Favorite Smells

I kinda feel like this is the sort of post that a middle schooler who has been online since birth would write, but I felt like sharing. So sue me. These are in no particular order.

1. Old fashioned roses...the kind that aren't floral shop perfectly shaped but are more of an explosion of rosy goodness, cabbage rose, lush thick petals, grown in the backyard kind of roses.
2. Gardenias. They instantly flash me back to our old house in West Monroe. The gardenia bush was outside of Granny's bedroom and when you stepped out to cut a few blooms, you had to make sure there weren't any snakes sunning themselves on the concrete stoop. Gotta love Louisiana. The only snake I worry about where I live now is my downstairs neighbor...the one with the meth lab.
3. Newsprint. What can I say? Always loved it, always will.
4. Polo Blue on Frank. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm.
5. Sulphur. Mmhmm. Like after you blow out a match, the sticky wet scent of tar being laid on a roof or street or the air after a lightening storm.
6. Tortillas being warmed on a gas stove.
7. Coffee percolated over an open camp fire.
8. Super Elastic Bubble Plastic. Those of you familiar with the gooey substance from a tube that you can blow into "plastic bubbles" know exactly what I'm talking about.
9. Babies. The sweet, clean, powdery fresh smell of newness in a way that isn't duplicated anywhere else.
10. Ocean. I drink in the salty, tangy, briny air when standing on the beach. Hand me a frosty piña colada and when the scent of pineapple mingles with the smell of the ocean I am in paradise.

Leave me a comment and tell me about your favorite smells.