Non-motoring > What is your favourite smell?	Miscellaneous
Thread Author: corax	Replies: 34

Sat 14 May 11 11:55   What is your favourite smell? - corax

Someone on the motoring section stated that there are few smells better than new car smell. Each to their own, but here are a few that I like, Chocolate Coffee Coconut Winter Honeysuckle - After the long cold winter, it amazes me that this plant can give such a beautiful lemon scent so early in the year. Lavender Caramelised onions The occasional waft of pipe smoke, but only if outside, so that it's not overbearing. These are only a few of many. Do you have any favourites? And I don't think I want to know BBD's answer! (Only kidding). Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 14 May 11 12:22   What is your favourite smell? - bathtub tom

Gunk on a hot engine that's burning 'R'. Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 14 May 11 12:27   What is your favourite smell? - -

Thinners, Castrol R40 being burned, various flowers, musk perfumes but not the correctly named Poison, leather (proper car smell), freshly laundered cotton, bacon. Most of all the natural scent of a good woman. Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 14 May 11 12:39   What is your favourite smell? - nyx2k

jasmine and chamois leathet Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 14 May 11 13:01   What is your favourite smell? - swiss tony

>> Most of all the natural scent of a good woman. >> Or even better a 'bad' woman.... I'm sure BBD will agree.... Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 14 May 11 13:09   What is your favourite smell? - -

>> Or even better a 'bad' woman.... I'm sure BBD will agree.... >> Are they not the same thing, but better. Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 14 May 11 13:12   What is your favourite smell? - SteelSpark

Money Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 14 May 11 14:42   What is your favourite smell? - Ted

Woodsmoke hanging in the air in the evening. Honeysuckle. My pipe tobacco. Penhaligan's ' English Fern ' apres rasage.......got some on now. Tomato plants and Geraniums. Welsh steam coal Used to like a damp pussy but we haven't had a cat for years. Ted Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 14 May 11 17:12   What is your favourite smell? - Londoner

I am the saddo who said that new car smell was the best. Other great and evocative aromas: - The smell of exhausted steam from a locomotive - New cut grass - Mrs L's special Chicken casserole when she takes it out of the oven Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 14 May 11 17:19   What is your favourite smell? - Manatee

The smell that tells me she's lit the fire when I get out of the car on arriving home on a cold night. I like a fire, and it also means I'm in the good books. Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 14 May 11 17:27   What is your favourite smell? - Armel Coussine

Frying onions never fails. Frying bacon too, although the stuff they call bacon these days hardly is bacon and smells a bit funny. They used to say that going off the smell of frying bacon was a sign of liver damage. A rule of thumb to tell you whether you had been hitting the sauce too hard. Garlic and asafoetida in vegetarian Indian restaurants, although not many Indian restaurants smell all that appetising. They sometimes burn incense which I can't abide. Only like sandalwood and proper Catholic church frankincense. The Hindu/hippy stuff is usually sickly. Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 14 May 11 17:40   What is your favourite smell? - Stuartli

That from a hot exhaust after a hectic bit of motoring. Some people also like the aroma of hot tarmac..... Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 14 May 11 22:13   What is your favourite smell? - Zero

The first rain after weeks of heat, the smell from wood burning stoves in winter, and that unique steam/coal/heat/oil smell of a big loco. Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 14 May 11 22:24   What is your favourite smell? - Dave_

>> that unique steam/coal/heat/oil smell of a big loco I was just going to say that Zero. I've enjoyed having it wafting over my garden today as they prepare / play with a loan steam engine for short demonstration runs all day tomorrow at the mining heritage museum next door www.leics.gov.uk/transportfestival.htm Wonder if I'll see any of you lot there? Poster paint (as used in infant schools) - evokes childhood memories I suppose. Non-smokeless coal - having lived down South in smoke control zones for years, the smell of (good old-fashioned polluting) chimney smoke in the winter up here takes me straight back to the Aga in my grandparents' thatched cottage, when I was still in short trousers. Reply to this message | Report message

Sat 14 May 11 23:04   What is your favourite smell? - BobbyG

Petrol Wood burning stove Bacon frying Windscreen wash Pipe smoke Calor Gas Fires Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 15 May 11 07:44   What is your favourite smell? - Cliff Pope

Smells they don't make any more: Secotine glue Carbolic soap Tractor Vapourising Oil Old-flavour TCP Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 15 May 11 08:31   What is your favourite smell? - Dog

>>Calor Gas Fires<< We have a Canon dual fuel stove with a gas hob that is run on LPG and it brings back many memories of holidays spent in caravans (listening to the rain on the roof!) Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 15 May 11 11:55   What is your favourite smell? - Dutchie

I used to like the diesel smell in the engine room. Lavender. Fresh coffee. Unions frying. Tar. The sea on a windy day.I remember the steam smell of the old locomotives first time in the UK. Leaving the old man with his ship in Port Talbot making our way to London. Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 15 May 11 16:48   What is your favourite smell? - Londoner

>> Unions frying. >> I think that was Margaret Thatcher's favourite smell as well. Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 15 May 11 18:10   What is your favourite smell? - corax

>> >> Unions frying. >> >> >> I think that was Margaret Thatcher's favourite smell as well. Very good Londoner :) Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 15 May 11 18:16   What is your favourite smell? - Fursty Ferret

Freshly cut grass. The sun on cotton sheets. Fresh tarmac (at a distance). Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 15 May 11 19:17   What is your favourite smell? - DP

The first minute or so of rain on warm, dry ground. A motorbike parked up in a garage just after a long hard run. Barbecue smoke Roasting lamb. Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 15 May 11 23:00   What is your favourite smell? - henry k

Durian For those who have not sampled this - an intro www.spurgeon.org/~phil//durian.htm news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8382555.stm Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 16 May 11 07:19   What is your favourite smell? - Clk Sec

For me it has to be the wonderfully fragrant lavender that we have in our garden. I remember that my grandmother used to make lavender bags from her many plants, and these would be placed in wardrobes and drawers throughout her house. Shirts, socks, handkerchiefs, etc - they all smelled of lavender. I also like the smell of fried bacon, although I don't eat it myself. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 16 May 11 08:32   What is your favourite smell? - Zero

>> For me it has to be the wonderfully fragrant lavender that we have in our >> garden. I remember that my grandmother used to make lavender bags from her many plants, >> and these would be placed in wardrobes and drawers throughout her house. Shirts, socks, handkerchiefs, >> etc - they all smelled of lavender. >> >> I also like the smell of fried bacon, although I don't eat it myself. Did your grandma put a lavender bag in the pantry as well then? Last edited by: Zero on Mon 16 May 11 at 08:32 Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 16 May 11 09:03   What is your favourite smell? - Clk Sec

>>Did your grandma put a lavender bag in the pantry as well then? Certainly not. That area was reserved for my grandfathers' Davenport's India Pale Ale. Remember that, Zero; Davenport's Beer at Home? Last edited by: Clk Sec on Mon 16 May 11 at 09:03 Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 16 May 11 09:39   What is your favourite smell? - Cliff Pope

Nostalgia: The peculiar electrical smell from old AC/DC motors - ozone? Farmyard smell of damp straw and diesel. The waft of pipe tobacco in still cold air, lingering long after the smoker has passed. Hot oil on bronze bearings. Oddities: The way when you unscrew a fitting from an old bit of gas pipe, there is sometimes a momentary whiff of old-fashioned coal gas, trapped in the threads for 50 years. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 16 May 11 10:30   What is your favourite smell? - AshT

Like a few others that smell of coal, hot oil, and steam from a locomotive is tremendously evocative and always brings back memories for me. Quite like the smell of cut grass - even though I do suffer with hay fever. Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 16 May 11 15:12   What is your favourite smell? - L'escargot

Spitfire Premium Kentish Ale. www.spitfireale.co.uk/spitfire-ale/the-beer.aspx Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 16 May 11 15:34   What is your favourite smell? - Alanovich

Islay malt whisky. Reply to this message | Report message       1

Mon 16 May 11 17:47   What is your favourite smell? - bathtub tom

Unfortunately Port Ellen's become so rare it's now priced out of my range - the last bottle I got hold of cost me forty quid! Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 16 May 11 19:12   What is your favourite smell? - Runfer D'Hills

Leather. I know, I know but it just is, OK? :-) Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 16 May 11 19:32   What is your favourite smell? - Zero

Talking of leather and gays, how was the NY trip Humph? Last edited by: Zero on Mon 16 May 11 at 19:33 Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 16 May 11 21:02   What is your favourite smell? - Runfer D'Hills

Commercially satisfactory. Socially fun too. Went to the Yankees / Red Sox game on Friday. "Hip Hip - Jorge.." :-) Reply to this message | Report message

Mon 16 May 11 21:03   What is your favourite smell? - Zero

Take me out to the Ball game? Now that was worth the trip on its own. Reply to this message | Report message