Top 7 Smells (vanity)

PA Times | 9/14/05 | Dr. Pissant

[pissant]

Researchers have long realized that our sense of smell contributes greatly to our overall satisfaction or disatisfaction with foods. It has also been established that smells can trigger memories, good or bad, of events long ago.

Here at the Pissant Research Center, we've now compiled the definitive list of smells that improve our moods and make getting out of bed each morning that much easier!

Top 7 Pleasurable Smells

1. Baked Pies:--It does not matter weather its apple, blueberry, or pumpkin. It triggers an instant drool reaction

2. Chocolate Chip Cookies:--Self evident

3. A Good Hoppy Beer:--The combination of the sweet smelling malt and the flowery hops...makes me want to crack one right now!!

4. A Woman's Perspiration:--Not the 3 days without a shower smell, rather the smell of a clean, lightly perfumed woman who is sweating for the best of reasons

5. Gasoline:--There's a reason why many people get brain damage from huffing. Plus it reminds us of sunny days mowing the lawn

6. Fresh Mowed Grass:--Often follows the smell of gasoline and the preceeds the smell of a Good Hoppy Beer

7. Pipe Tobacco:--Everyone had a relative that smoked a pipe, and in light concentrations, the stuff smells good enough to eat.

[Maximus of Texas]

Sorry, ment to included you, too.

[Maximus of Texas]

Every VW Beetle had the same smell. It was great.

[La Enchiladita]

Buns baking.... depends on whose, huh? Oh, Cinn-a-Buns! That's right! Hugely expensive.

[Sam's Army]

Chlorine. No, I'm not kidding.

[baker_girl]

Mmmmm....Cinn-a-bun!
As gross as it sounds,I have a Cinn-a-bun chapstick.
So good!

[mad puppy]

'Maybe it's in that aveda "stuff...?" '

Part of what makes it so nice is not knowing exactly what "it" is. Some how understanding the chemical equation, the effect on the senses and how the brain reacts takes away some of the joy of simply being a willing victim to the primitive reaction.

[Conservative Texan Mom]

I love the smell of wood burning on a cold day. Makes me think of Christmas.

[freedomson]

Tiger Stadium.

[CollegeRepublican]

Coconut surf wax

Maryland Steamed Crabs with Old Bay

Salty sea air during a big swell

Burnt gunpowder

Vanilla on a woman's neck

Charcoal grill

[PaulaB]

Sorry, meant to include you, too

ya..I was awaitin for an explanation

[Millee]

Puppy breath! I love that international sweet, stinky puppy breath.

[Darksheare]

Roses.

[PaulaB]

I love the smell of wood burning on a cold day

me too!!! I love that....

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Cool thread! Some of mine:

1. Leather
2. Laphroiag whiskey
3. Fenway Park
4. The ocean
5. My motorcycle
6. Cooking smells:

a) The roux for an ettouffee, jambalaya, gumbo, etc.
b) Tomato-based Italian sauce
c) Home-made bread
d) Steak on a grill

7. Good tobacco
8. A woman
9. The top of a Labrador Retriever's head
10. The smell of the woods in October, after a grouse breaks and you cook off a shot
11. New-fallen snow

[ericthecurdog]

Wet asphalt (reminds me of childhood trips), the inside of a recently depleted Coke in a glass bottle, top shelf bourbon, and the grass, beer and BBQ smell that hits you when you step out of the concourse into a football stadium before kickoff.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

I didn't figure you for that.

[La Enchiladita]

For heaven's sake! Why did it take us til #92 for someone to pipe up about roses?

[PaulaB]

Same here....when you posted that

I thought...WOW

[tacticalogic]

Fresh ground coffe, machine shops, bondo, red cedar.

[La Enchiladita]

Not only wood burning on a cold day, but the smell of pinon pine fireplaces wafting across Santa Fe!!! While it's lightly snowing outside!!!