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Favorite aromas outdoors
I was just talking to Jack Hise regarding his post about recipes & I said that even though not a recipe, I love the aroma of bacon & eggs cookin' outside on a cool crisp morning.
What are some of your favorites? Fresh cut Christmas trees, cut grass, rain? Let's hear 'em!
Mike
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cedar and evening campfires
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Fresh cut alfalfa hay.the smell of rain.
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Dry leaves on the forest floor in late fall.
And a nice warm campfire on a cool evening.
CJ
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Sagebrush after a rain shower.
Tim Anderson
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I'm with ohiotuber. The aroma of bacon and eggs over an open campfire is hard to beat! Throw in fresh brewed coffee with cool morning air and it's heaven! Ron
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The smell of cedar or pine,the smell of a campfire and coffee on the fire.Lest we forget the sound of the rain on my tent roof and the breeze rustling through the trees.
After reading the post it sounds like we're all a bunch of Romantics.
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Sagebrush after a rain,, coffee in the morning fresh on the stove or fire,, pine forest after a rain, etc.,,,etc.,,,
Grass or alfalfa, fresh cut set of the hayfever, no matter how good they smell, darn it!
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Wyo-blizzard aka Bloody Tom Bonney
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The smell of balsam after a summer rain.
The smell of saltwater because it is evocative of so many wonderful times past and there is nothing that I like as much as the ocean.
And in winter, Fox Urine, 'cause then I know I'm out in the woods.
jed
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I like the smell of the gas/oil mix from a boat on a cool spring morning...
And the smell of the lake just after a summer rain
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The smell of coal burning, wisping through the bitter cold winter breeze from a neighbor down the road. He has a genuine working blacksmith shop. The building is native stone with a cedar roof. There are probably not many of us left who remember heating the home with coal, my job as a child was to get the clinkers out of the furnace. The smell brings back some fond memories of days from the past. , I
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The smell of hickory burning, just after a cold, damp rain....or a cool, foggy morning.
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Bacon n eggs without question.How do I like em??. ANYWAY you make em!! Even the smoke in your eyes from the woodfire add to the high.
And, in second place, I agree on the after rain sagebrush. Perfume of the plaines.
Mark
PS: And didja ever accidentally tred over a wild strawberry patch?????
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I'd rather be in Wyoming!
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For me it's two smells that linger in my memories and make me think of happy times:
The smell of a freshly opened jar of salmon eggs, preferably Pautzke's Balls of Fire, 70's vintage. Ahhhh, to be a naive kid again.
The smell of the old brands of fly dope that had TCE or some other type of solvent in them. Call me crazy but just opening the jar made me think fishing.
Now days it's just the smell of clean air and fresh water.
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To add to my own...the smell of beef brisket being cooked for 10 hours or so in my smoker over charcoal, hickory, & apple juice. This is an aroma that WILL be wafting around Kneff Lake one night, ALL night, during our Michigan Fish-in.
Mike
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Bamboozle
Now there's something I hadn't thought of in a long while..
the smell of Old Time Woodman's fly dope
a scent that can't help but remind you of fishing and camping.
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When You get up before anybody else quietly sneak out onto the lake theres the smell and feel of the fog and the water .
At the other end of the spectrum is the ride home and your brother in law just spent three days eating chilli and drinking beer .
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Gnu Bee !!! LoL ...
My ex-wife didn't like the "smell of the woods" when I'd get home. ... I couldn't understand why, ...
Then one day I realized she was smelling the diesel fuel, hydrolic oil and luma-gel (napalm) that would always be on my clothes.
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The sense of smell is one of the most powerful of the senses imho.The smell of a cheap cigar brings back memories of Doc Russell a really bad dentist ,but amazing Musky hunter. He's been gone for 25 years,but the whiff of an old stogie still brings back a flood of good thoughts from my childhood.
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The smell of a cottonwood driftwood fire. It reminds me of camping out as a child, on the shores of a reservoir in Kansas. Along with that, the taste of my mother's chocolate chip cookies along with the smell of coffee from my dad's thermos, as we drove around in the '63 Chrysler to go pheasant hunting. I was, maybe, 5 years old.
The memories associated with smell seem to last longer, and be stronger, than any other. I recall reading that somewhere, and I agree. To this day, I can walk past a woman wearing the same perfume as my first love (high school, twenty years ago), and the effect is, memory-wise, analogous to getting whacked with a 2x4.
Dennis
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You've covered all my favorites and then some, except two: Fired shotgun shells, and 6-12 insect repellent. Not necessarily my favorites, but amongst them. Fish slime anyone?
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Lew
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Sagebrush anytime with some ponderosa pine and hot coffee thrown in the mix.
Rocky
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I'll second Lew's fired shotgun shells, and add Hoppe's No. 9.
Indoors or out, I just love the smell of a new puppy.
Will
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I like most all the above especially sage after a rain, but I'll add the smell of fresh rosemary, lemons and oranges.
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There's almost nothin' wrong with the first lie, it's the weight of all the others holdin' it up that gets ya'! - Tim
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The forest in the fall perticularly during that time with the leaves falling in Archery season!...The makers of Essance of fall even bottled it!!!..as a cover scent!!! I love that stuff!!
And Alphalpha Freshly cut..also the smell of a hay mow anytime!!! Silage is yet another..Loved working on my Uncles farm growing up....He even offered to PAY me....As if I needed paid for that!!!
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Whatever that smell is of the BWCA. A wood fire, followed by applewood or pecan smoking ribs, brisket or pork shoulder roast. Gets me every time. JGW
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Mountain laurel blossoms followed closely by mist from a waterfall.
Jim
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Fish slime, plasic fly boxes, waders after 6 months of storage.
Ahhhh!! Great stuff!
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Hmmmm.. I would have to say a downed elk, and the smell of spring rain.
- David
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Game fish are too valuable to only be caught once.
-Lee Wulff
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Honeysuckle vines.
Steve
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"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went"-Will Rogers
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Without question my favorite camping smell would be that of a campfire http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/biggrin.gif This fire here was probably my best:
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as a side note the chair in the foreground got sacrificed to the fire later that night ROFL
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Take care everyone and cya around. Mark
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....I'm sure we all have that special place, next to a small creek, in the pines, air at evening as sun is going down, cold enough to see your breath, pine knott fire, wet Chessy from the day's adventures in the water, roasting as close as she dares to the fire and finally...a steak sizzling on a grate over the fire...and not a soul in sight or in hearing distance....NOW...thats the smell!!
...I also like the smell every time I open the rod tube of a good bamboo...
...and pipe tobacco...not smoked, but the lingering aroma of the tobacco in my vest...
...and the sagebrush hanging in the camper...when its still blue/green & fresh picked...
and all the others you have all made me remember.....
...and that autumn smell walking through any covert where the leaves lay thick & the earth is damp...
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Great post, Mike. The smell of the pine forest in the early morning dew during a fall hunt. The peace, tranquility and clean smell of a frosty winter night while walking along the lake.
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Eric "nighthawk"
American veteran and proud of it!
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I'll second the wet sage. Dad's old coat and his pipe tobbacco tin with the grasshoppers pinging around inside.
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I am not much of a salt fishermen
but my Dad sure was, because of this post it reminds me of two things from my past, Dads sardines packed in salt and his saltwater tackle box.
Those smell bring back some very cool memories.
Great post!
Take care!
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A bum-legged old man and a drunk. That's all you got?
That's WHAT I got.
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I remember the smell of horses and what they would leave in the roads on their milk delivery routes. Sometimes the piles would be close enough to have a good old fashion horse S*** fight. (same as a snowball fight but with the horse product) Strange thing about horse droppings...They were not nasty smelling in the old days and they were not sloppy at all. These modern horses do a terrible mess that stinks! I'll take the old fashion horses any day. Sorta like a bamboo rod thing.
Ol' Bill
1932
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I would agree with snipe, although the original version is caused by oats. The smell of horse sweat on a cold winters morning. Gunpowder and wet fire. The smell of tobacco wads out of port barrels.
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Hey Folks,
I can't believe this group missed the
best one of all! My choice would have to be
the slightly earthy type fish smell one
encounters early of a still morning as they
approach a large active bed of bluegills,
flyrod in hand, eager with anticipation,
turning your head from side to side and
taking short breaths to determine from
whench the smell eminates.*G* Warm regards,
Jim