Some Nice Smells

[lupestripe]

Being a wolf I'm quite used to using my olfactory sense. So here is a list of smells that this lil wolf likes:

1) New upholstery and carpet
2) Petrol and benzene
3) Freshly baked bread
4) Crisp springtime dew (or indeed any grass after it has just been raining)
5) Bacon frying
6) Fish being battered in a fish and chip shop

Comments

[lsfiox.livejournal.com]

i'm gonna try and link everyone of those things to something common, food.
6,5 and 3 are obvious
4 "crisp"
2 can be used to provide fire for cooking foods
1...errm..Car..pet..car..drivethru..food >.>

naa, 'm jus' messing, i have a few fav smells myself, i will have to agree with number 1 but a fairly random one is a type of tropical sun tan lotion.

*weird*

[greyscar.livejournal.com]

Mine are coal tar, Two stroke engine exhaust, Freshly grown skunk bud, Hot engine smells, hydrocarbons and freshly baked sponge buns that I make.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

So lots of benzene in there hehe. Is there a common chemical that connects most of those? Perhaps that's what it is.

Freshly grown skunk is okay but a little too pungeant for me really. I agree with you about baked sponge buns though, that was one I'd completely forgotten. The smell of a baking cake has got to be another one of mine.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Have you tried vegetarian bacon? It's more akin to floor tiles than actual food hehe. As for number 4 - I could have easily just said springtime dew - particularly as springtime dew is not crisp - I was getting it confused with frost.

I've never cooked food on petrol before although I suppose it could be used as a heat source. I would have thought it's probably a little too dangerous though.

God number one is tenuous although I was thinking of new car smell specifically. Very tenuous - you're going to have to try better than that :-P

Suntan lotion can smell quite nice but I don't think I've tried the tropical one. How's it any different? Does it protect you in the tropics?

[jackalesque.livejournal.com]

I just discovered today I like the smell of bookshops...

mmm, new books

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Which bookshop in particular hun? Books have a really nice smell (I used to snort new books as a kid I loved the smell so much) so I can see what you mean but most bookshops I go to are air conditioned to the point where the smell is taken away :(

[jackalesque.livejournal.com]

Waterstone's didn't seem to have air con (High St. Kensington, London) because it was kinda cold anyway I guess so it still smelled like books.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Small independent bookshops or those olde worlde bookshops you get in cities like York do have a particular smell of stale books in them. I must admit I haven't really experienced the smell of books in a Waterstones really, largely due to the air conditioning. Maybe they're all really well ventilated up here.

[tr-wolf.livejournal.com]

I agree with all of those.

I also like sap, like pine trees/christmas trees in the woods.

AND bonfire night smells, ie burning wood/burning smells in the cold night air.

AND fresh strawberries in their plastic container which has just a few holes in, now if its in a chiller area like at CostCo... put your nose up to that and sniff... almost makes me orgasm, seriously!

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Pine trees - that's another one I love. I enjoy going up to Scotland in winter and wandering around amidst the trees up there - the sights and smells make life worth living - and to me that's not an exaggeration.

I was thinking fireworks after greyscar's comments - I agree that the smell of a freshly spent firework is amazing too. Combine the wood burning smell with cooking sizzling sausages and I agree with that one too.

Fresh strawberries are a definite :-)

[balto-mike.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm...my opinions of your choices are as follows:

1) Yes its defiantly a nice smell, but not forever.
2) God...why? I hate the smell of petrol fumes. *Coughs!*
3) Lovely, one of my favourites, the supermarkets in the USA don't have bakeries. *Sobs*
4) Natural smells are generally very nice, except for a select few such as methane. XD
5) Hmmm...bacon...
6) Perhaps, not a big fan of fish, change that to fries being made cooked for me. ^^

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

1) Sadly it doesn't last forever although I wish it did. Having said that I would probably get sick of it after a while. When I lived in America I got sick of it being sunny every single day. Sometimes I yearnt for the good old British drizzle.

2) I like the faint whiff of petrol you get at a petrol station - I certainly couldn't snort the stuff or anything like that. Sometimes it's fun to stand near a car exhaust though as it's running to try and catch the smell.

3) Supermarkets in America are generally homogenated - everything's done off-site and then sent to the store. I think the Americans often go for convenience above quality - a lot of the food in the supermarkets there was poor compared to those in Britain. I may be wrong though. I prefer independent bakeries to supermarkets anyway mind, but at least supermarkets in Britain (Morrisons is a prime example) have their own bakeries, fishmongers etc.

4) Too true about methane and I agree with you about most natural smells. Hey, I'm a wolf!

5) I like the smell of bacon more than the taste. I'm vegetarian anyway but in my meat-eating days I was never really a big fan of bacon.

6) I agree with you on fries too - although not the thin McDonald's type - nice thick chunky fries are better.

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Regarding 4, did you know that the smell of the earth after it rains has a name? It's called petrichor, and apparently is caused by some sort of oil that gets released from the ground when it rains. :)

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Really? I didn't know that. That's the smell I love. Thanks hun!

[schnee.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. ^^ I didn't know about it, either, but I read about it a while ago in an Irregular Webcomic! poll. :)

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Irregular Webcomic? What's that? It sounds like the source of a lot of interesting information. I like it when I find out random pieces of information like the one above :)

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Oh, it is! ^^ It's a very beautiful - and, despite its name, *very* regular - webcomic; the website's at http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/ , and there's various Livejournal feeds, too (irregular_comic for links to the strips; irregularcomic2 for inlined comic images, but no annotations; irregularcomic3 for inlined comic images and annotations).

The comic's author often includes interesting tidbits of information, trivia and physics (and other things) in his annotations (in fact, he's got a Ph.D. in physics), and the site has interesting polls that change regularly, too (and the results, when posted, often include interesting comments from the author, as well).

The comic itself has a variety of themes; most are done with LEGO pieces, while others use fantasy game miniatures (there's also one about superheroes that's actually drawn by an outside artist, but it only appears very rarely, and fortunately so - it's about the only theme I don't like). There's occasional crossovers between the themes, too. :)

I can't recommend this comic highly enough really. :) I personally follow the irregular_comic feed and go to the site to read the comic and the annotations - this is mostly because I want to check out the polls as well (they don't appear in any feed), and because I occasionally comment on the feed entries or read other comments posted there (the feed's not overrun the way that xkcd_rss etc. are, though, fortunately).

If you want to check it out, I highly recommend reading the entire comic from the start when you've got a couple of hours to spare on a weekend or so. :) It'll have you in stitches many times, and you'll keep coming back for more. ^^

If you haven't got the time for that, I still recommend following the feed and checking out the daily strip and annotations (if any) and the polls (changing every couple of days), at least. :)

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

It looks amazing hun, I think I can spend many an hour flicking through this. So many websites, so little time *sigh*.

I like the lego-man stuff. It's lazy but it's to great affect. I love how the internet is a treasure-trove of pointless shit. It's so amusing - I tend to find the more random and twisted the better.

I'll have a look around the site somemore - thanks for alerting me to it *hugs*

[schnee.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. ^^ *snuggles* And it's less lazy than it looks, actually - building and arranging scenes, photographing them and postprocessing them in Photoshop (adding backgrounds, speech bubbles, and so on) is more work than it might seem, I think. I don't think dmmaus spends less time on the comic than other webcomic authors that draw their comics. :)

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there's a lot of work involved as you say. I guess as there's lots of different bits to the process it is more engaging whereas drawing takes effort to sit down and actually do it. My concentration span is bad so it'd be better for me to do the Lego stuff as I would be easily amused.

It's a great effect though - I'm very impressed :)

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah, I'd probably enjoy building a comic with LEGO more than I'd enjoy drawing one, too (not that drawing isn't nice, of course). :)

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

The problem I have with drawing is that it takes me so long to come up with anything decent. I know it's a case of practice and if I had time I would but my attention span is akin to that of a housefly so I doubt I would have the patience. Plus Lego would be more fun.

Having said that wanting to draw and wanting to play the guitar are my next two wishes. I should act on them soon methinks.

[schnee.livejournal.com]

*noddles* Drawing's much the same for me... it's really frustrating that I always spend so much time yet come up with so little. c.c I know I'd just need more practice, but I haven't really got the patience for that. Ah well...

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

That's very much my problem - I'd love to be able to draw furries and characters but I find it hard to find time to practice. My mother is a good drawer so I may have latent talent, just never had the time to express it :(

[schnee.livejournal.com]

Yeah...

[spargue.livejournal.com]

Bacon and fish bad I thought?
So is snuffing petrol and benzene. But that's a whole other issue and very chavy

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

I like the smell of both - it makes me very tempted to eat them though and it's hard to resist.

I like the faint whiff of petrol and benzene at a petrol station but would feel ill if it was there for longer than a few seconds. I certainly could never sniff it or anything.

[spargue.livejournal.com]

I like the smell of phenol. It's used as a base in many perfumes and aftershaves.

[crosseyeddragon.livejournal.com]

I love the smell of fresh coffee (strange though as I can't stand the taste of coffee.)
That brand new computer smell that lasts about two days after you brought it.
That fresh type smell you get after a heavy rain fall.
Frying bacon and fish and chips.
and that green radox shower gel you get from Tescos ;)

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

I agree completely about the fresh coffee thing - it's a really nice smell yet it tastes like utter shite. I wonder why that is.

Those silver bags that computer chips come in - the smell of the insde of them is divine. Completely agree with you about new computers and also photocopier smell - acetone is a really sweet smell too. Wonder if they are linked?

Radox shower gel, hmm, I'm cheap and stick to Lidl's own. It gives a nice foam hehe.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

It's also a benzene product isn't it? I'm not too sure about perfumes and aftershaves meself - they have an odour similar to that of a chemical toilet. I find them more offputting if anything (although my boyfriend's aftershave is mrrr).

[spargue.livejournal.com]

Phenol is an alcohol made from benzene. My aftershave is alcohol free, so I don't dry my skin out or get hurt if I cut myself :) But it's also scentless too.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

What's the point of the aftershave then? Indeed what IS the point of aftershave, is it to neutralise the skin or something.

Phenol is an alcohol yes...hmm an alcohol with a benzene ring attached. So you can drink yourself to death quite literally. Marvellous!

[spargue.livejournal.com]

nono, it is a benzene ring with an oh group attached. but still quite deadly.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Mmmm benzene *wags*

[fen-ra.livejournal.com]

My favourite is how the air smells before it rains.

[lupestripe.livejournal.com]

Is that the leaden heaviness? I prefer the smell afterwards really, it's a unique freshness that suggests that the sky is relieved and all is once again well.