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Across the Fence:  What is your favorite smell?  |
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levisgrammy
True Blue Farmgirl
9587 Posts
Denise
Beavercreek
Ohio
USA
9587 Posts |
 Posted - Sep 19 2008 : 10:47:23 AM
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#1 I have to go with lilacs. That is my all time favorite, then I would say the smell of the grandkids after being tubbed and scrubbed. They smell so good! I also enjoy the smell of new mown hay. mmmm, love it! What a great question. I almost forgot, the smell of the ocean air when we go to the shore.
Denise
farmgirl sister #43
"Take a lesson from the teakettle, though up to its
neck in hot water...it sings!"
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Edited by - levisgrammy on Sep 19 2008 10:48:23 AM |
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Maryjane Lee
True Blue Farmgirl
2195 Posts
Maryjane
CA
USA
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acairnsmom
True Blue Farmgirl
1319 Posts
audrey
cheyenne
wy
1319 Posts |
Posted - Sep 19 2008 : 12:17:17 PM
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I have to agree with Denise, I love the smell of lilacs in full bloom. Nothing better in the world. The smell of an old barn takes me back to my childhood and summers on my Grandparent's ranch. And no, my dog's aroma is not a pleasant one unless he's just had a bath!
Audrey
Toto, we're not in Kansas any more! |
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bushelnpeck
True Blue Farmgirl
262 Posts
Debbie
Sparks
Nv
USA
262 Posts |
Posted - Sep 19 2008 : 2:58:49 PM
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I would have to say, my favorite is sheets fresh in from outside. I also love the smell of my Mums' baking bread, and a really fresh Christmas tree. Every smell to do with fall, it is my favorite time of year and I just have to take it all in. Too much good stuff...Debbie
Farmgirl Sister #324
duty makes us do things, but love, makes us do things beautifully... |
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
6066 Posts |
Posted - Sep 19 2008 : 5:31:40 PM
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I absolutely love the smell of my little granddaughters hair after a bath. We use Baby Magic Lavender Milk Bath....and they smell so precious!!!
And I love the way people smell when they come in from outside - that fresh air smell.
Farmgirl Sister # 31
www.blueskyjeannie.blogspot.com
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lisamarie508
True Blue Farmgirl
2648 Posts
Lisa
Idaho City
ID
USA
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Posted - Sep 19 2008 : 5:47:30 PM
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Tracy, you are not alone in loving horse smells! I just knew there had to be more. All of my friends and family thought I was crazy, too. Except for dh because he loves it, too. My mom used to make me strip outside the back door after mucking/riding because she couldn't stand it!
Maryjane, I would love your award winning pumpkin bread recipe! Can you post it over in the kitchen?
Farmgirl Sister #35
"If you can not do great things, do small things in a great way." Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)
my blog: http://lisamariesbasketry.blogspot.com/
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country roads
True Blue Farmgirl
443 Posts
Melissa
Shinglehouse
Pa
USA
443 Posts |
Posted - Sep 19 2008 : 10:00:41 PM
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I love the smell of a crisp fall morning, coffee brewed over a camp fire, baby chicks, bed sheets dried in the sun, hoppes gun cleaner fluid, and home made bread.
Take care, Melissa.
Farmgirl # 352
~Think happy thoughts~ |
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shepherdess
True Blue Farmgirl
359 Posts
Robin
Eatonville
Washington
USA
359 Posts |
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Tapestry
True Blue Farmgirl
1223 Posts
Cheryl
Wisconsin
USA
1223 Posts |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 08:12:08 AM
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I love the smell of lilacs, newly mown hay or grass, fresh sage picked from the planter outside my kitchen door, the crisp smell once it frosts and the air just smells so fresh. The smell after a spring rain. Anything baking in the oven but especially pumpkin pie. Clean sheets off the line in the dead of winter. They smell fresher then than at any other time of the year. Anytime it's above freezing you can hang sheets out and they'll dry. So many memories are sparked by smells 
Happy farmgirl sister #353
Look for rainbows instead of mud puddles
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Betty J.
True Blue Farmgirl
1407 Posts
Betty
Pasco
WA
USA
1407 Posts |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 08:24:02 AM
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Sheets can be hung outside below freezing. I used to hang my brother and sister's diapers outside in the dead of winter. That's what you call "freeze dried."
I love the smell upon entering an earthen cellar. I can remember the smell of my grandmother's cellar. It was earthy and musty. Then to see those rows and rows of canned vegetables, sauerkraut in the crocks and grandma taking a pinch out to see if it was done and sharing it with me.
I also love the smell of the cow barn/horse barn. If the animals are inside it is a warm and misty smell.
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kpaints
True Blue Farmgirl
1564 Posts
karen
cheney
wa
1564 Posts |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 08:55:29 AM
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My favorites are fresh cut wood, sawdust, coffee, a cleansing rain, clean sheets off the line! And most of all, the great out of doors.
Find your joy and live it. http://cheneybaglady.blogspot.com/ |
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Hanalu
True Blue Farmgirl
123 Posts
Hana
Redwood City
California
USA
123 Posts |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 4:49:38 PM
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When I go to my parents house in spring and smell the sweet peas! My dad grows them especially for me! I love, love, love them!!!
I also love the smell of babies, rain, coffee beans, chocolate and the smell of a roast in the oven! Oh and cookies baking!mummmm!The anticipation! |
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Contrary Wife
True Blue Farmgirl
2164 Posts
Teresa Sue
Tekoa
WA
USA
2164 Posts |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 4:51:35 PM
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Oh! I love all those smells!
Teresa Sue
Farmgirl Sister #316
"Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly." The Dalai Lama |
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deeredawn
True Blue Farmgirl
2306 Posts
Dawn
Cordova
TN
USA
2306 Posts |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 6:23:21 PM
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I got 2 more: I love the smell of Sweet Annie, and I don't know what she used, but the smell of my grandma. Powdery, slightly perfume, and very distinct. i once caught a whiff of a lady in the grocery store and it took everything in me to not stand beside her and inhale without looking like a stalker. What is it that they use?
Dawn #279
MJ's Heirloom Mavens/Mother Hen
http://harvestthymefarm.blogspot.com
"I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one!"...Calamity Jane |
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graciegreeneyes
True Blue Farmgirl
3107 Posts
Amy Grace
Rosalia
WA
USA
3107 Posts |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 6:52:04 PM
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Wow - there are lots of my favorites already listed. there is a specific combination of smells that my grandma's kitchen had - coffee/coffee grounds (for compost), bread, homecooking. I walked in my kitchen tonight and it smelled like that, guess I'm really getting to be a farmgirl. Also I inherited and old dresser with all my grandma's linens in it last year and I picked up the napkins and they smelled like her house - I don't think I will use or wash them, their house has since been torn down.
Also new mown hay - I remember driving onto my great-aunt and uncle's dairy farm with my grandparents and mentioning that there should be a perfume of new mown hay....having grown up on farms they were both highly amused:)
Amy Grace
Farmgirl #224
"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without" |
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
11303 Posts |
Posted - Sep 20 2008 : 8:23:24 PM
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I hope it's ok to add a few more.
I was going through a very old BH&G cookbook that came with the house looking for a recipe and thought how much I love the smell of old books.
And also in the mornings when I first wake up, the smell of the coffee perking in the kitchen.
I have a friend who's yard is full of very old Boxwoods that her mother planted over 80 years ago. I love to just put my face inside a big bush and inhale that smell. There needs to be a Boxwood perfume. And her whole house smells like it, too. |
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gramadinah
True Blue Farmgirl
3557 Posts
Diana
Orofino
ID
USA
3557 Posts |
Posted - Sep 21 2008 : 09:10:17 AM
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Well as I started this whole thing I can only add that you have mentioned all very wonderful smells. One I forgot was my Dad's pipe back in the day it wasn't bad to smoke. And the smell of snow, and salsa cooking on the stove and onions and garlic for speg sauce.
Diana
Farmgirl Sister #273 |
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a rose
True Blue Farmgirl
443 Posts
Linda
Waterford
NY
USA
443 Posts |
Posted - Sep 21 2008 : 10:20:15 AM
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AH...the smell of life!!!
Remember me as a rose. |
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Kris Sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
131 Posts
Kris
Chickamauga
Ga.
USA
131 Posts |
Posted - Sep 21 2008 : 10:50:00 AM
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| The smell of a pipe reminded me of the time several years ago I got my husband to smoke a pipe because I thought it smelled so good! It was so much trouble to keep the thing going, he got tired of it fast. The things our poor hubbies put up with... |
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wild daisy
True Blue Farmgirl
503 Posts
Madelynne
Billings
Montana
USA
503 Posts |
Posted - Sep 21 2008 : 1:09:45 PM
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I like the smell of my Chai Tea (that is sugar-free Chai Tea). It always gets my day off to a good start.
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kissmekate
True Blue Farmgirl
890 Posts
Kate
Delano
Minnesota
890 Posts |
Posted - Sep 21 2008 : 9:19:59 PM
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I love the smell of fresh laundry off the line. With our weather turning cooler soon, that will be forgotten for a few (okay, six) months.
I love the smell of Chanel No. 5. It is my favorite perfume.
I also love the smell of fresh cut lemons.
Lilacs and hyacinths too.
Don't miss out on a blessing, just because it isn't packaged the way you expected. ~MaryJo Copeland |
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Suzan
True Blue Farmgirl
659 Posts
suzanne
duncannon
pa
USA
659 Posts |
Posted - Sep 22 2008 : 07:49:33 AM
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| Homey smells: food cooking, cleaning smells, pumpkin spice candles, laundry on the line; Christmas trees, fresh cut wood...The first time I took my sister (who has horses) to NYC overnight we went to Central Park and when we got to the corner by the Plaza Hotel she said "SMELL THAT? It smells so good!!" It was the horses with the carriages... |
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BarefootGoatGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1495 Posts
Corrine
North Carolina
USA
1495 Posts |
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oldfashioned girl
True Blue Farmgirl
2391 Posts
monica
oatman
az
USA
2391 Posts |
Posted - Sep 22 2008 : 08:50:11 AM
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My favorite smells are fresh cut grass and lilacs!
Monica
farmgirls rule!
www.justducky48.etsy.com |
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Daisydu
Farmgirl in Training
40 Posts
Becky
Rock Hill
South Carolina
USA
40 Posts |
Posted - Sep 22 2008 : 09:14:40 AM
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I love most of the scents mentioned. But I didn't catch the scent of honeysuckle. If I am walking along in the spring and I catch the scent, I stop dead in my tracks and soak it in. It is my favorite scent.
Loving a simple life in the country!
www.twistedfencepost.wordpress.com |
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