The best and worst smells

You know how smells can trigger memories, feelings, etc?

When I was a kid I had to take liquid penicillin that was banana flavored- even now if I smell it I nearly gag. Close second for bad smells is my bikini wax- it smells like pain! :D

Best smell- walking out into the fields where I live on a hot summer day- I have a  strawberry business and the whole area smells like hot out of the oven strawberry pie.

What's your least an or most favorite smells, and what's the memory that goes with it?

one of my favorites is play-dough.  for some reason it makes me feel "happy".

One of my favorite smells is.. cooking. Beef brisket, fresh bread, even spaghetti sauce.

One of my least favorite smells is.. ammonnia. It's linked in my mind to vomit.

Best smells: Breeze coming thru open window in spring, rainy spring day smell, and sheets that have been dried outside in the summer. (can you tell I love warm weather? :) )

Worst smells: vomit, cat pee, dog poop.

That banana flavored medicine was truly horrible. I never liked anything banana flavored my whole life because of that stuff. I love real bananas.

One of my favorite smells is onions sauteeing in butter.

Worst smell - has got to be rotten potatoes. Especially if you are blindly picking one out of the bag and your finger goes into it. I was fairly young the first time that happened to me and it makes me gag.

A favorite nastalgic smell would be the smells of the various things my mother canned. I loved the smell of the bread & butter pickles simmering, the applesauce, even the tomatoes. The kitchen was always so warm and mom & I would have great conversations as she worked.

Best smells: wood smoke and baking bread (mmm, I wonder if bread makers are allowed in dorms..)

Worst smells: cigarettes (so help me if a smoker sits anywhere near me in class I have no problems getting as far away from them as possible) I also hate the smell of dead worms after a rain storm.

Oh, I forgot about the smell and feel of sheets dried outside. The house I'm at now is the first house in many years to not have a clothesline and I miss it terribly.

I'm putting one up this spring, no matter what.

Gotta agree with the smell of cigarettes on someone. It is horrible. They reek.

Along the same lines as what pvstks said, the smell of Crayola crayons is a "happy" smell for me.  I spent lots of time drawing and coloring when I was little.  I also love the smell of apple & cinnamon.  It's comforting, and also reminds me of autumn, which is my favorite time of year.

As for least favorite smells, there aren't many that absolutely make me want to wretch, but I generally can't stand when someone is wearing too much perfume/cologne that doesn't really suit them.  Hard to explain...but you know body chemistry plays a role in how such things smell, and sometimes people wear a scent that they really shouldn't.  And of course, they wear far too much of it all the time!

Edit: And YES!  I had to take that medicine too!  BLARGH!

Best: Campfires, spring rainstorms, gasoline, patchouli, fresh bread baking... especially beer bread!!

Worst: Artifical fruit scented candles, cat pee, bacon cooking, wet dog, puppy breath

Best: The smell lingering in the air when I saw Cats at the theatre for the first time. I found some glitter hairspray a couple of years ago that smells identical to it haha.

Worst: The smell coffee makes when I lose a mug in my room and it starts to go mouldy. Ew D:

Original Post by caitling:

Best smells: wood smoke and baking bread (mmm, I wonder if bread makers are allowed in dorms..)

 

oh, I totally agree with the wood smoke- the smell of an outdoor fire always makes me think of skidooing with my Dad, I can practically smell the can of beans and weiners cooking over that fire!

Fav: Rain, wood smoke (Especially mesquite wood), Cinnamon, Vanilla, Coffee (When i was younger and at the grocery store i would go to were you buy the whole coffee beans and open the bins and just smell them)

Worst: sour milk (ick), cigarette smoke,

Best smell:  apple & cinnamon oatmeal.  (You know how people have a kind of smell of their own?  When I first met my husband, I noticed that that's what the sweaters he'd lend me always smelled like.  And one time I was sick and he made me oatmeal in a mason jar, because he didn't have any dishes in his dorm room.)

Worst smell:  dead anenome.  They start to decay before they're entirely dead, and the smell is so strong and sharp that there's nothing else like it.

best: fresh bread, coffee, thunderstorms, the first snowfall of the season.

worst: bananas.  i had to throw away a rubbermaid container that had bananas in it on one camping trip, because even after several years, bleach, vinegar, pine sol, etc. the smell would not go away.  blech.

Best smell!!

Rain on hot pavement and line dried clothes!!!  Ill have some of those clothes this week!!!

Worst smell

The stink that comes from my neighbors kitchen exhaust.  Smells like sweaty socks with a touch of rotting meat!!

Hmmm. Best Smells...

  Bread baking. Because I taught my daughter how to bake. She would wake up smell the bread and get a big grin on her face. We'd spend some together time with butter n peanut butter sandwiches, still warm.

  Orange Roll, those instant ones from the can. Because I was dating this guy that (seemed) perfect, I was spending a week with his family who seemed to love me (all except his mom), and every morning they would make those rolls. Sugar and love. *deep sigh*

Mixed feelings, mostly good... 

Turkey, roasting. My first ever, on my own (and as a mommy) dinner, was a turkey. I had no clue that it had a giblet bag. I washed it, popped it into the pan, and waited the exact suggested time. Smelled like turkey blended with burning tires. But the turkey dinners after were good, every thanksgiving. I spent them with my daughter, then some special date, delish. The smell makes me feel proud, and makes me giggle about burning tire smell.

 

 

 Worst smells...

   Freshly laid black-top tar. Everytime I smell it, it's not just the smell it's the memory of being cheated on (different boyfriend), finding out that he didn't find it wrong to spread his (debateable) goodness all over the plant-and still keep dating me. I gag, and I get depressed.

  Lately... bad. Cinnamon Heaven lotion. I still love the smell, but it makes me cry. Again, it's a guy-who-wasn't-what-I-thought thing. He bought me the shampoo. Now the smell of the lotion is like listening to the radio, everything sounds sad and replays the relationship record again.

 Just a weird thought...

  When a commercial comes on for say pizza I get hungry. When a commercial comes on for lobster, nada. My brain does not have a 'file' for lobster, never ate it. I've smelled it I'm sure, but there's no file for that-because, never eaten it.

Regarding cigarettes ~

There are definitely two smells and granted they may both be disliked.

I never understood as a smoker what the big deal was but after quitting learned there the smell of cigarette smoke (which is very alluring to me) but a second smell that most often is on the person and it smells like the scent from a empty but tar stained ashtray.  As a smoker, Ive observed it can be on your smoking fingertips too.

Original Post by moonikins:

Oh, I forgot about the smell and feel of sheets dried outside. The house I'm at now is the first house in many years to not have a clothesline and I miss it terribly.

i feel pretty indifferent about clothes dried outside versus in the dryer, but i love towels dried outside.  my grandmother always made sure to dry her towels outside and as a kid, there was nothing like coming out of a cold lake and wrapped up in a big outdoor-dried towel by my grandmother.

best smell - darkroom chemicals, wood stove, old houses, spring, pine trees, the morning dew, coffee, my new soap.

west smell - that part of new jersey on the jersey turnpike right before you get to nyc

I also hate the smell of dead worms after a rain storm

OMG, that is the worst smell ever for me! I remember when I was pregnant with my second child that smell actually made me throw up in the daycare parking lot! LOL

I also agree with the smell of smokers, and the smokers who think they can cover up the smell with a whole bottle of perfume/cologne.

Best: Fresh air breezes, rain, winter air, Chanel No. 5 (My mum's perfume :3) the perfume in the red bottle (lol, her other perfume, it reminds me of when she used to carry me and sing to me) Armani Code (my perfume) my cat, my sister and mum without perfume, my skin

Worst: any type of chemical* (save above listed perfumes :P), sick (puke) meat, pasta, hot food

It is funny though, when my sister and I go through the detergent aisle in the grocery store, we hold our noses and run like mad down the aisle! We get a lot of "WTF?!" looks.

Great topic queenmedia!

I love the smell of a Christmas tree because it brings back all the good memories. I love anything that smells like lavender. I also like the smell of rain!

Smells I hate are gasoline,vomit, and B-O!!