Top Ten Favorite Smells (Top Ten Tuesday)

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I swear since I’ve had children my sense of smell has gone into overdrive. I swear I have super smelling capabilities. It’s not always a go0d thing. For instance, when I’m the only one in the room who smells my daughter’s poop in her pants.  When I’m pregnant, everything smells like pee. When I mop the floor in the kitchen I can’t go in there until it’s completely dry or else I smell urine.And sometimes, even then, there’s still a lingering smell so I spray half a can of Lysol to get the smell out. If I don’t do that I throw up. My mother in law (who is an extremely clean person) had to give me a paper plate at dinner once because the dinner plate she gave me, fresh from the dishwasher, you guessed it, smells strongly of pee. I was gagging and getting ready to upchuck.  She graciously did not get offended and gave me a scentless paper plate instead.

Anyway, my super sense of smell also allows me to enjoy pleasant smells all the more. Here are my top ten  favorites in no particular order

Simply Mel’s Top Ten Favorite Smells

1. Coffee

2. Freshly bathed babies and children

3. Men’s cologne

4. Fresh bark mulch

5. Bleach

6. Christmas candles (Fern and Evergreen scents)

7.Pumpkin Spice Candles

8. Fresh cut grass

9. Brownies baking (well, any baked good for that matter!)

10. The scent of Pampers Swaddlers diapers

Ok, I get that this one is weird so let me explain. When my first daughter was born the hospital used Pampers Swaddler diapers. Those diapers have a strong, unique scent that always reminds me of  the euphoric time after my daughter’s birth. It brings back great memories. I’ve been caught sniffing other people’s ( Friends! Not strangers!!) Pampers  just for the smell!

I linked up this post to Top Ten Tuesday over at Mandi’s blog (who’s hosting it today). You should too so head over there and do it already!

Comments

  1. Carolyn adds:

    March 2nd, 2010 at 8:44 am

    I have a sensitive sense of smell too … all the time. I usually smell offensive odors way before anyone else does. In fact, with my overactive imagination, sometimes I can see something on TV and imagine that I smell it and the gag reflex kicks in. Weird, huh?

  2. Marcia adds:

    March 2nd, 2010 at 10:00 am

    I also have a super sensitive sense of smell, which is annoying at times…
    My top 10 smells are:
    1) Freshly mown grass;
    2) Freshly baked bread;
    3) Vanilla;
    4) Coffee;
    5) Cinammon;
    6) The smell of pine needles – Christmas trees;
    7) Mangoes (I might not be thinking of buying a mango, but if I smell one in the grocery store, it ends up in my shopping cart.)
    8) My husband’s cologne;
    9) Freshly bathed babies and children;
    10) The smell of the ocean.

  3. mandi @ it's come to this adds:

    March 2nd, 2010 at 10:17 am

    LOL! That’s a great list. Brownies would by far have to be my favorite. I just got a Sugar Cookie Scented Candle & that thing is torture … makes me start raiding the pantry:)

  4. Vanderbilt Wife adds:

    March 2nd, 2010 at 10:32 am

    I’ve always had a very keen sense of smell. Which can definitely be a bad thing!

    My favorite smells are cut grass, the scent of coming rain, bread baking, and Aveeno baby wash! And vanilla. And Oscar de la Renta perfume, because that’s what my mom always wore. And…

  5. Ashley adds:

    March 2nd, 2010 at 12:11 pm

    I have to agree with you on the scent of Pampers. I prefer to use Huggies diapers, but the smell of Pampers is so much “cleaner”! LOL
    Coffee & baked goods are also high on my list of favorite smells.

  6. Lydia adds:

    March 2nd, 2010 at 12:40 pm

    I think it’s hilarious that everything smells bad like pee to you. hahaha I LOVE men’s cologne! My favorite one is Cool Water.

  7. Lydia adds:

    March 2nd, 2010 at 12:43 pm

    OK my comment makes no sense. It should say “everything that smells bad, smells like pee to you.” I’m typing one-handed because Cooper has the stomach bug and just wants to be held.

  8. sarah adds:

    March 2nd, 2010 at 3:18 pm

    most people don’t like the smell of bleach, but I do, reminds me of swimming pools which reminds me of SUMMER!

  9. Allison adds:

    March 2nd, 2010 at 3:22 pm

    I’m with you on coffee, freshly bathed babies, brownies baking (drool), but bleach? Why bleach? It always burns my nose.

  10. Sarah adds:

    March 2nd, 2010 at 7:38 pm

    Cracking up that you think so many things smell like pee. When I was pregnant, Craig had to change his deoderant and shave gel b/c I couldn’t stand them.

  11. Karen adds:

    March 2nd, 2010 at 10:43 pm

    -The best smell is the smell of BASEBALL SEASON!
    A mixture of sunshine, April air, dried mud and old leather.
    Makes me cry every year the first day I can detect the scent! =-)

    -I also love the smell of someone smoking Captain Black tobacco in a pipe.

    -Johnson’s Baby Wash on a clean toddler’s head is up there, too.

  12. Christine adds:

    March 2nd, 2010 at 10:59 pm

    Coffee and Pumpkin spice! Yes, ma’am! Oh, especially together :-)

  13. michelle moody scarboro adds:

    March 4th, 2010 at 10:10 pm

    Any thing from bath and body works, and all the stuff you said except bleach!

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