The FastDay Forum

Great list already but one I haven't seen is the smell of rain on hot asphalt/bitumen - one of my favourites!

TB - not a thing we'd have experienced here in Blighty!!

Oh no!!! You need to visit the bucket list thread hahaha

This was really NOT the thread to open when I'm ravenously hungry at only 9.30 on a fast day! Seriously drooling now. I have a freshly brewed coffee with vanilla extract to try and 'fill up' with a lovely smell.

I love almost all of these apart from the smell of dogs - I guess that's a personal thing for the dog owner.

Some of mine:
The fresh tang of sea salt when you're at the beach
Fresh spring mornings
The 'cold' smell after a hard frost
The melting butter/syrup mixture when making flapjacks
Melted chocolate
Coconut
The smell of tomato and courgette plant leaves after you rub them.
The crook of my husband's neck!
Christmassy spice, especially in a baked product I will soon eat
Bacon
Rosemary
A cheese-topped bake of some description bubbling away
The coconutty smell of gorse

And weirdly:
Old books
Other 'old' stuff - makes me feel I'm in the past (grandparents' houses, antiques shops). Wouldn't want to smell it all the time but the odd whiff's like a time machine!
Smells of perfumes past - for me, exclamation/impulse zen & O2/body shop white musk - takes me back to my teens (I was a nineties teen)
There's a smell that some fellas wear - a bit musky and it might be a John Paul Gaultier scent, that my first boyfriend wore. I used to drink in the smell of him in gulps and every now and then I get a whiff of it and it takes me right back!

Love this thread!

Nothing smells and taste as lovely as Zest for Life!

Oh yes Greenmonster the smell of old books! Evokes childhood memories of the family summer cottage where my grandparents had two bookcases filled with books from the turn of the century(1899)thru the forties. On a rainy day or the end of a long day at the beach I loved to pick one and yes I smelled, ran my hands over the pages before I even thought to read it.

Being an old-fashioned kind of girl, I'm nostalgic for the glamour of the 30's, 40's, and 50's. So my favorite scents (in addition to the outdoorsy and cooking/baking ones already mentioned) are:

L'Air du Temps by Nina Ricci--light enough for wearing to the office, but sophisticated.

Shalimar by Guerlain--very romantic for those special evenings.

Chanel No. 5, but L'Aimant by Coty is much less expensive and its fragrance is almost exactly the same, having been created for Coty by Coco Chanel's perfumier after he left Chanel.

OH wears Bay Rum because I like it so much and buy it for him. Mmmm

These are hard to find in stores but can be purchased online at much lower prices than in retail outlets.

Budapest underground...always smells like pastries!
Walking past the Guinness Brewery early in the morning, the sweet smell of hops.
Fresh sheets.
Baby shampoo.
Creosote.
Fire Lighters!!
Cadbury's Dairy Milk.
Satsumas.
Popcorn.
Jean Paul Gautlier Classique.
Fresh cut grass and earth after it rains.
White Lillies.
My Beloved.
My mother's hugs.

Oh, I must be really weird....

Petrol
Other people's chips
Candles that have just been snuffed out
Brand new electronics switched on for the 1st time

There you go, told you I was weird!

[Tracieknits]

It's funny about scents and memories. My grandmother was a very elegant lady, and she wore ma griffe perfume by Carvin. I haven't smelled it in many years (she died about 20 years ago). Well last month I was walking down the street in Paris, and caught up with a very elegant, elderly lady -- and got a big whiff of my grandmother's perfume! I think it was one of the highlights of my trip

Raspberry jam is associated with my Grandmother on one side. She was a marvellous cook, and always made home made raspberry jam with the raspberries my Grandad made.
On the other hand my Granddad on the other side of the family, always smelt of sulphur. Mainly because he worked at Courtaulds and they used and awful lot of sulphur in their production, it got everywhere. It was in the air 2 miles downwind some days. After working there for 40 years it was in his skin. he was a clean man, you just couldn't get rid of the smell. When he retired he went into decorating, and eventually his smell changed to gloss paint.

Ok here goes

Honeysuckle
Jasmine
Turkey cooking in the oven on Christmas day
Bacon frying......drool
Freesias
Stocks
BBQs
New Books
New shoes
Toast
New cars
Olbas oil.......memories of my mum
Trevor mints.....memories of my dad
Onions frying
Cakes baking
Bread baking
Gingerbread
Felt tip pens!!!

That should be Trebor mints..............who is Trevor??


Damn you autocorrect!

Minsmum! Toast should read

Toast

(Ballerina are you listening??)


Trebor mints! My grandmother's haulage business had the contract for distributing these all over the place, and she had lorries in the yard with 'Trebor' written on the side - brings back memories (and of course there were always loads of them we were given that had 'dropped off the back of a lorry' hee hee! )

I demanded to know earlier who had said TOAST, should've known it was you, you temptress you!!!

Ballerina x

toast

Good grief, these temptresses are multiplying before my very eyes

Ballerina x