Best Smellingest Smell in the Universe

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What is it? (Don't say your mom, your wife, or your husband or your boyfriend. Or John Taylor.)

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2000

Answers

Christian Dior's Hypnotic Poison!

Oh, wait, that's not it... How about "a day at the beach"? Or cinnamon. Cinnamon is pretty good.

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2000


Pert shampoo has the world's most fantastic smell. I can't use it because it leaves weird linty residue on my hair, but I wish I could because then I could stay home all day and just smell my hair.

I like the way snow smells (burns your nose). I like the way autumn smells a LOT, sort of cold and the tiniest bit wet and leafy, with a predominance of smoke (fireplaces? grills? I don't know.).

New books smell wonderful. Sharpy markers are surprising and good. Gasoline smells really great, especially in the summer.

My ferrets smell like taco chips (right after they've been sleeping) or maple syrup (the rest of the time), and I think they smell good.

I like the smell of most soap, but especially the nice, lotion-y pink soap in some public bathrooms (not the cheap runny kind, but the thick, pearly kind). Also peaches from roadside stands. And carnations have the best flower smell ever -- I even planted four carnation plants (but they've been there all summer, and no flowers -- what gives?).

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2000


Oh, carnations! Yeah, those smell utterly fabulous. And they're also bienniels, so they take two seasons to bloom. But when they do bloom, they're totally worth it.

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2000

Chocolate
Freeshia
Fresh baked bread
Chocolate, Chocolate, CHOCOLATE (said in the marcia,marcia,marcia voice)

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2000

Puppy Breath.

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2000


I love the smell of the ocean. I have a bar of soap that I bought at Lush that smells exactly like the ocean. Every time I use it I feel like I'm taking a shower at a beach house.

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2000

I like vanilla. And I like peppermint. "A day at the beach", I can agree with that. I used to live 30 minutes from a beach on the Gulf of Mexico and I miss it. I kinda like pine, too, from some hikes in the Rocky Mountains, but I don't love it.

Oh man, but peppermint, and other mints.... Ever heard of Celestial Seasonings tea company? They're based in Boulder, Colorado, and they give free tours practically every day. My wife and I took that tour once and we got to go inside the room where they store all the spearmint and peppermint. They rolled up this door and it was a long skinny room with bags of these mint leaves stacked up to the ceiling, 20 feet overhead. The aroma was overpowering and most people's eyes watered up immediately and they turned around and left with tears rolling down their faces. Not me. I was immediately high on the stuff and told my wife I wanted a pillow stuffed with spearmint and peppermint. :-)

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2000


The best smells are: rosemary, bread and cakes baking in the oven. Richmond VA has some good smells near where I live: the cookie factory on a sugar cookie baking day--nothin' finer--and the Sauer's Vanilla factory when they're cranking out some delicious spice like cinnamon, nutmeg, etc. Oh, and the Krispy Kreme down the street on a Hot Donuts Now shift. They just tore the KK down to build a bigger one and I shore miss smelling those donuts on the way to Target.

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2000

Baking smells, kitty fur, lilac, oranges, ocean smells, the way it smells after a storm in the spring, neutrogena rainbath, white shoulders, shalimar, lavendar, tea tree oil, new makeup (especially chanel lipsticks and cover girl compacts), new books, leather.

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2000

I spent the night at a friend's house recently -- we used to do that all the time in high school...20 years ago! Ha! -- and she woke me up right after I'd passed out on her sofa wanting me to smell the sheets she was using to fix up my bed. "Smell this!" I did. They smelled clean. She smiled. "Smells like Grandmoms linen closet." I smiled, too. I didn't know her Grandmom well or anything, but I got it.

The best smell in the whole world is that mossy, wet, woodsy smell while you're taking a hike in the woods. Second to that is the smell at the beach. A new baby's head...or any part of a new baby. The old original version of Herbal Essence Shampoo -- I think I've found the closest thing: Johnson & Johnsons' has a new herbal baby shampoo that almost smells like it. Leather. Bread baking. Cookies baking. The smell of my husband right below his jawline. My kids' hair right after a bath...

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2000



Oops, I wasn't supposed to say my husband. So nevermind that one.

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2000

Beautiful by Estee Lauder, especially a few hours after the strength has faded. I use the shower gel (and the lotion), and I don't even want to wash my towel after my bath, because it makes it smell so good. So I hang the towel on the wardrobe door for a day or so, and it makes my whole bedroom smell lovely. I have strong memory association with it, because my Gramma Danicki wore Beautiful her whole life, and her house always smelled of it.

Either that or onions being sauteed.

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2000


I am sooooo in love with the smells of lemongrass and cucumber!

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2000

I love the smell of rubrum lilies -- there's no perfume like it. Lilacs, too!

Anita of Anita's BOD and Anita's LOL

-- Anonymous, September 06, 2000


Baking cookies. Or brownies, or bread. Baking stuff. Pert Plus shampoo. Nail polish. Chocolate. Clean kitten fur. John Taylor-ooops! Sorry.

-- Anonymous, September 06, 2000


The sunscreen-y, sandy, ocean-y smell of the beach, baking bread, my boyfriend's jacket, leather, hay, wintergreen altoids, vanilla extract, and bar-b-que!

-- Anonymous, September 06, 2000

Clarins' "Elysium" and Kenzo's "Parfum D'ete". I could get high on that stuff.

-- Anonymous, September 06, 2000

Pine trees, the smokey smell of wool after spending an evening around a fire, newborn baby feet, White Linen by Estee Lauder, Sheets that have been dried on the line, and new tires (yes, I'm serious!)

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000

Artificial: KL cologne for women. Sadly nearly extinct. It's a floral/oriental (floriental) and the only one ever made that has a powedery scent to it. Most florientals announce your presence a good sixty yards before you get there and you're hated in every elevator. Not KL. Soft, with cinnamon, white flowers, a hint of clove, etc. It smells edible without actually smelling like food.

Natural: I'd say the ocean, but I lived near one and low tide...well, it ain't that pretty at all. I like night-scented stock, lavender, lime shaving foam, Dr. Chang's long Life Tea, cedar, sandalwood, green tea incence, what it smells like after a good rain storm, pine forests, honeysuckle, clove cigarettes (but only the first few seconds), etc.

Grossest smell ever: coconut. Will make me vomit. Truly. My now-ex had a teeny little candle with a hint of coconut fragrance and I kept smelling it sort of 'out of the corner of my nose". When I finally tracked it down, I offered to buy him a dozen replacement candles if he'd only pitch the stinky one.

I have no idea what John Taylor smells like. Probably sweaty. And like hair-dye. Neither of which really rank high on my list.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000


Oh yeah--my aversion to coconut is so pronounced that I can't stand Hawaiian Tropics products (etc.), and I suspect I'm as pale as I am partially because I can't deal with the smell and people insist on dousing themselves in coconutty tanning products. Seriosu aversion. I'd rather smell upchuck than coconut.

-- Anonymous, September 07, 2000

John Taylor smells yummy, I'll have you know. (Gwen, wtf is with your current "No John Taylor Answers campaign? Are you trying to keep me from returning to the Forums?)

My answer, though, is Simon Le Bon. He wears the most amazing scent ever created, and he refuses to tell anyone what it is. After he hugs you, you smell of him for hours, and damn it's fabulous. *swoon*

I also love the fragrances of baked cinnamon anything, freshly mown grass, diesel exhaust (reminds me of the Tube in London), carnations, and the scent of the boy you love. And the first sniff of peanut butter after the jar's been opened.

-- Anonymous, September 08, 2000


No! I just thought of it once, and then I had to make the lame running joke out of it. I guess it *could* seem personal... but K, I thought someone else had mentioned him lately, too. Of COURSE I'm glad to have you back.

Hush...hush. I'm gonna back you a pie. You just wait right there.

-- Anonymous, September 08, 2000


Dammit, Kel, as soon as I saw the topic name, that's what I thought of! And then I cracked up when I saw "Don't say John Taylor" because then I could say "Simon LeBon... Gwen, you didn't say anything about 'don't say Simon LeBon'!" But yes, Simon smells delish. *drool* Like when he changed his shirt for me in the dressing trailer and then leaned right over me to eat pineapple- Okay, so I won't go There. And for the record? John is stinky. PU.

I'm not a big cologne/perfume fan meself... I use essential oils, and love the smells of citrus (orange, pineapple or lemon) combined with bergamont. Orange and lavendar is also good.

And newly moved to the Suburbs from the Big City, I'm enjoying the smell of freshly watered grass again, too.

Other good smells? Roasting turkey. Play-Doh. Crayolas. Old books. New books. Freshly laundered linens dried on a clothesline. Casswell- Massey soap. The Husband-Type Man.

-- Anonymous, September 08, 2000


who is john tyler? is he cute?

dont think im wierd but i love the smell fo farms cuz i live by alot of them.

-- Anonymous, September 08, 2000


Word on the new baby smells. I also forgot to add Aveda products. Their shampure shampoo and purefume pomade are yummy beyond description.

-- Anonymous, September 08, 2000

Floosie, remember? I explained last month that John Taylor is the former bassist for Duran Duran, a pop group that began in 1979 and are still limping along. *ducking from Dwanollah's inevitable swat*

Dwannie, JT was sweaty and grody that day and YOU KNOW IT. Anyone would stink under the same conditions. YOU would. THTM would. *squawk fuss* (*grin*)

Look, I didn't want it to come to this, but you've forced me to say it, Dawnie: after YOU have been greeted by a wet, fresh-out-of-the-shower, clad-in-only-a-towel John Taylor, THEN you can talk to me about how he smells. Until then, missy, you may bite moi. ;-)

(PS Dwannie and I are only teasing each other, lest anyone worry we're fighting for reals!)

-- Anonymous, September 09, 2000


pps-- Gwen, what kind of pie?!!! Mmmmmmmmmmmmm! :-)

-- Anonymous, September 09, 2000

"Look, I didn't want it to come to this, but you've forced me to say it, Dawnie: after YOU have been greeted by a wet, fresh-out-of-the- shower, clad-in-only-a-towel John Taylor, THEN you can talk to me about how he smells."

You just hadta go and rub that in, huh...?

And yeah, but Simon took his shirt off for me! Ha! Ha! :))

Another good smell I re-discovered this weekend... gingersnaps. Yum!

-- Anonymous, September 11, 2000


Ritz cracker mock apple pie, of course.

-- Anonymous, September 11, 2000

Ritz mock apple pie! Hee! I love you, Gwen! That made me laugh out loud at work. *hug*

P.S. When I was five or six, I asked my mom what mock apples were. :)

-- Anonymous, September 11, 2000


Lemon zest; daphne flowers; freshly mown grass; clean cotton sheets dried outside; FLEX shampoo; babies necks after a bath; wild violets; yeasty, warm cinnamon rolls; men who smell of soap; magnolias at dusk; eucalyptus trees

-- Anonymous, September 18, 2000

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