Good smells/Bad smells

[Wild-Woman]

The countryside throws up some good and bad smells this time of year and into the summer. I adore the smell of apple blossom and stand under our tree sniffing it for ages. However there is one fragrance I can't stand, well 2 actually........privet and oil seed rape. Yuk! Anyone got favourites or dislikes? By the way, farm smells are ok by me. I reckon they're good for the lungs! (My opinion) ww

[Mark43]

You can't beat the smell of a freshly mown lawn.

Farm yard smells are fantastic..........thats how i got all the hairs on my chest

[Jonny]

Stink horn fungus is really bad, but not as bad as a voo doo lilly a customer had in their garden, yuk. Also gatwick airport smells bad if the wind is in the wrong direction. Low tide in an estuary can be bad. Smells I like are ramsons, waterfalls, fog in fields, cut grass, daphne o dora and yellow azalia. May add more..................Jon
Oh yes bracken, love that smell

[Tiggrx]

Hawthorn blossom is a definite dislike, nice at first sniff, but horrible lingering aftersmell. One of my favourite smells is the scent of fields of broad beans.

[Boddie]

There is a smell and I always thought it was foxes pee but maybe its a plant. I dont like it anyhow. I do like the smell of Cornwall, not sure what it is, just Cornwall and i do like a smell that I thought was nettles but I think someone told me it was wild garlic. Beautiful

[rlchew]

Gorse is one that immediately springs to mind for me .... a lovely coconut type smell.

I can not think of any bad ones particularly but I am sure they are out there!

Richard

[Alan]

The smell of a scared Stoat/ferret/Weasel - a defence mechanism, very pungent and somewhat like a skunk I would presume. Makes your nose curl-up - I know this to my expense!

[Wild-Woman]

Margate in Kent has a nice smell....candyfloss and seaweed. Mmmm.ww

[Tursiops]

I love the smell of: Gorse; fresh-cut grass; Tomato plants (in moderation); mudflats/seashore at low tide.

I hate the smell of: air "fresheners"; petrol fumes; our local sewage works - when the wind is in the northeast, a plume of noxious emanations spreads across the river into my bedroom window, so pungent you can almost see it.

Originally Posted by Boddie

There is a smell and I always thought it was foxes pee but maybe its a plant. I dont like it anyhow.

That could be Skunk Cabbage, an appropriately named North American waterside plant sometimes grown in large gardens, yellow flowers smell strongly of Fox in spring.

[Gill Catton]

good smells:
Spring (I'm sure you can smell it!), nettles, elder, honeysuckle (especialy if you smell it growing wild in the woods even before you can see it), rotting leaves, sweet vernal grass, gorse, christmas trees and satsumas, bluebells, smoking tyres and drag racing (sorry not very WAB I know...).
bad smells:
Dead things, the strange smell an abandoned warehouse has- maybe damp and rotting concrete? The smell of something burnt years ago and probably pig poo.

[Tinkerbell]

Gorse and newly cut lawns do it for me too. Another I haven't smelled since childhood, but would recognise immediately - my Gramps chicken feed down in the barn (don't know what gave it that distinctive smell but it had a kind of reassuring fragrance for a child).

Tink

[Gill Catton]

Originally Posted by Tinkerbell

Gorse and newly cut lawns do it for me too. Another I haven't smelled since childhood, but would recognise immediately - my Gramps chicken feed down in the barn (don't know what gave it that distinctive smell but it had a kind of reassuring fragrance for a child).

Tink

Oh you've reminded me! - the smell of pure beeswax or really good honey because of my grandad's honey shed (he kept bees) where he separated out the wax and jarred up the honey and his pipe smoke....

[May]

Good - I love oil seed rape right about now (not when it smells like cabbage), I love the blossom on horse chestnut, gorse, bluebells, lilac, cut grass, wisteria, honeysuckle, jasmine, phlox .. all the scents that make most people feel sick because they're so heady. I love ylang ylang and patchouli too.

Bad - slurry, oil seed rape when it goes cabbagey.

[Adam]

I love the fresly mown lawn smell also, and the smell of grass after a heavy downpour.

I know this is a strange one, but I also really like the smell of manure.

[gez]

bad :: the smell of elder trees right now smell so horrid, not as bad as open bowel surgery though.
good:: any where near the seashore when the sun is hot & all the smell rise & mix in the air. great..mmm

[Wild-Woman]

Mmm gez....yes...open bowel surgery. Just thinking that myself today, I must avoid that smell! Is you a Surgeon by chance?? ww

[jennyb]

We have a lovely yellow azalia flowering at the moment which has a lovely smell. Best of all is the jasmine on a summer evening - we leave the windows open specially so that the perfume comes into the house. Does anyone know why it only gives off its scent in the evening?

Jenny

[Jonny]

Originally Posted by jennyb

We have a lovely yellow azalia flowering at the moment which has a lovely smell. Best of all is the jasmine on a summer evening - we leave the windows open specially so that the perfume comes into the house. Does anyone know why it only gives off its scent in the evening?

Jenny

Is it something to do with the moths that pollinate it ?......................Jon

[Adam]

Not really a 'natural' smell, but how about the smell of a BBQ?

[henrya]

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Not really a 'natural' smell, but how about the smell of a BBQ?
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Burnt meat and paraffin - yep, definitely a bad smell!

henrya

[gez]

no wild-woman im not a surgeon. wish i was half as clever. but i do work in theatres. poss why nice smells mean so much to me. cos i never get them at work....well the odd nurses perfume.lol

[Wild-Woman]

Yes I can imagine that there are some nasty niffs in the theatre. Rotten bits and bobs and things.
Went out today and got a new big bag of hay for my Rabbits. Now that's a lovely smell. I should think sleeping in a hayloft with that smell would send you off quickly. mmm
And my wisteria is lovely at the moment.mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmww

[leyland]

My favourite smells include mint, gorse is another and the smell of rain after its been dry for a while. A freshly opened bottle of beer smells good as well, if anyone knows what i mean.

Bad smells definetly include Petrol, which just makes me want to gag! Even thinking about it makes me upset. Rosemary to me, i can't stand the taste and every time i smell it just makes me want to move away.

[FungiJohn]

Originally Posted by Adam

I love the fresly mown lawn smell also, and the smell of grass after a heavy downpour.

I know this is a strange one, but I also really like the smell of manure.

Totally agree with the freshly mown grass Adam. But having recently done a fungi foray on various dung ... I'm not sure I agree with the manure bit

John

[Jonny]

Originally Posted by FungiJohn

Totally agree with the freshly mown grass Adam. But having recently done a fungi foray on various dung ... I'm not sure I agree with the manure bit

John

Manure ! ...............Jon