Bromine. It’s what they treat the water with on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland, and the smell puts my mind on vacation
Coffee and vanilla.
There are literally no flaws with either of those smells
My grandmother’s closet - old wood, old clothes, and mothballs
I got a brief flash of a Ren and Stimpy close-up of a nostril sucking in mothballs, from reading this comment.
But jokes aside, I can imagine that smell becoming a core memory down the road and will hit with instant nostalgia whenever you smell something similar.
I remember the smell of my Grandmother’s house every time I hear the song Teardrop by Massive Attack. I’m 9 years old, and I’m watching MTV, sitting on the living room carpet.
Chlorine and florine
I love the smell of grains being unloaded from a truck into a silo.
Stinky dogs.
They smell like friendship
The air on a crisp Halloween dusk back in 1988.
Skunk. From a very safe distance, of course. But I love it when you can smell one, somewhere nearby.
Diesel fuel is a pretty awesome smell 🔥
diesel exhaust
Stockmar crayons.
roses
Seaweed
Freshly baked bread.
Smelling freshly baked bread is the “seeing a water bottle cold enough to be sweating on a hot day while thirsty” of being hungry
Oh yes that is literally always good
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- The smell in the air after a rain on a warm spring day.
- The smell in the air of wood smoke on a freaking cold winter day.
That first one is called petrichor
