Rain, and then a thunderstorm.
I’ve never been able to smell them, what’s the smell like?
It’s hard to describe I suppose. First the smell of rain hitting dry stone and dirt, and how that smell slowly swells and then fades as they become waterlogged… Then the heat rises as the thunderstorm comes, and the air itself smells warm and wet.
That’s a really nice description thanks
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Petrichor! Not just a great smell… also my favourite word!
It’s a beautiful word, but for someone unfamiliar with the smell I wasn’t sure it was a good word to use.
I don’t think I have ever spoken to someone who hasn’t experienced the smell of rain on dry soil. Not trying to be rude, or pry too deep, but…uhmmm…how? How have you never smelt that before? It’s so far outside my own personal experience, I just don’t really understand it.
I meant someone unfamiliar with the word itself. Not trying to make people break out a dictionary.
Chemically it’s the smell of beet red. Most people describe it vastly differently because the retro nasal smell makes it feel like something else. Pretty interesting if you ask me.
A combination of the smells from my grandfather’s shed: sawdust, machine oil and petrol from the lawn mower, freshly cut grass, leather, his pipe tabacco, and just a hint of whisky from the bottle he used to keep in there. He had a couple of old, leather, wing-back chairs in there and sometimes at the weekend after mowing the lawn we’d just sit and talk in his shed for a bit while he smoked his pipe and had a wee dram.
Sadly long gone (he died in the late 80s) but I get hints of it occasionally. Sometimes I’ll smell maybe the lawnmower smells in my own shed and my brain will fill in the rest and I’ll feel small and safe and warm and comfortable just for a moment or two.
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I’ve heard that some restaurants do this the first thing in the morning just to attract customers.
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I hate the taste of coffee but the smell is heavenly
Same here!
The smell of freshly cooked rice.
Cut grass, gas/petrol, books… lots of smells really. Some weirder than others :3
Since it’s the time for planting tomatoes where I live, I’ll also point them out as smelling nice
Campfire, and the smell of woodsmoke on clothing the day after.
Marijuana. And by association, dead skunk (it smells like strong weed/strong weed smells like dead skunk 🤷🏻♂️)
Light BO. A day after sweating at work, great. If you haven’t bathed in a week; 🤮
Whatever the Rock is cooking.
I love sweet food smells! Vanilla, cinnamon, candyfloss and things like that. My favourite smell of all time is cookies baking.
Lilacs
- 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.
Imminent snow, petrichor, the damp forest on a warm afternoon, sawdust/cut wood, ozone during/after thunderstorm, after a fireworks show (burned black powder).
Corn chip puppy smell!
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Salty air, leather, books, a wet or dry forest, my cat’s fur, fresh bread, my homemade vanilla, coconut scented anything, woodsmoke, fresh snow, & my boo ❤️
