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Favorite smells

Some that have already been mentioned:
Freshly baked bread
Pine forest
Smoke from a quality cigar
Onions and/or garlic sauteed in butter
And my personal favorites:
My (no pic) wife's skin.
My kids' skin right after they came out of the bath.
 
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2 stroke oil/gas after firing up an outboard first thing in the morning.

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Walking into a restaurant that uses wood fired grill
New car
New House or even a new addition that uses fresh sawed lumber
Babies
My elementary school gym, must be the oil they used on the hardwood floor
My Grandparents house. Always smelled like fresh cut Cucumber.
 
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A gool old fashioned smoke shop, as in the place that processes and smokes various kinds of meat. Every year taking venison to the place that does mine, smells awesome.
 
Wood or leaves smoke.
Grass when it smells sweet in the fall.
Roast beef in oven.
Ham in oven.
Cigar smoke in Kinnick when it was still legal.
 
Nothing like the smell HS basketball gyms in the northeast in the winter. The Palestra had that same smell.

Delaware Park Racetrack was an awesome smell as well. Horses, stale beer and money.

Hardware stores are awesome.

Philly Hoagie Shops are incredible.

New Haven Pizza places.
 
Fresh cinnamon rolls
The gym I go to used to share a building with a bakery. It never failed, every damn morning the smell of fresh cinnamon rolls would come flowing through the gym. I occasionally used it as motivation, but sometimes I just wanted to stop lifting and go stuff my face/csb

For me, the ones that immediately come to mind are bacon, the smell of rain, charcoal as soon as it's lit, and any type of wood smoker and the smell of a campfire/bonfire.
 
Bakery is definitely #1 for me. I live a few blocks from a donut shop. The aroma when I pass it on an early morning walk is unsurpassable.
If it is a Caseys a few blocks away you can smell their pizza too.
 
The Frito-lay plant in Council Bluffs. It was on the west end of CB, close to the bridge that goes over to Omaha. Especially in the early morning, there would be an intense burnt fried chip smell that wafted over east Omaha and west CB. I'll never forget it. I think the plant's gone now, my memory is from 40 years ago.
 
The memories of my family outings are still a source of strength to me. I remember we'd all pile into the car - I forget what kind it was - and drive and drive. I'm not sure where we'd go, but I think there were some trees there. The smell of something was strong in the air as we played whatever sport we played. I remember a bigger, older guy we called "Dad." We'd eat some stuff, or not, and then I think we went home. I guess some things never leave you.
 
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Thanksgiving dinner with the turkey baking
Sunday pot roast in the oven
A fresh flower arrangement
Wild azaleas
Fresh cut roses
Baking anything from bread to pie to cinnamon rolls
New car smell
Fresh cut cucumbers
Brewing coffee
A perfectly grilled steak
 
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Red cherry scented candles, if that makes sense.

I think my parent's had them when I was a kid.
 
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