Favorite Smells in the Outdoors

[ppine]

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?

[Refrigerator]

Backpacking stench. Smoke smell and the longer I'm out there the better.

[ponderosa]

Sage brush and aspen trees, especially after it has rained.

[DMan]

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.

[oldsarge]

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.

[chiefbowes]

The smell of fresh air after a rain.

[Bojib]

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.

[Grandpa]

New mowed alfalfa, sagebrush, and evergreens

[briansnat]

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.

[ppine]

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.