The scent of roses is largely due to some carotenoid degradation products known as rose ketones (largely citronellol and beta damascenone). Chemists looking for synthetic variations came up with the terpenoid ether represented by the diagram I label as one of my favorites. It is a rose type scent with a more significant impact on our scent detectors than the natural rose chemicals and makes the top notes in Diors "Poison" and a host of other great perfumes.
The second molecule (one of my least favorites) is 3-methyl indole (skatole) which one might experience in an outhouse.
#20. "RE: OT-What's your favorite smell?" In response to basa48 (Reply # 19)
Yeah! I lived 18 years in Manchester and never saw or smelled wood smoke there except when an old house caught fire due to a short circuit and that was pretty horrific.
#22. "RE: OT-What's your favorite smell?" In response to basa48 (Reply # 21)
>>Yeah! I lived 18 years in Manchester > >and where do you live now golouis ?? > First lived in Middleton then moved to Salford near the docks (which were still active then). Then started migrating: London, Brighton, and then across the Channel to warmer climes where summers are dry and sunny and winters mild (most of the time).
Something most of you never smelled, but the other old farts will remember.
Walking into a real neighborhood bakery as a child, and smelling the aroma of the baking, in the days when they used real butter, and no chemicals in our food.
Im 59 years old now. In the early 50's every summer my parents would put me on the train by myself in Los Angeles and I would go spend the summer on my Uncles farm in Oklahoma. The absolute highlight of the train trip was going to the dining car in the morning and smelling the pancakes, butter, and syrup. Just typing this response has my mouth watering.
A musty green smell when I open my wallet. The memory lies embedded in the leather......One day I may be able to reline that old mausoleum to the passing when I bought that last HDD.
Oh wait - I want to change mine. Whenever we receive anthing wrapped in plastic I tell my husband thats the "new dolls at Christmas" smell. It brings back pleasant memories.
My grandad's old smokehouse. I can still taste the sausage, bacon and ham that my grandma would put on the table for breakfast along with home made butter, fresh biscuits and pancakes. Home made jams and jellies set out on a big old heavy oak table next to the wood stove and lit with a kerosine lamp (no electricity). Next best would be woodsmoke on a cool fall evening sitting out in the yard listening to whipporwills, tree frogs and coon hounds baying in the surrounding hills and the occasional lonesome sound of the whistle on a steam locomotive approaching a steep grade not far from the house.
personally, my favorite smell is the smell of the fields burning after the crops have been harvested, you know, when they burn off the stubble.. that's my favorite smell. my second favorite one would be wood smoke, those are the two greatest smells ever.
Well at the risk of making someone mad i think this post smells.I am surprised that this many knowledgable individuals would even bother to reply.I learn absolutely nothing about computers from a post of this sort.
I visit this forum to learn more about computers not ODORS Sorry if i offended anyone but that is how i feel.
The post was labeled OT to inform you that ir had nothing to do with computers, so why did you read it if you feel that way?
Personally I spend about eight hours a day on this forum. I answer many computer questions that I have answered 50 times before to help people I don't know, and will never meet. A little humor or an off topic discussion is a bit of relief waiting for the next serious question...Lighten up Bill!
If it HAD to be one smell, fresh brewed coffee in the morning. Otherwise, here's a few: Gasoline, two-stroke exhaust, the smell after a bunch of stock cars roar by after taking the green flag and finally, those green peppers and onions with sausage at the county fair!
My girlfriend's hair, and her skin. I also like the smell of alfalfa in bloom, and the smell of freshly cut hay fields as I'm riding my motorcycle down the Bitterroot valley.
Sorry folks, just now catching up, I was away on a business trip for a week. I have lost track of a lot on here while I was gone. Good to be home now.
Worked on the wheatbelt here for a few years on a chaff cutter. On a hot summers day in the paddocks you would occasionally get a wift of rain falling on the barren paddocks miles away. That was the sign of a thunderstorm rolling in. That smell was awesome for a few reasons. One it just plain smelt great, two it meant it was time to pack up and three one of my other favourite smells, beer was just around the corner.
Apart from that I would go for an aroused lady , burning rubber and the scent of food on the barbie.
Jane
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