White fragrant "jasmine" Nicotiana - many of us grow it in our neighborhood and summer evenings are filled with it.  Reminds me of laying on my grandmothers swing couch that folds flat to a porch bed and watching meteorite showers at end of July.

The smell of mountain river water.  I love the smell of the South Fork of the Merced River at Wawona in Yosemite.  In the late afternoon most of the swimmers have gone back to their cabins or tents to eat and we stay longer and as the heat starts to leave the rocks I can smell the scent of the rock and the river.  I love it.

I remember as a little girl lying in the Baby’s Tears in our front planter.  It was hot summer and there was shade there.  I laid down and could smell the rich black dirt -  I fell in love with that smell and many spring days you can find me playing in the "mud" in my garden.  It is the smell of the dirt I love the best - it is rich with minerals that feed the beauty.

A smell I remember and don’t like to this day is asphalt.  I was hit by a car when I was a child and the smell of the wet asphalt close to my face was troubling -at the least.

I agree with Kirsten - cigarette smoke is a stinker for me too, as well as the smell of it on someone.  Oddly enough I like the smell of pipe smoke and some cigars, but cigs are a drag. 

As one who spends the majority of time in the company of men - men who like to greet with a hug most often - after years of "experimenting", I have found a body lotion that I am never without rubbing here and there.  Not perfumey - which seems put on - drifts of the slight scent of vanilla and whatever secret ingredient of nature they have added - always elicits the "WOW, you smell wonderful" comments - always.  But face it, gals, just as important is that we ourselves get a lift from that yummy scent that makes us feel like we are having a very good day.  But oh! the combination of compliments and self-satisfaction - that feeling good feeling - is hard to beat.

It’s from Hannah’s Botanicals (www.HannahsBotanicals.com) and called Silk & Shea Butter SKIES body lotion.  . and once "hooked" I am betting you will be like me and begin giving it as gifts for the hard-to-please women who have everything — everything.  THIS secret that seems to attract a bee to honey.  Inexpensive to say the least so its a pittance to order, and all I will add is that this is my secret "weapon" - so slight and yet so compelling :-)

If we don’t see you writing for a while after you try it, well - guess we’ll know that "you’re busy!" :-))