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Title: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: midlifeaspie on March 29, 2011, 06:42:07 PM
Sounds have been done - but I have always been an olfactory aspie.

The smoke coming off white hot mesquite chips saturated with the juices from honey-glazed teriyaki chicken breasts.  I am cold and wet, but very happy.
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Post by: Callaway on March 29, 2011, 06:47:45 PM
I'm smelling my hands after I washed them with liquid hand soap a few minutes ago.  The scent is called "Fresh Cotton".
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 29, 2011, 06:56:21 PM
My hands smell lotion-y.  8)
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Post by: 'Butterflies' on March 29, 2011, 07:27:17 PM
Burnt toast.
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Post by: midlifeaspie on March 29, 2011, 07:46:11 PM
Burnt toast.

I have heard that can be indicative of an impending stroke.  Feeling okay otherwise?  :zombiefuck:
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Post by: 'Butterflies' on March 29, 2011, 07:50:53 PM
Burnt toast.

I have heard that can be indicative of an impending stroke.  Feeling okay otherwise?  :zombiefuck:

I feel like hell actually, but I think the smell is more indicative of forgetting I was making toast :laugh:
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 29, 2011, 07:59:10 PM
Burnt toast.

I have heard that can be indicative of an impending stroke.  Feeling okay otherwise?  :zombiefuck:

I feel like hell actually, but I think the smell is more indicative of forgetting I was making toast :laugh:

Are you going to throw it out and make fresh toast, or are you going to scrape off the charred parts and eat the rest?  :P
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Post by: 'Butterflies' on March 29, 2011, 08:00:46 PM
Burnt toast.

I have heard that can be indicative of an impending stroke.  Feeling okay otherwise?  :zombiefuck:

I feel like hell actually, but I think the smell is more indicative of forgetting I was making toast :laugh:

Are you going to throw it out and make fresh toast, or are you going to scrape off the charred parts and eat the rest?  :P

It was the last of the bread. Yup, it's one of those days :laugh: I had a bowl of cereal instead
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Post by: 'andersom' on March 30, 2011, 04:47:01 AM
Butterflies' toenails.  :autism:
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Post by: RageBeoulve on March 30, 2011, 06:52:08 AM
Cat breath.
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Post by: Binty on March 30, 2011, 09:23:20 AM
Mint :pinkbeat:
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Post by: Callaway on March 30, 2011, 09:24:21 AM
:coffee:
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Post by: RageBeoulve on March 30, 2011, 10:53:07 AM
Top of Myla's head. Just cat smell.
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Post by: midlifeaspie on March 30, 2011, 10:58:29 AM
Cat breath.

Fishy?

IMO - nothing beats puppy breath.  Warm and moist and spicy.
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Post by: RageBeoulve on March 30, 2011, 11:04:49 AM
Cat breath.

Fishy?

IMO - nothing beats puppy breath.  Warm and moist and spicy.

Naw it just kinda smells like a regular mouth. Myla is constantly bathing me, so she gets in my face a lot. Avin just smells like shampoo.
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Post by: 'andersom' on March 30, 2011, 02:41:08 PM
Cat breath.

Fishy?

IMO - nothing beats puppy breath.  Warm and moist and spicy.

Naw it just kinda smells like a regular mouth. Myla is constantly bathing me, so she gets in my face a lot. Avin just smells like shampoo.

Shampoo?
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Post by: TheoK on March 30, 2011, 02:46:35 PM
Obsession showergel for men.  :viking:
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Post by: 'andersom' on March 30, 2011, 02:55:08 PM
My tea, with cinnamon and rose petals. Substitute for the chai they did not sell.
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Post by: TheoK on March 30, 2011, 02:57:43 PM
They must die for not selling the right tea! :arrr:
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Post by: Parts on March 30, 2011, 03:41:02 PM
The stove preheating and has that nondescript food cooking smell
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Post by: RageBeoulve on March 31, 2011, 09:38:18 AM
Lol hyke. Avin likes baths, so sometimes I use shampoo on him
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 31, 2011, 09:55:37 AM
Top of Myla's head. Just cat smell.

One of my favorite cats ever was a big, warm, friendly orange tabby. The top of his head smelled spicy!  :heart:
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Post by: 'andersom' on March 31, 2011, 01:09:03 PM
Top of Myla's head. Just cat smell.

One of my favorite cats ever was a big, warm, friendly orange tabby. The top of his head smelled spicy!  :heart:

Luna smells extremely sweet in a pleasant way, her paws are the sweetest bit.
Sirius does have something odd in his scent. But, he is a bit of a fucked up cat, and acting in a strange mixture of anxiety and extreme attention whoring. His scent does make sense in a sort of way. When we just got him, he downright stank. But, that isn't the case any more.
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Post by: Icequeen on March 31, 2011, 01:13:07 PM
Chicken & dumplings in the crockpot. 8)
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 31, 2011, 01:16:59 PM
Chicken & dumplings in the crockpot. 8)

Save me some! Or at least post a pic so I can dream!  :drool:
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Post by: midlifeaspie on April 01, 2011, 03:10:23 PM
Burnt popcorn.  Unfortunately, this sometimes gives me a migraine  :grrr:
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Post by: Al Swearegen on April 02, 2011, 08:20:44 AM
Not a hell of a lot. Almost non-existent sense of smell  :hahaha:

Though I did smell some spices at a Malaysian restaurant the other day. It was awesome  :asthing:
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Post by: 'andersom' on April 02, 2011, 09:02:02 AM
Not a hell of a lot. Almost non-existent sense of smell  :hahaha:

Though I did smell some spices at a Malaysian restaurant the other day. It was awesome  :asthing:

Oh WOW.  :thumbup:
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Post by: Charlotte Quin on April 04, 2011, 01:46:01 AM
Pot pourri air freshener
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Post by: eris on April 04, 2011, 01:50:07 AM
weed and i can kinda smell the soap in the bathroom 2 doors away. I have a sensitive nose. My perfumes has long worn off.
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Post by: Eclair on April 04, 2011, 09:29:33 AM
Baby washing powder on the pink wrap I just put on to keep my shoulders warm.
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Post by: 'Butterflies' on April 04, 2011, 04:08:41 PM
In bath.

Im smelling cranberry and pomegranate body lotion.
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Post by: midlifeaspie on April 04, 2011, 05:04:51 PM
In bath.

Im smelling cranberry and pomegranate body lotion.

:autism:
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Post by: P7PSP on April 05, 2011, 12:20:53 AM
Food reheating in the microwave.
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 05, 2011, 12:24:49 AM
Food reheating in the microwave.

Please describe this food in detail.   :drool:
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Post by: P7PSP on April 05, 2011, 12:28:48 AM
Food reheating in the microwave.

Please describe this food in detail.   :drool:
Pork fried rice, chicken with asparagus and green beans and something else.  ???
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 05, 2011, 12:35:28 AM
Food reheating in the microwave.

Please describe this food in detail.   :drool:
Pork fried rice, chicken with asparagus and green beans and something else.  ???

*leaves you the asparagus and the "something else" and flees with a plate full of chicken, beans and rice!*   :2thumbsup:
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Post by: P7PSP on April 05, 2011, 12:45:53 AM
Food reheating in the microwave.

Please describe this food in detail.   :drool:
Pork fried rice, chicken with asparagus and green beans and something else.  ???

*leaves you the asparagus and the "something else" and flees with a plate full of chicken, beans and rice!*   :2thumbsup:
:spank:
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 05, 2011, 12:47:35 AM
Food reheating in the microwave.

Please describe this food in detail.   :drool:
Pork fried rice, chicken with asparagus and green beans and something else.  ???

*leaves you the asparagus and the "something else" and flees with a plate full of chicken, beans and rice!*   :2thumbsup:
:spank:

But the food smelled so delicious, and I was oh so hungry.  (emo)
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Post by: P7PSP on April 05, 2011, 12:48:31 AM
Okay, you can have it. 9995
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 05, 2011, 12:49:39 AM
Okay, you can have it. 9995

Thank you, I'll also have some of that lovely  :beware:
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Post by: P7PSP on April 05, 2011, 12:50:39 AM
 :2thumbsup:
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Post by: Eclair on April 05, 2011, 01:23:13 AM
Food reheating in the microwave.

Please describe this food in detail.   :drool:
Pork fried rice, chicken with asparagus and green beans and something else.  ???

*leaves you the asparagus and the "something else" and flees with a plate full of chicken, beans and rice!*   :2thumbsup:

I'm more interested in the mysterious 'something else'...
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 05, 2011, 01:26:50 AM
Food reheating in the microwave.

Please describe this food in detail.   :drool:
Pork fried rice, chicken with asparagus and green beans and something else.  ???

*leaves you the asparagus and the "something else" and flees with a plate full of chicken, beans and rice!*   :2thumbsup:

I'm more interested in the mysterious 'something else'...

*darts back and steals Eclair a portion of the something else*   :ninja:
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Post by: Eclair on April 05, 2011, 01:37:01 AM
Food reheating in the microwave.

Please describe this food in detail.   :drool:
Pork fried rice, chicken with asparagus and green beans and something else.  ???

*leaves you the asparagus and the "something else" and flees with a plate full of chicken, beans and rice!*   :2thumbsup:

I'm more interested in the mysterious 'something else'...

*darts back and steals Eclair a portion of the something else*   :ninja:

ty - you have to admit, the 'something else' comment was a bit mysterious! Why so secretive....why couldn't he say, 'some other stuff, forget what'....

OMG...

I really want to eat some Spam. It's your fault cbc...you brought it up!!

I'd like some fried Spam. I haven't had it since primary school.

My GOD, My GOD, My GOD....

I'm actually thinking of going up to the shop to get Spam and fry it. In keeping with the 70's theme, I could have dehydrated peas and potato whip....my favourite is Deb.

My God...that would be good. So bad, but good.
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 05, 2011, 01:39:22 AM
Food reheating in the microwave.

Please describe this food in detail.   :drool:
Pork fried rice, chicken with asparagus and green beans and something else.  ???

*leaves you the asparagus and the "something else" and flees with a plate full of chicken, beans and rice!*   :2thumbsup:

I'm more interested in the mysterious 'something else'...

*darts back and steals Eclair a portion of the something else*   :ninja:

ty - you have to admit, the 'something else' comment was a bit mysterious! Why so secretive....why couldn't he say, 'some other stuff, forget what'....

OMG...

I really want to eat some Spam. It's your fault cbc...you brought it up!!

I'd like some fried Spam. I haven't had it since primary school.

My GOD, My GOD, My GOD....

I'm actually thinking of going up to the shop to get Spam and fry it. In keeping with the 70's theme, I could have dehydrated peas and potato whip....my favourite is Deb.

My God...that would be good. So bad, but good.

It sounds delicious. I would love some Spam and potatoes.  *hops into the car and waits to accompany Eclair to the store*   :drool:
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Post by: P7PSP on April 05, 2011, 01:54:28 AM
Food reheating in the microwave.

Please describe this food in detail.   :drool:
Pork fried rice, chicken with asparagus and green beans and something else.  ???

*leaves you the asparagus and the "something else" and flees with a plate full of chicken, beans and rice!*   :2thumbsup:

I'm more interested in the mysterious 'something else'...

*darts back and steals Eclair a portion of the something else*   :ninja:

ty - you have to admit, the 'something else' comment was a bit mysterious! Why so secretive....why couldn't he say, 'some other stuff, forget what'....

OMG...

I really want to eat some Spam. It's your fault cbc...you brought it up!!

I'd like some fried Spam. I haven't had it since primary school.

My GOD, My GOD, My GOD....

I'm actually thinking of going up to the shop to get Spam and fry it. In keeping with the 70's theme, I could have dehydrated peas and potato whip....my favourite is Deb.

My God...that would be good. So bad, but good.
'some other stuff, forgot what'
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Post by: Eclair on April 05, 2011, 02:00:00 AM

I'd like some fried Spam. I haven't had it since primary school.

My GOD, My GOD, My GOD....

I'm actually thinking of going up to the shop to get Spam and fry it. In keeping with the 70's theme, I could have dehydrated peas and potato whip....my favourite is Deb.

My God...that would be good. So bad, but good.

It sounds delicious. I would love some Spam and potatoes.  *hops into the car and waits to accompany Eclair to the store*   :drool:

He he...the joy of dehydrated and fake packaged foods;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMt1L1CmUws&feature=related
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Post by: P7PSP on April 05, 2011, 02:18:52 AM
Frozen faggots.  :lol: That's gay.
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Post by: Eclair on April 05, 2011, 02:23:57 AM
Frozen faggots.  :lol: That's gay.

Ha! Who'd have thought something so brown and grey could only be 11% meat!
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Post by: P7PSP on April 05, 2011, 02:28:00 AM
Frozen faggots.  :lol: That's gay.

Ha! Who'd have thought something so brown and grey could only be 11% meat!
Have you ever tried the military type powdered eggs Eclair? Being a Navy brat I was exposed to them at an early age, then I forgot about them until boot camp.  :zombiefuck: :thumbdn:
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Post by: Eclair on April 05, 2011, 02:32:01 AM
Frozen faggots.  :lol: That's gay.

Ha! Who'd have thought something so brown and grey could only be 11% meat!
Have you ever tried the military type powdered eggs Eclair? Being a Navy brat I was exposed to them at an early age, then I forgot about them until boot camp.  :zombiefuck: :thumbdn:

I have a vague recollection of trying them once. I was never much for eggs when I was younger...or rather, it was that 'eggy' smell I was quite sensitive to.

The only other thing I remember was Pavlova Magic..

http://www.aussieproducts.com/images/ETPM12.gif

Which actually made a pavlova without the eggy smell (probably because it was more chemicals than egg!). I remember liking that for a little bit.
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Post by: Eclair on April 05, 2011, 02:33:29 AM
Frozen faggots.  :lol: That's gay.

Ha! Who'd have thought something so brown and grey could only be 11% meat!

Apart from a poo, that is!
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Post by: P7PSP on April 05, 2011, 02:36:13 AM
Frozen faggots.  :lol: That's gay.

Ha! Who'd have thought something so brown and grey could only be 11% meat!

Apart from a poo, that is!
Which does qualify as less appetizing.  :zoinks:
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Post by: Eclair on April 05, 2011, 02:54:01 AM
Frozen faggots.  :lol: That's gay.

Ha! Who'd have thought something so brown and grey could only be 11% meat!

Apart from a poo, that is!
Which does qualify as less appetizing.  :zoinks:

Now now, there's Lit to think of!  :viking:
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Post by: Eclair on April 05, 2011, 02:55:49 AM
Frozen faggots.  :lol: That's gay.

Ha! Who'd have thought something so brown and grey could only be 11% meat!

Apart from a poo, that is!
Which does qualify as less appetizing.  :zoinks:

Now now, there's Lit to think of!  :viking:
:LMAO: Jesus, and this convo, *just* happened to occur in the "What Smells are You Smelling Right Now" thread!
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Post by: Eclair on April 05, 2011, 07:51:19 AM
My GOD, My GOD, My GOD....

I'm actually thinking of going up to the shop to get Spam and fry it. In keeping with the 70's theme, I could have dehydrated peas and potato whip....my favourite is Deb.

My God...that would be good. So bad, but good.

It sounds delicious. I would love some Spam and potatoes.  *hops into the car and waits to accompany Eclair to the store*   :drool:

I went to the shops. Got the Spam, fried it, had the dehydrated peas and Deb. Had some rice and cucumber yoghurt. Fresh sliced tomato on the side for the healthy factor.

Took a pic cbc...for you to salivate over, but it won't upload for now.

Maybe when I reboot tomorrow morning I can upload my weak moment of a filthy meal. Spam is very, very salty!
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 05, 2011, 07:52:30 AM
My GOD, My GOD, My GOD....

I'm actually thinking of going up to the shop to get Spam and fry it. In keeping with the 70's theme, I could have dehydrated peas and potato whip....my favourite is Deb.

My God...that would be good. So bad, but good.

It sounds delicious. I would love some Spam and potatoes.  *hops into the car and waits to accompany Eclair to the store*   :drool:

I went to the shops. Got the Spam, fried it, had the dehydrated peas and Deb. Had some rice and cucumber yoghurt. Fresh sliced tomato on the side for the healthy factor.

Took a pic cbc...for you to salivate over, but it won't upload for now.

Maybe when I reboot tomorrow morning I can upload my weak moment of a filthy meal. Spam is very, very salty!

I look forward to seeing your fine feast in glorious color!   :2thumbsup:
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Post by: Celticgoddess on April 05, 2011, 07:53:36 AM
Apples and Cinnamon :heart: One of my favourite smells. Finally got around to baking those muffins.
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Post by: 'andersom' on April 05, 2011, 11:01:45 AM
Food reheating in the microwave.

Please describe this food in detail.   :drool:
Pork fried rice, chicken with asparagus and green beans and something else.  ???

*leaves you the asparagus and the "something else" and flees with a plate full of chicken, beans and rice!*   :2thumbsup:

I'm more interested in the mysterious 'something else'...

*darts back and steals Eclair a portion of the something else*   :ninja:

ty - you have to admit, the 'something else' comment was a bit mysterious! Why so secretive....why couldn't he say, 'some other stuff, forget what'....

OMG...

I really want to eat some Spam. It's your fault cbc...you brought it up!!

I'd like some fried Spam. I haven't had it since primary school.

My GOD, My GOD, My GOD....

I'm actually thinking of going up to the shop to get Spam and fry it. In keeping with the 70's theme, I could have dehydrated peas and potato whip....my favourite is Deb.

My God...that would be good. So bad, but good.

And strawberry ice-cream for dessert?
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Post by: midlifeaspie on May 02, 2011, 08:58:08 AM
My son's diaper  :thumbdn:
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Post by: Al Swearegen on May 02, 2011, 09:34:19 AM
My son's diaper  :thumbdn:

I am so glad I am passed that stage by a decade. If it helps mate, my ex usedd to often palm that off to me on the basis of "Well you can't smell it". Like that made the grossness any better.

(Anyhow I better eat the rest of my curry and stop thinking on this)  :autism:
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Post by: RageBeoulve on May 02, 2011, 09:44:02 AM
Avin is farting.
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Post by: eris on May 02, 2011, 07:15:12 PM
a very pleasant miture of

(http://www.perfumezilla.com/images_product/sunflowers-perfume-elizabeth-arden-eau-toilette-spray-women525412.jpg)


and

(http://hometestingblog.testcountry.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/marijuana1.jpg)



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Post by: midlifeaspie on May 02, 2011, 07:33:07 PM
Jealous  :autism:
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Post by: Icequeen on May 02, 2011, 08:39:19 PM
Cucumber body lotion.

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Post by: Charlotte Quin on May 05, 2011, 09:35:09 PM
I can still smell that place I inspected over one hour ago. Smelly tenants :zombiefuck:
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Post by: midlifeaspie on May 06, 2011, 08:43:45 AM
Bratwurst and eggs
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Post by: eris on May 06, 2011, 08:47:03 AM
weed again


and i have the window open, so all those nice outdoor smells like grass are there mixed in with ghetto smells like exhaust. I live on a major street and it's 24/7 noise :S



i have a very sensitive nose
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Post by: midlifeaspie on May 06, 2011, 09:49:31 AM
weed again


and i have the window open, so all those nice outdoor smells like grass are there mixed in with ghetto smells like exhaust. I live on a major street and it's 24/7 noise :S



i have a very sensitive nose

The pedestrian traffic doesn't poke their head in looking for a toke?  :viking:
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Post by: eris on May 06, 2011, 10:10:56 AM
I hope no one gets that close to my house ??? but i do live across from a bar ( with graffiti on it)

but, im a a few stories up from nose-level I think ill be ok :)
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Post by: 'andersom' on May 10, 2011, 05:31:27 PM
I hope no one gets that close to my house ??? but i do live across from a bar ( with graffiti on it)

but, im a a few stories up from nose-level I think ill be ok :)

Unless they have sensitive noses too......
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 11, 2011, 04:59:22 AM
 I smell the slice of spinach alfredo/chicken/sliced tomato   :pizza:   that I just warmed up!
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Post by: lutra on May 11, 2011, 05:47:33 AM
I smell the scent of some cleaning stuff. You know the spraying kind.

(well, I use it as a deodorant)  :o

(nah, just cleaned some stuff)
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 11, 2011, 05:50:38 AM
I smell the scent of some cleaning stuff. You know the spraying kind.

(well, I use it as a deodorant)  :o

(nah, just cleaned some stuff)

 I like the smells of many cleaning products!  :snowman:
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Post by: lutra on May 11, 2011, 06:06:10 AM
^
Um, so so here. Some are too intense.


Mmmm, now I'm wondering what scent (of all things) do I like the best. Freshly cut grass? Perfectly fried bacon? A bakery/store?
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 11, 2011, 06:17:26 AM
 
For me, every season has an official scent.  How about you?

      Spring: Lilacs.   I'm so glad lilac hedges didn't have to be culled in 2009 along with the infested trees in my neighborhood.

  Summer: Freshly cut grass.    No, not THAT kind! ----->  :fly:

         Fall: Woodsmoke.      I must get to a bonfire this fall, I love them!

            Winter: Snow.      Snowy air smells wonderfully clean!    :snowing:   
   

               
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Post by: lutra on May 11, 2011, 06:48:38 AM
^
(not saying you do this especially.. but you don't have to bold/make the text bigger for me.. that was just a silly pun I made
the other day (in the over 40 thread). Surry. Well, suit yourself ofc. but I really have no trouble reading even the smallest stuff)

But yeah, every season has its particular scents. All scents mentioned by you are nice.. love woodsmoke too.. but I have a lilac tree/shrub
in the garden and it tends to scent a tad too sweet for me sometimes. (already post-bloom the lilac is at the moment)

Another scent I really love is that of tomatoes plants. When you clip it a bit.. that scent is just lovely. Very very freshy (or something)

Mmmm, think I should start a thread about most liked scents here..
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 11, 2011, 06:51:33 AM
  A favorite-scents thread would be good, I would post in it!  :thumbup:

  I actually use larger type because I like the way it looks and like to vary the appearance of my posts.
  I also think larger type stands up better alongside the larger smilies.   :snowman:
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Post by: lutra on May 11, 2011, 07:06:21 AM
OK. (about the larger type)  :santa:

And the thread will pop up later on today, I think. (well, no biggy it will be of course)
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 11, 2011, 07:07:17 AM
OK. (about the larger type)  :santa:

And the thread will pop up later on today, I think. (well, no biggy it will be of course)

 I'll look for it when I get home from work!  :thumbup:
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Post by: lutra on May 11, 2011, 07:11:51 AM
^
Have a (working) nice day, CBC. Going to do some stuff myself now too.
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 11, 2011, 07:14:33 AM
^
Have a (working) nice day, CBC. Going to do some stuff myself now too.

 Thanks, you too!  I'll be back later to continue postwhoring!   :hamsterwheel:
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Post by: Celticgoddess on May 12, 2011, 09:08:47 PM
Citrus. Just ate an orange.
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Post by: 'andersom' on May 16, 2011, 06:03:50 AM
Faint smell lingering in the house of the heating mechanic that just left. Heavy smoker that man.
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on May 16, 2011, 06:08:15 AM
Faint smell lingering in the house of the heating mechanic that just left. Heavy smoker that man.

 Whenever I visit my smoking friend I come home smelling like an ashtray.   :thumbdn:
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Post by: 'andersom' on November 05, 2013, 05:52:02 AM
Smelling the scent of stone pears, simmering in wine, orange-juice and water, seasoned with cardamom and cinnamon. It just reached boiling point. Never tried it with orange-juice before, but got told it tastes awesome.
Will be on the stove for a long time, so, my whole house will smell awesome, at the end of the day.
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Post by: renaeden on November 21, 2013, 05:38:17 AM
Stench from the foreshore, mostly of bird shit, which I can't stand the smell of.
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Post by: P7PSP on November 21, 2013, 05:58:12 AM
Stench from the foreshore, mostly of bird shit, which I can't stand the smell of.
:agreed: bird shit is rank.
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Post by: Parts on November 21, 2013, 09:55:15 AM
Coffee YUM
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Post by: TheoK on November 21, 2013, 10:01:04 AM
Obsession for Men and shampoo  :M
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Post by: 'andersom' on November 21, 2013, 10:26:42 AM
Tangerines and pizza.
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 21, 2013, 10:55:29 AM
Obsession for Men and shampoo  :M

        Fat, flat hair. :trollface:
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: 'andersom' on May 31, 2015, 06:14:24 AM
Little bit of a yeast scent is still lingering. But it is getting overtaken by the scent of bread baking in the oven.

The scents of the house are good today.

 :meditate:
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Post by: 'andersom' on May 31, 2015, 07:01:31 AM
Kummelbrood.

Zo lekker.

Lutra, wat heb jij gemaakt vandaag?
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Post by: rock hound on May 31, 2015, 09:45:38 AM
The last of the Lilacs as they slowly fade away.   :(
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Post by: odeon on May 31, 2015, 01:38:18 PM
Pizza. :zoinks:
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Post by: MLA on June 01, 2015, 09:01:11 AM
Hey!  I thought this died years ago :)
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Post by: 'andersom' on June 01, 2015, 10:54:55 AM
Hey!  I thought this died years ago :)

Threads don't die. They may hibernate, hibernate for a long long time. But, they are like volcanoes. Sleeping, but ready to get active, when the time is there.
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: Parts on June 04, 2015, 10:20:13 AM
Hey!  I thought this died years ago :)

It must have begun to smell and someone noticed :zoinks:
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Post by: Gopher Gary on June 04, 2015, 06:17:00 PM
Hey!  I thought this died years ago :)

It must have begun to smell and someone noticed :zoinks:

 :lol1:   :plus:
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: MLA on June 05, 2015, 08:48:48 AM
Coffee
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Post by: 'andersom' on June 05, 2015, 08:59:39 AM
Hands are still smelling of oats and caraway. The scent of wheat left after washing my hands.

Dough is rising. Later today there will be the odour of fresh bread filling the house.  :hyke:
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Post by: odeon on June 06, 2015, 11:43:16 AM
Nothing. :-\

Allergies, I wonder?
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: 'andersom' on August 10, 2015, 08:15:25 AM
Freshly baked bread. Caraway bread and garlic bread. Not only smelling great, also tasting awesome.
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: odeon on August 11, 2015, 08:10:36 PM
Nothing in particular. Maybe I should remove my socks. :zoinks:
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: 'andersom' on September 25, 2015, 05:14:31 PM
Cheesecake in the oven, for tomorrow.

It rose so high this time that I had to place it lower in the oven. It is golden brown on top, but white, wobbly and far from done in the middle.

Weird, how it rises so much more or less now and then.

Smells good though, really good.
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Post by: DirtDawg on September 25, 2015, 05:30:52 PM

I am making pizza.  It smells wonderful!!
It just went into the oven. I have a large pizza stone that I pre-heat the whole time I am putting it all together, to set the pizza on. So the crust goes onto a "toaster"  from the beginning.

I started with a bread machine and a recipe that has already been proven over the past few years. It makes the dough and then it just needs to be spread out and topped with magic.

All the veggies have come from the garden, including the sauce which I made a few weeks back and froze remainders for days like today. Meat and mushrooms are from the store, sorry; can not do it all.

Anyway, today I tried to do a commercial thing and stuffed the outer rim of the crust with mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses. My first try for this.

Pretty sure it will be a success towards the inner (always is!!), but I am beside myself waiting to see how the stuffing crust idea comes out. BTW, it was my son's idea to "ramp up" my standard crust with fancy pizza parlor tricks.

It smells great and now since I have been typing it will only be about another fifteen minutes before it all comes true.

 :2thumbsup:
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Post by: renaeden on September 27, 2015, 05:45:58 AM
Chicken Kiev in the oven. Mmm.
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Post by: Phoenix on September 28, 2015, 06:45:13 AM
Peanut butter, from breakfast
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Post by: Queen Victoria on September 28, 2015, 09:34:31 AM
Hazelnut flavoured coffee
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: Phoenix on September 28, 2015, 08:39:08 PM
lavender from the candles I'm burning
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: 'andersom' on December 11, 2015, 05:45:06 PM
A chocolate mudcake (http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/melt-and-mix-chocolate-chunk-mud-cake-4227) in the oven. Smells like it is about time to prod it to test if it is ready.

It's making me crave chocolate. Maybe should look for the craving thread.
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: 'andersom' on December 12, 2015, 01:51:55 AM
A chocolate mudcake (http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/melt-and-mix-chocolate-chunk-mud-cake-4227) in the oven. Smells like it is about time to prod it to test if it is ready.

It's making me crave chocolate. Maybe should look for the craving thread.

CBC, where are you? You should be drooling all over this thread by now.
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 10, 2016, 04:44:21 PM
A chocolate mudcake (http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/melt-and-mix-chocolate-chunk-mud-cake-4227) in the oven. Smells like it is about time to prod it to test if it is ready.

It's making me crave chocolate. Maybe should look for the craving thread.

CBC, where are you? You should be drooling all over this thread by now.

  *grabs the cake and hides it in a mouse-proof metal box*  :green:
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 10, 2016, 04:45:10 PM
  I don't smell much of anything at the moment.  I guess no news is good news.  :zoinks:
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: 'andersom' on January 10, 2016, 04:46:17 PM
A chocolate mudcake (http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/melt-and-mix-chocolate-chunk-mud-cake-4227) in the oven. Smells like it is about time to prod it to test if it is ready.

It's making me crave chocolate. Maybe should look for the craving thread.

CBC, where are you? You should be drooling all over this thread by now.

  *grabs the cake and hides it in a mouse-proof metal box*  :green:

There was nothing left of that cake. And if there had been, it would have been a bad sign. Chocolate cakes that last that long can't taste good.
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 10, 2016, 04:47:56 PM
A chocolate mudcake (http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/melt-and-mix-chocolate-chunk-mud-cake-4227) in the oven. Smells like it is about time to prod it to test if it is ready.

It's making me crave chocolate. Maybe should look for the craving thread.

CBC, where are you? You should be drooling all over this thread by now.

  *grabs the cake and hides it in a mouse-proof metal box*  :green:

There was nothing left of that cake. And if there had been, it would have been a bad sign. Chocolate cakes that last that long can't taste good.

  I've heard there are margarines so full of fake stuff, you can put them outdoors and wild animals
  won't touch them.  Somewhere in there is a solution to the mouse issue!  :laugh:
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: 'andersom' on January 10, 2016, 04:49:16 PM
A chocolate mudcake (http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/melt-and-mix-chocolate-chunk-mud-cake-4227) in the oven. Smells like it is about time to prod it to test if it is ready.

It's making me crave chocolate. Maybe should look for the craving thread.

CBC, where are you? You should be drooling all over this thread by now.

  *grabs the cake and hides it in a mouse-proof metal box*  :green:

There was nothing left of that cake. And if there had been, it would have been a bad sign. Chocolate cakes that last that long can't taste good.

  I've heard there are margarines so full of fake stuff, you can put them outdoors and wild animals won't touch them. :laugh:

This one was made with real butter. And dark chocolate. Very rich, very good, very filling.
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 10, 2016, 04:51:55 PM
  My supermarket briefly stocked microwaveable mini-chocolate cakes by Marie Callendar.
  They were surprisingly good for frozen desserts, especially the rich frosting.  They're gone now.  :'(
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: renaeden on January 11, 2016, 05:10:25 PM
I smell rain.
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 23, 2016, 05:26:33 PM
  Awhile ago I smelled green herbaceous fumes coming up theough my radiator.  :stoned:
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: 'andersom' on January 24, 2016, 04:31:58 AM
  Awhile ago I smelled green herbaceous fumes coming up theough my radiator.  :stoned:

I smell them in my hallway more and more lately. Neighbour has friend covered in a green cloud.
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: "couldbecousin" on January 24, 2016, 05:12:33 AM
  Awhile ago I smelled green herbaceous fumes coming up theough my radiator.  :stoned:

I smell them in my hallway more and more lately. Neighbour has friend covered in a green cloud.

  This neighbor really likes the herb.  It doesn't bother me as much as it did years ago,
   with the last pothead neighbor.  That guy really stunk up the whole building!  :zombiefuck:
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: Parts on February 03, 2016, 10:09:29 AM
Linseed oil and turpentine
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Post by: Queen Victoria on February 03, 2016, 11:01:21 AM
French vanilla flavoured coffee.
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 03, 2016, 03:47:00 PM
  Nothing in particular at the moment.  Soon will be smelling laundry detergent.  8)
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 03, 2016, 04:47:07 PM
  Downstairs neighbor is smoking a more acrid-smelling variety of weed today.  :sick:
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: 'andersom' on February 05, 2016, 10:13:21 AM
Linseed oil and turpentine

Nice smells.
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 07, 2016, 01:15:59 PM
  Someone in the building is cooking what smells like American chop suey ... ground beef and
   sauteed onions, anyway.  It smells delicious and is making me hungry. 
    Time for a lunch break!  :devour:
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 08, 2016, 11:47:09 AM
  Downstairs neighbor is blazing up again.  :stoned:
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 08, 2016, 03:12:36 PM
  The people in the basement apartment are making delicious grilled ham.  :drool:
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 08, 2016, 06:21:11 PM
  The people in the basement apartment are making delicious grilled ham.  :drool:

  And somebody else in the building is making delicious fried potatoes.  :drool:
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 08, 2016, 06:22:15 PM
  My bedroom smells like winter air and "crisp linen" scented Lysol.  :angel:
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 24, 2016, 07:32:12 PM
  I think I smell marijuana, the skunky stuff this time, from the apartnent below mine.  :stoned:
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: Pyraxis on November 27, 2016, 06:14:17 PM
Turkey gravy. It may be time to go downstairs and see if dinner is ready.
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Post by: renaeden on November 27, 2016, 07:01:12 PM
Toast. Kayleigh just made some.
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Post by: Queen Victoria on November 28, 2016, 11:34:18 AM
Turkey gravy. It may be time to go downstairs and see if dinner is ready.

Traditional after turkey breakfast for my sister and I - diced turkey, lots of gravy, rice. 

Yes my family was crazy for turkey:

Thanksgiving
Christmas - Dec 25
New Years Day - Jan 1
Mom's birthday - Jan 8
Sister's birthday - Feb 7
Dad's birthday - April 8

Note for 21 days running our lives revolved around turkey.  And Mom would buy 25 lb + turkeys.  They NEVER lasted until the next time we celebrated.

My birthday is in August, so since turkeys were hard to find then I only had one when Mom was able to find room in the freezer to store it a while.
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: odeon on November 28, 2016, 01:43:37 PM
A sweet smell of some description. Candles, maybe? :-\
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: renaeden on November 29, 2016, 04:18:18 AM
Rats. I am in Kayleigh's room. She has two rats in a cage and they don't smell bad, they just smell.
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 29, 2016, 12:39:44 PM
  Nothing now but I've been smelling Lysol a lot more lately as I clean and sanitize! :pirate:
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: 'andersom' on November 30, 2016, 06:22:40 AM
nailpolish
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: "couldbecousin" on November 30, 2016, 06:27:51 AM
  I've been smelling a fair amount of the green stuff lately.  My downstairs neighbors love it.  :stoned:
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: 'andersom' on November 30, 2016, 06:35:35 AM
My nailpolish is green too.  :nerdy:
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: renaeden on December 06, 2016, 06:16:50 AM
Aerogard (that is the right spelling) because I am sick of being bitten during the night by mosquitoes.
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on December 06, 2016, 07:42:14 AM
  I'm not smelling weed smoke from downstairs, for once.  :laugh:
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Post by: Lestat on December 06, 2016, 03:40:06 PM
Mmmm I like the smell of the green stuff CBC:)

Although the scent of hash/resin is even better, I LOVE that spicy, warming, aromatic slightly peppery scent you get from good hash, its just lovely, when you're holding a corner of the block in a lighter flame to soften it up and make it go crumbly so its ready to be rubbed between the fingers and mixed in with some tobacco in order to make it smokeable properly (unlike skunk, you do need something really to help resin burn.

Oddly though, despite the fact I smoke rollups, rolling baccy just does NOT work properly, taste wise for making a hash joint or bong, or filling one's pipe bowl and whilst otherwise I more or less dislike readymade cigarettes, taste and smell-wise, its what works properly.

Currently smelling the sweet aromatic bouquet of fresh guava juice, the rollup I'm smoking, and the taste-smell of sarsaparilla drop candies&aniseed balls.
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Post by: odeon on December 08, 2016, 10:22:27 AM
Pizza
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Post by: 'andersom' on December 10, 2016, 09:02:26 AM
The sweet scent of Luna.
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 12, 2017, 07:02:05 PM
The sweet scent of Luna.

  One of my most beloved cat friends had a spicy smell to the top of his head. :heart:
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 12, 2017, 07:03:27 PM
  Right now I smell snowy fresh winter air as I air out my stuffy bedroom!  :snowman:
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: Lestat on February 13, 2017, 06:01:43 AM
The horrible stink of butyric acid. Its an abomination. Acrid, vile, caustic-choking acidic ultra-concentrated essence of rancid fat and vomit. And it follows you like a bailiff chasing a debtor; and hangs around for days.

I've needed to use n-butyric anhydride recently quite a few times, and that smell of the acid byproduct is really stomach-churning. It just...knocks one sick. Because it IS sick, pretty much, since n-butyric acid is the compound chiefly responsible for that bitter, acrid, rancid stench of throw-up, and for  every mole of butyric anhydride reacted to form the amide I am working on optimizing the synthetic yield of trying to find the best reaction conditions, every damn mole of the anhydride, which doesn't smell so terrible as the acid, generates an equimolar proportion of butyric acid in very concentrated form. I think I'm going to try something like trapping the acid as a low molecular weight ester and distilling it off. Hell it might even come in useful some day.

Methyl n-butyrate according to wikipedia has an intense sweet smell of pineapples, the n-pentyl ester has apparently a strong pear-apricot-like smell, and the ethyl ester has quite a lot of variable overtones to it ranging from pineapple-fresh orange juice to bubblegum. So methinks, since carboxylic acid esters usually have fruity smells (although not always nice, for example, I really hate the acetone-toluene like smell of ethyl acetate, a common lab solvent. Its not hated by everyone, I just personally really do not like it whatsoever.  To many people it smells nice. To me, its disgusting.

But since the butyric acid itself is not of much use to me, trapping it as an an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic alkyl ester, sounds far more pleasant. Essence of distilled, concentrated tossed cookies vs sweet pineapple or fresh orange sounds, well there is just no competition, and I can always use the esters as solvents as replacement for EtOAc if needs call for the use of ethyl acetate, I'd sooner have pineapple or bubblegum scent than the sweet but disgusting, sickly smell of EtOAc. Or perhaps find other uses, such as in transesterification reactions to introduce the butryl ester moiety to a compound already possessed of a different carboxylic acid ester. Either way, its no contest, odour-wise given how unspeakably foul n-butyric acid itself smells. Repulsive doesn't even begin to describe it. Sour, bitter, acrid and sickly slightly sweet at the same time. Its fucking awful and I'd really rather not have to smell it ever again. And it can be smelled in the tiniest traces, and even trace quantities hang around and follow you about most persistently, for many days. Pure, undiluted butyric acid is just...there are not words to describe the world of rancidity and abject, unspeakable foulness of it.  IMO its right up there with the likes of pyridine in terms of how revolting it is. Its as utterly noxious smelling as diethyl ether, rose essential oil or chloroform smell lovely.
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Post by: Lestat on February 13, 2017, 06:34:21 AM
Also smelling 'R White's' lemonade in pear and elderflower version. I love elderflower drinks, the delicate smell of elderberry flowers is delightful. I've also got some raspberry lemonade from the same brand. R White's is pretty much the gold standard when it comes to PROPER lemonade. Pretty much the absolute dog's bollocks when it comes to lemonade. And when you want the very best, R-White's is THE stuff to buy. Was on offer too at the local newsagent, so I stocked up and bought about 6-7 bottles of the elderflower-pear and raspberry lemonades. Not tried the ruby red raspberry kind yet but I have no doubts whatsoever it'll be a real treat for the senses.

And I've been thirsty as hell all night and all morning, went through a full bottle of coke, the good stuff not any of that sweetener-befouled or sugar free dog muck and I'm still thirsty.
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 13, 2017, 06:47:23 AM
  Given the chemicals you work with and the smells they create, I'm surprised you can smell
   delicate fragrances in lemonade.  Your nose must be very resilient ... or well protected.  :parts:
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: Lestat on February 13, 2017, 04:16:36 PM
Well I do wear a mask for many things, lots of solvents, the volatile and toxic ones that is, there are some that are so non-volatile they essentially lack a vapor pressure without both heat and hard vacuum. Ionic liquids, DMSO, I wouldn't bother. But I confess, it takes a fair bit of HCl gas or ammonia for me to bother sometimes, or to bother me. Of course I do so if working with anything that is a bona-fide outright virulent poison, things like white phosphorus, because I sure as shit wouldn't want to breath in white P  vapour, carcinogens like benzene (causes leukaemia), or a lot of the very reactive (and often although not always, usually, the more reactive a chemical is, the more useful potential it has, but the greater danger it poses when it reacts with something you don't want it to, like your DNA, your cells or when it causes your face to spontaneously ignite, but I use plenty things like alkyl halides, that are carcinogenic, mutagenic and toxic, like say, methyl iodide, cinnamyl chloride to name a couple that come to mind, or toxic and highly corrosive and water/atmospheric moisture-reactive, low-boiling, volatile fuming liquids such as SOCl2 [thionyl chloride], concentrated acids and bases [for example use of 98% conc. sulfuric acid as a dehydrating agent in the synthesis of ethers or production of fine fluffy carbon 'foam' for structurally engineering stuff, and drying certain things that won't react with it, as sulfuric of such a strength is an extremely powerful dessicant and dehydrating agent, perhaps not the equal of phosphorus pentoxide, but it sucks water either inter or intra-molecularly like lawyers suck the blood of the living. ] or on the basic side, things like on the mild side of things, caustic soda and potassium hydroxide, somewhere in the middle, potassium tert-butoxide,  for really strong bases there are the alkali metal hydrides, and things like sodamide and potassium amide and whilst I've never used it, if ever need a superbase, I need only resort to burning lithium metal and then straight away immersing it into a container filled beforehand and subjected to a stream of nitrogen to exclude O2, because alone of the alkali metals AFAIK, Li forms a nitride, that exhibits the properties of a superbase. Or Li diisopropylamide for a sterically hindered, non-nucleophilic, extremely powerful base. And there are some organic superbases that go by the name of proton sponges which again are very, very strong bases (the definition of bronsted-lowry acids and bases [as opposed to Lewis acid/bases] is that the strength of a base is defined by its ability to abstract acidic protons [these are not the protons that make up atomic nuclei, but hydrogen ions of an extranuclear nature and have no involvement with nuclear physics that I know of and certainly bog all relevant in this context] from a substrate, whilst a bronsted-lowry acid is defined by its ability to protonate [donate H+ ions) a substrate.  In short, acids protonate, whilst bases deprotonate, as the primary definition of the acidity and basicity. Although of course this does not however preclude them from having additional reactivity of various kinds, such as the fact of certain acids being non-oxidizing agents, for example hydrochloric acid, phosphoric acid are non-oxidizing acids, whereas nitric (HNO3) and perchloric (HClO4) acids are powerful oxidizers, HBr, hydrobromic acid, when concentrated is specifically useful for cleaving ethers to alcohols or phenols in the case of aryl ethers, and hydriodic acid, HI, is a strong reducing agent, as are phosphorous acid and hypophosphorous acids. But it is the ability to protonate that defines a bronsted-lowry acid and to deprotonate that defines a bronsted-lowry base)

I do wear a respirator mask with ABEK-1 poly-filter cartridges, for the nastier things, and for some things I'd not work with them without a full face-enclosing mask and suit, providing positive pressure and air supply from a tank.  The ABEK-1 canisters for my new mask are pretty decent IMO, in that they provide protection from organic vapours, acid gases and alkaline fumes and gases like ammonia or other volatile amines. The mask I use can also hold a pre-filter over the actual scrubber cartridges that filters out particulate shite like fine glass or asbestos fibers and other such nastiness. Although I rarely have cause to use the pre-filters because most of the hazmat materials I work with are hazardous, actually swallowing them aside, because of the vapor, are toxic gases, such as for example, chlorine, NO2, SO2, or because they contain a reactive group that is air or water/atmospheric moisture sensitive and are volatile themselves meaning the vapors hydrolyse and give off nasty fumes of their own in decomposition, such as SOCl2/thionyl chloride, which is moisture sensitive, toxic, and the vapours hydrolyze on contact with atmospheric moisture, and react violently with actual water in quantity in the liquid phase to give off sulfur dioxide and hydrogen chloride. Although rather nasty stuff, and foul smelling to boot, SOCl2 is a REALLY useful reagent, for example, capable of converting alcohols to alkyl chlorides, carboxylic acids to the corresponding acyl chloride, which are themselves excellent reagents for preparation of amides from amines, or carboxylate esters from alcohols, and SOCl2 also can, owing to its water-sensitive nature and the irreversible nature of its decomposition, well, at least under reaction conditions, its possible to make SOCl2 from SO2 and Cl2 with a catalyst tube although I've never done it myself, in a gas phase reaction passing it through a bed of heated spongy carbon, can be used for dehydration of metal chloride salts that are hydrates, such as hydrated aluminium chloride which cannot be simply roasted and the water driven off, because they decompose, to the anhydrous salts, such as for instance, by refluxing aluminium trichloride in neat SOCl2, the water of hydration reacts with the thionyl chloride to give off entirely gaseous byproducts, the sulfur dioxide and hydrogen chloride, which are easily driven off without a tedious workup, just by the heat of reflux expelling them, catching same in a scrubber tube (if one were to go put some engineering effort into designing a catalytic cycle it might even be possible to reform the SOCl2 consumed during its hydrolysis which would be fucking neat) or if not, catching the gaseous byproducts in a tank of bicarbonate or carbonate, whilst distilling off and recovering any unspent SOCl2 (its a bugger to make, requiring some nasty ass intermediate sulfur chlorides that aren't exactly a cakewalk to make and separate by distillation, moisture sensitive, acidic, highly corrosive compounds like SCl2 and disulfur dichloride, no nicer or friendlier than thionyl chloride itself, so I buy mine, although admittedly a great many hobbyists cannot purchase it, its one of the more difficult to obtain reagents, up there with red phosphorus and cyanides)

But, well, I don't let things like that get in my way:) And if I couldn't buy it I'd definitely put the effort into making it, because I enjoy the challenge, I enjoy engineering type projects as I do chemistry/bio, and love to get down and dirty so to speak (and literally after spending a day  in the home machine shop I'm damn lucky to have access to, with an old but perfectly functional manually operated capstan turret lathe, mitre saws, angle and bench grinders, dremel tool, power drills, gas torches, a tungsten carbide (I think thats what it is) based wire-saw for cutting through glass and ceramics and stone, as well as diamond-cutting wheels for the angle grinder that serve if needed to cut through stone and brick. Plus the obligatory vices (believe you me, I am not short of vices ;)), clamps, hand-saws, hammers, chisels, screwdrivers, One thing I want though and haven't got, well two things, would be a 3-D printer, and to build a plasma torch, both for cutting and welding metals, and for use of the plasma jet for deposition of ultra-thin films of the likes of graphene, silicene and similar 1-dimensional nanomaterials for experimenting with metamaterials and of course for when something needs, to use the technical term, the fucking shit roasted out of it, such as potentially helping me prepare black phosphorus; a non-toxic, pretty thoroughly unreactive, dark, nonflammable and electrically conductive, or semiconductive allotrope (two of them actually possibly three different structures such as monoclinic and cubic black phosphorus, as well, IIRC as amorphous black P) which need generally high temperatures and  pressures to  prepare.

Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: Parts on February 14, 2017, 04:10:09 PM
Chicken and honey mustard  :green:
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: renaeden on February 15, 2017, 08:52:52 PM
^That sounds nice.

Definitely, compared to cat poo and Spray & Wipe. One of the cats chose to have the runs outside the litter tray last night. :sick:
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 16, 2017, 06:12:47 AM
^That sounds nice.

Definitely, compared to cat poo and Spray & Wipe. One of the cats chose to have the runs outside the litter tray last night. :sick:

        Yes, I did. :flo: That's why I keep staff.
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: renaeden on February 17, 2017, 12:52:13 AM
I managed to impress someone in my college class earlier this week. He had described a place he'd been and I said "Oh, it stinks there." Which it does (it is the Round House in Fremantle which stinks like many people have urinated there). And the guy said  "I have no sense of smell." I replied with, "Genetic anosmia?" And he said I was exactly right.

I may not impress anyone with my computer skills, but I can get a few medical things right.
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Post by: Lestat on February 17, 2017, 08:00:44 AM
Nicely done ren, nicely done.

That said, I've been in a few public bogs where you might go in there with a sense of smell, but the only smell that could possibly come back out with you is that which reaches the noses of other people. Pub toilets are especially awful, presumably because so many pissed people piss other than where they intended to piss. Or where they did intend to piss but the 'there' wasn't the toilet.

Just because the toilet itself is situated in the room, doesn't make whipping it out and letting the contents loose 'going to the toilet'. Just being present and employing the room does not count. Don't know if the female loos are any better (they might be, what with the having to, or it at least being more convenient to sit down) but yes, definitely, I've known some public and especially pub bogs that you might enter with a sense of smell but its unlikely that you will leave with one, not your own at any rate; after the acrid stench of fermenting incoordinated drunken slob piss strips the lining from your sinuses.

Really, its worse, by far, than standing in a cloud of hydrogen chloride gas when the filters on your mask suddenly decide to need changing. Hell there are a few pubs I've been in where I wish I'd have BROUGHT the damn thing. Although if drinking large volumes of dilute alcohol that means going to piss a lot once it reaches the other end, so best buy several packs of fresh filters and change the pair of them each time the door opens, whether or not you actually go in.

Macdonalds can be worse, or burger king, places like that. There people don't even have the excuse of being shitfaced (then again, if you are eating at macdonalds, you probably are, otherwise you'd be eating somewhere else.)

And especially in pubs, where people are likely to throw up, too, after drinking ten too many.
Vomit, piss and the smell that comes off those urinal disinfectant block things a pleasant perfume does not make.

And its getting on my nerves now, since I don't know where the smell of butyric acid is coming from. I have a nasty feeling its from when I accidentally broke a flask the other week or so, because that resulted in a jet of solvent and some nasty alkylating agent, which really wasn't something I wanted to have to go near and clean up, plus some n-butyric anhydride.

The anhydride will have hydrolyzed by now, to two molar proportions of butyric acid for every one of its acid anhydride. And there is a faint (ish) but very, very persistent acid puke smell thats been hanging around the area roughly corresponding to ground zero, and the rest of the room, again, smells like somebody threw up about two weeks ago and left it there to slowly congeal and solidify instead of cleaning it up I moved the bottle with the rest of the butyric anhydride out of the room after cleaning it up, and the bottle itself (closed, putting your nose right up to a source of  carboxylic acid anhydrides isn't a good idea, they are pretty corrosive, and when they hydrolyse its to concentrated acid, relatively weak acids they might be, but in concentrated 'glacial' form, something like 99% glacial acetic acid is a lot nastier than just strong vinegar. Won't be putting it on my chips any time soon to say the least:P) They'll quickly stink up a room with poor to fairly decent ventilation with a really quite unpleasant stinging, burning acrid choking vapor cloud. Not toxic as such just downright unpleasant to be around and physically corrosive, as opposed to actually poisonous.

Its still hanging about and just won't go away. Definitely not the bottle, as I cleaned the outside and the outside of the cap of the n-butyric anhydride container, and gave it a careful sniff from a distance whilst tightly shut. Can be detected, but only close up and very slightly. Butyric anhydride itself doesn't smell nearly as bad, not pleasant, its only when it hydrolyzes to butyric acid that it starts stinking.
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 18, 2017, 12:59:15 AM
I managed to impress someone in my college class earlier this week. He had described a place he'd been and I said "Oh, it stinks there." Which it does (it is the Round House in Fremantle which stinks like many people have urinated there). And the guy said  "I have no sense of smell." I replied with, "Genetic anosmia?" And he said I was exactly right.

I may not impress anyone with my computer skills, but I can get a few medical things right.

  Genetic anosmia.  I'll have to remember that.  It's nice to have other disease geeks around.  :2thumbsup:
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Post by: renaeden on February 18, 2017, 01:57:50 AM
I managed to impress someone in my college class earlier this week. He had described a place he'd been and I said "Oh, it stinks there." Which it does (it is the Round House in Fremantle which stinks like many people have urinated there). And the guy said  "I have no sense of smell." I replied with, "Genetic anosmia?" And he said I was exactly right.

I may not impress anyone with my computer skills, but I can get a few medical things right.

Genetic anosmia.  I'll have to remember that.  It's nice to have other disease geeks around.  :2thumbsup:
It just popped out of my mouth like stuff sometimes does. I don't know whether to feel sorry for the guy or not, surely a lack of ability to smell also affects taste?

Glad to be a disease/medical geek with you, cbc. :green:
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 18, 2017, 02:24:03 AM
I managed to impress someone in my college class earlier this week. He had described a place he'd been and I said "Oh, it stinks there." Which it does (it is the Round House in Fremantle which stinks like many people have urinated there). And the guy said  "I have no sense of smell." I replied with, "Genetic anosmia?" And he said I was exactly right.

I may not impress anyone with my computer skills, but I can get a few medical things right.

Genetic anosmia.  I'll have to remember that.  It's nice to have other disease geeks around.  :2thumbsup:
It just popped out of my mouth like stuff sometimes does. I don't know whether to feel sorry for the guy or not, surely a lack of ability to smell also affects taste?

Glad to be a disease/medical geek with you, cbc. :green:

  My father lost his sense of smell almost entirely in the last 20 years or so of his life,
  and I know he found a lot of foods flavorless, and lost appetite in his last few years.  I'd hate to lose
  my own sense of smell, though losing my sense of taste might not be the worst thing for me ...  :sumo:


  It's fun to read about medical conditions!  I am very interested in giants and acromegaly.  :nerd!:
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Post by: renaeden on February 18, 2017, 02:39:27 AM
Yeah I remember you posted the link to the Wikipedia article about the tallest man in the world. I read that page. It was really interesting.

I have heard of the growth hormone being activated again once the person was already an adult. Have you heard of that?
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 18, 2017, 02:48:05 AM
Yeah I remember you posted the link to the Wikipedia article about the tallest man in the world. I read that page. It was really interesting.

I have heard of the growth hormone being activated again once the person was already an adult. Have you heard of that?

  I think that's when you get acromegaly.  The epiphyses of the long bones are closed in adulthood,
  so the limbs and torso can't get longer.  The growth hormone enlarges the feet, hands, and parts of the
  skull.  Some giants have acromegaly in addition to their great height, but acromegaly can also happen
  to people of average height.  I feel compelled now to include the Wikipedia link.  :nerd!:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acromegaly 
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: renaeden on February 18, 2017, 03:22:22 AM
Yeah I remember you posted the link to the Wikipedia article about the tallest man in the world. I read that page. It was really interesting.

I have heard of the growth hormone being activated again once the person was already an adult. Have you heard of that?

I think that's when you get acromegaly.  The epiphyses of the long bones are closed in adulthood,
  so the limbs and torso can't get longer.  The growth hormone enlarges the feet, hands, and parts of the
  skull.  Some giants have acromegaly in addition to their great height, but acromegaly can also happen
  to people of average height.  I feel compelled now to include the Wikipedia link.  :nerd!:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acromegaly 

Heheh, thanks for that link, I found that interesting along with other pages. Wikipedia does that to me. Did you read about a man called Adam Rainer, who was both a dwarf, then a giant?
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 18, 2017, 03:29:41 AM
Yeah I remember you posted the link to the Wikipedia article about the tallest man in the world. I read that page. It was really interesting.

I have heard of the growth hormone being activated again once the person was already an adult. Have you heard of that?

I think that's when you get acromegaly.  The epiphyses of the long bones are closed in adulthood,
  so the limbs and torso can't get longer.  The growth hormone enlarges the feet, hands, and parts of the
  skull.  Some giants have acromegaly in addition to their great height, but acromegaly can also happen
  to people of average height.  I feel compelled now to include the Wikipedia link.  :nerd!:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acromegaly 

Heheh, thanks for that link, I found that interesting along with other pages. Wikipedia does that to me. Did you read about a man called Adam Rainer, who was both a dwarf, then a giant?

  Yes, I did!  What a bewildering change that must have been.  Physically taxing too, I imagine.  :-\
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Post by: Lestat on February 18, 2017, 08:49:51 AM
Yes, acromegaly is the result of excessive release of growth hormone from the pituitary, when it occurs during adulthood. If it happens before the growth plates of the bones are closed, during childhood you get gigantism as the result, acromegaly once the growth plates are fused and no further elongation of the bones is possible.

Ever watched the james bond movies? IIRC the guy that plays the character 'jaws' has acromegaly, not sure, but possibly some degree of gigantism, its why he looks so heavy-set and 'blocky', or to use the common parlance, built like a brick shithouse.
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 19, 2017, 05:39:37 AM
Yes, acromegaly is the result of excessive release of growth hormone from the pituitary, when it occurs during adulthood. If it happens before the growth plates of the bones are closed, during childhood you get gigantism as the result, acromegaly once the growth plates are fused and no further elongation of the bones is possible.

Ever watched the james bond movies? IIRC the guy that plays the character 'jaws' has acromegaly, not sure, but possibly some degree of gigantism, its why he looks so heavy-set and 'blocky', or to use the common parlance, built like a brick shithouse.

  Yes, Richard Kiel was 7'1.5" and indeed had acromegaly.  He lived to be 75. :pirate: 
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: Lestat on February 19, 2017, 03:42:38 PM
A mixture of rollup, e-liquid, some kind of minted flavour, pickled olives and the garlicky smell of white phosphorus. Fucking retort broke, obviously not borosilicate glass, when there was probably a couple of hundred grams of mixed red/white P, and the latter being distilled into a collection vessel. Quite an impressive fireworks display to say the least, it started cracking and the liquid P and vapors started working their way out of the cracks, flaring up, crackling and spitting, since it autoignites at a bit above room temperature. Saved the sidearm which is much thicker, to use as a one-shot sealed tube, fill part with red phosphorus, purge with argon then weld the other end closed and heat it with the torch. I'm still waiting for the thing to stop smoking, though, its been doing it all day more or less.
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Post by: odeon on February 20, 2017, 12:19:08 AM
Nothing. My nose is blocked.
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Post by: DirtDawg on February 20, 2017, 12:52:15 AM


My wife's fabulous plum preserves.

We hit the farmer's market at the right time last summer and my wife put away seven quarts of plum preserves from a local orchard.

The second jar is even better than the first was!
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Post by: Queen Victoria on February 20, 2017, 01:34:01 AM
I've wanted to preserve for the longest time.  It didn't seem worth it with just the 3 of us and the cost of fresh fruit.  Now that there's just 2 of us, I'll stick to the commercial brands.

Although, I just might try an experiment and stick some aromatic herbs in the commercial preserves to see if it changes the taste to closer to home made.
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Post by: DirtDawg on February 20, 2017, 01:54:06 AM

Around here a lot of people "try" to grow apples and peaches. I have looked into this from a business standpoint and decided that it makes more sense to just buy the fruit from an established grower when they are in season and preserve as much as you want when they are fresh.

To just buy all the "farming chemicals"  it takes to make apples pest free and free from fungi and free from the continual viral and bacterial attacks that eventually kill the parent trees, not to mention all the fertilizers (I use that term very widely) that it takes to overcome the alkaline soil here. If I were to try to grow apples here I would have to spend about two hundred dollars per year.

Do you know how many bushels of fresh apples you can buy for a hundred bucks or so when they are in season from an apple grower? The same goes for peaches, plums, berries of most sorts (although blackberries, raspberries and blue berries are trouble free here, but they all require a good bit of area to grow) and pears.

This is why we can when we can.

Just show up at the right time and buy all you want. Then YOUR work starts. Preserving "ain't no small thang!" (Gene Hackman reference)
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 20, 2017, 05:31:53 AM


My wife's fabulous plum preserves.

We hit the farmer's market at the right time last summer and my wife put away seven quarts of plum preserves from a local orchard.

The second jar is even better than the first was!

  When I was a kid, one of my parents' friends would send us a Christmas gift of a 12-flavor box of
   Trappist preserves.  There was a flavor called Damson plum, among many other delicious kinds.  :2thumbsup:
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Post by: Lestat on February 20, 2017, 05:44:36 AM
You should try quince 'cheese' (called that but its basically a quince-based jelly like marmalade) would be even nicer with think strips of candied peel from fresh limes and chunks of candied lime thrown in.

Quinces are generally, in our climate, hard and inedible fresh off the plant, but once processed they make a really delicious jelly preserve. Ever smelled one? they have a distinct, unique scent thats absolutely lovely. If I pass a garden escapee plant, I'll rip off a fruit and crush it just for the smell.

Damson preserve is nice too, theres a park locally where I go to harvest fly agaric mushrooms and peppery boletus in season, but there are, I discovered last year, several damson trees and nobody notices. They are sweet, juicy and succulent just ripped right off the bush and each one you can get several pounds/kg of fruit in an hour, or however long it takes you to fill your shopping bags full of the little mini-plums. A little tartness to them but stiill sweet and juicy. Lovely to grab a few as you harvest and just pop them in your mouth fresh off the stalk, suck the skin and pulp and juice off the stone , squeezing the sizes to split it so you can dig the stone out with your tongue and gob it out.

Glad this thread reminded me, because come the late fly agaric season I'll have to go back and grab some, cook up a few big jars of preserve. It makes for a top notch jam sandwich or PB+J sandwiich, layering it between smooth peanut butter slathered thickly as can be on either side, then a thick layer of home-made damson jam in the middle
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Post by: Lestat on February 20, 2017, 05:49:34 AM
A lit rollup. Also going in a moment to be smelling aniseed and faint odour of garlickyness, when I resume my white phosphorus preparation in preparation for my high-temperature electrically controlled molten metal heating bath, so I can finally make myself some violet (Hittorf's type) alpha-metallic phosphorus, and begin with the wood  and metalwork for the periodic table element display collection wall-hanging. Going to be fun. Aside from a very few I can't produce, I'll have to buy one or two. Otherwise, I am going to do it by refining the elements from the natural ores, to give myself a greater challenge and extend the fun of the hunt.
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: "couldbecousin" on April 04, 2017, 10:27:33 AM
  Someone in the building is cooking.  Smells like roast pork.  :drool:
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Post by: Parts on April 04, 2017, 01:34:24 PM
3 in one oil
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Post by: Lestat on April 05, 2017, 04:35:10 PM
The smell of smoking steel and of hot lathe oil and abrasive grinding wheel bits.  Plus the faint tang of mercaptans from lighting my blowtorch.

And some sort of mentholated fruit vape juice from my e-cig.
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: Lestat on April 05, 2017, 04:39:31 PM
The faint, slightly sour tangyness that accompanies the fusing of caustic soda into the molten state.

Testing each of the different-sized micro-drills in order, starting with 0.3mm and seeing if I can get a prill of NaOH to drip through it when melted with the torch, whilst holding the template (using strips cut from a tin food can atm, until I find the size where the caustic begins to flow through, before I actually start taking drill bit to dessert-spoon)
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: Phoenix on May 22, 2017, 10:16:17 AM
Lavender Pinesol from washing the floors last night
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: Parts on June 09, 2017, 08:50:49 PM
Skunk  it's fading which is good because the dog wants to go outside
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: Phoenix on June 10, 2017, 10:46:37 AM
Lunch that I cooked for my guys
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Post by: FourAceDeal on June 10, 2017, 02:04:09 PM
A combination of wet German Shepard and Johnnie Walker  12 year old Black Label scotch.
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: Phoenix on June 10, 2017, 02:18:50 PM
Cajun chicken alfredo cooking in the crockpot
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Post by: Lestat on June 12, 2017, 06:55:24 AM
The odor of CH2Cl2 (dichloromethane/methylene chloride. Smells a lot like chloroform, although it lacks the distinctly sweet note to the smell that CHCl3 has and is harsher because of it. Where to me, chloroform smells mostly light yellow-green with a hint of white, the yellowy-green highlighter pen [although slightly darker] scent that chloroform has is replaced by a white, translucent, slightly wavy smell in dichlor.)

(I have a weird kind of synaesthesia when it comes to the lab, chemicals that have any odor usually smell of very distinctive color and/or color/shape/movement patterns. For example chloroform has a green, pale smell to it, dichloromethane has only the slightest hint of green, mostly a glass-clear white smell with hints of movement in a wavy pattern. Diethyl ether smells...yellow, a straw-yellow shade and doesn't move. Acetonitrile (methyl cyanide), despite smelling like ether to the nose, or etherial at least, to me, I perceive it as light purple-mauve coloured. Sodium metal feels like rippling movement in something fine-grained and solid, like sand and has no color, hydrochloric acid feels like upward movementm ammonia solution in water smells bright white, and copper metal feels blue. Phosphoric acid has a really distinctive orangey-tinted yellow color (the actual substance is clear) whilst polyphosphoric acid is similar but less orange  and darker)

Cyanides....have a pinkish sense to them in the case of hydrogen cyanide gas, hydrocyanic acid (the water solution has additional mid-blue color though to me) and ionic cyanides like potassium/sodium cyanide, again a pinkish color but lacking the blue. And red phosphorus feels sort of...thinness, Calcium metal is a dirty grey-black and magnesium feels white, but insubstantial, almost like a gas, thats so thin it could be walked straight though.

Its weird, I've always had this, ever since I built my first lab.
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Post by: Phoenix on July 12, 2017, 04:16:39 PM
The lasagna that I'm cooking
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Post by: renaeden on July 12, 2017, 09:39:16 PM
My washed hair, a mixture of tea tree and eucalyptus.
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: 'andersom' on September 10, 2017, 08:55:04 AM
Dutch butter cake in the making.
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 10, 2017, 10:11:49 AM
Dutch butter cake in the making.

  *hides in Hyke's kitchen, waiting for the cake to be left unattended*  :hide:
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: 'andersom' on September 10, 2017, 11:33:43 AM
Dutch butter cake in the making.

  *hides in Hyke's kitchen, waiting for the cake to be left unattended*  :hide:

Don't hide, let us enjoy your company and you get to enjoy our cake.
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: DirtDawg on September 10, 2017, 05:54:50 PM

My wife is making a southern style spiced meatloaf. It is almost ready and it smells wonderful!
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Post by: Phoenix on September 11, 2017, 03:25:34 PM
Disinfectant because I'm at the hospital. It smells very very clean (thank goodness)
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: Lestat on September 12, 2017, 04:20:00 AM
A combination of corticosteroid cream, 'smelling' the weird 'taste' one gets behind the throat, not inside, but just on the outside of the inside of the mouth after an injection of morphia, and cherry menthol with extra menthol, from my e-cig. Plus I think I smell a faint trace of sulfur dioxide coming from somewhere. Probably from a bisulfite adduct I still need to finish dealing with.
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Post by: Bastet on September 20, 2017, 10:41:56 PM
Clean air because I'm not full of shit.
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: Lestat on September 22, 2017, 02:28:36 PM
If it wasn't for the overwhelming sweet, marzipan-bitter almond essence odor of nearly a half liter of benzaldehyde, plus some other reagents in a flask, even before heating, which is about to go into the microwave, I'd be smelling the stench of bullshit, lies and character assasination, insult of the vilest kind from the fucking slag above.
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Post by: Parts on September 22, 2017, 04:39:25 PM
Apples
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Post by: Arya Quinn on September 22, 2017, 05:16:40 PM
My dog's farts.  :asthing:
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: Lestat on September 23, 2017, 08:06:50 AM
There is a distinct smell of cherry bakewell tarts seeping from the kitchen (nothing like that is being cooked) into the living room. Faint, but there and it smells pretty damn good)
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Post by: Queen Victoria on September 23, 2017, 08:49:48 AM
coffee
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Post by: "couldbecousin" on September 23, 2017, 11:18:14 AM
  Nothing.  :(   I need to open some tuna and eat lunch!
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: Fun With Matches on September 24, 2017, 03:38:57 AM
For some reason I can't smell my coffee. What can I smell? My room, slightly? I burnt incense in here over a week ago and it still smells slightly.
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Post by: FourAceDeal on September 24, 2017, 04:24:07 AM
Bacon and coffee.   Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
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Post by: renaeden on September 24, 2017, 05:11:34 AM
^ I can smell bacon too. And eggs. Mmmmmmm.
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 01, 2018, 04:21:23 PM
Not quite fitting the topic of this thread, but here goes.

The scene is the darkest jungle in Africa. Two tigers are stalking through the jungle when the one in the rear suddenly reaches out with his tongue and licks the butt of the one in front. The lead tiger turns and says, “Hey, cut it out, alright.” The other tiger says sorry and they continue on their way.

After about five minutes the rear tiger suddenly repeats his action. The front tiger turns angrily and says,” I said don’t do that again!” The rear tiger says “sorry” again and they continue. After about another five minutes, the rear tiger repeats his action. The front tiger turns and says, “What is it with you, anyway? I said to stop.” The rear tiger says, “I really am sorry but I just ate a lawyer and I’m just trying to get the taste out of my mouth.”
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on March 01, 2018, 08:06:11 PM
Uuum, tigers don't live in Africa...   :dunno:
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: Lestat on March 14, 2018, 06:06:50 AM
The kinda bitterishness of a line of oxycodone. And the flowery sweet smell of elderflower&rose  cordial. Grabbed  a fair few bottles of both that and the concentrate for  elderflower cordial alone. Love that stuff.

What I'm finding  I'm actually missing though is the menagerie of the weirder, and on occasion even some of the offensive smells that can find themselves  spawning in the lab, things like the tang of sulfur  dioxide in the air, or the stinging of  things like fuming hydrochloric  acid and glacial acetic acid, the rich sweet heavy scent of  chloroform paired with the lighter, thinner but heady odor of diethyl ether, and best of all I think, the thick, rolling dense mouthwateringly tasty smelling bouquet of benzaldehyde, which  smells...well they use tiny amounts to make synthetic cheap almond  essence by diluting a little bit of benzaldehyde in an edible oil. Just picture a cruise  missile hitting a factory making cherry bakewell and  marzipan tarts, right after they'd opened the industrial ovens to let a batch out to cool. Benzaldehyde smells like that, smells SOOOOO good you can't help but feel hungry if you can smell the pure stuff in a  lab, and its something you don't need to wear a gas mask to do, so you just get exposed  to that delicious sweet smell, guarantee it, when your done and have cleaned up, your first stop after packing up is most likely to be the kitchen for something sweet to nibble on.

Or the fainter, somewhat benzaldehyde-like odors of nitromethane, or fainter still but there, nitroethane, or the..hm...best described as  'ethereal' odor of methyl cyanide. And the seaside-fresh smell of big chunks of metallic-looking purplish silver-black and oh so pretty elemental iodine I just want to be back in there working, but my foot is stopping me. Driving me up the fucking walls.

Right now I could even miss the nasty toxic combination of burning  matchhead-farts and  sour, acidic  HCl brick cleaner with its hints of eggy rottenness that is SOCl2. Or the garlicky smell of white phosphorus; Its weird, how used to all the weird and funky smells I've gotten, only to start to miss them when they aren't here.

n-Butyric  anhydride though, there I'll draw the line at the carboxylic anhydride of the organic acid responsible for giving vomit its unmistakeably innards-become-outards characteristic smell. That, hypochlorites, those two really are on my shit-list. And whilst I like  the smell of iodine, chlorine gas doesn't get the same forgiveness  of its less admirable traits, because the smell of Cl2 is something I've always found absolutely sickening.
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: MLA on March 02, 2022, 11:10:12 AM
With the game threads making up 90% of the new posts these days, I'm surprised this didn't take off as I had hoped.  :bigcry:
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: renaeden on March 02, 2022, 08:13:05 PM
I'll add something.

I smell the exhaust from the gardner's whipper-snipper outside.
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: odeon on March 07, 2022, 03:50:35 PM
With the game threads making up 90% of the new posts these days, I'm surprised this didn't take off as I had hoped.  :bigcry:

You don't want to smell what I smell right now. :zoinks:
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: renaeden on March 08, 2022, 08:06:46 PM
With the game threads making up 90% of the new posts these days, I'm surprised this didn't take off as I had hoped.  :bigcry:
You don't want to smell what I smell right now. :zoinks:
Did you fart?
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: Gopher Gary on March 09, 2022, 07:23:45 PM
With the game threads making up 90% of the new posts these days, I'm surprised this didn't take off as I had hoped.  :bigcry:
You don't want to smell what I smell right now. :zoinks:
Did you fart?

That's his breath.  :zoinks:
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Post by: Parts on March 15, 2022, 08:41:00 AM
Maple scented candle that is not even burning
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Post by: renaeden on March 16, 2022, 12:27:34 AM
Rain, or petrichor. Enough rain to wet the roads!
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: odeon on March 16, 2022, 12:42:02 PM
With the game threads making up 90% of the new posts these days, I'm surprised this didn't take off as I had hoped.  :bigcry:
You don't want to smell what I smell right now. :zoinks:
Did you fart?

That's his breath.  :zoinks:

One end or the other. :zoinks:
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: FourAceDeal on March 27, 2022, 11:05:03 AM
I'm smelling the best roast beef in the world.

OK, the second best after my Nana's.   40 years gone and I still miss my Nana roast beef.  I'm hoping that in 40 years time my kids will be cooking for their kids and will be missing me.

It's amazing what thoughts the smell of cooking can make fall out of your brain.
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Post by: Gopher Gary on April 18, 2022, 05:54:26 PM
I cooked some bacon for Sugarbutt to have in a sandwich for lunch tomorrow, so now the house smells like bacon. Of course I suddenly became the dog's temporary best fried while I was cooking the bacon.  :lol1:
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: renaeden on April 19, 2022, 08:12:47 PM
My Nanna cooked some awesome roasts too. With Yorkshire puddings (yum).

Gary, did the dog have any?

I smell smoke. The weather forecast said there will be smoke haze and here it is.
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: Gopher Gary on April 20, 2022, 03:26:00 AM

Gary, did the dog have any?


Yes, he always gets a bite of whatever meat is happening.  :thumbup: The bacon made me think of mom's dog when I was a kid. He was disappearing for hours, and the neighbor across the street called to let her know the dog was over there laying on the back porch and wouldn't leave. Her husband had passed away, and though we didn't know it, for years he had saved our dog a piece of bacon from his breakfast.
Title: Re: What smells are you smelling right now?
Post by: Gopher Gary on May 02, 2022, 07:44:37 PM
Sugarbutt is going out again tomorrow and he was so impressed with the BLT last time, he requested one again for lunch. So, the house smells like bacon again and the dog thinks I'm the most interesting person in the world.  :zoinks: