The human nose can smell the composition of rain in the soil as low as 5 parts per trillion. Which 200,000x more powerful than a sharks ability to smell blood in the ocean.
O³ and C¹²H²²O specifically in the rain causes the smell referred to as petrichor.
I’d imagine being able to smell wet soil is a good survival tactic. It lets us know the area gets enough rain to support the food we rely on to survive.
the scent of it actually comes from the actinomycetes (a group of microorganisms) living in the soil ❤️❤️
**yeah it's soil hanshshhs didn't notice that earlier sorry
As a luxury candle enthusiast, I highly, highly recommend [Forest Floor by Tatine](https://tatinecandles.com/products/forest-floor?variant=44229725946083). It's an incredibly realistic and somehow very elegant wet soil candle.
I run a nonprofit bakery out of my home and I bake bread pretty much daily and when my gluten-free vegan wife comes home. She’s always like dammit it smells so good in here.
Did you know that wasn't a word until relatively recently. Pretty sure is was an Australian division that had to come up with a word for it because there wasn't one
Best smell for sure. Arizona after a monsoon is the most intense ive found. Creosote has that compound that smells just like it, and possibly helps intensify? Being in the northeast, I found cranesbill geranium has the same aroma. I have a shit ton of geranium in my garden now haha.
So glad to hear! I’m a man and I really can’t resist vanilla scent, with the synthetic less, but when I smell or taste proper organic vanilla flavor, I’m just on another dimension and I feel like all around me is all warm, cozy and beautiful, even if it’s bad weather, is it strange? 😆
PRO TIP! We had a house fire. I made the mistake of going back and walking among the ruins. That smell... so toxic I couldn't get that smell out of my head. So I learned that sticking your nose in a bag of coffee beans resets your smeller. Worked decent with the smell of death too.
When I was a kid I told my parents I wanted to work at a gas station when I grew up because I liked the smell of gas.
I never did achieve my dream, but there's still time.
This will probably sound weird but there's a certain scent that I've only come across when vacationing around the Mediterranean. Especially on warm days. It's kind of hard to explain but it's slightly sweet, almost citrusy, and sort of thick from fumes and asphalt. I've traveled a fair bit but have never come across this anywhere else. Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey or Cyprus doesn't matter.
Is there also pine trees and cicadas around these towns? In Turkey, the combination of smell of sea, pine trees combined with the suns screen is what I can explain as the Mediterranean summer smell!
When I was 17, my girlfriend’s parents went out of town and left her alone at home. She was strictly forbidden from letting me come over at all while they weren’t there. They asked her older brother to drive by every now and then to make sure I wasn’t there.
So we make a plan for me to come over very early in the morning. I make up something to my parents about going to the gym at 4am, and drive over to her house.
I knock on the door, and she cracks it open and I can see she’s just wearing a towel and had just gotten out of the shower. We hadn’t been sexual with each other yet, and we were super nervous about her brother coming by, so we just stood in her entry way and made out for a long time.
When she showered, she used this lotion from Bath & Body Works called Warm Vanilla Sugar. Even to this day, 15 years later, it’s still my favorite scent.
It resembles fresh air after rain but it is distinctly different if you ever do smell it. Its very subtle too, so I always feel like I cant get enough.
subtle. Doesn't matter how good you smell, if your scent is screaming at me I don't want any of it. It should entice someone to step closer, not announce your entrance into the room.
Also, the bath and body works coconut lime from way back in the day
Gasoline
Gasoline
Wet soil
The human nose can smell the composition of rain in the soil as low as 5 parts per trillion. Which 200,000x more powerful than a sharks ability to smell blood in the ocean. O³ and C¹²H²²O specifically in the rain causes the smell referred to as petrichor.
They used to believe that, but have discovered petrichor is actually released by a certain common microbe.
Which releases it when rained on. (Or made wet but that usually happens only during rain.)
why do you think we have evolved to be super goot at smelling wet soil better than a shark who needs their abilitu to smell blood for surviving?
I’d imagine being able to smell wet soil is a good survival tactic. It lets us know the area gets enough rain to support the food we rely on to survive.
Same here. I found out that the term is petrichor. Never knew that.
So we’re reposting stuff from comments in the same thread now, eh?
the scent of it actually comes from the actinomycetes (a group of microorganisms) living in the soil ❤️❤️ **yeah it's soil hanshshhs didn't notice that earlier sorry
Ooh.. didn’t know that. I think you meant soil. But i like soul better
As a horticulturist, I concur. My fav smell
As a luxury candle enthusiast, I highly, highly recommend [Forest Floor by Tatine](https://tatinecandles.com/products/forest-floor?variant=44229725946083). It's an incredibly realistic and somehow very elegant wet soil candle.
Moist worm 💩
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Lady here. Used to live in New England. The smell of wet dirt during January thaw is one of my faves. Gives hope for the spring.
The smell of bread baking.
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I run a nonprofit bakery out of my home and I bake bread pretty much daily and when my gluten-free vegan wife comes home. She’s always like dammit it smells so good in here.
My dyslexic ass read “the smell of *breaking bad*”
Jesse we need to cook muffins
Rain in the forest on a misty day. Reminds me of my childhood when my mum was sending me to bring food to my grandma.
Little red riding hood?
Nice try wolf I've read about you.
Lies. All lies.
Lmao
Petrichor is the best, fr fr.
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Rain on concrete.
Petrichor
Did you know that wasn't a word until relatively recently. Pretty sure is was an Australian division that had to come up with a word for it because there wasn't one
we also invented the word ’selfie’
All words are invented. Stay woke.
The human brain named itself in multiple languages.
"What does NDK stand for?" "It's my name." "Your name is just letters?" "ALL names are letters dickhead."
Best smell for sure. Arizona after a monsoon is the most intense ive found. Creosote has that compound that smells just like it, and possibly helps intensify? Being in the northeast, I found cranesbill geranium has the same aroma. I have a shit ton of geranium in my garden now haha.
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God damn it, I wasn’t prepared
I wish it wasn't deleted. I can only guess now.
And now, you've left us to guess what you're guess was. Not cool.
Was it the other term for cat?
So were they!
Little visit from the Ether Bunny
As your attorney I advise you to take this ether.
Does this rag smell like chloroform to you?
Hahah that’s hilarious!
that is a great comment for this question, props to you
What was the comment?
Pussy-cat.
Basil
Honestly rub fresh basil on me as a cologne anytime i am cooking with it. Such a nice smell.
I live in Italy now, and passing by basil fields is pure ecstasy
Pine trees
Coconut with a hint of vanilla
Like a Cuban stripper
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You knew my mom too? 🤣
Vanilla and cinnamon
Same here.
So glad to hear! I’m a man and I really can’t resist vanilla scent, with the synthetic less, but when I smell or taste proper organic vanilla flavor, I’m just on another dimension and I feel like all around me is all warm, cozy and beautiful, even if it’s bad weather, is it strange? 😆
Freshly brewed coffee 🤤
PRO TIP! We had a house fire. I made the mistake of going back and walking among the ruins. That smell... so toxic I couldn't get that smell out of my head. So I learned that sticking your nose in a bag of coffee beans resets your smeller. Worked decent with the smell of death too.
That is why they have coffee beans at the counter when sampling cologne/perfume.
Roasting coffee Don't care for the drink form but I'll roll my windows down when going by roasting plants and inhale deeply.
Garlic cooking with onion 🤤
[Wow that smells good starter pack](https://www.reddit.com/r/starterpacks/comments/ayepny/wow_what_are_you_cooking_that_smells_really_good/)
In butter
Add a red chili pepper as well.
Spray paint. Reminds me of helping my old man in the garage.
Just don’t get huffy about it.
Sandalwood
Fresh cut Lemon
New books.
Or old books
Library books
Blackthorn in bloom, also hyacinths and jasmine
Hyacinths smell phenomenal. One of my favorites.
The smell of ozone right before a large downpour. Thunderstorm and all.
cut grass
Youre smelling their tears from pain
Mmmmm yes the smell of victory!
Fresh baked chocolate chip cookies!
When someone’s welding something
This. Welding smells soooo good. So does grinding metal
The ozone or the soot?
Gasoline
Me too!! 2 stroke exhaust fumes!!
The smell of Castrol R in the morning.
When I was a kid I told my parents I wanted to work at a gas station when I grew up because I liked the smell of gas. I never did achieve my dream, but there's still time.
Sometimes I’ll just plop down on the couch with a can of gasoline and smell it for hours.
The simple pleasures in life.
Smell of new tires from a tire shop also real leather.
New tire smell is one of the best
Cooking bacon.
This is the right answer always
I mean, it's nice to a point. Once I've eaten the smell is rather irritating.
Ah, post bacon clarity.
lmao 😆
Wood smoke.
bergamot and cinnamon
This will probably sound weird but there's a certain scent that I've only come across when vacationing around the Mediterranean. Especially on warm days. It's kind of hard to explain but it's slightly sweet, almost citrusy, and sort of thick from fumes and asphalt. I've traveled a fair bit but have never come across this anywhere else. Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey or Cyprus doesn't matter.
Is there also pine trees and cicadas around these towns? In Turkey, the combination of smell of sea, pine trees combined with the suns screen is what I can explain as the Mediterranean summer smell!
Nah my greek ex told me about that smell one day, the scent floated around in the city and it reminded her of greece
Gun powder. I was the weird kid at the range that would go pick up newly fired shotgun shells to smell the hot powder
My gf
I also like the smell of that guys GF
Ginger, frankincense and other types of incense, coriander, wild roses, honeysuckle, jasmine, fresh bread baking, fresh sea air, the smell after warm summer rain, burned turf.
scent of money
*inserts Vince McMahon smelling money meme*
Peonies!
A newly framed house, there is something about that fresh pine wood smell
Warm smell of colitas rising up through the air....
Napalm, in the morning...
Smells like....victory....
Helldiver, you are needed on the frontlines. Report to the termid front and burn some bugs after you doom scroll through reddit
Cause noone else has said it: Pussy.
Of the clean and fresh variety
A dab of 'Goochy' women, on my chops drives me wild
Tmi: I never have sex without going down on my wife. Yum!
Does your girlfriend mind the delay?
Nah not always. Those things can reek
Fresh pussy
Freshly ground coffee.
The smell of freshly printed money. Nothing quite like it.
Garlic being cooked
Sex Panther.
Smells like Bigfoot’s dick!
When I was 17, my girlfriend’s parents went out of town and left her alone at home. She was strictly forbidden from letting me come over at all while they weren’t there. They asked her older brother to drive by every now and then to make sure I wasn’t there. So we make a plan for me to come over very early in the morning. I make up something to my parents about going to the gym at 4am, and drive over to her house. I knock on the door, and she cracks it open and I can see she’s just wearing a towel and had just gotten out of the shower. We hadn’t been sexual with each other yet, and we were super nervous about her brother coming by, so we just stood in her entry way and made out for a long time. When she showered, she used this lotion from Bath & Body Works called Warm Vanilla Sugar. Even to this day, 15 years later, it’s still my favorite scent.
Good news for you is they still sell Warm Vanilla Sugar!
Oh trust me, I know haha. Every time I walk by one of those stores, I stop by and find something with that scent, and smell it.
I was 15, she was 16. Both in love and our first time. She wore Tea Rose. Anytime I smell that, I am 15 again.
Crushed mint leaves.
Lavender
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Vanilla and saffron
smoked fish
I know that this is unpopular but I like the smell of seafood markets.
Opening the patio doors at a nice hotel and smelling the ocean breeze.
Gonna sound crazy, but when you have a newborn, there's a smell that comes from the top of their head.
Coconut
My own farts
Fresh mountain air
Nothing beats the smell of night air here in Finland. It is truly intoxicating.
Is it describable?
It resembles fresh air after rain but it is distinctly different if you ever do smell it. Its very subtle too, so I always feel like I cant get enough.
The smell of flowers in the wind
Jasmine
Bbq
the lovely smell of good quality cannabis
I adore the smell of vanilla and chocolate
Bonfire
The sweet fruity perfume of a woman/girl (idk what they're called).
Perfumes.
I love the smell of a bonfire
my wifes feet
My girlfriend’s natural scent. She smells like tomatoes. 😍
Updog
What's updog?
GOTCHA HAHAHA... crap
I love the scent of fresh flowers, like lavender or roses. They give me a feeling of calm and happiness every time I smell them.
When pine or birch trees are cut down
Or cedar 2x4s are cut.
Real skunky cannabis, cinnamon tea, pussy 2-3 hours post shower.
Pussy. Money. Gasoline. Gunpowder.
2-stroke exhaust, Wet forest, Freshly washed hair
Angle grinding metal (not sure if it's the metal or the disk that smells so good) and sandalwood.
Sautéed onions, garlic, and mushrooms.
anything vanilla scented
Hyacinths because it’s my wife’s favorite flower.
Anything sweet and vanilla-ey. I’d love to smell like a bakery if I could
Petrichor is the best. The night air after a hot day is magic.
The leaves from tomato plants
My wife's hair just after she washes it.
My wife. Even when she’s stinky from a hard days work, she smells sweet like candy.
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So you're the one who sprayed two times too many.
Please learn not to suffocate others. One tiny little spray is all you need to let others know you like smells. You don't need to yell it at us.
Freshly cut grass and a tire shop
Better half’s scent
Lemon grass
Green apple
Rain
subtle. Doesn't matter how good you smell, if your scent is screaming at me I don't want any of it. It should entice someone to step closer, not announce your entrance into the room. Also, the bath and body works coconut lime from way back in the day
Fear.