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What is your favorite smell? (lemmy.world)
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We have a linen closet that for a time in my childhood was emptied out and made to serve as the "Nintendo room", containing an NES hooked up to an old Commodore 64 monitor. I still associate that fabric/crafty smell with 8-bit gaming.

I also love the smell of sun soaked dog fur.

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[–] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

My favorite smell is also my favorite word; Petrichor. It's the smell of the earth when it rains after an extended dry period.

From Wikipedia "from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra) 'rock'; or πέτρος (pétros) 'stone' and ἰχώρ (ikhṓr) 'ichor', the ethereal fluid that is the blood of the gods in Greek mythology."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Man one of my most fivid memories is me sitting in the window of my crappy room, smelling the petrichor and smoking a cig while it's raining. I'm no longer a smoker but thinking back it really hit different

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