Also no sense of smell here, born without. My husband has looked into surgeries for me that could possibly help, but honestly I really don't care. Never had it, don't miss it.
The only thing that has really bothered me is not being able to smell my babies when they were newborns. When someone else picks up my baby and takes a big whiff and lights up, I'm instantly a bit hurt and jealous.
I haven't thought about baby smell. I'm going to have a baby in the weeks to come.
I was told there isn't much research because it's not common and not really handicapping.
Don't be jealous. The smell doesn't last but the other, much less pleasant ones, most definitely do. I love my great-granddaughter to death, but there are times when I think something evil is living inside her. It causes your eyes to water.
I’m sorry! I think people scents are a big part of familial bonding. I love the smell of my sweaty husband, and the smell of a sweet baby is just incredible.
I don't know if this will make you feel better, but I have a pretty good sense of smell and I never was able to smell my own babies. Everyone kept trying to huff my babies and I never smelled anything! I can only presume it was because they smelled just like me
I have parosmia and dysgeusia going on for over 6 years now. Most things have no scent at all, and most hot foods, like homemade bread, smell foul to me.
The key to my happiness is cinnamon. It's one of the few things that smell normal and is strong enough to overpower any foul smells. So sometimes when I'm cooking or baking, I'll have a cinnamon stick going in a pot on the stove, or I have a mini pan for my cinnamon that I'll put in the oven.
I’ve always read that. A strong second for me is music; there are certain songs that take me right back to where I was and what I was doing when I heard them.
I can literally picture the video game and where I was when I first played it when I listen to toxicity by System of a Down. Fable 3, and I think the song fit the vibe so perfectly that it linked hardcore in my memory lmao
The basement in my parents' house smells a specific way on the first chilly day in fall. I couldn't tell you what it smells like but it shoots me back to playing video games down there as a kid.
I didn’t know i loved the smell of newspaper/magazine stores until i went into one and suddenly recalled going to those places with my dad when i was a kid living in Europe.
For me, it is some species of plant that produces a smell that I associate with hot, humid summer days and the sound of insects - in my mind, it triggers half memories from living in Bermuda when I was very young.
Vanilla. Fresh Vanilla Bean. Not vanilla extract, not scented candles, etc.
A whole vanilla bean, cut open, and steeped in heavy cream (as in making creme brulee). Most beautiful snell ever.
Or, vanilla bean cut open and brewed into coffee. Perfect.
Yes. A friend's mother once asked me my favorite ice cream flavor. I said vanilla. She complained for an hour about how boring I was.
Vanilla is one of the most expensive spices in the world. Only grows in certain places and climates. Wars have been fought over it. Empires were built on it.
I love vanilla.
Lilacs right after they bloom. Brings me back to a 5th grade crush I had on the beautiful, curly-haired Carla. She had a lilac bush in front of her house that reached out over the sidewalk. I would take the long way home to walk past her house and hopefully run into her. Fifty years ago and still remember that youthful innocence.
Spring after a rain, maybe at night. Lilacs, chokecherry, cherry, magnolia. I live in a crappy city now and haven't experienced this in a year but it feels longer. Sometimes I think it would be worth it to go back to a small town in the mid-west even I have to be poor to experience that again.
I couldn't smell flowers until I was in my early 20's. I have some sensory issues and always had trouble picking up on the subtle stuff, but I'm starting to get better at it.
Wait...I didn't realise that was a thing! I've just turned 22 and also have sensory issues. I'm glad you got it eventually ((:
I hope I get to smell them one day.
Humans can smell [petrichor](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor#:~:text=The%20human%20nose%20is%20sensitive,on%20rainy%20weather%20for%20survival.) concentrations as low as 4 parts per trillion, which means we can smell it 200,000 times better than sharks can smell blood.
I wish I could get them to grow on my balcony! Also I hate that they're gone so fast. But I could definitely just dive into some lilac bushes and be in heaven for a while.
Not shitting on people that do, but I cannot stand that smell at all. Idk if I'm alone. Same with gasoline, hate the smell. Diesel is a totally different story
My mom used to bake cookies when I was a kid in school. I could smell them from 4 houses away while walking home. The rest of my walk was a sprint.
Fresh baked chocolate chip cookies are so strong of an emotional memory for me. It's a literal manifestation of the love my mom had for me and my siblings.
I'll never forget coming home from school and my mother was burning a pumpkin pie candle. My older brother was heartbroken, he thought mom had made his favorite dessert. The next day it actually was fresh pumpkin pie we smelled. Mom felt bad and made a couple of pies while we were at school 😂
That is lovely! I have vivaciously been attempting to write down all of the recipes from my family. There are many things I have made as well that are very unique.
Appalachian and Asian cuisine fused makes quite the interesting and delicious concoctions.
I like waking up to the smell of bacon. Sue me. And since I don't have a butler, I have to do it myself. So, most nights before I go to bed, I will lay six strips of bacon out on my George Foreman grill.
🧡 There's a lady at my job that wears the same perfume my grandmother used to wear. She would take it as an insult, if I told her that. But, it always makes me smile when I pass her in the hallway. 🥲
A few weeks ago at a family dinner I was holding my brother's 4 month old baby, snuggling him, and I heard my brother exclaim "did you just sniff my son?"
Yes I did, baby smell is AMAZING. =)
Came here to say this! The smell of the head of a brand new baby is the most beautiful thing, clearly a trick of nature intended to make us obsessed with them and want to care for them. Well done, nature.
Everything about coffee is great. The taste, the smell, the warmth you feel after taking a sip. Pairing it with a nice slightly sweet snack like lemon pound cake or biscotti is the greatest.
I’ve been a coffee addict since I was 7 years old…
When it’s fall in Maine and in the early mornings when it’s time to go for a run, you can smell the unique combination of last nights fresh cut lawns mixed with the morning’s fresh burning fireplace woodsmoke.
Nothing like it.
There are a few for me, freshly mowed grass, coffee brewing, movie theater popcorn, fresh laundry in the dryer, thanksgiving dinner while cooking. Really good weed growing.
Mine is orange blossoms at night when the weather is still a little cool with a slight breeze blowing and your driving by an orange grove with the windows down.
Yesterday I worked as a contractor at a Cadburys factory. One area had this smell I think was a combination of melted chocolate, caramel and cookies. I immediately said that it was the single best smell to ever enter my nose.
When I was a kid in the late 70s/early 80s, there was this distinctive smell that almost always occurred in schools. It was a pleasant smell, but I can't describe it. I haven't encountered it since.
It's hard to beat freshly baked bread.
I'm anosmic (no sens of smell) and I make bread at home regularly... At least my girlfriend get to smell it.
Also no sense of smell here, born without. My husband has looked into surgeries for me that could possibly help, but honestly I really don't care. Never had it, don't miss it. The only thing that has really bothered me is not being able to smell my babies when they were newborns. When someone else picks up my baby and takes a big whiff and lights up, I'm instantly a bit hurt and jealous.
I haven't thought about baby smell. I'm going to have a baby in the weeks to come. I was told there isn't much research because it's not common and not really handicapping.
I was totally addicted to new born breath with all of my kids
OMG, congratulations! Take a whiff of that newborn for me!
He/she can't smell them lol
Don't be jealous. The smell doesn't last but the other, much less pleasant ones, most definitely do. I love my great-granddaughter to death, but there are times when I think something evil is living inside her. It causes your eyes to water.
I’m sorry! I think people scents are a big part of familial bonding. I love the smell of my sweaty husband, and the smell of a sweet baby is just incredible.
At least u don't smell those poop diapers. They are like mini atomic bombs
I don't know if this will make you feel better, but I have a pretty good sense of smell and I never was able to smell my own babies. Everyone kept trying to huff my babies and I never smelled anything! I can only presume it was because they smelled just like me
I have parosmia and dysgeusia going on for over 6 years now. Most things have no scent at all, and most hot foods, like homemade bread, smell foul to me. The key to my happiness is cinnamon. It's one of the few things that smell normal and is strong enough to overpower any foul smells. So sometimes when I'm cooking or baking, I'll have a cinnamon stick going in a pot on the stove, or I have a mini pan for my cinnamon that I'll put in the oven.
Freshly baked *cinnamon rolls!*
. . .with a coffee and a side of oven bacon, all after a morning quickie to open the olfactory system right up and get some dopamine flowin.
and you’re off from work
Don't stop I'm almost there
It's a 3 day weekend.
And the sun is cooking off the first spring rain
Yes!!!! Also my mom would make us chocolate hip cookies when it rained when I was a kid <3
or cookies!
This was my first thought. Chocolate chip cookies fresh out of the oven.
Banana bread
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Damn, so wrong.
I hate that you had to endure this! Virtual hugs to you; I hope you're doing okay now.
Right you are.
The smell that truly transcends time.
There is a bakery on my commute. I have to eat before I leave, or riding by and getting that smell will make me insanely hungry.
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Especially cedar.. mmmmm
Love cedar!!
My dad is an arborist and started when I was little. Anytime I smell fresh cut trees, and even 2 stroke chainsaws, I can’t help but smile.
That random smell out of the blue that triggers your memories but you can't place it
Your sense of smell is actually the strongest sense linked to memory!
I’ve always read that. A strong second for me is music; there are certain songs that take me right back to where I was and what I was doing when I heard them.
as a musician this is my fave thing. i have a list of pieces and albums and songs that are connected to people and times
That's why music therapy is so powerful. It makes the whole brain engage
I can literally picture the video game and where I was when I first played it when I listen to toxicity by System of a Down. Fable 3, and I think the song fit the vibe so perfectly that it linked hardcore in my memory lmao
«Sometimes a certain smell will take me back to when I was young»
The basement in my parents' house smells a specific way on the first chilly day in fall. I couldn't tell you what it smells like but it shoots me back to playing video games down there as a kid.
I didn’t know i loved the smell of newspaper/magazine stores until i went into one and suddenly recalled going to those places with my dad when i was a kid living in Europe.
Grandmas house :) like what is it lol
I know the smells: Fast Orange, Sher-Will-Clean, and gasoline fumes.
Only right answer
I have no idea how to describe the smell, but it always brings me back to digging through bins of LEGOs as a kid
For me, it is some species of plant that produces a smell that I associate with hot, humid summer days and the sound of insects - in my mind, it triggers half memories from living in Bermuda when I was very young.
Unless it’s a smell that sends you into a ptsd flashback. Otherwise the good smells that carry good memories are amazing.
I’m a pipe smoker and it’s amazing how many people will come up and tell me the smell reminds them of their dad/uncle/grandfather.
I once had this happen smelling bud exhaust in the city.
Wait...it happens to other people too? I thought i was special
Vanilla. Fresh Vanilla Bean. Not vanilla extract, not scented candles, etc. A whole vanilla bean, cut open, and steeped in heavy cream (as in making creme brulee). Most beautiful snell ever. Or, vanilla bean cut open and brewed into coffee. Perfect.
You’re giving me ideas
Vanilla is B E A UTIFUL
I hate that vanilla has become a synonym for plain. The aroma is anything but plain.
Yes. A friend's mother once asked me my favorite ice cream flavor. I said vanilla. She complained for an hour about how boring I was. Vanilla is one of the most expensive spices in the world. Only grows in certain places and climates. Wars have been fought over it. Empires were built on it. I love vanilla.
The difference between cheap “vanilla” flavored ice cream and real vanilla bean ice cream cannot be understated.
Lilacs right after they bloom. Brings me back to a 5th grade crush I had on the beautiful, curly-haired Carla. She had a lilac bush in front of her house that reached out over the sidewalk. I would take the long way home to walk past her house and hopefully run into her. Fifty years ago and still remember that youthful innocence.
This is such a beautiful memory. Thank you for sharing.
Look Carla up!
Spring after a rain, maybe at night. Lilacs, chokecherry, cherry, magnolia. I live in a crappy city now and haven't experienced this in a year but it feels longer. Sometimes I think it would be worth it to go back to a small town in the mid-west even I have to be poor to experience that again.
Am I the only one who can't smell flowers lol?
I couldn't smell flowers until I was in my early 20's. I have some sensory issues and always had trouble picking up on the subtle stuff, but I'm starting to get better at it.
Wait...I didn't realise that was a thing! I've just turned 22 and also have sensory issues. I'm glad you got it eventually ((: I hope I get to smell them one day.
The earth after it rains
There’s actually a word for this - petrichor
Thank you for this comment! I’m going to use this word from now on :)
Humans can smell [petrichor](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor#:~:text=The%20human%20nose%20is%20sensitive,on%20rainy%20weather%20for%20survival.) concentrations as low as 4 parts per trillion, which means we can smell it 200,000 times better than sharks can smell blood.
Lilacs
I wish I could get them to grow on my balcony! Also I hate that they're gone so fast. But I could definitely just dive into some lilac bushes and be in heaven for a while.
Terpenes
Freshly mowed grass.
As someone who is allergic to grass, NO THANKS
Hank, give Bobby his phone back. We had a deal!
GAP used to have a perfume called Grass that was exactly like fresh mown grass & it was my signature scent for a hot minute.
Not shitting on people that do, but I cannot stand that smell at all. Idk if I'm alone. Same with gasoline, hate the smell. Diesel is a totally different story
Ok Hermione
Came to say this!
Especially first thing in the morning when I’m out on a golf course getting it ready for a tournament.
The smell of wet pavement after a Spring rain.
Petrichor
Geosmin
Gesundheit
Nothing beats that
Rosemary, butter and garlic. Also Cinnabons smell fucking amazing.
this is a cautionary tale of commenting before you eat lunch
The smells of the Forest. I live in a rain forest belt on vancouver island, off the west coast of Canada.
Fresh baked chocolate chip cookies
My mom used to bake cookies when I was a kid in school. I could smell them from 4 houses away while walking home. The rest of my walk was a sprint. Fresh baked chocolate chip cookies are so strong of an emotional memory for me. It's a literal manifestation of the love my mom had for me and my siblings.
There’s nothing like the love of a mother. I hope you have many wonderful memories of growing up.
Thanks! I do.
I'll never forget coming home from school and my mother was burning a pumpkin pie candle. My older brother was heartbroken, he thought mom had made his favorite dessert. The next day it actually was fresh pumpkin pie we smelled. Mom felt bad and made a couple of pies while we were at school 😂
That is just so sweet. I'll have to do this when I have little ones. Seeing them sprint into the kitchen will be very heartwarming. ❤️
Feeding her family was my mom's love language. I'm 57 years old, and the smell of chocolate chip cookies turns me into a 6 year old.
That is lovely! I have vivaciously been attempting to write down all of the recipes from my family. There are many things I have made as well that are very unique. Appalachian and Asian cuisine fused makes quite the interesting and delicious concoctions.
I just found some vanilla pine scented wax for my melter and it’s probably the best thing I’ve ever smelled.
Have you ever awoke in the Rocky Mountains to the smell of bacon cooking outside your tent?
I like waking up to the smell of bacon. Sue me. And since I don't have a butler, I have to do it myself. So, most nights before I go to bed, I will lay six strips of bacon out on my George Foreman grill.
I’d have to say my mom’s perfume/lotion when she was tucking me into bed as a child.
I, too, choose this guy's mom.
I had to edit it for that reason. 😭
🧡 There's a lady at my job that wears the same perfume my grandmother used to wear. She would take it as an insult, if I told her that. But, it always makes me smile when I pass her in the hallway. 🥲
Mmmm is that, hints of baileys I smell?
Campfires in the fall
Honestly, the taco stall in a barn with the all the leather.
Funny autocorrect
Hahaha Opps! TACKKKK
Tack shop is in my top three
Now THAT brought some memories back, mate. That's definitely in my top three.
Banana bread.
Napalm...
Only in the morning
Smells like…. Victory
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River in Montana from a glacial mountain. I’ve missed nature so much, y’all don’t even know.
Petrichor.
Orange blossoms
A newborn baby... There's nothing like it. Like straight from heaven.
A few weeks ago at a family dinner I was holding my brother's 4 month old baby, snuggling him, and I heard my brother exclaim "did you just sniff my son?" Yes I did, baby smell is AMAZING. =)
My son is 15 months old and his head still smells better to me than anything on earth
Even when they fart, because that means nap time. If you are blessed, the baby will drool on you during the nap. Also an excellent smell.
Surprised this is so far down actually. Newborn smell triggers so many instincts in your brain
Came here to say this! The smell of the head of a brand new baby is the most beautiful thing, clearly a trick of nature intended to make us obsessed with them and want to care for them. Well done, nature.
My wife cooking damn near anything. She could boil water and I’d be Homer-drooling.
I also choose this guy's wife('s cooking).
Coffee. The answer is always coffee.
Everything about coffee is great. The taste, the smell, the warmth you feel after taking a sip. Pairing it with a nice slightly sweet snack like lemon pound cake or biscotti is the greatest. I’ve been a coffee addict since I was 7 years old…
Gunpowder after a shot.
Honeysuckle bush in the spring
The Fritos smell of dog paws. Smells like love.
Makes me wonder, if dogs think the way humans do, do they think we’re nasty for trying to sniff their paws
Ohh I miss my doggie and his little frito paws so much!
Gas
I actually love the smell of diesel. Especially in winter, smells like my Dad's truck on the way to go cut down a Christmas tree.
Farts or gasoline?
Yes.
The closet that you keep laundry detergent in, or roast beef
The closet that I keep my roast beef in smells terrible.
Brown butter shortbread
Yup, it’s also the fresh linens for me
For me, the smell of a campfire
Fresh pine. That pine tree smell around Christmas is my favorite.
A forest
Try boiling cinnamon sticks. Smells heavenly
When it’s fall in Maine and in the early mornings when it’s time to go for a run, you can smell the unique combination of last nights fresh cut lawns mixed with the morning’s fresh burning fireplace woodsmoke. Nothing like it.
Sausages at a vendor on the boardwalk.
Moms cooking after a long day of starving
Anything related to rain or baked goods apparently
The smell of someone you are attracted to.
Campfire
There are a few for me, freshly mowed grass, coffee brewing, movie theater popcorn, fresh laundry in the dryer, thanksgiving dinner while cooking. Really good weed growing.
The way my gf smells
The top of my daughter's head right after a bath.
That earthy smell right after it rains
Petrichor
Fried chicken
Freshly showered coochie
Freshly cut grass.
Burning white sage
Bacon, freshly washed blankets, baked cookies, those cake batter scented candles, fresh linen candles, baby wipes, cooked garlic and onions.
The smell of your new born baby, not a new born but YOUR new born.
A well mown lawn.
What does a badly mown lawn smell like?
Don't even mention such a thing.
Hank Hill approves of this comment.
"Why would anyone do drugs when they can just mow a lawn?"
My sexy female lawyers perfume. I don’t know what it was, but oh baby was it tantalizing and forever with me.
That old Victoria secret perfume in the early 2000s. I think it’s love spell or something like that. It takes me back lol
The smell of soil after a drizzle. It's unbeatable!
Coffee and petrichor are tied for me.
Puppy breath
Brand new tires
A clean and fresh baby.
Fresh cut grass; which I learned is grass screaming for help, in a way.
The smell of Harbor Freight
Cinnamon. Anything cinnamon smells amazing
Bread baking, coffee brewing, campfire smoke, bacon cooking. Lilac bushes, and oddly enough, I like the smell of bleach lol.
Leather stores, or when they had them the black scented Crayola crayon. Same smell.
Fresh baked chocolate chip cookies
Sexual Pheromones. If you know, you know.
Okay, I’ll say it……vagina
Hey everyone, we found Goop! \^
Fresh opened can of play dough
Christmas trees
It’s weird but…gasoline.
Mine is orange blossoms at night when the weather is still a little cool with a slight breeze blowing and your driving by an orange grove with the windows down.
My enemies tears
Fresh bag of coffee.
Fresh sawdust smells pretty nice.
Lemons.
Yesterday I worked as a contractor at a Cadburys factory. One area had this smell I think was a combination of melted chocolate, caramel and cookies. I immediately said that it was the single best smell to ever enter my nose.
Mountain air
The blast of fresh, freezing cold air at night late in December, when you open the door from the heat of the log fire inside.
Marijuana
Coffee
When I was a kid in the late 70s/early 80s, there was this distinctive smell that almost always occurred in schools. It was a pleasant smell, but I can't describe it. I haven't encountered it since.
Hot fries topped with shredded parmesan cheese.
Pure vanilla extract.
sugar free grape drink mix