And no fair listing a top ten list, or even a top three. I mean, c'mon, it's not that tough of a question. I'll go first-

Burnt silicone

next...:7

Watch the movie Christine...its in there.

Lavender :-)
Jane

Burned rubber??

Estee Lauder's Private Collection --- on my wife, Judy!

:D

Allyn

Orange blossom (in the spring)

I'd tell you,but at the risk of incriminating myself...

I'll take the 5th.

The worlds no 1 favourite smell is Steak and onions cooking on a barbecue, well its mine anyway

a brand new motherboard smells?

Steve,
That looks like the last batch I made of Amyl. Though I though I had a few more carbons in there or was it.......?

old dude,

The scent of roses is largely due to some carotenoid degradation products known as rose ketones (largely citronellol and beta damascenone). Chemists looking for synthetic variations came up with the terpenoid ether represented by the diagram I label as one of my favorites. It is a rose type scent with a more significant impact on our scent detectors than the natural rose chemicals and makes the top notes in Diors "Poison" and a host of other great perfumes.

The second molecule (one of my least favorites) is 3-methyl indole (skatole) which one might experience in an outhouse.

Coffee roasting on a cold morning.

Apple Pie fresh from the oven :+

A freshly cut lawn. So long as someone else was doing the cutting. ;-)

I'll cut your lawn Jason, as soon as I finish Larry's

Honeysuckle, on a cool evening breeze.....

magnolia blossoms--

Daphne flowers in late winter

Malcolm

dang..... tough question but maybe it's a tie... racing fuel and apples with cinnamon. but not together.... lol

Castor oil burning through a WWI rotary aircraft engine. Really.

Hot girl :)

>Castor oil burning through a WWI rotary aircraft engine.
>Really.

That would be high on my list too !! (or through a V8 engine) !!

But top would be....wood smoke ! (No I'm not an arsonist !! Here in 'sunny' Manchester UK everything is so wet it would never burn anyway !!)

or frying onions !! Yum !!

Yeah! I lived 18 years in Manchester and never saw or smelled wood smoke there except when an old house caught fire due to a short circuit and that was pretty horrific.

and where do you live now golouis ??

>and never saw or smelled wood smoke there except when an old house
>caught fire due to a short circuit and that was pretty horrific.

I live South Manchester close to Cheshire and Derbyshire countryside....lots of wood smoke there.

>>Yeah! I lived 18 years in Manchester
>
>and where do you live now golouis ??
>
First lived in Middleton then moved to Salford near the docks (which were still active then). Then started migrating: London, Brighton, and then across the Channel to warmer climes where summers are dry and sunny and winters mild (most of the time).

Frankicense (Myrrh is good, too).

a loaf of bread fresh out of the oven.

dell 8100 pentium 4 1.3 gigs
windows M.E.
256 mb rdram p.c.800.
nav 2002
internet explorer 6.0
road runner

baby powder


:-)

new puppies are good.;-)

Seasoned Red Cedar.

Something most of you never smelled, but the other old farts will remember.

Walking into a real neighborhood bakery as a child, and smelling the aroma of the baking, in the days when they used real butter, and no chemicals in our food.

Here are a few of my favourite smells

The luxurious whiff of armagnac swirled in a bowl glass.

Floor polish (reminds me of school)

Cotton Candy

>old farts

women

Garbru

Freshly printed money.:-)

Im 59 years old now. In the early 50's every summer my parents would put me on the train by myself in Los Angeles and I would go spend the summer on my Uncles farm in Oklahoma. The absolute highlight of the train trip was going to the dining car in the morning and smelling the pancakes, butter, and syrup. Just typing this response has my mouth watering.

beer
:-)

The Sea

Teen Spirit

A musty green smell when I open my wallet. The memory lies embedded in the leather......One day I may be able to reline that old mausoleum to the passing when I bought that last HDD.

Actually, I'd settle for a pan of YOMAMA'S corn bread that I can't even begin to make..... lotsa butter....

I have two favorites....... 1.Shalimar on my wife's neck.
2.The aroma of tomato vines.

Oh wait - I want to change mine. Whenever we receive anthing wrapped in plastic I tell my husband thats the "new dolls at Christmas" smell. It brings back pleasant memories.

Chocolate chip cookies baking.

Sunday roast pork cooking in the kitchen :-)

Better slow that down, Joe, we can't tell where the exhaust is coming from - you, or, the bike.

My grandad's old smokehouse. I can still taste the sausage, bacon and ham that my grandma would put on the table for breakfast along with home made butter, fresh biscuits and pancakes. Home made jams and jellies set out on a big old heavy oak table next to the wood stove and lit with a kerosine lamp (no electricity). Next best would be woodsmoke on a cool fall evening sitting out in the yard listening to whipporwills, tree frogs and coon hounds baying in the surrounding hills and the occasional lonesome sound of the whistle on a steam locomotive approaching a steep grade not far from the house.

Les aka Arkie

by far the smell of a woman is the best, then i'd have to say a new car i like haha.

To all of you guys who have said, women, perfume on my wife, etc. YOU DA MAN!

The smell of happiness - that something in the air like the smell of your first love. It stays with you forever. Nothing beats that smell.

-Stu

its gotta be cinnamon

Pizza, not generic pizza like papa johns or pizza hut, but real pizza made by dedicated italians

I can't list just one, so I will tell my favorite two.

First and foremost, the scent of a woman. And secondly, freshly mown alfalfa lying in the field, waiting to dry to be put up for hay.

personally, my favorite smell is the smell of the fields burning after the crops have been harvested, you know, when they burn off the stubble.. that's my favorite smell. my second favorite one would be wood smoke, those are the two greatest smells ever.

DOLCE&GABBANA Perfume red top...

woodsmoke

the sea

the woman i love (or would love if i had one!)

new born baby

fresh baked bread

farts and boil pus

And your profile says "normal"?

Ummm, this is a politically correct forum, so I'll just have to say no comment. :-)

Scott

I'll go with that new puppy smell.

Biscayne Bay at very low tide!!

OrchidBill

Burning leaves in autum.

Laurie

Taking in deep breaths of the fresh Eucaplytus tree scents after a rain.

Navy perfume on my wife.

Sheets hung out to dry in the winter that freeze dry and are put on the bed for that night. Fresh winter smell.

(yes I hang my wash outside all year round and I do have a dryer but I hate to use it)

Da Dwarfs

Well at the risk of making someone mad i think this post smells.I am surprised that this many knowledgable individuals would even bother to reply.I learn absolutely nothing about computers from a post of this sort.

I visit this forum to learn more about computers not ODORS Sorry if i offended anyone but that is how i feel.

Pussy :-)

The post was labeled OT to inform you that ir had nothing to do with computers, so why did you read it if you feel that way?

Personally I spend about eight hours a day on this forum. I answer many computer questions that I have answered 50 times before to help people I don't know, and will never meet. A little humor or an off topic discussion is a bit of relief waiting for the next serious question...Lighten up Bill!

I'm not here to argue the point. I respect you Shelly in spite of what you said. BTW you mispelled IT.

You will notice that the r is next to the t on your keyboard. The only class I ever flunked was typing.

That's another interesting fact

My dog when she's sleeping

Nag Champa incense and WD-40 (but not together) :-)

Nag Champa is definitely up there!

Diesel burning automobiles.

Old buildings.

Roses.

Maple syrup.

Fire works.

Kool aid (any flavor).

Saw dust.

Babies.

Campfires at night.

Lemon.

My cats.. Simon and Otis.

Ok..much better.

Warm towels right out of the dryer

The scent of a woman

Freshly cooked Rye bread in a bakery
Crockett

A fully aroused woman.

If it HAD to be one smell, fresh brewed coffee in the morning. Otherwise, here's a few:
Gasoline, two-stroke exhaust, the smell after a bunch of stock cars roar by after taking the green flag and finally, those green peppers and onions with sausage at the county fair!

My girlfriend's hair, and her skin. I also like the smell of alfalfa in bloom, and the smell of freshly cut hay fields as I'm riding my motorcycle down the Bitterroot valley.

Sorry folks, just now catching up, I was away on a business trip for a week. I have lost track of a lot on here while I was gone. Good to be home now. :-)

Worked on the wheatbelt here for a few years on a chaff cutter. On a hot summers day in the paddocks you would occasionally get a wift of rain falling on the barren paddocks miles away. That was the sign of a thunderstorm rolling in. That smell was awesome for a few reasons. One it just plain smelt great, two it meant it was time to pack up and three one of my other favourite smells, beer was just around the corner. :7

Apart from that I would go for an aroused lady :7 , burning rubber and the scent of food on the barbie.

Mick

The aroma of fresh leather.;-)

Sewer -Because it smells like money to me.
Or my wifes roast.