Favourite scents
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With two bouts of C19 my sense of smell has gone down to about half, like barely.
Loss of smell/taste is often associated with lack of zinc, you may want to try a 10 to 15 mg supplement for 2 months and see what happens.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7844651/
I buy this brand as it has a micro dose of copper with it in the correct balance:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J384UGK
This, and a pot of White Acre peas cooking on the stove.
Sometimes its less about the scent and more about how you're feeling when you always notice it. Positive feedback loops etc.
“Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.” --Diane Ackerman, from A Natural History of the Senses.
Additions to the list:
Fresh-cut Alfalfa
Southwest Reno in the still of early morning
Ponderosa Pine
This morning I found a filthy fish wrapper on the kitchen floor. Tigger must have raided the garbage receptacle, pulled the wrapper out and rolled around in it. Then he must have snuggled up with Smokey because while he stank less, he was also malodorous. I just finished bathing my cats using fragrance-free Burt's Bees Cat Shampoo. They now smell very pleasant like clean cats should.
For me it’s Irish Spring original soap scent and some handmade soap from North Carolina “original pine tar soap” with 80% pine tar in it
Oh yea, alfalfa is up on the list for sure. Red clover is also great, but not many fields of that around anymore.
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The best smell in my garage? Perhaps my Dupont motorcycle cleaner, smell just like lemon Pledge furniture polish.
The worst smell?
#1 Ford Motorcraft XL3 rear end friction modifier and #2 Carpro Ironx ( for removing Iron rail transport dust from new car paint ).
Both of those items have the worst smell this side of a skunk!
If even a small amount finds its way to the garage floor or shop rag, the smell is now in your garage for months!
The worst smell?
#1 Ford Motorcraft XL3 rear end friction modifier and #2 Carpro Ironx ( for removing Iron rail transport dust from new car paint ).
Both of those items have the worst smell this side of a skunk!
If even a small amount finds its way to the garage floor or shop rag, the smell is now in your garage for months!
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Puppy breath
Perking coffee on a Coleman fuel stove.
Pinaud Clubman after shave. Brings back childhood memories in the neighborhood barbershop.
Add febreeze, and the smell of jet a or 100LL at the airport in the morning. Most people give me weird looks. Apparently it's an airplane thing....
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Good memories of everything Clubman and also as a kid when my Dad would splash on his Brute 33
Old car. Getting into the Chevelle and smelling the old plastic, vinyl, and oil was always pleasant.
Bacon.
Pizza shops.
Rain.
Pines in the mountains.
Fajitas. At a restaurant when they're brought out on the HOT pan, crackling and popping, onions getting the final grilling.
Bacon.
Pizza shops.
Rain.
Pines in the mountains.
Fajitas. At a restaurant when they're brought out on the HOT pan, crackling and popping, onions getting the final grilling.
In the garage,
Rotella T4 has an nice bouquet, with subtle hints of gear oil
fresh bike/dirtbike/car tires
On the land,
Fresh cut white pine and chainsaw exhaust
Fresh split sugar maple
Fresh dug gravel.
Around the house,
Steak or pork on the bbq.
Most smells in the kitchen, but sometimes the wife gets a bit crazy with Asian food with fresh garlic, hot peppers and fish sauce at high high heat.... half way to tear gas..... Tastes good when she's done though?
A hint of wood smoke if we run the woodstove with the screen on instead of the door.
Rotella T4 has an nice bouquet, with subtle hints of gear oil
fresh bike/dirtbike/car tires
On the land,
Fresh cut white pine and chainsaw exhaust
Fresh split sugar maple
Fresh dug gravel.
Around the house,
Steak or pork on the bbq.
Most smells in the kitchen, but sometimes the wife gets a bit crazy with Asian food with fresh garlic, hot peppers and fish sauce at high high heat.... half way to tear gas..... Tastes good when she's done though?
A hint of wood smoke if we run the woodstove with the screen on instead of the door.
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