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I like the smell of jergins shampoo from like 30 years ago. My mom, who died when I was 23, used it when I was growing up, and I haven’t smelled it in literally decades, but I’d know it if I smelled it again, because it’s impossible to mistake for anything else, but you try really hard to figure out what the smell is. Pretty sure it died in the early 2000s (apparently it’s still available but I have no hope it smells the same, because I haven’t had a whiff in so long.. last time was on a bus around 2002)
It had a very unique… tangy? smell that wasn’t floral or fruity or musky or anything. It was just its own very specific smell. Probably all man made chemicals. But it contains volumes of memories.
Interestingly, I still don’t like her perfume (dune from like 1990-2004). I have 2 bottles of it, and I find it very unappealing. It smells like her, sure, but I don’t like it. I sniff the bottle every now and then, for memories. But they are adult memories. The jergins is childhood memories.
If anyone has a really old bottle of jergins floating around, I’d pay money for it..
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Creosote on a hot summer day.
Reminds me of the amusement park when I was little. There were a lot of railroad ties used as retaining walls there.
Mitti Attar. It's a Indian scent that smells of wet moss, rain on hot sand, a damp forest. Difficult to describe but very alluring.
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My girlfriend's cooking
oil paint, cigarettes, and laphroaig
[but I had to quit most of those]
My sneezes (when I'm not sick)
Bit of a weird one, but... freshly peeled parsnips
I could take them or leave them when it comes to eating, but they smell great. Maybe it's a memory from childhood or something!
The first time you fire up a brand new toaster creates this incredible smell that I've only experienced like 3 times in my life.
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A fresh bag of weed, especially ones that are high in limonene.
Coming into the house when it is very cold and snowy outside and smelling bread baking in the oven.
Ocean pine forest on warm summer days when walking to the sea side/beach.
Fresh bread just out of the oven
That crisp smell of cold fall days, just shy of frost.
Allll of my partner. Mmmmm.
Cooking bell peppers on a frying pan. Add onions and it's even better.
Lots of nice smells, but I'll just list a stranger one I like. Dry hay.
Stinky dogs.
They smell like friendship
Chlorine on my skin after going to the pool.
The beach.
Fresh out of the oven bread Coffee Pipe tobacco Cigar shops
There are these yellow flowers that grow on vines around here. They smell excellent.
New packs of cards when the shrinkwrap is removed.
Grass, lily and petrichor.
Bonus points if all combined :)
vinegar, just can’t get enough of it