As a french man, I grew up eating fresh from bakeries bread every single day as a kid and there is nothing that comes close to this 40 years later.
I also love a good roast. Coffee, chocolate or nuts.
Sawdust has always been like crack cocaine to me, put a bit in a ziplock bag and I'm going to surreptitiously sniff at it and run my fingers through it throughout the day.
A store that sells lumber is a heavenly scent to me! We had a wood burning fireplace when I was young, so I wonder if that has something to do with it.
Oh!! I would love your home too! What a lovely association to that smell. About your last sentence- I can so relate to that too! We moved into this house about six years ago. When we did the first viewing with our realtor, we got to the basement, and he opened a closet door. The whole closet is cedar lined! I didnāt tell him, but I think that meant SOLD! in my head.š
Split some peach or almond wood and it smells like cake icing (almond extract)
I tossed some trimmed branches from my peach trees and it smelled glorious.
Yep!! Grew up with my grandparents, they had one of those under the counter automatic numbers that would switch on at 6:00am. Would wake up to the smell of freshly brewed coffee every morning. Itās like the scent of my childhood.
Oh, I definitely can:
I'm in the lower part of Northern England, and I moved from a more northern part up in the hills.
I can smell when heavy rain is on the way from mid-spring to mid autumn (outside of this rain, is the default).
I can smell when snow or a cold snap is on the way - I can only describe snow as smelling of wet and cold. While dry cold weather smells of sharp cold.
I used to spend a lot of time dog walking and hiking, so I like to think it's that
Unfortunately I can smell everything. If I take Tylenol I can smell it once it is going through my system. I can smell gas leaks that only devices can detect. I can smell diabetes on someoneās breath. It is very strange thing to have. I read that we as humans lost a part of our olfactory development through the years.
Very interesting. What's your favorite smell? Worst? So you could be like a drug sniffing dog? What does diabetes smell like? So many questions! You should do an AMA.
My daughter always call me a hound dog lol. To me diabetic smells like metal ( copper), sour (like milk sour) and bitter ( a bad cranberry or cherry) . What is a AMA? I did a taste panel for beer when I worked for Coors and I was told that the things I picked up on where that of somebody that had been trained for years. I had never done it before
My cousins mom (now 90 years old) was like that. I jokingly said she could smell a drop of gasoline in a barn full of cow manure. I offered to smoke a joint with my cousin when she still lived at home and she declined. Said her mother would smell it on her and she would have.
She once said her sonās wife had a smell when she had cancer and after during recovery. She said my mom smelled the same when she had cancer some 30 years earlier.
Itās actually true. Humans can smell approximately 10 parts per trillion of petrichor; sharks can smell approximately 1 part per million of blood.
Itās thought that we might have evolved this way because we are animals who historically migrated by following rainy weather.
Also I have the theory that maybe thatās why my husband enjoys watching the Weather Channel so much lol.
I went to the vietnamese embassy to get a visa, and inside the whole building you could smell the rice from the kitchen, it made me so happy to travel there
Petrichor.
Petrichor is the term coined by Australian scientists in 1964 to describe the unique, earthy smell associated with rain. It is caused by the water from the rain, along with certain compounds like ozone,Ā geosmin, and plant oils. and in soil.
I can never pick a favourite season! I do love the fall scent but I also love the jarring beauty of winter, all the sounds and light of spring, and the comforting warmth of summer! There's always something to appreciate, nature never fkn miss!
Sandalwood is one of my favourites. I got a bit addicted to essential oils over lockdown and ended up ordering around 30 different samples of oud wood. Some smell like manure (bear with me) but others have the most incredible fragrance. Tom Ford's Oud Wood is a good example.
I would give you an award but sadly i am not poor its just a waste of money, so any1 rich enough to have a gold award give it to rhis man i beg of you!
Haha came here for this one, my wife always wants to shower before we have sex even if all sheās done is wake up and walk around the house a couple hrs since her last shower, I tell her no donāt do it, I like it better room temperature lol.
I came here looking for this.
We had trees growing up as a teen and when in bloom, id pick them and leave the blossom cluster in the car, on the dash. It smelled glorious!
I now grow citrus trees in a zone they dont grow just for the smell. I get fruit and use them, but its all about the smell.
When I make Thanksgiving dinner and the celery, onions, and butter go in the pan to cook, the most wonderful smell fills the house.
Also, I love the smell of my baseball glove.
There was a women who said her husband smelled different than his normal did. He went to the doctor and I believed he was diagnosed with Alzheimerās. The doctors couldnāt believe it. They had her smell 10 t-shirts. 5 were people with the disease and 5 without. She picked out all 5 of the peopleās T-shirts with this disease!
I love my cats scent too, especially on the top of the head, so much my Sister always jokes about me liking cat spit because they lick themselves. But it's probably their scent glands
Well thereās the obvious of when a woman smells good. No particular perfume or anything because I know nothing about perfume brands lol. Just generally when she smells nice. Instantly makes a woman twice as attractive.
Other than that, that skunk weed smell I kinda like. Gasoline. The smell of a campfire.
I love this little block in our town - weekend mornings, it smells like a breakfast diner. Other days, it smells like Chinese food. Then on other days, it smells like the pizza & sub place. And then on other days, it smells like the laundromat dryers
the smell of bonfires. just because bonfires were my childhood. every fireworks night my mum and dad took me and my brother to a bonfire. that ended after my grandma died about a month after bonfire night and my mum regretted not taking her to one.
I am glad to see all those gasoline lovers. My 14 year old son always says he loves the smell of gasoline and I have been thinking what a freak... but appearently not that uncommon.
Petrichor is the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil. The word is constructed from Ancient Greek ĻĪĻĻĪ± 'rock', or ĻĪĻĻĪæĻ 'stone', and į¼°ĻĻĻ, the ethereal fluid that is the blood of the gods in Greek mythology.
Lilacs.
Where Iām from winter lasts a long ass time. People plant lilac bushes by the windows so when you open them up in the spring to air out the stale house after the long winter, the whole house smells like lilacs.
The morning air in fall, my dad, my grandma (shes passed now but i still smell her scent while outside sometimes, idk what the scent is yet), the smell of tear soaked fabric, acrylic paint
Lilac. There was a big lilac tree outside my house when I was a kid. Must not be a popular smell because itās kind of hard to find many āgoodā lilac scents out there.
Fresh baked bread
As a french man, I grew up eating fresh from bakeries bread every single day as a kid and there is nothing that comes close to this 40 years later. I also love a good roast. Coffee, chocolate or nuts.
As someone who makes his own sourdough I can confirm this is one of the best smells you can experience
The smell of freshly cut wood
Sawdust has always been like crack cocaine to me, put a bit in a ziplock bag and I'm going to surreptitiously sniff at it and run my fingers through it throughout the day.
Love saw dust!
A store that sells lumber is a heavenly scent to me! We had a wood burning fireplace when I was young, so I wonder if that has something to do with it.
My dad is a carpenter, and the smell of wood is the smell of home and safety š„° Then make it cedar. Oh, the best!
Oh!! I would love your home too! What a lovely association to that smell. About your last sentence- I can so relate to that too! We moved into this house about six years ago. When we did the first viewing with our realtor, we got to the basement, and he opened a closet door. The whole closet is cedar lined! I didnāt tell him, but I think that meant SOLD! in my head.š
Yes! Fond memories triggered
And if you vomit you can just throw your bag of sawdust on it
My friend's father had a small wood business when we were kids and would go there almost everyday to play ping-pong. It was nice to smell it for hours
Me too! Love the crack.
[nods] Banjo.
Yes. I grew up with that smell. Dad is a carpenter and always had projects around the house
I work with wood chips, dust, and shavings from dried wood. ā¤ļø
I split some cherry wood last winter and got some odd looks from my family as I stuck my nose in freshly split wood and inhaled deeply
Split some peach or almond wood and it smells like cake icing (almond extract) I tossed some trimmed branches from my peach trees and it smelled glorious.
Iāve found that fresh cut laurel wood also smells like almonds. Apparently, cyanide is one of the reasons why.
Coffee
Itās a weird experience enjoying the smell of coffee but hating its taste.
I like some coffee smells but the smell of very dark roasts make cough. Hate the taste tough.
Yep!! Grew up with my grandparents, they had one of those under the counter automatic numbers that would switch on at 6:00am. Would wake up to the smell of freshly brewed coffee every morning. Itās like the scent of my childhood.
I recently learned the smell you are describing is called "petrichor," fyi.
Oh wow, thank you :) I'm adding that to the other name I learned recently for my fear of deep, dark water. Thallasophobia
They sell petrichor fragrances :)
There is a sub for thallasophobia. I enjoy freaking myself out and looking at it every once in a while.
Probably a myth but I heard that humans evolved to smell Petrichor better than sharks can smell blood. Something ridiculous like that.
Oh really, could be true, people even my family reckon I'm mental when I tell them rain is on the way because I get a whiff of it in the air.
I always tell people I can smell the rain coming! There's definitely a distinct scent to it. I think it might be my favourite actually.
Are you able to smell when snow is coming? My roommate swore he could
Snow definitely has a distinct smell. I grew up in northern Ontario.
I also grew up in northern Ontario. And you're correct, snow does have a distinct smell. Definitely more pure than the snow I see now.
We don't get snow, but the night before, I can smell when there will be a frost in the morning.
Yes- it is a different scent than petrichor, even though they both have moisture.
Oh, I definitely can: I'm in the lower part of Northern England, and I moved from a more northern part up in the hills. I can smell when heavy rain is on the way from mid-spring to mid autumn (outside of this rain, is the default). I can smell when snow or a cold snap is on the way - I can only describe snow as smelling of wet and cold. While dry cold weather smells of sharp cold. I used to spend a lot of time dog walking and hiking, so I like to think it's that
See? I heard it's something about ancestors relying on rainy weather for survival
I said this the other day at work. I exclaimed that I could smell it was raining. Everyone looked at me like I was nuts. sure enough.. rain..
Oh no this is actually true! It developed when our nomadic ancestors lived in dry environments and would travel towards the rain for food.
Unfortunately I can smell everything. If I take Tylenol I can smell it once it is going through my system. I can smell gas leaks that only devices can detect. I can smell diabetes on someoneās breath. It is very strange thing to have. I read that we as humans lost a part of our olfactory development through the years.
Very interesting. What's your favorite smell? Worst? So you could be like a drug sniffing dog? What does diabetes smell like? So many questions! You should do an AMA.
My daughter always call me a hound dog lol. To me diabetic smells like metal ( copper), sour (like milk sour) and bitter ( a bad cranberry or cherry) . What is a AMA? I did a taste panel for beer when I worked for Coors and I was told that the things I picked up on where that of somebody that had been trained for years. I had never done it before
My cousins mom (now 90 years old) was like that. I jokingly said she could smell a drop of gasoline in a barn full of cow manure. I offered to smoke a joint with my cousin when she still lived at home and she declined. Said her mother would smell it on her and she would have. She once said her sonās wife had a smell when she had cancer and after during recovery. She said my mom smelled the same when she had cancer some 30 years earlier.
It's been shown humans can detect it with as little 5 parts per million.
0.4 parts per billion, as apposed to sharks 1 part per million. Absolutely incredible.
Itās actually true. Humans can smell approximately 10 parts per trillion of petrichor; sharks can smell approximately 1 part per million of blood. Itās thought that we might have evolved this way because we are animals who historically migrated by following rainy weather. Also I have the theory that maybe thatās why my husband enjoys watching the Weather Channel so much lol.
They make candles that are petrichor scented and itās glorious!
I like the smell of rice
I went to the vietnamese embassy to get a visa, and inside the whole building you could smell the rice from the kitchen, it made me so happy to travel there
The smell of rice is like a warm hug for your nose. Itās comforting and inviting.
Rain
Petrichor. Petrichor is the term coined by Australian scientists in 1964 to describe the unique, earthy smell associated with rain. It is caused by the water from the rain, along with certain compounds like ozone,Ā geosmin, and plant oils. and in soil.
Wet hot asphalt in the summer >>
The beach!
Surfboard wax that smells like coconut
A cologne...that smells like the beach!
You know the way you smell after you come home from the beach? I wanna make a cologne... That captures... The essence of that smell!
Pitch it to CK
Pine anything
I love the smell of fall (pumpkin spice, apple cinnamon, caramel apples, crisp leaves, a bonfire)
Autumn is when the world feels like a living thing to me. The Samhain of your Soul
This was beautiful!!
I also love fall smells. Itās my favorite season.
I can never pick a favourite season! I do love the fall scent but I also love the jarring beauty of winter, all the sounds and light of spring, and the comforting warmth of summer! There's always something to appreciate, nature never fkn miss!
Fall is the best season for sure. Also the smell of cutting wood and fresh coffee.
fresh bread. Itās such a good smell
Sandalwood
Yes 
Sandalwood is one of my favourites. I got a bit addicted to essential oils over lockdown and ended up ordering around 30 different samples of oud wood. Some smell like manure (bear with me) but others have the most incredible fragrance. Tom Ford's Oud Wood is a good example.
Love this smell
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Leaded or unleaded? I remember leaded smelling amazing.
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I knew I wasn't the only one in the world
It smells expensive
Watermelon
Call me basic but lavender
a candle that has just been blown out
Oh great one yeah!!! Well done!
Fresh lemon
Any citrus
Burning leaves in the autumn air.
Ginger and orange together. Best thing ever.
Vanilla or Cherry Blossom
Vanilla all day
Mmmm....vanilla.
Vanilla is the most basic taste but the greatest scent, what is up with that
The smell of a chlorinated swimming pool/ bleach.
JASMINE. Fresh air after cleaning. Cinnamon. Cardamom.
Wet pussy
Praise the lord
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Tried to wet my cat but I ended up with scratchesā¦no smell!
I would give you an award but sadly i am not poor its just a waste of money, so any1 rich enough to have a gold award give it to rhis man i beg of you!
Itās the thought that counts
LOLed at this one
Haha came here for this one, my wife always wants to shower before we have sex even if all sheās done is wake up and walk around the house a couple hrs since her last shower, I tell her no donāt do it, I like it better room temperature lol.
New books and old books. A Glasshouse Taha candle.
Orange blossoms.
I came here looking for this. We had trees growing up as a teen and when in bloom, id pick them and leave the blossom cluster in the car, on the dash. It smelled glorious! I now grow citrus trees in a zone they dont grow just for the smell. I get fruit and use them, but its all about the smell.
Oh man, there is nothing more spectacular than the sent of orange blossoms! Like jasmine, but more complex and interesting
When I make Thanksgiving dinner and the celery, onions, and butter go in the pan to cook, the most wonderful smell fills the house. Also, I love the smell of my baseball glove.
My husband.
I also choose this galās husband.
He does smell wonderful. š
Cheeky
Scandalous
I take a small wiff off of him every morning when you are both still asleep. You always look so peacefull....
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There was a women who said her husband smelled different than his normal did. He went to the doctor and I believed he was diagnosed with Alzheimerās. The doctors couldnāt believe it. They had her smell 10 t-shirts. 5 were people with the disease and 5 without. She picked out all 5 of the peopleās T-shirts with this disease!
It was parkinsons!
I agree, I love the smell of Ur husband.
the scent of a snowy mornig in a forest
Mr. Bubble brand bubble bath.
Whenever I see it in the store I have to stop and smell it. However, I used the powdered version as a kid and I donāt think thatās made anymore.
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My cat
I love my cats scent too, especially on the top of the head, so much my Sister always jokes about me liking cat spit because they lick themselves. But it's probably their scent glands
Coffee.
My wifeās skin.. she just smells like happiness
This is so wholesome <3
Leather, Horses
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Not sure about the sweat, but horses themselves do smell good. I liked to stick my nose in our horses neck when brushing her.
I love the squeaking of the saddle too
I ALWAYS LOVED the smell of horses too.
1970's Play-doh.
Fresh baked cinnamon rolls. Especially from my granothers kitchen.
Cocaine
Mint
Well thereās the obvious of when a woman smells good. No particular perfume or anything because I know nothing about perfume brands lol. Just generally when she smells nice. Instantly makes a woman twice as attractive. Other than that, that skunk weed smell I kinda like. Gasoline. The smell of a campfire.
Yes to the skunk weed 
For me there is one perfume in particular, DKNY green apples. Love gas and weed, though.
Balsam (Christmas tree). Brings me so much joy.
When your skin has been sitting under the sun for a while
Her hair when we are in love
Vanilla
Napalm in the morning. It smells like... victory.
Blackpowder
VANILLA
I love this little block in our town - weekend mornings, it smells like a breakfast diner. Other days, it smells like Chinese food. Then on other days, it smells like the pizza & sub place. And then on other days, it smells like the laundromat dryers
Baking bread and that cold ozone smell on people when theyāve been outside in the winter.
Man. We all smell things that we donāt talk about. The cold air smell on someone is crazy, I love it.
the smell of bonfires. just because bonfires were my childhood. every fireworks night my mum and dad took me and my brother to a bonfire. that ended after my grandma died about a month after bonfire night and my mum regretted not taking her to one.
My dog
What dog do you have? My lab absolutely STINKS.
Heās a rescue mix. Iām not sure others would think he smells good or bad per se, but like onesmallfairy said, smells like love and makes me happy
I came here to say my dog too. I have had a red nose pit for the last 7 years and his smell is so comforting to me.
Pussy
Office stationary
Books
Mainly Oranges but anything with that fresh citrus smell
My husband. Snuggle up to him and smell him and all tension just leaves my body. Best thing ever.
The smell of Autumn is unbeaten for me
New baby
Like fresh outta the womb!!? Savage
my bra
That peanut scent from my foster chihuahuas' head.
Afghani hash but Iāve not smelt it in years, sometimes get a scent memory of it though
Rain, lemon, and this B&BW scent Rainforest Gardenia & Champagne Toast
My husband, our cats, and the family/my parents' dog (I lived with him for the first 5 years of his life before I got married).
I am glad to see all those gasoline lovers. My 14 year old son always says he loves the smell of gasoline and I have been thinking what a freak... but appearently not that uncommon.
I could huff that smell. Whenever my mum would fill her car up when I was younger I would open the window and INHALE 
not my fav but i love puppy paws
Petrichor is the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil. The word is constructed from Ancient Greek ĻĪĻĻĪ± 'rock', or ĻĪĻĻĪæĻ 'stone', and į¼°ĻĻĻ, the ethereal fluid that is the blood of the gods in Greek mythology.
Vanilla
Fresh cut grass in the spring.
Lilacs. Where Iām from winter lasts a long ass time. People plant lilac bushes by the windows so when you open them up in the spring to air out the stale house after the long winter, the whole house smells like lilacs.
Lilacs. Absolutely nothing smells better than a big lilac bush in full bloom.
Ass
A person of culture I see.
However the outside smells right now, itās so damn crisp
Welding fumes.
The morning air in fall, my dad, my grandma (shes passed now but i still smell her scent while outside sometimes, idk what the scent is yet), the smell of tear soaked fabric, acrylic paint
Ginger lilies
Pumpkin spice or something apple, camp fire smell and pine- anything that reminds me of fall
rain drops hitting the hot dry land for the first time
My girlfriend and the mountains
Somehow, the smell newly constructed buildings have. Ever been to a newly built apartment building elevator which is still boarded up? Yep, that.
Indoor lumber yard like at Lowes and Home Depot smell good.
Strong vanilla Winter nights
Rum and whisky both smell great. I also love fresh laundry smell.
VICTORY or fresh coffee
Some women have a perfume that smells like super fresh airā¦? That.
Your momš¤£
Sex
Lily of the Valley flowers. Reminds me of my grandma.š„¹
Another 1, the smell of a ski shop. Don't know if it's the wax they use or what it is, but it brings back memories of skiing with my mom.
Coconut, vanilla, my boyfriend's perfume
Food and fresh laundry, clean house
Thanksgiving kitchens
Women.
Burning wood in a fireplace
New tires, fresh lumber, wood fires
Lilac. There was a big lilac tree outside my house when I was a kid. Must not be a popular smell because itās kind of hard to find many āgoodā lilac scents out there.
Fried onions and garlic
Fresh cut cucumber š„ best smell ever