General / Off-Topic The best smell in the world

[EISENHORN01]

So it’s Easter and the time of the double bank holiday weekend (that’s 2 public holidays to everyone not in the U.K.) and in keeping with tradition I’ve been on a bender. This started Friday and fizzled out late Saturday night and In keeping with the religious aspect of Easter it is now well into ‘suffering sunday’ and Oh boy am I suffering. But I’m not here to garner sympathy but to state a simple irrefutable FACT

when your rough and recovering from a self inflicted malaise, such as I am, the greatest smell in the world is that of

BACON COOKING ON A GRILL.

now please be so kind as to keep your replies in the quiet aspect, my nose mayb in heaven but my heads far from it.

 

[Yaffle]

Bacon is indeed a wonderful smell. Basically it is vegetarian kryptonite.

As for others, I like petrichor.

 

[Hell Razor5543]

​Sizzle!

 

[Stigbob]

Iron bru it just smells so fantastically artificial like astronaut food or android wee*.

Nothing like iron bru to cure a hangover, keep a bottle under your bed shake it let most of the fizz out then cap it and forget it until suffering. It's what Asterix the Gaul keeps in his flask.



*not actually tested

 

[Bob Lighthouse]

We made some bacon a couple of weeks ago.
Nothing like curing and smoking it yourself!

Some other favorites;
fresh baked bread or pastries
coffee
freshly cut grass
the smell of cow dung* wafting through the surf at Laniakea



*Ok, that last one might not be universal, but it makes me smile every time!
Note the pastures in the foreground: https://cdn2.theinertia.com/wp-content/gallery/5-lineups-bielmann/brianbielmann_waves15440.jpg

 

[Jenner]

Bacon is indeed a wonderful smell. Basically it is vegetarian kryptonite.

As for others, I like petrichor.

I appreciate you making that veggie risotto when I visited.

As much as I love bacon I'm going to remain firmly on the wagon.

 

[EISENHORN01]

I appreciate you making that veggie risotto when I visited.

As much as I love bacon I'm going to remain firmly on the wagon.

as a vegan friend once said to me “I have the best of it as I get all of the smell but none of the badness”, as my mouth was full I had to reply with a hand gesture

 

[PiggyPiggyPig]

This thread concerns me

 

[Bob Lighthouse]

as a vegan friend once said to me “I have the best of it as I get all of the smell but none of the badness”, as my mouth was full I had to reply with a hand gesture

Hahaha...
I could think of a few apt analogies about that!

 

[Jezzah]

Easy one for me. The fresh Air in Brize Norton (military airhead in uk) after spending 6 months in Iraq or Afghanistan.

 

[Sweet&Dandy]

Fresh bread and coffee obviously...

 

[Seizewell Warrior]

Turbocharged locomotive diesel exhaust wafting back into proper Mark One carriage with added bonus of musty smell from steam heating.

Hot cross buns.

 

[verminstar]

Best smell in the world...a jar of OG phantom kush thats been curing fer 5 weeks...hangover? Oh that will soon be forgotten...along with yer name, where ye are, and what year it is ^

 

[Pyrotiger]

This thread concerns me

I'm worried too.

 

[PiggyPiggyPig]

I'm worried too.

We piggies got to stick together. Quick, lets run into this straw house.

 

[TimWellens]

I love the smell of hydrogen fuel in the morning

o7

 

[Patrick_68000]

Marmite ?

 

[AkenBosch]

This thread concerns me

I'm worried too.

We piggies got to stick together. Quick, lets run into this straw house.

Eh, I know for a fact that you piggies stick together.

Spoiler

And you also tend to stick to cooking stone at times!

No straw house can save you from Easter Monday here!

 

[Jenner]

Fresh bread and coffee obviously...

Ohhh yeah! Hard to beat that. I love me some good coffee.

 

[Suhono]

The fresh air right after a good spell of rain, especially in a rural or wilderness area.

Alternately, scrambled eggs just for childhood memories. My dad makes the best scrambled eggs.