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03-24-2012, 05:15 PM
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#1 | Forester
Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Minden, NV Posts: 1,057
| Favorite Smells in the Outdoors The olfactory sense in humans seems to be tied to long term memory. If I smell 2-cycle outboard oil burning in the morning on a clean lake, I feel like I am 9 years old again. What are your all-time favorite outdoor smells?
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03-24-2012, 05:54 PM
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#2 | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Mt Rogers Virginia Posts: 1,294
| Backpacking stench. Smoke smell and the longer I'm out there the better.
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03-24-2012, 06:19 PM
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#3 | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: eastern idaho Posts: 410
| Sage brush and aspen trees, especially after it has rained.
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03-24-2012, 07:13 PM
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#4 | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2011 Posts: 169
| I love the smell of a campfire, especially when you're relaxing at the end of a great day. And it's hard to beat the aroma of pine trees when you're walking in the woods.
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03-24-2012, 08:05 PM
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#5 | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Richton Park, Illinios Posts: 2,529
| Too many to count. But any time I smell leaves, Grass or fires in general, I'm taken back to Panama were at the end of the dry season the whole country is ablaze with dried out grass burning all over. Between that and the smell of diesel exhaust on a hot really humid day. I can easily close my eyes and be back in Panama.
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03-24-2012, 09:59 PM
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#6 | Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 4
| The smell of fresh air after a rain.
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03-24-2012, 10:04 PM
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#7 | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Chavies, KY Posts: 103
| The smell of a campfire. It's one of the best smells I've ever smelt.
Lots of good memories from sitting up late around a campfire telling tall tales.
Also.... the smell of the ocean. I live several hours away, so it isn't something I get to enjoy that often. Once every couple or few years if I'm lucky.
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03-24-2012, 10:50 PM
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#8 | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Idaho Posts: 2,891
| New mowed alfalfa, sagebrush, and evergreens
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03-25-2012, 09:35 AM
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#9 | Platnium Member
Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Morris County, NJ Posts: 260
| Coppertone sunscreen. Brings me back to my childhood fishing and crabbing trips down the shore. The smell of wood smoke always makes me think of a campfire. Of course the scent of a pine forest.
And though most people don't like it, the smell of a DEET insect repellent simply sings outdoors to me. I know, I'm weird.
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03-25-2012, 11:22 AM
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#10 | Forester
Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Minden, NV Posts: 1,057
| Great answers. I'd include canvas infused with woodsmoke, horse sweat, coffee, bacon, and Jeffrey pines on a hot summer day, and the smell of cows.
Cows out in the open, the big wide open.
A fire of sage and juniper after a rain.
edit-Reading this thread sparked another one. Low tide at Chesapeake Bay. Low tide in the San Juan Is, and low tide in SE Alaska. They are all different, but they are all wonderful.
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