Favourite garden smells?

[Hilary B]

Yesterday we visited a NGS garden. Lovely garden, but the scents were mostly overwhelmed by the massive area of Ramsons in the 'wild end'. A nice smell, until you have been unable to smell anything else for half-an-hour.......

[SlugLobber]

Freshly cut grass
The smell before and after rain (I can always smell it before it happens!)
Rosco's fur when he smells of 'outside'.

Jimmer, my OH gets off on the smell of Gas-powered forklifts. Strange lad!

I do love the smell of hot tarmac and the fumes from buses!! Oh and 2-stroke.

[Pumpkin Becki]

I love sweetpeas, and on my way home from school as a girl I remember always stopping underneath the flowering lilac trees to to fill up on their delicious scent.

We once pruned my Grandmother's lilac tree, and I thought it would be nice to put the flowers in a vase in her living room, but she wouldn't let me in the house with them - said it was bad luck or something. Personally, I think she missed out there.

[JimmerG]

Jimmer, my OH gets off on the smell of Gas-powered forklifts. Strange lad!

I'm EXACTLY with your OH on that one aswell - I'll often wonder along behind one just to get a good whiff!

[HeyWayne]

wet tarmac on a hot day.

With you on that one dude, especially when it starts steaming.

[Glutton4...]

Howsabout a couple of 'off the wall' ideas - The smell of petrol spilt over the lawn mover, and lovely lovely creosote (even more now than its been banned!)J

I loooooove the smell of Petrol too!

Freshly cut grass ... before and after rain ... Oh and 2-stroke.

Now you're talking 2-stoke Motorbike exhaust - Yummy!

[Nicos]

oh yuk you guys!!!

Grass of course- bonfire smoke- oh, and of course, BBQ and suncream!!!!

Flum- wet dust...mmm...that's a French smell to me!!!! and yup- I love it too- memories of camping holidays!

Too many flowers and herbs to mention

[Hilary B]

oh yuk you guys!!!

Grass of course- bonfire smoke- oh, and of course, BBQ and suncream!!!!

Flum- wet dust...mmm...that's a French smell to me!!!! and yup- I love it too- memories of camping holidays!

Too many flowers and herbs to mention

BBQ and suncream are not proper garden smells!
How can you have wet dust? If it is wet, it isn't dust any more! (but I think I know what you mean by the smell, it is nice too).
I like the smell of 'outdoor hot', the smell you get when the day has been really hot and it is starting to cool off, and someone has decided it is no longer too hot to water the garden.......

[Becca]

most evocative.. tomatoes, reminds me of grandads greenhouse and by association their garden and nans cakes and lots of good things makes me happy and sad at the same time as they're both gone now...
favourite.. probably my honeysuckle on a warm evening, and wierdly, the smell of my cat's fur when he's been basking in the sun..

[julesapple]

Hard to Choose...

...a favourite outdoors smell.

BBQ IS a proper outdoor smell. We had a steak BBQ for Christmas dinner last Christmas. My AP's were down for the festivities and both they and my children said it was the best Christmas dinner ever, so you know what we'll be doing in December whatever the weather. We sat outdoors afterwards as our BBQ acts as a big fire bowl and we threw a (Yule) log on it - very toasty warm.

Fresh washing blowing in the breeze smells divine. Then there are all of my favourite flowers - lilacs, honeysuckle, freesias, Lilies of the valley etc.

Pipe tobacco - both my Granda and my step-grandad used to smoke pipes when gardening. One whiff and I'm right back to Sutherland circa 1977.

Fresh rain...no nscented airfreshners or perfumed oils can ever recreate that one.

And loads more....don't get me started on petrol - I'm just a petrol junkie.

Jules

[petal]

Wisteria. Roses.

[Hilary B]

...a favourite outdoors smell.

BBQ IS a proper outdoor smell. We had a steak BBQ for Christmas dinner last Christmas. My AP's were down for the festivities and both they and my children said it was the best Christmas dinner ever, so you know what we'll be doing in December whatever the weather. We sat outdoors afterwards as our BBQ acts as a big fire bowl and we threw a (Yule) log on it - very toasty warm.

Fresh washing blowing in the breeze smells divine. Then there are all of my favourite flowers - lilacs, honeysuckle, freesias, Lilies of the valley etc.

Pipe tobacco - both my Granda and my step-grandad used to smoke pipes when gardening. One whiff and I'm right back to Sutherland circa 1977.

Fresh rain...no nscented airfreshners or perfumed oils can ever recreate that one.

And loads more....don't get me started on petrol - I'm just a petrol junkie.

Jules

BBQ is certainly an OUTDOOR smell, but not a GARDEN smell<g> If we were going with outdoor smells I would include the smell of hot tar when the road is being resurfaced (anyone else old enough to remember being taken along to watch as a treatment for bunged-up-nose after a cold?)

[Flummery]

I remember that Hilary - it was supposed to be effective against whooping cough too.

[HeyWayne]

I know mown grass is a favourite of many people but I actually don't like it. It reminds me of a time when I was a kid and the park across the road from our house had just been mowed. I was playing on one of the now banned park apparatus when some local louts grabbed me and stuffed handfuls of the mown grass down my underpants. Itched for days!