I-Spy...........Smells

Fresh doughnuts. Lovely

I do like the smell of Daphne. We have one just outside the front door. I've found several seedlings lately growing round it as well.

My Mum was still taking cod liver oil capsules daily in her nineties. Not sure how much good they did her though!

My mum used to swear by it and told us a story about Herb Elliott to get us to take it but I don't know where she got it from. She said that when he was born he was very frail and sickly and not expected to live very long but his mother gave him a cup full of cod liver oil every day and he became the fasted middle distance runner of his day setting world records for the mile and 1500m.

My mum used to swear by it and told us a story about Herb Elliott to get us to take it but I don't know where she got it from. She said that when he was born he was very frail and sickly and not expected to live very long but his mother gave him a cup full of cod liver oil every day and he became the fasted middle distance runner of his day setting world records for the mile and 1500m.

Probably sprinting for the loos!

Of course daffs have a smell! Are you nose-blind?

I think you are getting daffs mixed up with Narcissi which have a pleasant smell and usually have a double flower!

Of course daffs have a smell! Are you nose-blind?

I think you are getting daffs mixed up with Narcissi which have a pleasant smell and usually have a double flower!

"Regardless of what the tall tales suggest, daffodils and narcissus are one and the same. Narcissus is just the term for the genus, or the ‘group’, of plants. Both daffodils and ‘jonquils’ sit within the narcissus group. Essentially, daffodils are the common name for any plant within this group. This means that a narcissus is a daffodil, and a daffodil is a narcissus.". 
https://www.jparkers.co.uk/news/are-daff...d-to-know/

I rest my case, M'Lud.

E is for EGG - the rotten kind. Its the most awful smell that seems to get everywhere, into your clothes, the air and, one unforgettable time, the dog's fur.
Ted came into the house stinking, with fragments of eggshell around his mouth. He'd found a cache of old hen's eggs, laid by one of the chooks that I'd assumed was off lay. Ted had broken the shells and eaten whatever he could of the inside. He stank. I don't remember that they affected his digestion in any way. He has a cast iron stomach!

Elephants. They have a unique aroma all of their own. That definitely brings back happy memories of my past. Not that I get the opportunity to smell that unique aroma anymore.

Fresh fish. Is a lovely smell. Because it doesn’t really smell of very much at all.
I mean properly fresh, just out the water or within a couple of hours of being caught.

If it smells like fish, it’s not fresh in my book.

D

D was difficult, I don't much care for the smell of common daffodils, but I think jonquils are OK. So I came up with Disinfectant, primarily pine disinfectant, I quite like that piney smell.

E

I'm with Veggie on Eggs but not the rotten kind. It's the vague Embarrassment of opening your lunchtime Egg sandwich or shelling your hard boiled Egg in the office and then people thinking you've farted. (could that be the F smell or is that too obvious)

F

Freesias, they're a bit old fashioned but smell devine. Granny used to grow them (I think) and pick them for indoors, she often had a small vase with just a few scenting out the house.