Pike Place Market -- we could smell coffee beans roasting in the very early hours of the morning -- and THEN the smell of cooking garlic would join in about 10 a.m. --- lovely! :)

Jan

Lilacs
Babies
Fresh opened can of coffee (I don't even drink it)
Rain
Christmas cookies
Lavendar
Pipe tobacco
Fresh snow
Newly harvested corn
The inside of my mom's purse when I was little. It was a combination of perfumed lipstick and chewing gum. I used to open it just for the smell!

"The inside of my mom's purse when I was little. It was a combination of perfumed lipstick and chewing gum. I used to open it just for the smell!"

Me too! Now that definitely brings back memories.

I love...
--the air after a whacking good thunderstorm
--a magnolia bud half-open in my front hall
--the lingering aftermath of Murphy's Oil Soap and furniture polish
--lemon zest
--Chanel #5
--Old Spice on warm skin
--Maker's Mark
--just-steamed blue crabs
--snow-wet wool mittens on the radiator
--sea water

I dislike:
--exhaust
--scented candles
--perfume, unless your nose is an inch away
--ammonia
--dog breath
--mildew
--fishy fish
--feet

My mother smoked (oh it was so fashionable back then) and she had a beautiful silver monogrammed cigarette case. She always carried Doublemint gum in a leather purse and when I opened it, it was the smell of tobacco, Chanel #5, doublemint and leather and I loved it. I also loved the smell of the rugs my father brought back from the Middle East on freshly done hardwood floors with open windows and Priscilla cotton organdy curtains fluttering in the light breeze.

This may sound odd (but hopefully not creepy-odd) -- Of course we each have our own particular aroma, and I find it fascinating how we are attracted (and sometimes repelled) by someone else's scent. My ex-husband's scent was never really attractive to me; in fact, it's one of the things that I chose to "overlook" when he and I first began dating. The chemistry just didn't do anything for me. Didn't excite me -- in fact, there was always something about it that was just ever-so-slightly off to my nose. Consequently, I don't think that our uh, "private life" was all that it could have been.

My DH now has a scent that captivated me from the beginning. The very first time I drew near to him, I was hooked on his scent. It's a scent that I know from somewhere waaaaaay back in time, and I've tried to pinpoint where I know it from, but can't quite put my finger on it. I do, however, reflect upon my grandparents' house sometimes when I think of his scent. Not in a sexual way, but in a warm, embracing, welcoming sort of way. When I inhale my DH's aroma, a part of me feels just like I've "come home." :-)

cinnamon (my very fav)
fresh brewed coffee
anything cooking on the grill
gardenia
honeysuckle
suntan oil that smells like coconut
walking into a Dunkin Donuts

Tobacco, as long as it's not burning
Bread baking
Hot dogs at the ballpark
Sweet spices - cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice
Hot popcorn
The crisp dry smell of fresh snowfall
Ivory Soap

AuntJen, I agree with ya.....I do think there is something about the way a person smells.....if you are close to someone & not into their smell it just doesn't work!!

My gardenias & magnolias are in bloom - yum
Channel #5 - classic
coffee
puppy breath & ears
freshly bathed baby in good old Johnsons & Johnsons
any bread baking will do it for me...especially if it has yeast
cigars
I love to kiss my DH after he has been drinking his scotch b/c of the smell
Egoiste by Chanel - I think I would be attracted to any man wearing this scent

Smiles:)

Sharpie markers
Smiles:)

The ocean, naturally (LOL!)
vanilla
cinnamon
baking bread
lilacs
lavender
jasmine
lemon
sage (I mean the CA native salvia clevelandii)
orange blossoms
mimosa blossoms
Coppertone sunscreen products (the smell of summer)
line-dried laundry

There is one smell that has been bothering me for a while. I bought some Fab detergent on sale - it was supposedly a "Rain Forest" scent, which I imagined to be fruity or something. In reality, I think it smells a little earthy, like leaf compost (humus?) on the rain forest floor. Not exactly a clean smell for laundry. I will use it up, though, and never buy it again, but it seems like an endless bottle. There is also a Mexican brand of detergent available locally that I don't like, but the name escapes me right now. It's too intense; less is more to me for detergent smells.

puppy breath
fresh cut grass
bacon
dove soap
compost
marijuana
grilled chicken
cedar
fig
paperwhites
cantaloupe
very light scent of cologne and beer when nuzzling a man's neck . . .

You all just made me go spray some #5 on! I love doing this sometimes. I'm in my tee shirt and shorts, not going anywhere, and putting on perfume perks me up.

Patricia, are you from Virginia?

I know what you mean about person scents. The first time I snuggled into Hubby's arms I was hooked.

Of course, it helps that he's such a fabulous guy. I just wish I could convince him that Downy is EVIL.

Barnyard; tangerine; a touch of lavender; mock orange; heliotrope; damask rose; hay fields; multiflora rose+honeysuckle together in the hedgerows; Magnolia grandiflora blossoms; lily of the valley; christmas cookies.
Not so much: eucalyptus; oak mulch; beauty-parlor odors like ammonia and nail glue (instantaneous asthma attack); chaps or stetson cologne; Ligistrum; Bradford pear; dill.
Casey

I thought all the first 10 presidential families were from virginia. ;-)

Like (in no particular order)

Chanel #5 (only scent I wear, and it's not often)
Baby powder
Baby shampoo
Old roses (but not anything "rose-scented")
Lilacs
DH's aftershave (I'd have to look to see the name)
Homemade chicken soup on the stove
Roast beef in the oven
Christmas cookies (nutmeg, cloves, allspice, cinnamon, molasses all together!)
Fresh-baked bread
Lemons
ripe nectarines
Burning apple wood or apple-scented pipe tobacco my dad used
Fields after a thunderstorm (but before cutting!)
Glade Glass Scents Clean Linen
Occasional skunk (and I thought I was the only one!)
Warm horse skin
Warm-from-the-sun ripe tomato
Night ocean air

Dislikes
Perfume on anybody else (if I can smell it, it's too strong! I've actually gotten nosebleeds)
Any petroleum product
Morning (aka "dragon") breath
Morning soaky diaper
day-old washcloth (I can smell mildew across the room!)
Liver and onions
Any kind of dung
Honeysuckle (too strong)
Lilies
Magnolia (I'm allergic to the pollen)
Hay (makes me think of all the heavy lifting I've got coming - and the scratches and the itchiness after)
Low tide (esp. in Venice!)
Nail salons (acetone?)
Air freshener sprays
Scented detergent
Fabric softeners
Wet dog
Wet African Gray
The rotten (cracked) egg some critter left outside my basement door this weekend!

Jan - where are you from? I thought vinegar on fish and chips was a RI thing. I learned it there, people put it on the chips, but I like it on the fish instead. I've never met anyone else who put it on the fish.

I forgot I like the smell of coffee better than the taste - and that's saying a lot since I'll drink half a pot myself (down from a whole pot when I was in college)!

ajsmama: Canuck by birth -- now U.S. citizen. Plus I went to school in England. Have always "searched out" good fish & chips in all sorts of villages, towns and cities! LOL!

I adore malt vinegar on both the fish & the chips .....

Jan (fish & chip fan)

Okay, I haven't seen this one yet .....

Doggie paws!

DH thinks I'm crazy when I say "Fiona's paws are stinky, but it's a good stink". I always have a sniff when I'm giving her a cuddle.

Just so you don't think I'm totally nuts, I also like:

fresh cut grass
wood fire
sheets fresh from the clothesline
DH's neck
magnolia blossoms
boxwood

Oh yeah, add me to the gasoline sniffers too.

doggie paws smell like Frito chips, I think; puppy breath is another smell that is unique. I also love the smell of unused diapers. A freshly painted room also reminds me of new beginnings.

smells and memories, I find it fascinating how we make associations with those. I like dessert smells, caramel, creme brulee, chocolate, pink grapefruit, lemon,
I have a roll on cream perfume that smells slightly of pink cotton candy, I keep bringing my arm to my nose to smell it again and agin.

Lily of the Valley in bloom (#1 FAVORITE)
Lilacs
Marigolds & Geraniums
Laundry on the line
Fresh cut grass (yay, summer's finally here!)
Turkey in the oven
Vanilla extract
Crayons
New textbooks
Burning leaves

Dislikes:
Diaper cream
Spaghettios
(this comes from having raised 3 children)

Chanel #5
English Leather on DH
magnolias
orange blossoms
chrysanthemums
any herb including bay
lavendar
fresh cut grass
stew or roast in the crockpot
spaghetti sauce in the crockpot

Freshly cut SPRING grass - it's intoxicating, bergamot, lavender, the ocean (also diesel fumes from boats), empty camping cabins on a hot summer day (sort of a combination of dry wood and kerosene I think), good pinot noir, my kids' heads when they were babies, lilac, old variety roses, wild roses, wet clay, fresh paint, cantaloupe, old musty wine cellars, the way my mother's breath smelled.

Suntan lotion in the winter (yes, in the winter!) is an instant pick-me-up.

And a clean baby.

The smell of my children, husband or pets, right at their temple, or cheek.It just captures "them".I have a lot of other mmmmm smells, but the first just gets me.

parma, you would love Laura Mercier's almond and coconut product line, I have the hand creme ; I also love Partylite's coconut cove tealights and votives.
I too adore a coconut scent although I don't eat it.

A young child coming in from playing outside in the summer, their hair smells of fresh dirt and sun , a "good" stink, like someone said about sniffing dog paws.

I always have to smell products before I decide if I want to use them, even the most miraculous face cream has to have a smell appealing to me.
I love spa smells, eucalyptus always seems to be in the background; Aveda has a candle called Pure and it captures the spa smell.

My Children
My Mom (her smell reminds me of all things good)
Coconut
Coffee

I work for a car dealership but I never get enough of the new car smell.. love it.. we use to sell Rolls Royces and when you would get into one of those cars.. Oh my gosh..just the smell of the leather was awesome.. now it is a Ford Truck with leather.. oh oh what a wonderful smell ... I love the smell of fresh rain on a spring night, fresh washed hair, baby right after a bath in Johnson baby soap, lavendar,roses, the first big snow of the season. buy not skunks.. pew.......

2 I have not seen that I love are:

Play Doh

and Right Guard (aerosal, the old scent)

My very first love wore right guard. I can smell it when I think of him.

My favorite smell ever was my babies. I felt addicted to their scent and sniffed their heads all the time!

I have to buy a star jasmine every year since I love to get a whiff of it when a breeze floats by. (And I can't ever seem to get one to make it through the winter!)

Whenever I'm in the garden I have to touch the basil and tomato leaves just to get a little smell of them.

And I remember the smell of my mom's and my grandma's nightgowns that had been in one of their drawers for a long time. I loved it when they would let me wear one that had that smell!