purple.alien.giraffe
Executive Chef
Grapefruit! My husband just pealed a grapefruit. I'd forgottent how much I love that smell. It makes me feal awake and alive.
The smell of a new oak barrel that's been toasted on the inside
Fresh ground coffee
Baking bread
Leaves burning in the fall
Indian curry
Hmmm.... I guess most of my favorite smells are somehow related to cooking or fire.
buckytom, what's a "doob"?
I need to start a new thread to learn what new soaps I should make this spring.
I have a basement room full of essential oils scents, and some synthetic 'fragrance oils' (like strawberry-kiwi, oatmeal-milk-honey, etc.)
My favorite non-food scents tend to be herbal ones, esp fresh from the garden or lemons, oranges; lavender and lilac are my fav florals
Right off the top of my head, the smell of freshly toasted and ground cumin.
I think doob is short for doobie, given the "well shared" in his reference. Also known as herb rolled into a joint.
...oh, and that reminds me. I also like the sulfur smell from matches.Oh oh folks. Put your matches up on the top shelf.
oof, tomato plants make my skin crawl, almost literally.
i love to grow them, but whenever i weed in the garden around the tomatoes my skin freaks out. i'm allergic to something on the leaves and stems. for several hours afterwards i look like i was a goalie for the dart team.
and lol, aunt bea. that's one line i've never aproached, let alone cross.
my son has never seen me so much as smoke a cigar, and i would never smoke anything, even camping, around cub scouts. it sets an example that can't be undone.
i've seen scout leaders share "scoutmaster tea" (usually iced tea or bug juice spiked with vodka) around the campfire after the kids were asleep in their tents. i won't even participate in that.