Fresh sheets dried on the clothesline, floral scents drifting in from the garden, freshly bathed babies, my husband in the sunshine

Mulch, lily of the valley, viburnum, pine needle, sea air, babies, dirt, newsprint, libraries, train stations ( something about the smell of the tracks).

Anything. I've had anosmia for decades. Long before COVID. Actually, I had it restored for a whole three months after sinus surgery a few years ago. And I drank it all in. Manure, cologne of passersby, the heat coming on, soap... You name it, I savored it.

My biggest hope, the good that can come from this horrid disease, is expansion of this specific research. Maybe we can all have a restored sense of smell.

Books. Most scented flowers including orchids, lilies, roses, petunias. Good garden soil being worked. Rain when the ground is thirsty. I remember loving mimeographs in grade school -- what chemical mix was that? hope it didn't cause cancer because the whole class would bury our noses in it.

Funny how many other smells I like are food-related!

Ocean, forest, barn, horses, puppy breath, leather, burning leaves or wood fires, the air after a rain, gasoline and engine cleaner,.

Cedar. When our neighbor cut down the cedar between our houses, I was in heaven for days.

Spring trees in blossom. Lilacs.

New construction, eapecially in the just-framed stage.

Yes, mimeographs!

(My junior high school had the wastewater treatment plant on one side, and the Sara Lee plant on the other, Depending on the wind direction, we were in heaven or hell.)

Fall.

The crisp winter air just before a snow.

Laundry that has been dried outside. I line dry my laundry whenever the weather permits.

Thinking of MamaPinky with all these line dried linens.

I love the smell of mimeographs too!

Fresh linens, actual floral scents, fresh soil, the smell just before it rains, ice rinks.

Opening a fresh can of tennis balls.

Garden roses.

That wet earthy rainy smell.

4711 cologne

Lemon blossoms.

Fresh snow

The smell of gasoline from a car siting in the garage when it was leaded gas. Also the smell of pigs. I grew up close to a pig farm. The smell takes me back to my youth. The smell of spring and the hot muggy nights of summer.

Antique roses

Citrus blossoms

The smell of a well kept stable- hay, horse, leather saddle

Chanel #5

Strawberries

Honeysuckle

Puppy breath

Bacon frying

Bread baking

Oriental lilies

Lavender oil

Kitten fur

Pine forest or when you chop up an old sappy pine stump

Rain

Sung by Alfred Sung

Fresh spring air on a NW wind

Lilacs

Sleepy cat bellies

Lavender

Mimeo graph paper/fluid

A box of crayola crayons

Salty sea air

Pine/cedar mix in a deep forest in ID/MT

Sheets/towels picked of a clothesline in the sun

Pile of dried leaves in the fall

Aroma of the pipe tobacco my FIL used to smoke...he mixed his own

The original Herbal Essence shampoo

Cilantro, wild green onions that are mowed in the Springtime. Garden dirt. Compost.

Had to edit because I had listed food in the first post I made. I kept cilantro because it is a plant before it becomes food. ( :

Any baked goods in the oven.

Jasmine blooming.

My night blooming orchids.

Lemons

A clean house

Fireplace burning in winter.

Jane

I hang my clothes out year-round and take the sheets off the line and make my bed. Clean fresh smell. I love lilacs, peonies, and lavender scents and the smell of a fire in the fireplace. . Baked bread, and the ocean too.

Aaaaaaaaaall this. This isn't even all of it....

I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM!!!!

Puppies and puppy breath. Magical. 💜

Amy, you can't possibly use up all of those before the fragrance goes bad. You should send half of them to me. 😊

Cedar and pine, lavender, fresh laundry. clean air during/after a rain, gardenias, honeysuckle, coffee beans.

Creosote, hot tar, rubber, metal being cut -- all evoke old memories. And gasoline. Remember Ethyl? That was the best!

I do like clean sheets. The ocean air. Crisp winter air. Oranges. I cant think of much else because almost everything at this point makes my head hurt.

The sinus surgery was hopefully a success as far as fewer sinus and ear infections in the future but unfortunately didnt fix the hypersensitivity.

The beach

Lavender

Freshly sawed wood

New car smell

My roses

Estee Lauder Youth Dew powder

Among other aromas, I enjoy the air in hardware stores, bakeries and bookstores. I miss these aromas when I'm wearing a mask so if there is no one around me, I remove my mask for a couple of minutes to get a quick sampling.

roses, fresh cut grass, Christmas trees, bread baking, wood fireplace burning, and a lot more that I can't think of right now.

My clothes are dried on the line in the summer, and in the winter I put them on a rack on the balcony. They come in covered in snow and frozen stiff. I love, love the fresh air smell as they're thawing.

The Beach

My late FIL claimed to like the smell of skunks. Skunk smell has a bitter component, as does coffee. What if they genetically engineered skunks to smell like coffee? Much more suitable as house pets!

Nickle, that's interesting. I wouldn't go so far as to claim I LIKE the smell of skunks, but the smell doesn't bother me at all. From the time I was a small kid I always wondered why everyone around me found it so offensive.

The smell of skunk doesn't particularly bother me either.

BTW, a grow-op of marijuana smells like skunk. There's a former greenhouse business that was sold and the greenhouses are filled with marijuana plants. Illegally, everyone is assuming as the property is fenced with someone guarding it. You can see the plants at the top of the greenhouses, and it always smells like a skunk when you drive by. It's on a busy road.

Book smell - in a library. Someone mentioned mulch. When my son was little, he asked me what that vomity, poopity smell was..

The beach...warm sand and Coppertone. Remember that?

Elizabeth, there used to be a sunscreen called Skol. Imthink that was the name. The moment I smelled that, I was back at the beach in my mind.

The minute I opened my Grand-Daughter's coloring book and crayons....I was back in grade school.

Just thought of two more, the smell inside a church, and the smell of a library.

Yes to books/library, fresh cut grass and wood, wood fires outdoors, sun dried sheets.

I love the scent of hedge apples. I recently trimmed my boxwood, and brought some of the cuttings inside for the lovely scent. Black locust flowers.

The smell of the chapparel plants in the mountains of east San Diego county - wild sage, wild fennel, manzanita trees, laurels, pines....

Did you ever walk into a radiology department before the days of digital films, and notice the scent in the air? I think it was the film developer, and I always liked it. Similar to mimeograph ink, I think.

I could always smell the water of a freshwater lake from a few miles distant.

I see a lot food smells listed, and so I won't repeat any of those.

I will say, however, that beyond food smells, I prefer no smell at all. I have an extremely sensitive nose, and I find most smells offensive, although some are neutral, such as the beach, since I like being at the beach.

The worst smells for me are any animal smells [especially dogs], unless they are being cooked, and then they are food smells.

I do like orange and citrus blossoms in minute doses, as well as honeysuckle. I would like the smell of jasmine flowers if I were not severely allergic. The same for oriental lilies - I cannot go anywhere near them, although I do find their fragrance to be nice.

My favorite flower to smell is the ornamental ginger that I grow in my back yard:

Its fragance is not overwhelming.

I have one orchid that smells like coconut when it is blooming, and I love that as well.

Mrs. Meyers lemon verbena scent. I use the hand soap and multi-surface concentrate cleaner

ocean air

grass after it rains

leather

fresh cut wood

new books

fresh flowers

potpourri

varnish

fresh paint

whiskey and other hard liquors even though I’m not much of a drinker.

coffee

occasional smell of cigars even though I don’t smoke.

lemon verbena anything

freesias

Neutrogena Rainbath bath gel

apples cooking (applesauce, apple pie, apple crisp)

puppies

my dad's pipe tobacco (he is long gone so only the memory now)

sweet peas

Chanel #5 (reminds me of my mom)

Sung by Alfred Sung (I'm right there with ya, nicole! Been wearing this scent for years)

"a grow-op of marijuana smells like skunk"

And that's why one of the slang terms for cannabis is 'skunk'!

line dried sheets

horses

the first few minutes after the first rain after a dry spell

old books

plumeria

gasoline (strange but true)

leather

the old (don't know if they even make it anymore) Jergens lotion

nekotish, they do indeed make Jergen's original Cherry-Almond scent. I love it, brings back good memories of my mom.