Mine is lilacs, because there was a lilac bush at the bus stop that I used to wait at with my mom when I was a kid, it was my school bus stop and the public bus stop so we spent a lot of time on that corner and now when I smell lilacs I just immediately feel like a kid again.

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    My wife’s soap.

    Every time she comes out of the shower I want to pounce on her. I often grab her while sitting for a hug and plant my face in her tummy. Getting a good whiff.

    Oddly enough she uses fragrance free soap so maybe it’s just her natural scent. Haha.

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    Rain. Or, rather, the sweet earthy smell of wet moss or grass and decomposition and the rest of it that is far beyond any human descriptions and impossible to even approach with words 🥹

    Combined with the sound, it’s the most divine state a world can exist in, period.

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    That’s a really nice memory. I also remember how the bushes would smell from when I was a kid in the garden.

    Now my favourite smell is my wife, and I bet some of yours will now also be, “this guys wife”.

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      Old school petrol stations when we still used leaded fuel right??? Modern petrol ain’t shit by comparison, smell wise that is

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    I’m Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario so the strongest memories for me have to do with being out on the land with my family.

    My favourite smell is a combination of a campfire inside my family’s teepee in the wilderness of northern Ontario in the early spring with snow still around and the mushkeg in the middle of melting and warming. The combination of fresh cut pine wood, pine boughs next to a new camp fire, fresh goose being roasted over the flames, the musky smell of the land, smoke from the fire and the cool damp scent of the snow and ice. It all brings me back to being a kid with my family. I wish I were there now.

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    Orange blossoms. Everything “Orange blossom” scented just smells like perfumey oranges, nothing like actual orange blossoms. You can only smell them on the tree, this time of year.

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    A core memory unlock scent for me is any time I smell honeysuckle. We had some where I grew up, and it just instantly takes me back.

    Others are a spray from Lush called sleepy time. It’s Lavender and Tonka, and it is the most calming scent I’ve ever been around.
    Dark chocolate. Good roasted coffee. Wife’s body spray Tea and Bergamont from bath and bodyworks.

    My weird ones are lumber and gasoline